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DHS Orders States to Audit Paper Ballots or Lose Funding Weeks Before Midterms
DHS Orders States to Audit Paper Ballots or Lose Funding Weeks Before Midterms Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin notified the White House Transparency Task Force in an August 24 letter, released Thursday, that DHS will require states to conduct random, post-election manual audits of paper ballots before they can receive full Homeland Security Grant Program…
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Trump Threatens Progressive Think Tank With $5 Billion Lawsuit — It Says No
Trump Threatens Progressive Think Tank With $5 Billion Lawsuit — It Says No President Trump’s legal team gave the left-leaning Center for American Progress until the end of business Friday to retract a July 13 report concluding his National Guard deployments had “no measurable effect on violent crime trends,” threatening a $5 billion defamation lawsuit…
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ICE Arrests More People With No Criminal Record Than Ever, New Data Shows
ICE Arrests More People With No Criminal Record Than Ever, New Data Shows Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a record average of more than 800 people with no criminal record per day in July, according to new federal data reported Friday, making it the first month of Trump’s second term in which people facing only…
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Pentagon Loses Its War on Anthropic — But the Fight Over Military AI Isn’t Over
Pentagon Loses Its War on Anthropic — But the Fight Over Military AI Isn’t Over A federal judge in San Francisco ruled Thursday evening that the Pentagon’s designation of AI company Anthropic as a “supply chain risk to national security” was unconstitutional retaliation, handing the company a near-total win in a five-month legal fight with…
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Mail Ballot Overhaul for the Second Time in a Week
Judge Blocks Trump’s Mail Ballot Overhaul for the Second Time in a Week A federal judge in Massachusetts issued a new order Thursday night blocking the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing a finalized rule implementing President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterms. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of…
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US, South Korea and Japan Confirm War Drill Days After North Korea Threatens Retaliation
US, South Korea and Japan Confirm War Drill Days After North Korea Threatens Retaliation Officials in Seoul announced Friday that the United States, South Korea and Japan will proceed with the trilateral “Freedom Edge” military exercise starting September 7 for a five-day run in waters off South Korea’s Jeju Island, describing the drill as defensive…
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Nepal’s Flood Death Toll Tops 500 as Nepal and China Trade Blame Over Data
Nepal’s Flood Death Toll Tops 500 as Nepal and China Trade Blame Over Data The death toll from Wednesday’s catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-Tibet border reached 579 confirmed dead, with roughly 2,500 people still missing across both countries — 1,924 in Nepal and 558 in China, according to state media — as rescue crews continued…
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Norway’s King Dies as a Scandal-Battered Monarchy Faces Its Future
Norway’s King Dies as a Scandal-Battered Monarchy Faces Its Future King Harald V of Norway died Friday at Oslo University Hospital’s Rikshospitalet at age 89, days after being admitted on August 17 for treatment of a blood infection. He was immediately succeeded by his son, now King Haakon VIII, ending a 35-year reign in which…
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Netflix Revives “Manifest” With a Spinoff — But Leaves Original Stars’ Fate Up in the Air
Netflix Revives “Manifest” With a Spinoff — But Leaves Original Stars’ Fate Up in the Air Netflix announced Friday, August 28 that it has ordered “Arrivals: A New Manifest Mystery,” a spinoff series set within the “Manifest” universe, timing the announcement to 8:28 a.m. as a nod to the original show’s central Flight 828 mythology…
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Apple TV Jacks Prices Up Again — Second Hike in a Year Leaves Subscribers Fuming
Apple TV Jacks Prices Up Again — Second Hike in a Year Leaves Subscribers Fuming Apple raised the price of its Apple TV streaming service effective Friday, August 28, with the monthly plan climbing from $12.99 to $14.99 and the annual plan rising from $99 to $119. The increase also pushed the price of the…