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Millions of voters headed to the polls today for primary elections in Florida, Wyoming and Alaska and a special election to fill former representative Eric Swalwell’s seat in California. We’re still waiting on results from those western states.
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Byron Donalds won the Republican nomination and David Jolly the Democratic nomination for Florida governor. Donalds was endorsed by Donald Trump and will become Florida’s first Black governor if elected in November. Jolly is a former Republican who joined the Democratic party last year.
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Progressive Angie Nixon won the Democratic nomination for Florida’s open Senate seat, defeating the heavily favored Alex Vindman, a retired army lieutenant colonel and an impeachment witness against Trump during the president’s first term of office. If elected in November, Nixon would be the state’s first Black senator. Nixon will compete against Republican Ashley Moody in November for the Senate seat Marco Rubio won in 2022.
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Democratic senator Jon Ossoff called Donald Trump a “draft-dodging, crook president” during a campaign appearance today, continuing a feud with the president that escalated this week. Ossoff is currently running for re-election to his Senate seat in Georgia, and his criticism of the president has received viral attention on social media.
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The president of the international criminal court (ICC) has been sanctioned by the United States government for its criminal investigation of Israeli officials for crimes committed during its war on Gaza. The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, called the ICC “corrupt and fatally politicized” and announced that the US would sanction Tomoko Akane of Japan, the ICC president, and Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal, an ICC senior trial lawyer.
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Minnesota’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, sued Texas’s governor, Greg Abbott, seeking to compel the extradition of an ICE agent to stand trial for assault and falsely reporting a crime in the wounding of a man during the agency’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
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The Walt Disney Company, ABC and a number of its affiliated stations filed a federal suit against the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday to block the government’s demand for an early broadcast license renewal process that the companies describe as motivated by political hostility and an attack on press freedom.
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Donald Trump posted an image of a map of the strait of Hormuz on his social media platform Truth Social, with a circle around the strait and the words “New US Territory” as the title on Tuesday morning.
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In a social media post, Alex Vindman said he would back Angie Nixon, after the democratic socialist pulled an unexpected victory over the former army intelligence officer.
“Rep Nixon ran a strong campaign. I will be standing by her side,” Vindman wrote.
“Who would’ve ever thought that a Jewish refugee would make it to the U.S. Army, to the White House, and to becoming a candidate for the U.S. Senate,” he added. “I still believe in the American Dream, because I’ve lived it.”
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As we await results in Wyoming and – tomorrow morning – Alaska, here’s more on the key results out of Florida’s primary races:
Byron Donalds, a congressman backed by Donald Trump, won the Republican nomination for governor on Tuesday in the race to succeed Ron DeSantis.
As my colleague Richard Luscombe reports: “DeSantis did not make an endorsement in the race, but Trump did, backing Donalds and his conservative credentials, with support that could prove decisive in Florida, arguably the heart of Trump’s Make America great again movement, and home to his Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach estate.”
And: “In an upset for the Democratic establishment, progressive Angie Nixon won the party’s US Senate primary in Florida, beating former army intelligence officer Alexander Vindman.”
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Polls have closed in Wyoming, where we’re following key Senate and governor’s races. We’ll bring you the results as the Associated Press calls the races.
Florida governor hopefuls Byron Donalds and David Jolly have both addressed supporters following their victories in their respective primaries.
Republican nominee Donalds encouraged his party to unite ahead of the general election. “Tonight we put aside our differences. Tonight we are one united Republican party,” he said.
Meanwhile, Jolly acknowledged his history as a Republican. “To my Democratic friends, thank you for welcoming me into the party,” he said. Later, he added: “As an old-school Republican, I talk about ending the culture wars not to celebrate some progressive platform, but because I still believe in the old-school Republican, libertarian policy that government should simply stay out of your life.”
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A few more House primary results are coming in from Florida:
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Austin Rogers has won the Republican nomination for US House in Florida’s second congressional district.
