WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday that any probes that former federal prosecutor Joseph DiGenova had been handling would continue. DiGenova, who oversaw a wide-ranging probe into past investigations of President Donald Trump, resigned last week. “I ve
By David Hood-Nuño WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – A Republican nominee for a Texas office drew bipartisan criticism after posting a photo from a University of Texas football game that critics called racist, portraying the Austin campus as dominated by foreign students contrary to enrollment data. B
WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump lashed out on Tuesday at his own Supreme Court appointees a day after the top U.S. judicial body declined to allow a U.S. Postal Service rule restricting the use of mail-in ballots in the November midterm elections in his latest acidic criticism
By Jason Lange and Yasmeen Abutaleb WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – Americans’ trust in vaccines for deadly childhood diseases including measles has fallen in recent years, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found, a troubling sign for the country as it experiences its worst measles outbreaks in decades. The
By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) – FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers on Tuesday he changed the bureau’s hiring standards to eliminate bestiality as an automatic disqualifier because he did not want to bar trafficking victims who had been forced to have sex with animals, draw
By Hannah Lang Sept 15 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate is set to vote on Tuesday on whether to advance once-in-a-generation cryptocurrency legislation, potentially determining the fate of the bill as Republican Senate leaders grapple with a limited calendar in a busy election year. The bill, dubbed the
NEW YORK (AP) — A last-ditch Trump administration effort to hunt for noncitizen voters ahead of November’s elections is requiring federal employees to misrepresent themselves on voter lookup tools in a way that likely violates state laws, according to a federal whistleblower’s statement released Mon
By Andrew Chung Sept 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to let the U.S. Postal Service enforce a rule targeting mail-in ballots, dealing a setback to President Donald Trump’s effort to restrict voting by mail ahead of November’s midterm elections that will determine control of
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Monday nominated the wife of “God Bless the USA” singer Lee Greenwood to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. Kimberly Greenwood was among a list of nominees the Trump administration sent to the U.S. Senate for confirmation.
WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday nominated Texas Republican Representative Wesley Hunt to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia, which would fill a position vacant since Trump began his second term in January 2025. Hunt, a U.S. Army veteran once deployed to Iraq and Saud
By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing a new rule that would limit how long foreign students and journalists can remain in the U.S. without applying for extensions. U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Say
By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Progressive U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and conservative podcaster Steve Bannon will together on Tuesday call for restrictions on AI systems, uniting two political adversaries around concerns that the technology will harm humans. They will speak at t
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s former election integrity director filed a whistleblower lawsuit Monday against Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, alleging he was fired after raising concerns that staff were plotting to file a fake complaint in a legal case about the state’s voter da
Sept 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump met privately with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman backstage at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, MS Now reported on Monday, citing three people familiar with the meeting. Altman requested the meeting with Trump, the report said, adding that a brie
By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – U.S. Senate negotiators are debating legislation that would require AI companies to demonstrate they are taking reasonable precautions to keep their tools from causing harm, according to a Senate aide and a lobbyist familiar with the talks. Alarm abo
By Nate Raymond Sept 14 (Reuters) – Dozens of Democratic-led U.S. states, counties and cities sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday to block a new rule that would allow immigration officials to deny green cards to people who use public benefits such as food stamps and Medicaid. In t
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration needs more funding from Congress to complete phase one of a $10.6 billion air traffic control reform plan and has underestimated the total costs of operating the new system, according to a government report relea
By Valerie Volcovici, Georgina McCartney and Ernest Scheyder WASHINGTON/HOUSTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced rules to repeal former President Joe Biden’s limits on carbon emissions from coal- and gas-fired power plants and to prevent future climat
WASHINGTON (AP) — Delaware’s Democratic U.S. senator, U.S. representative and state attorney general will go before voters in a state primary Tuesday as they seek reelection. Voters also will choose nominees for state Legislature and for an open seat for state treasurer. The primaries will set the s
The Environmental Protection Agency is repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas, an action the agency said would remove more than $300 billion in costs for the industry and help “unleash” American energy. The EPA also announc
By Doina Chiacu and Michelle Price WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republicans on Sunday released a revised draft of major cryptocurrency legislation that they said addressed Democrats’ concerns over ethics provisions and banking industry worries about lending, ahead of a key vote on Tue
Democratic state parties announced Monday that they are launching an operation for the midterm elections they’re calling the “New Battlefield Project,” intended to recruit 10,000 volunteers to guard polling places in case armed federal officers show up. Activists are planning mass protests if the Tr
DECINES-CHARPIEU, France (AP) — French organizers of the 2030 Winter Olympics appointed an interim president Monday following the departure last week of Edgar Grospiron, a move that capped a period of intense turbulence. The temporary appointment of Vincent Roberti was announced as an IOC delegation
By Luc Cohen Sept 14 (Reuters) – A second federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing a new U.S. Postal Service rule that tightens mail-in voting requirements, even as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs the administration’s request to lift a separate order halting the
A federal judge late Sunday ordered that the U.S. Postal Service not implement President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail balloting, adding another obstacle to the administration’s effort to rewrite election rules as the Supreme Court is poised to weigh in on the matter. The nation’s hig
This summer, a 28-year-old digital content marketer packed up his suitcases and duct-taped boxes and fled Russia, leaving behind his family and friends and not knowing when he’ll be able to return. “It is very sad to leave Russia,” he said in the southern city of Krasnodar before heading for the bor
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump had been hearing the message loud and clear for weeks about the sweeping cryptocurrency bill being written in the Senate: to get it across the line, he would have to agree to ethics provisions that apply to him, too. First, Trump agreed to a measure that woul
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $5,000 to every American adult if his Republican Party maintains control of the House and Senate in the November election needs congressional approval, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday, while pledging to try to make it happen. Trump m
By Bo Erickson and Padraic Halpin DOONBEG, Ireland, Sept 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said at the end of a visit to Ireland on Sunday that he would remove a 10% tariff on Irish whiskey, a duty that currently falls under those imposed on all European Union wine and spirit exports to the
ATLANTA (AP) — Security researchers say rapid advances in artificial intelligence are making it more critical to address a flaw in Georgia’s voting equipment that can allow voters to be matched to their ballots after they have been cast. The system’s vulnerability has been drawing increased attentio
