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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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Senate Republicans introduce bill to protect IVF access

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — Two Senate Republicans on Monday introduced legislation to protect access to in vitro fertilization, known as IVF, after a Democratic-led effort to do so failed earlier this year in the upper chamber.

The bill, titled the IVF Protection Act, was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama.

It seeks to safeguard IVF nationwide by banning states from receiving Medicaid funding if they enact an outright ban on the fertility procedure. The bill defines IVF as "eggs are collected from ovaries and manually...
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BMW, VW used parts made with Chinese forced labor, says Senate report

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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BMW, Volkswagen and Jaguar Land Rover have bought parts made by a Chinese company sanctioned under a 2021 law for using forced labor, a U.S. Senate investigation found, resulting in a call by lawmakers for stricter enforcement.

The automakers said in response to the Senate report released Monday that they've taken action to bring their cars into compliance with the law.

The Senate Finance Committee's two-year probe revealed that BMW imported to the U.S. at least 8,000 MINI vehicles containing parts produced by JWD after the Chinese supplier was...
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Red Lobster voluntarily files for bankruptcy

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Iran declares five days of mourning for president

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Kamenei offered condolences after the deaths of the president and foreign minister.
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Spain demands apology after PM's wife called 'corrupt'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Argentina's president Javier Milei made the remarks at a far-right political rally in Madrid.
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F.B.I. Shed Informants Linked to Russian Influence Operations

  • News source: Kenneth P. Vogel, Adam Goldman and Mattathias
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The F.B.I. cut ties to at least a handful of informants and issued warnings about dozens of others after an internal review prompted by concerns that they were linked to Russian disinformation, current and former U.S. officials said.

The review was carried out in 2020 and 2021 by a small group within the bureau’s counterintelligence division, with the findings then passed along to field offices, which handle informants.

It led to the severing of sources — some of whom had offered information about Russia-aligned oligarchs, political leaders and...
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New study focuses on long term use of weight loss drug Wegovy

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The study looked at whether people on the drug maintained their weight loss.
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Star golfer's arraignment postponed after arrest during PGA Championship

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Star golfer Scottie Scheffler faces four charges, including second-degree assault of a police officer -- a felony. His arraignment has been postponed until June 3.
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Boy swept into storm drain to become an organ donor, dad says

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Asher Sullivan was helping clean up storm debris at the time of the accident.
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How top aides are addressing fears they have for safety of lawmakers, staff

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Now in his 12th year as a U.S. House aide, Mitchell Rivard acknowledges he's increasingly worried about the harassment and threats against his colleagues — much more so than in the past.

Rivard, the chief of staff to Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan, said some of the calls made to his congressional office are at times so intimidating and so threatening that he tries to intervene to spare junior staffers from the hostility of the callers.

He said he now advises his staff to transfer these calls to his cellphone and to forward any...
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NY v. Trump: Michael Cohen testifies he's considering congressional run

  • News source: FOX News
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Former President Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen is mulling a run for Congress.

The admission came on the witness stand Monday in what is Cohen's fourth day of testimony in the NY v. Trump case.

Cohen told the court that he would pursue congressional office because he has the "best name recognition out there." He did not elaborate if he would run in New York, or if he would run as a Republican or Democrat.

Trump attorney Todd Blanche pressed Cohen if his name recognition is due to Trump, sparking Cohen to explain that his well-known name...
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Netanyahu arrest warrant called 'gift to terrorists' as pro-Israel lawmakers vow revenge

  • News source: FOX News
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A top House Republican leader is accusing the International Criminal Court (ICC) of equating Israel's democratically elected government with terror group Hamas after its chief prosecutor petitioned for arrest warrants against top officials in both.

"The ICC's decision to equate Israel with Hamas as a war criminal is a gift to terrorists around the globe and a slap in the face to the only free-standing democracy in the Middle East," House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., the No. 3 House GOP lawmaker, told Fox News Digital. "There is no comparison...
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Biden slams ICC’s ‘outrageous’ request for Netanyahu arrest warrant

  • News source: FOX News
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President Biden is condemning the International Criminal Court's (ICC's) decision to pursue arrest warrants against
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Iran’s Next Leaders Face a Choice: Aggression or Caution

  • News source: David E. Sanger
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In their three years in power, President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran and his equally hard-line foreign minister, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, did everything they could to consolidate the “Axis of Resistance” against the United States and Israel.

They funded Hamas and Hezbollah. They armed the Houthis, feeding the militia intelligence that fueled attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea. They cracked down on dissent at home, launched Iran’s first direct missile attacks on Israel, after Israel killed several Iranian generals, and turned Iran into a “threshold”...
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In a House Race in N.H., a Famous Spouse, and a Traumatic Pregnancy

  • News source: Lisa Lerer
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Maggie Tamposi Goodlander gave birth to her stillborn son in a hotel bathtub on Easter.

Her fetus had been diagnosed with a fatal condition and had died in her womb. Doctors recommended a two-day procedure to remove him, with an overnight stay at a hotel near the hospital. If she went into labor, they feared, she could hemorrhage.

But getting an appointment took weeks. The procedure that Ms. Goodlander needed is also commonly used for abortions later in pregnancy. Doctors across the northeast were flooded with patients traveling north from states...
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