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Donald Trump's New York hush money trial is on break today, but there's some legal action in his other cases. Georgia's appeals court says it will hear the former president's request to remove Fani Willis from his election interference case. This after a judge ruled the Fulton County DA could remain on the case if her ex-boyfriend was removed as the special prosecutor.        A majority of college students say they oppose the tactics used by some pro-Palestinian campus protesters. The Generation Lab survey reported by Axios found that only a small number of students have actually participated in the protests. More than eight-in-ten say that protesters that vandalize property or illegally occupy campus buildings should be held responsible by their schools.        President Biden is campaigning in the critical battleground state of Wisconsin. The president highlighted his role in jump-starting a three-point-three billion dollar investment by Microsoft to build a new artificial intelligence data center in Racine. The project is expected to create more than four-thousand jobs.        The man suspected in the killing of a Georgia nursing student has been indicted. Jose Antonio Ibarra faces ten charges in connection to Laken Riley's death. He entered the U.S. illegally two years ago from Venezuela.        Nuggets' superstar Nikola Jokic [[ ni-KOLA yo-kitch ]] is taking home his third-career NBA Most Valuable Player award. The league announced on Wednesday that Jokic beat out Mavericks' star Luka Doncic [[ DON-chitch ]] and dynamic Thunder guard Shai [[ shay ]] Gilgeous-Alexander for the award. Jokic won back-to-back MVPs in 2021 and '22.       New research shows the smell of food cooking is a sign of air pollution. A new study from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration measured what they called "underappreciated sources" of urban air pollution. Researchers wrote that if you can smell the food, "there's a good chance it's impacting air quality."        

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