President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday directing the Department of Homeland Security to compile lists of eligible voters in every state and ordering the U.S. Postal Service to craft rules limiting the delivery and return of mail-in ballots to individuals on those lists. “I think this will help a lot with elections,” […]
A political action committee tied to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has not stepped in with new spending for Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the contentious Texas GOP Senate runoff, as polling shows the four-term incumbent slipping behind Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. One Nation PAC, which spent nearly $11 million backing Cornyn ahead […]
A federal judge ordered California officials to pay $4.52 million in attorneys’ fees to a coalition that successfully sued over the state’s public school policy allowing student gender transitions to be hidden from parents. U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, granted the coalition of parents and teachers who […]
Florida Democrats are ramping up efforts to compete in one of the nation’s most reliably red states, launching a new voter registration push and national strategy following a pair of unexpected legislative wins as Republican officials dismiss the gains, insisting the state is only trending further right. Democrats flipped two traditionally Republican-held seats in a […]
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order related to mail-in voting in the Oval Office on Tuesday at 5 p.m. WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT USPS’S DIRE FINANCIAL STATE AHEAD OF OVERSIGHT HEARING The executive order will crack down on mail-in voting, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Tuesday. Trump will order Homeland […]
A convicted Somali fraudster who stole millions in taxpayer dollars through the Feeding Our Future scheme was sentenced to only one year in federal prison by a Minnesota judge who has said she has a duty to combat “implicit racial bias” in the criminal justice system, including by acknowledging what she says is a disproportionate […]
The National Archives’s watchdog determined Tuesday that the mistaken release of Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s (D-NJ) military records during her gubernatorial campaign last fall was due to human error, not partisan maneuvering. The National Archives released Sherrill’s unredacted military records, including sensitive information such as her Social Security number and home addresses, in 2025, explaining that […]
Attorney General Pam Bondi has elevated North Carolina U.S. Attorney Dan Bishop to a leading role in the Justice Department’s election integrity efforts, placing a Trump-aligned prosecutor with a history of challenging the 2020 election at the center of a nationwide review. “Dan Bishop, our U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of North Carolina, will play a key role […]
At least a dozen people were killed in Nigeria on Palm Sunday after gunmen opened fire on Christians gathered in public areas, but no suspects have been arrested. The attackers descended upon the Christian-majority city of Jos with weapons and vehicles, opening fire in businesses and in the areas surrounding the local church. Twelve have […]
Transportation Security Administration employees received their first paychecks on Monday following a Thursday directive from President Donald Trump ordering that they be paid during the Department of Homeland Security shutdown. The move has sparked debate over whether the president can authorize pay without congressional approval, given that the Constitution grants Congress the power of the […]
