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0 shares In this handout provided by the EU Delegation in Vienna, representatives of the European Union, Iran and others attend the Iran nuclear talks at the Grand Hotel in the Austrian capital, April 15, 2021. (EU Delegation in Vienna via Getty Images, JTA) WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden’s Iran deal inbox has been quite full lately. On March 10, 70 Democrats and 70 Republicans in the House sent the president a letter in the hopes that “any agreement or set of agreements with Iran must be comprehensive in nature” — meaning any reentry into the 2015 nuclear agreement should als...

Fair or cruel? Texans offer two views of legislation that would target transgender girls Aria Jones and Chuck Lindell, Austin American-Statesman Trans athletes are speaking out against bills that would ban trans kids from competing Replay Video UP NEXT Opponents said House Bill 4042 would target vulnerable schoolchildren to solve a nonexistent problem, codify cruelty into law, deprive transgender children of the benefits of athletics and further stigmatize students who already struggle with bullying and exclusion. "This bill invites further discrimination. It does nothing...

Rep. Cole Hefner, R-Mount Pleasant, told the committee that his bill also is a safety measure, designed to protect girls from "biological males" who can have larger bodies, denser bones and stronger muscles, particularly in contact sports.  "The safety aspect is common sense," Hefner said. "I mean, we can look around the room and that's common sense. And it's science, and there are experts here that can speak to that. But how many girls, biological girls, that have worked their whole life to get that scholarship?" He said the bill would codify school athletics rules by basing gender dete...

Fact-check: Does the Chicago area have a quarter of the nation's lead pipes? By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller, PolitiFact.com © JUSTIN L. FOWLER/THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER U.S. Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., discusses his support of the United States Mexico Canada Agreement along with Richard Guebert Jr., right, the president of the Illinois Farm Bureau, during a press conference at the world headquarters of Brandt Consolidated, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, in Springfield, Ill. Richard Durbin: “We have 23% of all the lead pipe leads in America in the Chicagoland area.” PolitiFact's ru...

PolitiFact's ruling: False Here's why: DMX, the raspy-voiced rapper behind several hip-hop anthems such as "X Gon Give It to Ya" and "Party Up (Up In Here)," died April 9 at a hospital in New York, where he had been on life support after suffering a heart attack days earlier. The rapper, born Earl Simmons, was 50. The hospital where DMX died said in a statement that he died "peacefully with family present after suffering a catastrophic cardiac arrest." It is not clear what preceded the rapper’s heart attack. But in the days surrounding DMX’s death, social media users circulated posts�...