The Republican-led state of Missouri on Monday asked a judge to block the Justice Department from dispatching lawyers to St. Louis to monitor adherence to federal voting rights laws on Election Day. Missouri’s attorney general and secretary of state claimed […]
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Hours after Steve Bannon was released from prison Tuesday upon serving a four-month stint for evading a congressional subpoena, the onetime adviser to former President Trump sounded the alarm about the upcoming election. “The Democrats are not going to give
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A Fulton County election official who refused to certify the results of the county’s spring presidential primary election has appealed a state judge’s ruling affirming that Georgia law requires officials like her to certify without delay. Fulton County election board
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A Georgia judge must decide whether to squash new state election rules, including a controversial change requiring hand-counted verification of ballots, in the final weeks before November’s election. Fulton County Superior Judge Robert McBurney heard arguments Tuesday over six
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Lilly Ledbetter, an activist for equal pay whose legal fight against her employer paved the way for the Fair Pay Act, has died. She was 86. Ledbetter worked at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Alabama for nearly two decades
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A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt’s family against the U.S. government will go to trial in 2026, a judge said Friday during a status hearing in the case. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes set a
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Friends of former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) asked the judge overseeing his federal corruption case to weigh his decades of public service when deciding his sentence next month. In letters to U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein, Menendez’s friends — many
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A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt’s family against the U.S. government must go to trial before the end of 2025, a judge ruled Friday. In a terse order, U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said that
A pair of brothers were arrested Thursday for allegedly assaulting a New York Times photographer and taking her camera during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Philip and David Walker face charges they forcibly took an item of value from a
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The Manhattan district attorney’s office said that former President Trump’s latest effort to remove his hush money criminal case to federal court should not put proceedings on ice as his sentencing nears. In a Friday letter to Judge Juan Merchan
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