The Justice Department is seeking to preserve ballots cast in Alaska’s closely watched Senate race, not change votes or declare a winner, as the department pursues an investigation into allegations that Democratic operatives helped recruit a second candidate named Dan Sullivan to confuse voters. U.S. Attorney Michael Heyman, who oversees the District of Alaska, confirmed […]

A federal judge overseeing a legal fight over President Donald Trump’s plans to remake Washington, D.C.’s East Potomac Golf Links said Friday she would investigate whether administration officials misled the court and violated professional ethics rules during the proceedings. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said the inquiry would examine whether Interior Department officials, government attorneys, […]

A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Justice Department’s emergency bid to force California to set aside mail-in ballots associated with roughly 20,000 suspected noncitizens, opening a potential path to the Supreme Court days before the midterm elections. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to deny an injunction requiring officials to […]

An illegal immigrant running from Canadian prosecutors was arrested in September after allegedly trying to recruit as a fake CIA official in the United States, newly unsealed court records show. An Oct. 7 indictment in Georgia accuses Lakotah Salvini of leading a fraudulent “intelligence” organization called Castle International with co-defendant Richard Myers since at least […]