Vulnerabilities in Electronic Voting and Ballot-Counting Systems  —  For years Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including electronic voting machines and ballot-counting systems.  We are releasing a series of previously-classified U.S …

DHS Secretary Mullin threatens to prosecute election chiefs who refuse voter roll demands  —  Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened top election officials in all 50 states and D.C. with criminal charges if they do not comply with the Trump administration's demands to feed …

Sara Rodriguez suspends Wisconsin governor campaign amid campaign finance issues  —  Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez dropped out of the Wisconsin Democratic governor primary Friday, citing her campaign's mishandling of financial reports.  —  Her departure from the race is a blow to the state's …

Wildfire smoke invades DC area with some of the worst air quality on record … As a cold front pushed a dense plume of wildfire smoke from Canada southward, the DC area awoke Friday to widespread very unhealthy (code purple) to hazardous (code maroon) air quality.

Trump Is Weighing Backing Darline Graham for a Full Senate Term  —  President Donald Trump is considering backing Darline Graham for the full Senate term to replace her brother, the late Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, two sources tell NOTUS.  —  Darline Graham was appointed …

Lettuce at Taco Bell in 5 states confirmed as a source of diarrhea-causing parasite  —  Federal health officials have identified lettuce from Mexico served at Taco Bell locations across five U.S. states as a source of the widespread outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora.

After Tillis' demands, Todd Blanche meets with Jeffrey Epstein's victims  —  Hours after Sen. Thom Tillis demanded acting Attorney General Todd Blanche meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes, President Donald Trump's nominee to permanently lead the Justice Department did just that.

Outrage after ICE agents tackle man at Las Vegas airport  —  Video footage of two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents tackling a man at the airport in Las Vegas drew public outrage and criticism from elected officials.  One video posted on social media showed a man yelling and crying …

Homeland Security Limits How Long International Students Can Stay in U.S.  —  International students previously could stay as long as their program lasted.  The Trump administration is ending that 1978 policy. … The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday scrapped a long-standing policy …

Kuwait says Iran attacked a power and water desalination plant, causing widespread damage  —  Kuwait said Friday that Iran attacked a power and water desalination plant, causing widespread damage to the station.  In Kuwait, about 90% of drinking water comes from desalination …

Trump says ABC, NBC licenses should be revoked over refusal to air speech on election integrity  —  The broadcasters did not specify why they declined to air the speech, but networks are often loath to grant time to presidents for overtly political purposes.  —  Summary

AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say  —  The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood …

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’  —  A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.”  It also plans to use the data to investigate immigration fraud.

Trump Administration Unleashes Global Campaign to Crush Radical Left Terrorism  —  Today, the Trump Administration convened senior officials from governments around the world to launch an unprecedented global offensive against the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism.

Top Treasury Tax Official Ousted After Clashes With White House Over IRS Audits  —  Kenneth Kies warned that political officials risked breaching a law that limits who can influence tax enforcement  —  WASHINGTON—The Treasury Department's top tax policy official was forced out of his job …

Alan Dershowitz cancels on House Oversight ahead of planned Epstein interview  —  Alan Dershowitz, a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School who worked to craft the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 plea deal, will not appear before the House Oversight Committee for his scheduled …

Trump's anticlimax, and Katz vs. Katz  —  With help from Eli Okun, Ali Bianco and Irie Sentner  —  Happy Friday everyone, it's Will Steakin and Kyle Cheney, still digesting Donald Trump's election security document dump and primetime address.  It's fitting it began with the index-card stump speech Hill Republicans were hoping for.

Shoot First, Smear Later  —  Killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo wasn't enough—now comes the Trump administration's campaign to assassinate his character.  —  ∙ Paid  —  THERE IS A FAMILIAR PATTERN to how the Trump administration responds when its immigration enforcement agents commit …