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Jimmy Patronis is the Republican nominee in the first district.
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Scott Singer is the Republican nominee in the 25th district.
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Jim Schwartzel is the Republican nominee in the 19th district.
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Seth Harp is the Democratic nominee in the third congressional district.
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Victor Arias is the Democratic nominee in the 19th district.
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Kimberly Overman won the Democratic nomination in the 12th district.
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Robert People won the Democratic nomination in the 15th district.
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Kelly Kirschner won the Democratic nomination in the 16th district.
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Ryan Elijah has clinched the Republican nomination for Florida’s seventh congressional district, defeating incumbent Cory Mills, who faced an array of scandals despite receiving Donald Trump’s endorsement in February.
Last year, a Florida judge granted a protective order against Mills at the request of his former girlfriend Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States. Mills denies the allegations of domestic violence.
Elijah is a former local news anchor.
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Nixon defeats Vindman: another progressive shock to an establishment-backed Democrat
Progressive Angie Nixon has won the Democratic nomination for Florida’s open Senate seat, defeating the heavily favored Alex Vindman, a retired army lieutenant colonel, and an impeachment witness against Trump during the president’s first term of office.
If elected in November, Nixon would be the state’s first Black senator.
Nixon will compete against Republican Ashley Moody, a former state attorney general, in November. The two are vying to fill the Senate seat Marco Rubio won in 2022.
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Florida governor's race: Trump-backed Byron Donalds and Democrat David Jolly win primaries
The Associated Press has called the primary results of Florida’s governor’s race: Byron Donalds has won the Republican nomination and David Jolly the Democratic nomination.
Donalds, 47, was endorsed by Donald Trump and would become Florida’s first Black governor if elected in November.
Jolly, 53, is a former Republican who joined the Democratic party last year. His win in the state’s primary marks the second time in a row that Florida Democrats have nominated a former Republican – following the party’s nomination of former Republican governor Charlie Crist in the state’s 2022 election.
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Polls have closed across all of Florida as the clock strikes 7pm in the state’s western panhandle region.
Pia Dandiya has won the Democratic nomination for Florida’s 22nd congressional district. Her race, like many others in Florida, was affected by the state’s efforts to gerrymander its districts earlier this year.
As my colleague Richard Luscombe reported from Florida this month:
Dandiya, a professional educator dipping her toe for the first time into the often tenebrous world of electoral politics, originally declared her candidacy for Florida’s 21st congressional district, where she was mounting a long-shot campaign to unseat the Republican congressman Brian Mast, an army veteran who bills himself as “Florida’s America first fighter”.
But then Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida and Donald Trump loyalist, intervened. In the consequent Democratic shuffle of candidates, she switched to Florida’s newly configured 22nd – an open seat that Democrats see as one of their best opportunities to reclaim the House majority in November.
“Redistricting, to me, represents what people just hate about politics, that it seems like a solution in search of a problem instead of actually solving the problems that are keeping people up at night,” Dandiya said during a meeting over coffee in south Florida last month. “I would argue that most families are not staying up at night worried about the congressional lines across the state, but they are staying up at night wondering how they’re going to make ends meet, about whether we are handing our children a country, that we are leaving them in good hands.”
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz has won the Democratic nomination in Florida’s 20th congressional district.
As my colleague David Smith reported:
Wasserman Schultz, 59, an 11-term congresswoman and former chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), has faced criticism from African American leaders over her decision to run as the sole white candidate in a majority-minority district where she is not a resident.
This followed the creation of gerrymandered congressional maps by Florida Republicans that broke Wasserman Schultz’s current seat into five shards. She decided against running in the 22nd district, where she lives, and chose instead to compete in the deep blue 20th, which has been represented by Black Democrats for more than 30 years.
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The Associated Press has begun calling results in Florida’s primary House races.
So far:
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz has won the Democratic nomination and Brent Andersen has won the Republican nomination in the 20th congressional district.
