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By Tommy Flynn
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 25 vacated a 2023 district-court judgment that struck down Georgia’s 2021 congressional and legislative maps under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and sent the cases back to U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones. A three-judge panel...
By Tommy Flynn
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hosts G20 finance ministers and central bank governors Monday and Tuesday in Asheville, North Carolina, the first major gathering of the group under U.S. chairmanship after Washington largely sat out last year’s South Africa-led process. A senior...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump said Friday he is authorizing legal documents so farmers and ranchers can process their own food, aiming at what he called a “nasty monopoly” among the four companies that handle about 85 percent of U.S. meat processing. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said...
By Tommy Flynn
California’s live voter-registration form still lets an applicant check that they have neither a California driver’s license or state ID nor a Social Security number. Official Secretary of State guidance says those first-time federal voters who registered by mail or online...
By Tommy Flynn
The Justice Department filed four complaints Thursday challenging state laws that give in-state tuition and financial aid to illegal aliens while denying the same rates to U.S. citizens who live out of state. The targets are Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. Associate...
By Tommy Flynn
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the IRS are preparing reviews that could revoke 501(c)(3) status for Open Society Foundations, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, three people familiar with the matter told the New York Post....
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman on Friday refused to issue a temporary restraining order against President Trump’s Aug. 6 follow-on executive order limiting which children born in the United States receive citizenship documents. Boardman, a Biden appointee sitting in...
By Tommy Flynn
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told the White House Transparency Task Force that the three vendors supplying more than 80 percent of U.S. voting systems have acknowledged Chinese-manufactured components, some with no ready American substitute, and that a...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump said Friday the United States has reached an agreement with Venezuela’s interim government giving Washington majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven crude reserves “at no cost to the American taxpayer.” He called it “THE BIGGEST OIL DEAL IN...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump signed an executive order Friday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston creating a Presidential Commission to design a United States Space Academy, a proposed NASA-led federal school modeled on the service academies. The order does not open a campus or fix a...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper heard nearly two hours of argument Thursday on whether the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts may add President Trump’s name back to the building after a prior order forced it off. Cooper did not rule from the bench. Later...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. refused Wednesday to order Texas to extradite Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro to Minnesota, and declined to keep him in jail past the state’s 90-day extradition hold. Castro was released Thursday morning...