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Trump administration cannot cancel grants for disfavored causes, US judge rules

BOSTON, July 17 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration cannot rely on a White House budget office regulation to terminate billions of dollars in grants because they are inconsistent with his priorities. U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ...
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Blanche must meet with Epstein victims to earn confirmation vote, Sen. Tillis says

(WASHINGTON) -- A key GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee whose vote is needed to secure acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's confirmation as the next attorney general said Thursday that he will require Blanche to sit down with victims of deceased convicted sex ...
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Democrats launch prebuttal to Trump’s primetime address: ‘He’s scared to death’ of the midterms

(WASHINGTON) -- Democrats on Thursday offered their prebuttal to President Donald Trump's prime time address that they expect to focus on the 2020 election. Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, whose home state has been the target of many of the administration's election challenges, told ...
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Mullin threatens to withhold aid from states that don’t comply with DHS election directives

(WASHINGTON) -- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened on Friday to strip states of federal election-related aid, and to possibly seek criminal penalties against election officials, if they don't comply with the administration's voting roll probe ahead of the midterms.Mullin told reporters ...
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US Homeland Security chief asks four states to check voter rolls for non-citizens

WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin asked election officials in four states to check voter rolls for people who are not U.S. citizens, a day after President Donald Trump renewed unsubstantiated claims of past election interference. In a statement ...
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Maine Democratic Senate candidates brand Collins a Trump enabler in debate

By Nolan D. McCaskill WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - Four top candidates vying to replace Graham Platner as the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee in Maine took to the debate stage on Thursday to make their case for why they should be the one to face ...
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Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez quits Democratic governor’s race over campaign finance problems

Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez abandoned her Democratic primary campaign for governor on Friday, citing financial concerns she said would be a distraction were she to continue running in the Midwestern battleground state. The move comes just days after Rodriguez, a leading establishment Democrat from ...
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Darline Graham weighs running for full Senate term as funeral scheduled for Lindsey Graham

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Sen. Darline Graham has privately expressed interest in running for a full Senate term after getting appointed as a temporary replacement for her late brother, Lindsey Graham, according to three people familiar with the deliberations. The people, who were not authorized ...
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Five things to know about Trump’s election fraud allegations

By Andrew Goudsward, Jonathan Landay, Erin Banco and Kristina Cooke July 16 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump renewed his campaign to cast doubt on U.S. elections on Thursday, declassifying intelligence he said exposed fraud and foreign interference despite intelligence findings and independent studies that undercut ...
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The Latest: Trump doubles down on election fraud claims in primetime speech

President Donald Trump used a primetime address to the nation to elevate his yearslong push to raise doubts about the legitimacy of U.S. elections and dispute his 2020 loss - this time, to justify his push to pass a strict voter ID bill. His allegations ...
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Trump puts election security at center of Republicans’ midterm fight

By Nandita Bose and Joseph Ax WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his effort to make election security a central issue in November's midterm elections, asserting that China interfered in the 2020 presidential campaign despite a U.S. intelligence assessment that found ...
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Why American elections are so complicated — and secure

In a speech to the nation Thursday evening, President Donald Trump said Americans deserve secure elections, and he claimed to be using federal authority to prevent them from being "stolen." In fact, one of the strongest security features of U.S. elections is the fact ...
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