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Mike Beltran has won the Republican nomination for Florida’s 14th congressional district.
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Leela Gray is the Democratic nominee in the 13th congressional district.
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Rachel Grage won the Democratic nomination and John Rutherford won the Republican nomination in the fifth congressional district.
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Pia Dandiya is the Democratic nominee in Florida’s 22nd congressional district.
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LaShonda Holloway won the Democratic nomination in the fourth congressional district.
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Maria Elvira Salazar won the Republican nomination in the 27th district.
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James Pericola is the Democratic nominee for the 11th district.
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The US Department of Justice has issued subpoenas as federal prosecutors in Alaska investigate whether Dan J Sullivan entered a Senate race there to take votes from the incumbent, also named Dan Sullivan, NBC News reports.
My colleague Chris Stein has more on the tale of the two Dan Sullivans running against each other in Alaska’s primary today:
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Polls begin to close in Florida primary elections
Polls in Florida have begun to close as we await results in three primary elections tonight. Polls in Wyoming will remain open until 7pm local time (9pm ET), and polls in Alaska will remain open until 8pm local time.
We’ll bring you the results in Florida’s governor and Senate races as the Associated Press calls them.
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A federal judge in Texas has ruled that Biden-era restrictions on “ghost guns” are unconstitutional – after guns rights groups asked the court to reconsider the case on different grounds after the US supreme court upheld the restrictions last year.
The US district judge Reed O’Connor, who was appointed by George W Bush, said the 2022 rule infringes on a person’s right to make or repair personal firearms. “Self-manufacture of firearms in America was common and indeed foundational to establishing our nation,” O’Connor wrote.
The Biden-era regulation requires manufacturers of firearm parts, including “ghost guns”, to mark products with a serial number and conduct background checks on purchasers. Ghost gun products are typically bought online and may be quickly assembled at home, without the serial numbers ordinarily used to trace guns or background checks on purchasers required for other firearms.
Here’s more of our coverage from last year, when the conservative-majority supreme court upheld the Biden administration’s regulation on ghost guns:
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An Illinois man allegedly impersonated doctors – and evidently referred to himself online as “$hotboy1” – is facing criminal charges that he secured unauthorized prescriptions for Ozempic and Mounjaro pharmaceutical drugs that facilitate weight loss and are taken by some for cosmetic rather than legitimate medical reasons.
Rodney Greer purportedly launched the allege scheme in early 2023, according to court filings from federal prosecutors and a US justice department news release issued on Monday.
In exchange for obtaining the illicit prescriptions for what are known as GLP-1 medications, customers of Greer would pay him money, federal prosecutors in Manhattan contended.
Greer, who allegedly also went by the name Christian Marchand, pleaded not guilty to the four-count indictment that accused him of wire fraud, healthcare fraud and aggravated identity theft. Greer’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Here’s Victoria Bekiempis with our full report:
In a social media post, Donald Trump claimed Census Bureau records of non-citizen voting prove he won the 2020 election, despite evidence that non-citizen voting is extremely rare. Trump has repeatedly and falsely claimed that he won the 2020 election and blamed practices such as mail-in voting, which he participates in, for his loss.
“The Census Bureau has begun checking the Voter Records from 2020 against their Citizenship Records. On the first 128,000,000 Voters, the Census Bureau proves that over 24,000 Noncitizens voted illegally! The Census Bureau is going to analyze the next 32,000,000 Voters, and this number will explode. I WON THE ELECTION! We must pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT,” Trump wrote on his social media platform today.
The Guardian could not independently verify the Census Bureau page Trump cited, which claimed to be “a beginning analysis by the U.S. Census Bureau”. However, 24,000 non-citizen votes represents just 0.01875% of the 128 million votes the bureau has counted so far. Joe Biden won the popular vote in the 2020 election by more than 7 million votes.
