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Usha Vance is the 4th person of South Asian descent to be part of the 2024 presidential campaign. Why that matters

By Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — Shalabh “Shalli” Kumar was filled with pride Monday night as Donald Trump made his highly anticipated announcement of who would be his running mate in the 2024 election. But it wasn’t Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s name alone that elicited the reaction for the founder of the Republican Hindu Coalition and the

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Fact check: Biden makes false claims about Israel, immigration and his administration’s spending

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — In a new interview with a youth culture media outlet, President Joe Biden made false or misleading claims about immigration, inflation, his administration’s spending, and a remark he made about Israel at last month’s CNN presidential debate. Biden sat down Friday with Speedy Morman, a host for Complex. Here is a

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Exclusive: Secret Service ramped up security after intel of Iran plot to assassinate Trump; no known connection to shooting

CNN By Evan Perez, Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president, multiple people briefed on the matter told

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Exclusive: Secret Service ramped up security after intel of Iran plot to assassinate Trump; no known connection to shooting

By Evan Perez, Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — US authorities obtained intelligence from a human source in recent weeks on a plot by Iran to try to assassinate Donald Trump, a development that led to the Secret Service increasing security around the former president, multiple people briefed on the matter told CNN.

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Federal prosecutor accused of mishandling evidence in Trump inauguration protest cases

By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A former federal prosecutor in Washington, DC, is facing attorney discipline proceedings after allegedly obscuring evidence in cases against people who protested Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration. That evidence included video originally from the right-wing group Project Veritas, which the Justice Department prosecutor, Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens, formerly of

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Vulnerable Democrats outraise GOP opponents again, Trump sees Silicon Valley cash surge and other second-quarter takeaways

By David Wright, Matt Holt, Fredreka Schouten and Alex Leeds Matthews, CNN (CNN) — Democrats outraised Republicans in competitive congressional races during the second quarter of the year, new fundraising reports show, putting down-ballot candidates on solid financial ground as Democratic concerns grow over President Joe Biden’s candidacy. But several vulnerable Senate Democrats also burned

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CIA director says Hamas leader is facing growing pressure from his own commanders to end Gaza war

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — The CIA has assessed that the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, is coming under increased pressure from his own military commanders to accept a ceasefire deal and end the war with Israel, CIA Director Bill Burns told a closed-door conference on Saturday, according to a source who attended. Sinwar, the key

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