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• Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath launched a sharp attack on the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress during an event in Pilibhit. • Yogi claimed the public has rejected the SP, asserting that their governance leads to riots, curfews, and threats to the security of women and traders. • He attributed the Partition of India to the Congress party's "lust for power," arguing that a firmer stand against Jinnah could have prevented the country's division.

• Fourteen U.S. states have already implemented laws similar to the federal SAVE Act, requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship, such as a passport or birth certificate, to register. • While the federal version of the SAVE Act faces potential stalls in Congress, proponents are shifting their strategy toward state-level legislation and citizen-initiated ballot measures. • These measures aim to tighten voter registration requirements, reflecting a broader push by MAGA-aligned legislators to mandate citizenship verification.

• Current members of Congress are struggling to effectively meet the needs of 21st-century Americans due to systemic institutional failures. • Researchers Kornberg and Whitehead argue that the $174,000 annual salary is too low, effectively barring working-class individuals from serving in office. • This pay gap is exacerbated by the requirement for legislators to maintain two separate residences: one in their home state and another in expensive Washington, D.C.

Out-going Louisiana senator’s rebuke over Iran war is rare instance of a Republican politician standing up to TrumpBill Cassidy, the Republican senator from Louisiana who is being ousted from his position after Donald Trump successfully backed a challenger in May’s primary, has accused the US president of treating Congress as “merely an appendage” in his handling of the Iran war.In an interview on Sunday with CBS News’s Face the Nation, the out-going Cassidy explained his recent face-to-face row with Trump over the president’s failure to brief Congress on the prosecution of the hostilities with Tehran. In a fleetingly rare instance of a Republican politician directly standing up to Trump, Cassidy let rip at a Capitol Hill lunch over the senator’s support for a war powers resolution that was a symbolic rebuke to the White House. Continue reading...

• The BJP has rejected criticism from Congress leader Sonia Gandhi regarding the Indian government's "silence and inaction" over the ongoing Gaza conflict. • The ruling party defended its approach as balanced, highlighting that India has consistently extended humanitarian aid and voted in favor of relevant UN resolutions. • The BJP accused the Congress party of engaging in "vote bank politics" rather than focusing on a constructive diplomatic strategy.

• House Committee Chairmen Jim Jordan, Bryan Steil, and James Comer sent a formal letter to former Biden White House Counsel Dana Remus demanding documents and communications. • The request focuses on ActBlue's fraud prevention policies following New York Times reporting that Remus possesses direct, firsthand information regarding the matter. • This action is part of a broader oversight effort by House Republicans to investigate potential fraud and misleading statements made to Congress.

House committee seeks records after two agency scientists were charged over undeclared samplesThe US House committee on energy and commerce is “examining concerns” about the National Institutes of Health after two NIH scientists were charged with allegedly smuggling mpox into the United States and misleading investigators.Federal law enforcement alleges that Dr Vincent Munster, 53, a Dutch national and chief of the virus ecology section at the NIH’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Montana, and Claude Kwe, 38, a research fellow from Cameroon, transported vials containing monkeypox, now known as mpox, into the country without declaring them to customs and then “lying about it”. Continue reading...