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Trump makes Alaska the latest frontier in his election power grab

President Donald Trump is escalating his crusade to exert control of America’s elections as his party barrels towards a potentially bruising midterm.The Justice Department has already filed lawsuits in...

Minnesota candidate ‘stress tests’ state’s new fraud law — what she found raised major red flags

Heidi Heino says she stress-tested Minnesota's inspector general law against Feeding Our Future and found critical gaps in fraud prevention safeguards.

California must respond to DOJ’s emergency request over ballots mailed to alleged noncitizens, court rules

The DOJ says roughly 20,000 noncitizens received mail-in ballots in California and is demanding the state sequester those votes before they are processed.

Virginia Dems cast doubt on prosecution of colleague after embracing criminal allegations against Trump

Virginia Democrats who called allegations and investigations into Trump justified now stress the presumption of innocence after one of their own faces federal charges.

Iran has ‘substantially increased’ efforts to target Americans abroad, US intelligence memo warns

An intelligence memo sent to Marco Rubio reveals Iranian plots to kill Americans have reached advanced stages in the Middle East and other countries.

Ontario’s Ford warns U.S. power could be cut as he trades insults with Trump

Ontario Premier Doug Ford on Monday threatened to cut the province’s power exports to the U.S. as a trade war with President Trump plays out publicly for a second time.  Ford told reporters “everything is on the table” when it comes to retaliatory measures against the White House in response to failed trade talks and...

Trump administration proposes new H-1B visa fee

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Trump administration lays out new $103K fee proposal for H-1B visas The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a new proposed rule for H-1B visas on Monday that would charge a $103,265 fee for all workers seeking to gain employment in the U.S. who are subject to the...

Politicians aim to distance themselves from data centers

{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Politicians aim to distance themselves from data centers As public pushback to data centers boils over, politicians on both sides of the aisle are racing to distance themselves from the controversial facilities. © Adobe Stock Key swing state candidates are scrambling to endorse stricter...

David Hogg: Media focus on Hasan Piker ‘kind of weird’

Activist David Hogg on Sunday said he finds recent media focus on left-wing streamer Hasan Piker “kind of weird.” “To be honest with you, I find it kind of weird. Like he's a streamer. This guy is not an elected official, and there's a lot of elected officials out there that are saying incredibly horrible...

DOJ signals it will appeal ruling requiring removal of some redactions in Epstein files

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday signaled its plans to appeal a ruling requiring the department to unredact various documents from the Epstein files in a suit brought by attorney and independent journalist Katie Phang.  The preliminary injunction, entered in June, orders redactions be removed in key documents of interest in the files, including “at...

Senate Democrats call for hearing on Iran war’s strain on troops

Nearly all Senate Armed Services Committee minority members on Monday called on the panel’s head to hold a hearing with Pentagon leadership on the impact that extended deployments in support of the Iran war are having on U.S. service members. “Recent reports of sailors suffering from severe mental health issues amid deteriorating conditions on the...

Supreme Court rules blue states sued too early over Trump’s mail voting order 

The Supreme Court lifted a judge’s block on President Trump’s executive order adding to mail voting requirements, removing a key roadblock that prevented the policy from going into effect for the midterms. Over the public dissents of the three liberal justices, the high court said Monday that the judge had no authority to block Trump’s...

Hegseth: Economic pressure hurts Iranian regime ‘the most’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday that the Trump administration’s economic pressure on Iran is hurting the regime “the most right now” but did not rule out the U.S. military resuming airstrikes if necessary.  “If we need to use kinetic strikes, we'll use them. If Iran is foolish enough to overplay their hand or...

US envoy clarifies Golan Heights comments after contradicting Trump

Tom Barrack, President Trump’s U.S. ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria and Iraq, on Sunday walked back comments he made last week suggesting that Israel "still" occupies the Golan Heights in violation of United Nations resolutions, which contradict the president's position. Barrack made the remark Friday in an interview with Lebanese Australian entrepreneur Mario Nawfal....

Unexpected GLP-1 side effect? Studies show the meds may help people with addictions

From unexpected babies to "Ozempic teeth," the ultra-popular class of GLP-1 medications are turning out to have a few unanticipated side effects. Emerging research shows the drugs, which have proven effective in treating obesity and diabetes, may also be useful in treating addiction.

What to know about US-Canada trade war impacts

The burgeoning trade war between the U.S. and Canada will impact a slew of products that businesses in both countries import from one another.  After trade talks between Trump administration officials and their Canadian counterparts broke down late last week, President Trump’s 50 percent levies on $20 billion worth of goods imported from America’s northern...

El-Sayed weighs in on Piker controversy: ‘Nobody speaks for this campaign besides me’ 

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed weighed in on the blowback from far-left Twitch streamer Hasan Piker's comments about a House candidate in the Great Lakes State, stating "nobody speaks for this campaign besides me and my campaign spokespeople." “My commitment to Jewish safety is the same as my commitment to the safety of my...

Alabama attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over Hugging Face incident

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday requesting the company respond to a multistate investigation into the handling of its model breach of technology startup Hugging Face. Marshall announced Monday the investigation is trying to determine whether OpenAI violated Alabama's Deceptive Trade Practices Act, which seeks to protect consumers...

Prince Harry quits African conservation charity after rangers’ human rights abuses

African Parks was embroiled in scandal after it admitted that some of its rangers committed human rights violations.

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