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NPR's Hansi Lowong reports the deadlines come as a handful of states get ready to hold primaries next month for the November midterms.

Target says it will stop selling cereals made with synthetic food dyes by the end of May.

The retailer says about 85 percent of its cereal sales already come from products without artificial coloring.

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Former President Bill Clinton is set to testify before the House Oversight Committee in New York at this hour as Congress continues its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Republican Chairman James Comer spoke to the press shortly before the closed-door deposition.

Clinton's name appears multiple times in the Epstein files.

Meanwhile, Democrats on the committee are calling on President Trump to testify in the probe.

The president is also named in the files.

The Trump administration is ordering the departure of all non-emergency U.S.

staff and their family from Israel, citing safety risks.

The directive comes as President Trump continues to move fighter jets and warships to the Middle East to pressure Iran in nuclear talks.

NPR's Aya Batraoui has more.

And NPR has learned that Vice President J.D.

Vance is set to meet with Oman's foreign minister today as U.N.-U.S.-Iran nuclear talks continue.

The meeting comes after a third round of indirect talks between U.S.

envoy Steve Wyckoff and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and Iran.

The U.S.

military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone, according to members of Congress.