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The Justice Department filed a groundbreaking lawsuit Thursday asking a judge to forbid California from counting ballots of roughly 20,000 people the feds believe to be noncitizens, unless the state takes steps to verify they are in fact valid voters.

Comcast committed $7.5M toward President Trump's new White House ballroom, among other donors such as Apple and Nvidia.

President Trump on Thursday said GOP enthusiasm is surging and attacked prominent Democratic nominees in personal terms, using an incorrect name for a Michigan candidate and dubbing Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico a "con man."