“There is no evidence that noncitizen voting has ever been significant enough to impact an election’s outcome,” according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, which published an explainer on non-citizen voting this summer, after Trump said thousands of non-citizens are registered to vote in the United States.
In an article published this summer, Reuters found that “federal prosecutors have charged just 129 people under a federal ‘voting by aliens’ statute created by Congress in 1996.” More than two-thirds of those prosecutions were filed during Trump’s terms in office. “In none of the cases did prosecutors allege a coordinated effort to influence an election. And no defendant was accused of being paid to vote. Instead, many appear to stem from voter confusion, miscommunication with election officials or administrative errors,” Reuters reported.
North Korean state media has reported that the country will continue to exercise its “right to self-defense” and condemned the US and South Korea’s Ulchi Freedom Shield joint exercises.
KCNA, the state news agency, wrote in Korean that “the already tense situation on the Korean Peninsula is once again reaching the ‘imminent threshold’ of war” and called the United States and South Korean militaries “warmongers”.
The Trump administration said on Tuesday it plans to rescind the “roadless rule” that has protected old growth forests in the US for 25 years, potentially opening up almost 45m acres of national forests to road construction, drilling and logging.
Conservationists had feared the announcement was coming since last summer after Brooke Rollins, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, targeted a rule brought in by Bill Clinton’s administration, describing it as “overly restrictive” and an “absurd obstacle” to development.
On Tuesday the US Forest Service, an agency inside the Department of Agriculture, formally announced it had filed the proposal to rescind in its entirety the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
Mark Oliver has our full report:
The man accused of attacking a woman and security guard at a New York City synagogue during Shabbat services Friday has been charged with hate crimes in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors said.
Larry Montes, who is already facing state-level hate crime charges, allegedly struck a 63-year-old woman as security was trying to boot him from Central Synagogue. He allegedly spat at, and head-butted, a security team member and damaged synagogue property, authorities said.
Montes is charged federally with two counts of committing hate crimes and one count of damage to religious property resulting in bodily injury, according to Manhattan federal prosecutors.
Victoria Bekiempis has our full report:
Jon Ossoff blasts 'draft-dodging, crook president' in latest war of words with Trump
Democratic senator Jon Ossoff called Donald Trump a “draft-dodging, crook president” during a campaign appearance today, continuing a feud with the president that escalated this week. Ossoff is currently running for re-election to his Senate seat in Georgia, and his criticism of the president has received viral attention on social media.
Appearing alongside Arizona senator Mark Kelly and former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords today, Ossoff added that Trump “has plunged our nation recklessly into a war he knows not how to end or to win, tried to imprison this man, who embodies American heroism”.
On Sunday, during a campaign appearance in Atlanta, Ossoff similarly attacked Trump’s handling of the US-Israel war on Iran.
“While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings,” Ossoff said. “He golfs and trades stocks. See, he doesn’t want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the amir of Qatar.”
Ossoff appears to have been referring to Natalie Harp, Trump’s executive assistant, who has drawn scrutiny on social media for her closeness to the US president.
The White House quickly criticized Ossoff on Monday, with the president calling him “Pee Wee Herman” and White House communications director Steven Cheung writing on social media that Ossoff is “a radical, extremist Dumocrat”.
My colleague George Chidi has more on Ossoff’s Sunday campaign appearance:
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Brendan Carr, head of the Federal Communications Commission, defended the agency’s investigation into the Walt Disney Corporation and ABC during an interview with Reuters today.
“Disney seems to be a little nervous about what the record’s showing,” Carr said, adding that he has made no final decisions on whether to begin the process of revoking Disney’s ABC licenses.
“We haven’t made a decision about when we’re making a decision,” he said.
A Massachusetts woman who told police that she brought homemade firebombs to the US Capitol to kill Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, was sentenced on Tuesday to just over six years in prison.
