Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Wednesday that a federal grand jury had indicted ten lawful permanent residents accused of voting illegally or attempting to do so in multiple Minnesota elections, including the state’s August 2026 primary. The ten defendants, originally from Liberia, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Bosnia, Germany, Ghana and Lithuania, allegedly lied to election … Read more
Louisiana Republican Attorney General Liz Murrill is escalating her fight against abortion pills entering states that ban abortions through two lawsuits — one targeting the providers accused of distributing the drugs and another challenging the blue-state laws shielding them from prosecution. Murrill, along with Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall and Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, … Read more
FTC move is first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in July The US’s main trade regulator is conducting an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs to uncover the potential dangers their technology poses to consumers. The investigation by the Federal Trade Commission is … Read more
Twelve years after US mission against IS began, Trump hails ‘great day for America’ and calls war a ‘quagmire’ The Pentagon has announced it has formally completed its withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, two years after the withdrawal was agreed to and 12 years since the US mission to fight the Islamic State started. … Read more
Senate Democrats shut down Republicans’ bid to deal with two key issues for voters heading into the midterms. Republicans tried and failed to pass a bill that would marry differing policy issues: banning lawmakers from using their insider knowledge to trade stocks and implementing voter ID policy nationwide — the latter of which the GOP … Read more
The Federal Reserve’s watchdog said it found no grounds to believe federal law was violated in a project that drew criticism from President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats blocked legislation Wednesday aimed at protecting consumers from paying higher prices when new data centers are built in their communities.
Democrats blocked a push to tackle one of the key issues driving this midterm election cycle, and may have given a vulnerable Republican a political lifeline in the process. Republicans’ effort to crack down on rising electricity costs caused by the boom in data centers across the country was stifled on Wednesday by Senate Minority … Read more
The political right celebrated after a White House X account posted a graph showing that legal immigration to the U.S. from nations with Muslim majority populations has all but halted. The account highlighted a 96 percent cut in legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries since 2024 and attached a graph from the Cato Institute, a notoriously … Read more
Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia criticizes immigration crackdown as ranchers’ associations condemn ICE activity A close political ally of Donald Trump has broken from the administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement agenda and recommended it “step back” to evaluate what it could do better. “To get better, the first thing you got to do is admit … Read more
