The department, in a highly unusual lawsuit, argued that confusion over candidates with similar names could taint the election result.Senator Dan Sullivan, the Alaska Republican incumbent, at a rally this month. The ballot in the Senate race also features Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.
No obvious legal authority supports a pre-emptive effort to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.Senator Dan Sullivan with Mary Peltola, his Democratic challenger, during a debate in Kodiak, Alaska, last month.
Election officials say they worry the administration could use its own unsubstantiated claims to contest the vote in November.President Trump, who has continued to falsely claim that he won the 2020 election, has been relentless in his efforts to sow doubts about the integrity of American voting.
Election officials across the state received letters from the agency saying if they fail to comply, they “risk significant federal scrutiny.”A ballot processing center in Industry, Calif., last year. California elections rely heavily on mail voting.
The U.S. government has ordered diplomats and other federal employees to leave Saudi Arabia. It is also drawing down staff at other missions in the region.Security stationed outside the U.S. embassy in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone in March.
Plus, a promising cancer vaccine. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.Senator Dan Sullivan at a rally this month.
Kaylub Giamanco told Oregon Public Broadcasting that he happened to be driving by the Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend when he saw a gunman preparing to enter the school.“I have to go in. People are going to die,” Kaylub Giamanco told Oregon Public Broadcasting, recalling the moment he saw an a
The first-generation Apple foldable may feel awkward, but it’s an intriguing step toward merging phones and tablets into one.
Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.Oil drilling rigs in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. The Polar LNG plan called for the company to tap into the giant load of natural gas available in the state’s nort
Senators have warned the White House they will withhold confirmation votes until the administration ensures the restoration of communications capabilities used by Ukraine’s military.Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican of Pennsylvania and a former F.B.I. agent who worked on Russian counterin
The Justice Department has opened an inquiry into Mr. Lewandowski. President Trump has not jumped to his defense.Corey Lewandowski at an election night watch party in West Palm Beach, Fla., in 2024.
The charges intensified the administration’s efforts to go after the law enforcement and intelligence personnel who cast doubt on unsubstantiated claims that Joseph R. Biden Jr. engaged in corrupt dealings in Ukraine.The two officials served on the F.B.I.’s Foreign Influence Task Force, a group crea
The donations from James Blair and Chris LaCivita were revealed after the president expressed pique over their consulting work for Republika Srpska.James Blair, a political operative, donated the fees he earned for advising a pro-Russian Balkan government to President Trump’s library fund.
It’s not impossible to spot the characteristics of a brewing financial crisis. We can look to 2008 for clues.
Violet Clinton is doing award-winning entomological field research. Her dad still has to buy the beer for her moth bait.
Oscar Belgal, a Dominican immigrant, was shot in the neck on Oct. 8 and detained at a federal prison. His lawyers had said he needed outside medical care.Immigration agents descended upon Oscar Belgal, an undocumented Dominican immigrant, as he drove with his son along a strip of small stores in New
The ruling, from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, sharply curtails the ability of judges to free undocumented immigrants.An ICE detention facility in Texas last year.
The G.O.P. nominee in Ohio has given conservatives space to reckon with the ethical degradation of Trumpism.
Sarah Longwell has conducted hundreds of focus groups with Trump voters, and many of them are feeling betrayed.
New data have prompted questions about changes in teens’ sexual orientations. But researchers disagree on how much the numbers can really tell us.After peaking at 26 percent in 2021, the percentage of ninth-grade girls identifying as bisexual dropped in 2025 to 13 percent, according to recent federa