Riley English, a 26-year-old transgender woman, said she was in the grips of a mental health crisis and abusing drugs when she drove to Washington in January 2025 and told Capitol police that she was there to kill Bessent on the day of his Senate confirmation.
“I never wanted to hurt anyone,” she told Rudolph Contreras, a US district judge. “I’m not a political person. I’m not a violent person.”
Contreras, who was nominated to the bench by Barack Obama, sentenced English to six years and one month of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. English has remained jailed since her arrest and will get credit for the nearly 20 months that she already has spent in custody.
“You’ve had a very difficult life,” Contreras told English. “Hopefully, the progress you’ve made in jail to this date has set you on the right path.”
Nobody was injured, and Contreras said her plan to harm Bessent had an “exceedingly low or nonexistent” chance of success. Bessent was not at the Capitol when English arrived on 27 January 2025. The molotov cocktails that English brought to the Capitol appeared to be incapable of igniting, the judge noted.
Here’s our full report:
US Senator Adam Schiff has decried the appointment of former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters as an assistant registrar of voters for a county in Northern California.
Peters was convicted in Colorado on felony election interference charges for her efforts as a Mesa County elections clerk to subvert the 2020 presidential election and sentenced to nine years in prison. She served less than a quarter of that sentence before Colorado governor Jared Polis released her in june under pressure from the Trump Administration.
”Election deniers have no place in California’s elections, especially when they’ve already been convicted of interfering in other elections,” Schiff, a Democrat from California, said of Peters. “That’s why Shasta County already rejected these conspiracies this year by ousting an election denier in their own election — the very one who is now bringing Tina Peters to California. Shasta County should also reject this latest import of election denialism.”
On Monday, US Senator Alex Padilla of California made similar comments.
“This should be stopped immediately,” Padilla wrote on X. “Shasta County Registrar Clint Curtis is trying to hire election-denier Tina Peters to collude with the Trump Administration’s election mischief. In 2024, Peters was convicted on 7 counts of election interference. Americans – and Californians – deserve nothing but safe, secure, and free elections – without political interference and partisan loyalists beholden to Trump.”
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The federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has taken increased notice of the Medusa ransomware ring, which has hit public hospitals, schools and state and municipal government agencies across the country over the last five years.
An advisory released Tuesday by CISA, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services updates guidance about how organizations can safeguard against the “ransomware-as-a-service” attack.
The Medusa ransomware infects vulnerable computers and encrypts the data, which often paralyzes an organization. It then posts a timer on the ransomware’s dark-web page, threatening to release sensitive data as a download unless paid off in bitcoin.
Though the ransomware gang has had high profile private sector victims like NASCAR and Toyota’s financial arm, the ransomware attackers favor public entities with sensitive information like schools and hospitals.
Ransomware attacks have public policy implications. The hackers operate primarily out of Russia, North Korea or other hostile countries. Attacks consequently escalate from being an IT nuisance to a national security threat. Meanwhile, the US is wrestling with cryptocurrency regulation, even as attackers use the fluidity of digital currency as a mechanism to profit from transnational crime.
In 2023, the attackers hacked Minneapolis School District computers. The school system refused to pay the ransom demand and restored their systems, but not before the Medusa hackers leaked about 100 GB of sensitive data to the public, including names, birthdates, and addresses of children with special needs, psychological intelligence tests, and highly sensitive documentation of student sexual abuse and neglect allegations.
In April, Medusa hit the University of Mississippi Medical Center, the state’s only children’s hospital, Level I trauma center and Level IV neonatal intensive care unit. This attack closed clinics for nine days and forced staff to go pen-and-paper charting until cybersecurity teams could resolve the breach, eradicate the ransomware, and restore operations from secure backups.
The advisory updates the public details on Medusa’s “affiliate model” for its criminal partners and payment systems for “initial access brokers.” It also lists specific vulnerabilities used by the hackers.
