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What we’ve learned so far in the Trump hush money trial and what to watch for as it wraps up

NEW YORK (AP) — One political party is holding urgent news conferences and congressional hearings over the topic. The other says it’s a dangerous distraction meant to seed doubts before this year’s presidential election.

In recent months, the specter of immigrants voting illegally in the U.S. has erupted into a leading election-year talking point for Republicans. They argue that legislation is necessary to protect the sanctity of the vote as the country faces unprecedented levels of illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border.

























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Mayor defends NYPD response after officers seen punching pro-Palestinian protesters

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams defended the police department’s response to a pro-Palestinian street demonstration in Brooklyn over the weekend, calling video of officers repeatedly punching men laying prone on the ground an “isolated incident.”
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Investigators return to Long Island home of Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Investigators have returned to the home of a New York architect charged in a string of slayings known as the Gilgo Beach killings
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Top Democrat calls for Biden to replace FDIC chairman to fix agency's 'toxic culture'

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The most powerful Democrat in Congress on banking and financial issues called for President Joe Biden to replace the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Monday, saying the agency is broken and there must be “fundamental changes."
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Target to lower prices on thousands of basic items as inflation sends customers scrounging for deals

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Target is cutting prices on thousands of consumer basics this summer, goods ranging from diapers to milk, with more Americans paying closer attention to their spending as inflation cuts into household budgets
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Hunter Biden presses for delay in federal gun trial set to begin next month

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Hunter Biden asked an appeals court on Monday to pause the Delaware trial.
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Pentagon's DEI efforts under scrutiny as House investigators launch new oversight probe

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: The House Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into the effects of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs on the U.S. military.

Reps. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., and Jim Banks, R-Ind., chairs of the Oversight panel's subcommittees on national security and military personnel respectively, sent a letter to the head of the Pentagon's Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI) on Monday demanding to know what considerations and information sources are going into his annual DEI report to Defense...
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Biden suggests he was vice president during COVID-19 pandemic: 'Barack said to me, go to Detroit'

  • News source: FOX News
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President Biden appeared to claim he was vice president during the coronavirus pandemic and that former President Barack Obama had dispatched him to Detroit to help with the response.

In comments first reported by the
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Dueling IVF bills take center stage as parties butt heads on reproductive tech regulation

  • News source: FOX News
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Two Republicans are pushing new legislation to protect access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) across the country just months after an Alabama Supreme Court ruling determined frozen embryos are legally people and made those who destroy them liable.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joined with Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., to introduce the bill that would enshrine protections for the fertility procedure into law.

"As Republican senators from Texas and Alabama, @SenKatieBritt and I are united on many issues, including the need to protect both life and access to...
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ChatGPT to lose voice over Johansson similarity

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The flirty, conversational upgrade to OpenAI's chatbot has been compared by some to 2013 film Her.
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South Africa's top court bars Zuma from standing in election

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Ex-President Jacob Zuma's 15-month prison sentence disqualifies him from being a lawmaker.
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Ship that hit Baltimore bridge on the move again

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The operation to move the Dali to a nearby terminal will take 21 hours, according to engineers.
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US security adviser urges Netanyahu to connect war to 'political strategy'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Jake Sullivan's visit comes as Israeli forces continue military operations in Gaza, including in Rafah.
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President Ebrahim Raisi's mixed legacy in Iran

  • News source: BBC News - World
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While some support his hard line stance, President Raisi also has many detractors.
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Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to Maryland ban on rifles known as assault weapons

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The Supreme Court has declined, for now, to hear a challenge to a Maryland law banning certain semi-automatic firearms commonly referred to as assault weapons
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Senate to Vote Again on Border Deal as Democrats Seek Political Edge

  • News source: Luke Broadwater
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Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, plans to push forward this week with a second vote on a bipartisan border enforcement bill that Senate Republicans killed earlier this year at the urging of former President Donald J. Trump.

The measure is almost certain to be blocked again, but Democrats hope to use the failed vote to sharpen an election-year contrast with the G.O.P. on a critical issue that polls show is a major potential liability for President Biden and their candidates.

Democrats will aim to neutralize the...
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