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A federal judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to stop threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution over their handling of disputes about voter qualifications. U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson also ordered the Trump administration to cease demanding that election workers remove voters from statewide rolls, refuse to issue ballots to specific voters or segregate ballots cast in the midterms based on the administration's claims that some voters are ineligibl

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Justice Dept. seeks to separate Alaska ballots ranking Dan J. Sullivan to probe 'confusion' with GOP Senate incumbent. This article originally appeared on Associated Press at https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/top-federal-prosecutor-alaska-says-202506121.html

US stocks plunged in the final trading day of the month as earnings from Amazon ( AMZN ) and Alphabet ( GOOG , GOOGL ) this week rekindled concerns about the amount of money Big Tech is spending on its AI ambitions. The Nasdaq Composite ( ^IXIC ) tumbled 2.8% as a tech-fueled sell-off intensified. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI ) fell 1.2%, or over 650 points, while the S&P 500 ( ^GSPC ) dropped 2%. For the month, the Dow gained 1.5%, while the Nasdaq and S&P 500 gave up gains, falling

An open voting machine is seen at Arroyo Seco regional branch library on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. (Ronaldo Bolanos/Los Angeles Times) A federal appeals court for the second time Friday denied a Trump administration request to block 20,000 ballots from California voters the administration alleges may be noncitizens ruling that the administration had failed to show that such extraordinary relief, during an ongoing election, is clearly required by law. The three-judge panel of th

Nvidia, a top chipmaker, is denying a report that its CEO, Jensen Huang, was allegedly targeted in a Chinese spy plot. According to a New York Times report published Thursday, U.S. intelligence officials allegedly determined that a top executive at a Singapore-based data center company who developed a close relationship with Huang was funneling information to Chinese officials in Beijing. The executive was identified by the Times as Alice Huang, who was pictured together with the Nvidia CEO in 2

HOUSTON (AP) A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer accused of intentionally ramming his car into a Mexican construction worker in Houston was charged Friday with aggravated assault, prosecutors said. The Harris County District Attorney's office says Mario Alberto Morales was behind the wheel of an unmarked black vehicle on Oct. 10 when it struck Miguel Parra Hernandez, 48, who was running away. Parra Hernandez was later placed in custody with a broken leg. Few federal officers duri

WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump has rescheduled weekend campaign rallies in a pair of critical Midwestern states that he had previously canceled, according to a person familiar with the plans. The Republican president will now visit Iowa and Kansas for back-to-back campaign rallies on Sunday, said the person, who insisted on anonymity to discuss his schedule. The scheduling whiplash underscored the chaotic and shifting nature of the final days of the midterm campaigns, in which Trump and

Christa Pike said she is in constant physical and mental pain in a statement released one month after she survived an execution attempt by the state of Tennessee on Sept. 30. I had not contemplated life beyond that night, and Im deeply hurt by the incompetence that has put so many people in this terrible position, she said in the 460-word statement. I continue to think about my victims family and the terrible pain and loss they have endured. Pike was sentenced to death for the 1985 murder of 19-

House Democrats are probing the State Departments role in facilitating former Brazilian presidential candidate Flvio Bolsonaros escape from Brazil to the U.S. amid ongoing criminal investigations into him and his family. A group of House Democrats, including many prominent members of the Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday night with a list of questions about the State Departments involvement in Bolsonaro fleeing Brazil and the process it underw