A federal judge has halted the implementation of a new proof-of-citizenship requirement for voter registrants. Local and state election officials across the country voiced concerns on April 24 about the logistics and impacts of the elections overhaul President Donald Trump ordered last month. Documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, new voting system guidelines,
The minerals in certain areas of the Pacific Ocean are valued in the trillions of dollars, according to a recent scientific report. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on April 24 fast-tracking a new industry, offshore deep-sea mineral mining in the Pacific Ocean. Trump’s order, titled “Revitalizing American Dominance in Deep Seabed Minerals,” seeks to
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday that the Kremlin is “ready to reach a deal” with the U.S. on Ukraine, though he also said some elements need to be “fine tuned.” “The President of the United States believes, and I think rightly so, that we are moving in the right direction,” Lavrov said in
The memo follows a congressional inquiry into ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s primary fundraising platform. WASHINGTON—A new presidential memorandum from the White House aims to crack down on unlawful foreign contributions and money funneled to electoral campaigns using identity theft schemes to evade federal laws. “Notwithstanding these laws designed to protect American democracy, press reports and
San Francisco, Santa Clara, and 14 other cities sued to stop implementation of executive orders to strip federal taxpayer funding from them. A federal judge has blocked a push by President Donald Trump to federally defund cities that have adopted so-called sanctuary policies for illegal immigrants. In an April 24 order granting a preliminary injunction,
Columbia University student radicals abandoned their plans to launch an anti-Israel encampment Thursday afternoon after the Ivy League school warned that participants could face disciplinary actions, including arrest. Instead, agitators pushed protesters to join unrest elsewhere in New York. During one of those protests, at City College of New York, police pepper sprayed keffiyeh-clad students
The Trump administration conceded on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents did not have a warrant when they detained Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil in March, acknowledging it was “a warrantless arrest.” Khalil’s attorneys are asking an immigration judge in Louisiana, where their client has been detained by ICE for weeks, to terminate his