E-Rate, a 30-year-old federal program that sends money to local school districts to subsidize Internet connectivity, may be eliminated under a proposed change to federal policy posted Tuesday by the Federal Communications Commission.
The FCC published proposed rule changes to the federal register, seeking public comment. The proposal argues that the ubiquity of broadband access in public schools today calls the necessity of the program into question.
“At what point should policymakers conclude that the program’s core objective has been achieved?” the proposal asks. “We seek comment on whether Congress intended E-Rate to operate indefinitely, regardless of the extent to which schools and libraries have achieved universal connectivity.”
One proposed change would eliminate the program entirely for districts with the lowest National School Lunch Program poverty metrics.. A second, narrower proposal would limit spending to rural school districts or areas served by only a single internet provider.
Additionally, the commission is asking for comment on policy changes that would tie E-Rate funding to screen limits for students and require schools to offer parents a mechanism to opt out of instruction through screens. It also seeks to apply the network-level content filtering requirements of the Children’s Internet Protection Act for any device that connects to the E-Rate-funded network, regardless of who owns it.
The agency is also considering reversing a 2011 determination that classified social networking sites as categorically “harmful to minors” under CIPA.
Advocates note that E-Rate is the only federal technology program for schools and represents the fifth-largest stream of federal funding to schools. It supports connectivity to more than 100,000 schools and 11,000 libraries across the country each year, spending about US$2.6b to do so.
The president of the international criminal court (ICC) has been sanctioned by the United States government for its criminal investigation of Israeli officials for crimes committed during its war on Gaza.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio called the Hague-based ICC a “corrupt and fatally politicized supranational court that has maliciously abused its authority and exceeded its mandate”, in a statement and announced that the US would sanction Tomoko Akane of Japan, the ICC president, and Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal, an ICC senior trial lawyer.
Israeli media have reported that Seye is overseeing the investigation into Israeli funding for illegal settlements and the disbursal of weapons to settlers in the West Bank. Israeli officials warned local media in May that the ICC may seek five more arrest warrants for ministers and senior military officials involved in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Here’s our report:
Even though a federal judge had decided that human smuggling charges brought by the Trump Administration against Kilmar Ábrego García were “vindictive,” the justice department is now insisting on having them reinstated.
In a filing to the US sixth circuit court of appeals, the DoJ argues that the charges were genuine and not retaliation for his successful challenge to a wrongful deportation that sent the Salvadoran to be jailed without trial with hundreds of others at the notorious Salvadoran Terrorism Confinement Center – or CECOT – in El Salvador in March 2025.
A US Supreme Court order returned him to the United States three months later, but only after prosecutors obtained an indictment against him on federal charges of human trafficking stemming from a traffic stop by the Tennessee State Patrol in 2022. Nashville-based federal district court judge Waverly David Crenshaw Jr dismissed that indictment in May, calling it “presumptive vindictiveness”.
The justice department is challenging that ruling in appeal. Though Garcia had never been charged with a crime, administration officials have regularly described Garcia as a “gang member” connected to MS-13.
“The decision to seek an indictment against Ábrego García for human smuggling was made by career prosecutors based on the evidence, the law, and their firm belief that there is proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Ábrego García had committed the offenses charged,” the justice department said in a statement describing its brief and posted online on Monday.
Here’s our report:
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Steve Bannon, rightwing media host and stalwart ally of Donald Trump, has again called for an emergency declaration by the president to take control of the 2026 election in November, and to send ICE agents to polling places.
Speaking Tuesday on his podcast The War Room to alt-right political activist Jack Posobiac, Bannon said the Trump Administration had been laying the groundwork for such a declaration.
“We’ve got to stop yammering about the SAVE America Act. It’s not going to happen,” Trump’s former chief strategist said. “You know why it’s not going to happen? Because John Thune and the donors don’t want it to happen. They think it’s racist. They think it’s nativist.
