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A group of Republicans has united to defend the legitimacy of US elections and those who run them


ATLANTA (AP) — It was Election Day last November, and one of Georgia’s top election officials saw that reports of a voting machine problem in an eastern Pennsylvania county were gaining traction online. So Gabriel Sterling, a Republican who had defended the 2020 election in Georgia amid an onslaught of threats, posted a message to his nearly 71,000 followers on the social platform X explaining what had happened and saying that all votes would be counted correctly.























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14-year-old girl killed, 5 other teens hurt in Buffalo shooting: Police

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A 14-year-old girl was killed and five other teenagers were injured when a shooting erupted Saturday night in a parking lot in Buffalo, according to police.
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Face The Nation: Fetterman, Khanna, Queen Rania

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Missed the second half of the show? The latest on...Democratic Sen. John Fetterman tells "Face the Nation" that although he knows his state will be "very competitive" in the 2024 election, "Joe Biden beat Trump in Pennsylvania and he's going to do that again", Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, tells "Face the Nation" that as some campus protesters have engaged in violence or antisemitism, "it is diminishing the thousands of young people who simply want the war to end", and Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan tells "Face the Nation" that the Arab world sees the U.S. as an "enabler" of Israel. "People view the U.S. as being a party to this war," she said.
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Transcript: Sen. John Fetterman on "Face the Nation," May 5, 2024

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The following is a transcript of an interview with Sen. John Fetterman, Democrat of Pennsylvania, that aired on May 5, 2024.

MARGARET BRENNAN: That was our Mark Strassmann and we turn now to Pennsylvania senator John Fetterman. He joins us from Orlando, Florida this morning where he spent the weekend campaigning on behalf of President Biden's reelection. Welcome to the show, Senator.

SEN. JOHN FETTERMAN: Hi. Good to be here.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Great to have you here. You're cracking up. Do you want to tell us what you're responding to there...
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Transcript: Rep. Ro Khanna on "Face the Nation," May 5, 2024

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The following is a transcript of an interview with Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, that aired on May 5, 2024.

MARGARET BRENNAN: We're joined now by California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna, good to have you here. And you've been, I know, visiting college campuses across the country, in Michigan, Nevada, and the Biden campaign recently sent you to Wisconsin. Are we at the point now where the protesters are becoming a story unto themselves and a distraction from the issues that they're protesting?

REP. RO KHANNA (D-CA): No, I don't think...
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Noem says "I want the truth to be out there" after viral story of killing her dog

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Washington — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said on Sunday that she's "not retracting anything" after facing backlash for stories about killing her young dog and a false claim about meeting with Kim Jong Un, although she said the latter story will be adjusted in her book.

"I'm so proud of this book and what it will bring to people," Noem said on "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "I'm not retracting anything."

The Republican governor, who had been considered among a list of possible running mates for former President Donald Trump in his latest White House...
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Jordan's Queen Rania al Abdullah says U.S. is seen as "enabler" of Israel

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Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan tells "Face the Nation" that the Arab world sees the U.S. as an "enabler" of Israel. "People view the U.S. as being a party to this war," she said.
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Kristi Noem Suggests Biden’s Dog Should Have Been Killed, Too

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Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota, already under fire for killing her family’s 14-month-old dog and boasting about it, on Sunday took aim at another family’s pet: Commander, President Biden’s bite-prone German shepherd.

Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Ms. Noem, a Republican, suggested that Commander, who was banished from the White House last fall after bloodying a number of Secret Service agents, should also have been put down.

“Joe Biden’s dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people,” she told her interviewer, Margaret Brennan. “So how many...
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Unrest still fracturing about 80 American college campuses

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Police moved overnight to close the encampment at USC, following similar moves at schools from Virginia to Michigan. Roughly 80 colleges and universities are dealing with unrest that is fracturing their campuses. Mark Strassmann reports.
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Transcript: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on "Face the Nation," May 5, 2024

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The following is a transcript of an interview with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem that aired on May 5, 2024.

MARGARET BRENNAN: We begin this morning with the Republican governor of the state of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, her upcoming memoir. No Going Back, is out this Tuesday. And she joins us from Watertown, South Dakota. Welcome back to Face the Nation.

GOV. KRISTI NOEM: Thank you, Margaret. Thank you for inviting me to be on with you today.

MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, Governor, I have your book right here, the very first blurb in it is an...
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Open: This is "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,"

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This week on "Face the Nation," South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem kicks off her book tour after the viral excerpt about shooting a dog to death. Plus, Margaret Brennan speaks to Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan.
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Queen Rania of Jordan says U.S. is seen as "enabler" of Israel

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Palestinians and others in the Middle East see the U.S. as an "enabler" of Israel in its war with Hamas, Queen Rania al Abdullah of Jordan said Sunday on "Face the Nation."

"People view the U.S. as being a party to this war," Rania said in an interview with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan. "Because, you know, Israeli officials say that without U.S. support, they couldn't launch this war."

Jordan, a U.S. ally, has had a peace treaty with Israel since 1994. The queen, who is of Palestinian descent, has criticized the reaction to the war...
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'My children cling to me as dogs raid graves near our shelter'

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In a tent yards from a cemetery, Rehab Abu Daqqa tries to shield her seven children from Rafah's horrors.
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North Korean weapons are killing Ukrainians. The implications are far bigger

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A missile that crashed in Kharkiv shows the surprising scale at which Pyongyang's weapons are used.
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Driver Dies After Crashing Into Barrier Near the White House

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A driver died after crashing into a security barrier near the White House on Saturday night around 10:30, prompting an investigation by the Washington police department, the Secret Service said in a statement.

“There is no threat or public safety implications,” Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesman, wrote on social media, adding that the crash posed no threat to the White House. The city’s police department said it was investigating the crash “only as a traffic crash,” but the Secret Service said it would conduct a separate investigation...
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Eye-popping haul amid trials has Team Trump closing fundraising gap with Biden

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Former President Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) are showcasing that they hauled in over $76 million last month, as the presumptive GOP nominee works to reduce his fundraising deficit to President Biden in their 2024 election rematch.

The announcement came as Trump this weekend headlines the RNC's spring donor retreat, which is being held in Palm Beach, Florida.

The haul by Trump and the RNC is up from $65.6 million in March. But Biden and the Democratic National Committee combined raked in roughly $90 million in...
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