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Reuters uncover efforts by elements of And Minneapolis and Chicago, this is Democracy Now.

Reuters uncover efforts by elements of the federal government to probe the limits of state power and administering elections. This included investigations into the 2020 election, efforts to inspect voting machines and investigations into voter fraud,

hoping to find evidence of non-citizens voting.

With the November midterm elections less than six months away,

President Trump's moving to take greater control over elections in at least

eight states. We'll speak to investigative journalist Ned Parker. He also just won a Pulitzer

Prize this week for his reporting on Trump's targeting of political enemies. Then to Arizona

Congressmember Adolita Grajava, this week she went inside two

ice jails. This is not about safety. It is about private businesses making a ton of money

off the backs of our immigrant community. As a mom of three kids, I don't know how else to describe the look

in other mom's eyes when they don't know what's going on with their babies. It's traumatizing.

Dilley has to close, but so do all the other facilities. And we'll talk to an indigenous elder

in Arizona where construction crews building a second border wall have destroyed a portion of a 1,000-year-old Native American archaeological site in the Sonaran desert.

Finally, to an often forgotten group of workers caught in the middle of the war on Iran.

Over 20,000 seafarers who've been stranded

on ships for over two months. All that and more coming out.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman in Minneapolis.

President Trump's insisted the ceasefire where Iran is holding after U.S. forces exchanged drone, missile, and gunfire with Iranian vessels in the Persian Gulf.

U.S. Central Command said it's responding to what it called unprovoked attacks,

while Iran said it had retaliated after U.S. Navy ships targeted an oil tanker in Iran's

territorial waters. A spokesperson for Iran's armed forces said U.S. airstrikes hit civilian

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