Bannon’s call for a national emergency proclamation for the upcoming elections would create a “forcing function” to get valid ID to vote and eliminate “phony mail-in ballots.
“You’re going to have to have a forcing function, Jack Posobiec to have a up-armored — yes, a up-armored ICE presence at these polling booths,” Bannon said. “And they say, well, that’s going to be intimidation. Well, it ain’t intimidation if you’re a United States citizen. It’s an intimidation if you’re a foreigner and here illegally and not eligible to vote. It should be intimidating. We don’t want you there. We don’t want you near a voting booth. We certainly don’t want your votes, Posobiec.”
Bannon served in the first Trump administration for less than a year as a chief strategist, but has become a strident voice for Trump partisans and election conspiracy theorists pressing claims of foreign election interference and the illegitimacy of the 2020 election.
Bannon was convicted by a jury in DC federal court of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to submit to a subpoena to testify before the US House of Representatives committee that focused on the January 6 insurrection, and served four months in prison in 2024. The Trump Administration is seeking to set aside that conviction.
This is not the first time Bannon has called for an emergency order or ICE agents at the polls. In July, ahead of Trump’s address discussing previous elections, Bannon predicted that Trump would use claims of foreign interference as a national security “predicate” to attempt to seize control of state-level election machinery sometime near the end of August.
Trump votes by mail for second time this year in his home state of Florida
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Republican voters in Florida appeared to heed Donald Trump’s advice to eschew mail-in ballots for today’s primaries, with one notable exception: the president himself.
Figures released by the state’s department of elections on Sunday, the last day of early voting, showed that only about 422,000 registered Republicans opted to make their choices in senate, governor and congressional races by mail. For contrast, more than 621,000 did so in 2018, the last year Florida got to choose a new Republican candidate for governor.
Among those who did, however, was Trump, who cast his vote in Palm Beach county by mail, according to voting records analyzed by Politico. He requested the ballot in June, and returned it on 13 August, Politico said.
The president also voted earlier this year by mail in a special election in which a Democrat was elected to represent the district that includes his Mar-a-Lago waterfront mansion. Days later he decried casting a postal ballot as “mail-in cheating”.
Trump also voted by mail in 2020.
This is all despite Trump baselessly insisting for years that mail-in voting is fraudulent and a way to cheat. Since returning to office, he has pushed the SAVE America act that severely limits who can vote by mail and when.
But the White House defended the president’s mail-in vote.
“As President Trump has said, the SAVE America Act has commonsense exceptions for Americans to use mail-in ballots for illness, disability, military, or travel - but universal mail-in voting should not be allowed because it’s highly susceptible to fraud,” Olivia Wales, a Trump spokesperson, told Reuters today.
“As everyone knows, the President is a resident of Palm Beach and participates in Florida elections, but he obviously primarily lives at the White House in Washington DC.”
The drop-off in Republicans voting by mail in Florida appears to have been mostly made up by early in-person voting, which climbed from 300,000 in 2018 to about 450,000 this year, the state figures show.
Here’s our report:
Minnesota attorney general sues Texas governor to compel extradition of ICE agent charged in nonfatal shooting
Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison has sued Texas governor Greg Abbott, seeking to compel the extradition of an ICE agent to stand trial for assault and falsely reporting a crime in the wounding of a man during the agency’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
The Associatd Press reports that Ellison said he would request a temporary restraining order barring the Cameron county sheriff’s office in Texas from releasing ICE agent Christian Castro and requiring Abbott to sign the extradition warrant allowing Minnesota law enforcement agents to take custody of him.
Castro was arrested 11 days after Minneapolis prosecutors charged him with assault and falsely reporting a crime in the non-fatal shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis on 14 January.
The criminal complaint alleges that Castro fired a gun at the front door of a home in Minneapolis, striking a victim in the leg before lodging in a child’s bedroom wall, and then knowingly provided false information to an officer about it.
