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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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Kristi Noem Suggests Biden’s Dog Should Have Been Killed, Too

  • News source: Maggie Astor
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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

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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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

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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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,"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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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

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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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'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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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

  • News source: BBC News - World
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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

  • News source: Minho Kim
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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

  • News source: FOX News
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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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Al Jazeera to be shut down in Israel

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Israel accuses Al Jazeera of bias, but the Qatar-based network says Israel wants "to cover up its crimes".
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'Student arrests will be my final college memory'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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As graduations begin, three students reflect on a college experience bookended by Covid and now campus protests.
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Annual 'rocket war' sees Greek churches bombarded

  • News source: BBC News - World
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In a tradition going back centuries, two rival churches fire at one another during Orthodox Easter mass.
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Zebra on the run for nearly a week in Washington found in woods

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The female mare, named Shug, was one of four zebras that escaped a trailer in Washington state on April 28.
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Madonna's free Brazil show draws 1.5 million fans

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The show at Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach was the final stop on the pop idol's Celebration Tour.
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6 months out, tight presidential race with battle between issues and attributes: POLL

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Locked in a tight presidential race, Trump prevails in trust to handle most issues in new ABC News/Ipsos poll, yet Biden scores competitively on key personal attributes.
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