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Trump says he will ask Supreme Court to rehear birthright citizenship case

WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to rehear a case challenging his executive order curtailing birthright citizenship, a long-shot bid to reverse the court's rejection of one of his signature policies. The ...
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Senate hopeful Haley Stevens knows how to win in Michigan. Democrats must decide if that’s enough

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens is spending the closing weeks of Michigan's Democratic Senate primary making a simple case: she's the candidate who wins. Stevens flipped a Republican-held House seat in suburban Detroit in 2018 and hasn't lost since, including surviving ...
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Democrat Graham Platner says he plans to withdraw from Maine Senate race after sexual assault claim

Graham Platner said Wednesday that he plans to withdraw from the U.S. Senate race in Maine after facing an allegation of sexual assault, shuttering an insurgent campaign that had withstood months of controversy only to implode and imperil Democrats' attempt to regain power in ...
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Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner suspends his campaign

WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner said on Wednesday he was suspending his campaign. "We believe that for the movement to continue, it can't be me and for that reason, we are suspending campaign operations," he said in a video ...
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Angry crowd confronts Republican Rep. Mike Flood at Nebraska town hall over Trump policies

(BELLUVUE, Neb.) -- While Congress is out of session this week, a House Republican encountered a hostile crowd at a heated town hall meeting in Bellevue, Nebraska, Tuesday night - a sour reception that may preview the tenor other lawmakers could face heading into ...
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US Justice Department tells state officials they could be prosecuted over noncitizen voting

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has sent letters to all 50 U.S. states warning that election officials could face criminal charges for allowing noncitizens to remain on their lists of eligible voters. The letters, sent on Tuesday, are ...
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Judge authorizes payment of multi-million dollar award to E. Jean Carroll in Trump case

July 8 (Reuters) - A judge on Wednesday authorized payment of a damages award that totals around $5.8 million to magazine writer E. Jean Carroll to satisfy a 2023 civil verdict in which a jury found President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and ...
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Trump gives Ukraine OK to produce Patriot missiles as war with Russia drags on

(ANKARA, Turkey) -- President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday the U.S. will give Ukraine a license to produce Patriot air defense systems."One of the things we're going to be talking about is, you'll -- we're going to give a license ...
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear sends letter to Sen. Mitch McConnell asking for full update on health

(WASHINGTON) -- Kentucky's Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear sent a letter on Wednesday to Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell asking for details on McConnell's health situation after weeks of the Kentucky senator being hospitalized with few details shared by the senator's team."Over the last several weeks, ...
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Trump says he’ll remove Syria as state sponsor of terrorism for the first time since 1979

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump, sitting next to Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the NATO summit in Turkey, said Wednesday that he will remove Syria from the State Department's State Sponsors of Terrorism list."He's done a great job. Maybe he would have brought that ...
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What to know about Graham Platner and the Maine US Senate race

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) - Democrat Graham Platner has so far been mum on whether he'll drop out of the Maine U.S. Senate race after a former girlfriend accused him of sexual assault. Platner, who denies the allegation, has faced considerable pressure from his own ...
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Bernie Sanders urges Platner to quit Maine Senate race as Democrats vie to succeed him

By Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, the highest-profile backer of Graham Platner in Washington, urged the Maine Democratic Senate nominee on Tuesday to withdraw from the race following a sexual assault allegation Platner has denied. Sanders, a Vermont independent ...
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