JUST IN: Not Looking Good For Trump in CA Election CaseNearly two hours of oral arguments just concluded in the California election case, and it looks very unlikely that the...Talking Points Memo2h agoWhole story →Government
Brazil votes in narrow presidential runoffBrazil’s incumbent left-wing president faced off against his favored right-wing challenger Sunday in a narrow runoff election that will determine the direction of Latin America’s largest economy.Semafor2h agoWhole story →Government
US to remove some Canadian tariffs ahead of electionsThe US announced plans to remove tariffs on certain Canadian products after an embattled Republican senator in Maine lobbied for the move as the White House looks to bolster its candidates ahead of Nov. 3.Semafor2h agoWhole story →GovernmentEconomy
Anthropic's Claude bypassed a paywall to access Georgia voter data without authorizationAnthropic's Claude accessed publicly available Georgia voter data without human authorization, a disclosure sure to add to growing concerns about AI security ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. Why it matters: AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI have continued to make disclosures about agents taking unauthorized or unintended actions, raising alarms…Axios3h agoWhole story →GovernmentTechnology
Judges challenge DOJ evidence in California ballot caseFederal judges questioned the evidence behind DOJ claims involving 20,000 California ballotsNewsNation3h agoWhole story →GovernmentJustice
Trump on Alaska Election: 'A Lot of People Don’t Know What Incumbent Means'Trump said many people don’t know what “incumbent” means while criticizing Alaska’s Senate ballot and its two Sullivans.Newsweek2h agoWhole story →Government
Scoop: Netanyahu presses Trump for more support ahead of tight Tuesday electionTEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — fighting for political survival in Tuesday's elections — has pleaded with President Trump in recent days to show more public support for his campaign, according to a U.S. source with knowledge and an Israeli source briefed on the matter. Why it matters: The U.S. source said the White House…Axios2h agoWhole story →SecurityGovernment
Trump DOJ lawyers scolded by skeptical judges in ballot case: 'How can we do that?'Lawyers from President Donald Trump's Justice Department were in court Sunday defending the administration's attempts to determine how California counts its ballots during the upcoming midterm elections. The hearing didn't go the way the lawyers likely envisioned it going, according to a new report from Politico. DOJ lawyers argued during a two-hour…Raw Story2h agoWhole story →GovernmentJustice
Trump attacks Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan campaign stopCandidates are in their last full week of campaigning before the midterm elections, and early voting is already underway in 43 states. The latest CBS News poll shows that most Americans do not approve of President Trump's handling of the economy or inflation. Nikole Killion reports from Port Huron, Michigan.CBS News1h agoWhole story →Government
A Serbian Nationalist Leader Who Courted MAGA Just Lost in a LandslideSerbian strongman Aleksandar Vucic, a nationalist who has cultivated ties to Donald Trump and Vladmir Putin and has downplayed his country’s 1990s war crimes, conceded defeat in elections Sunday to a slate of candidates backed by a student-led anti-corruption movement. The result has broad similarities to Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar’s April…Mother Jones1h agoWhole story →JusticeGovernment
Judges challenge DOJ evidence in California ballot caseFederal judges questioned the evidence behind DOJ claims involving 20,000 California ballotsNewsNation3h agoWhole story →GovernmentJustice
Appeals court rejects Trump request to lift block on Postal Service rule for mail ballotsA federal appeals court denied the Trump administration's request to lift a lower court's order that blocked new rules for mail ballots before the midterms.CBS News2mo agoWhole story →Governmentmail ballot ruling
Trump DOJ lawyers scolded by skeptical judges in ballot case: 'How can we do that?'Lawyers from President Donald Trump's Justice Department were in court Sunday defending the administration's attempts to determine how California counts its ballots during the upcoming midterm elections. The hearing didn't go the way the lawyers likely envisioned it going, according to a new report from Politico. DOJ lawyers argued during a two-hour…Raw Story2h agoWhole story →GovernmentJustice
Trump says he ordered the Justice Department's lawsuit over Alaska's US Senate racePresident Donald Trump says he ordered the Justice Department lawsuit over Alaska’s U.S. Senate race. Trump's administration has filed a lawsuit to block certification of the Senate race in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. Another candidate with the same name is on the ballot. The lawsuit has sparked concerns about a lengthy battle between…The Atlanta Journal-Constitution2d agoWhole story →JusticeGovernmentDan Sullivan
“Devoid of Any Factual Basis”: Again and Again, Judges Have Dismissed Trump’s Voter Data LawsuitsThe post “Devoid of Any Factual Basis”: Again and Again, Judges Have Dismissed Trump’s Voter Data Lawsuits appeared first on ProPublica .ProPublica10d agoWhole story →JusticeGovernmentvoter data lawsuits
Harvard Has No Entitlement to Federal Billions, Federal Lawyer Tells Appeals CourtBOSTON—A federal judge overstepped her authority when she ordered the federal government to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants to Harvard that the Trump administration had terminated, a government lawyer told a panel of appellate judges Monday. "There’s no First Amendment right to money," the Justice Department lawyer, Michael…Washington Free Beacon20d agoWhole story →GovernmentEducationharvard research grants lawsuit
Obama judges block IRS from sharing taxpayer addresses with ICE rulingObama-appointed D.C. Circuit judges blocked the IRS from sharing taxpayer addresses with ICE, calling the administration's argument 'weak sauce' in a federal court ruling.Fox News2mo agoWhole story →EconomyGovernmentirs ice data sharing ruling
Clock ticks on thousands of mail ballots as appeals court speeds Trump DOJ bidA federal appeals court is moving at breakneck speed on the Trump Justice Department's bid to sideline thousands of mail ballots before Election Day. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday gave California and other defendants until noon Pacific time Saturday to respond to the department's emergency motion for an injunction pending appeal,…Raw Story2d agoWhole story →GovernmentJustice