Ellison said at a news conference that Castro faces release from jail next week - 90 days since he was detained - under Texas law unless he’s extradited to Minnesota.
“Christian Castro has been charged with breaking the law in Minnesota,” Ellison said. “He must face justice in Minnesota. Gov. Abbott should have granted Gov. Walz’s extradition request long ago and is required to do so now.”
“Christian Castro is not above the law and Greg Abbott isn’t either,” Ellison added.
Hennepin county attorney Mary Moriarty said the legal action taken today to compel Castro’s extradition “should be a completely unnecessary lawsuit.”
Officials at the jail and local prosecutors in Texas have been “very cooperative,” she said — “it is not supposed to be controversial.”
She said that since Castro’s arrest, Texas has extradited three unrelated criminal defendants without incident to Minnesota at the request of state authorities.
Abbott has received communication with us on an ongoing basis, including recently,” Ellison said. “We have to take the position that they are refusing to honor the extradition request.”
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Carney and Trump hold urgent talks as new US tariffs on Canada loom
Mark Carney has held urgent talks with Donald Trump in an effort to avoid fresh US tariffs on Canadian goods as a midnight deadline fast approaches, AFP reports.
Trump signed orders for the steep 50% duties last month, with the White House alleging “discriminatory treatment” by Canada against US alcohol, automobile and dairy products.
With the tariffs set to take effect tomorrow, covering products such as wine, hockey sticks and cement, efforts to avoid the levies being implemented are going down to the wire.
The Canadian PM spoke by phone with Trump yesterday afternoon about the trade negotiations, a spokesperson for the Canadian leader told AFP.
Yesterday, Carney said that talks to avert the duties were at an “intense and delicate” stage.
Overall, Trump’s incoming tariffs target around 5.5% of Canada’s exports to the United States, worth about $20bn, Oxford Economics estimates.
While this only poses a “modest” negative risk to Canada’s economy, Oxford Economics said in a recent report that the duties would “affect central Canada’s manufacturing sector much more severely”, particularly those in the cement, paper, printing, wood, clothing and electronics equipment sectors.
Canadian negotiators have been in Washington to push for a deal to avoid the new tariffs and also secure relief on Trump’s sector-specific duties – which have battered Canada’s auto, steel, lumber and aluminium industries.
Ottawa has reportedly offered concessions such as pressuring provinces to put US alcohol and wine back on their shelves, Canadian media said. But it remains unclear if a deal is imminent.
The US Trade Representative’s office did not respond to AFP’s queries on the matter.
The sole Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission, Anna Gomez, has commended ABC and Disney for pushing back against the FCC’s actions. She said in a statement:
For months, the FCC has waged a campaign of censorship and control against Disney’s ABC stations, using the threat of broadcast license revocations to punish a company for speech this administration doesn’t like.
I have long called on companies to push back against this kind of government intimidation, and I’m glad Disney has shown courage and stepped up. This should be a welcome sign for every broadcaster who has felt the weight of this overreaching government pressure in silence.
As we’ve been reporting, ABC has sued the FCC, arguing that it is being retaliated against for content the Trump administration disproves of, in a move it warns threatens the independence of the press.
DHS can start deporting residents from some African countries as judges' rulings terminate their Temporary Protected Status
Federal judges Tuesday gave the Department of Homeland Security leave to begin deporting citizens of African countries who had been residing in the United States under Temporary Protected Status.
The orders from US District Court Judges Allison Burroughs and Brian Murphy in Massachusetts denied an emergency request for a preliminary injunction by a group of immigrant advocacy organizations and lifted a brief administrative stay, allowing immigration officials to begin deporting people from Cameroon, Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan.
Temporary Protected Status permits a foreign national from a country facing extreme crisis like a war or natural disaster to remain in the United States and obtain work authorization. It does not provide a path to permanent residency.
Advocates have argued that the president’s attacks on immigrants, particularly those from Somalia, whom he has called “garbage” and “low IQ people” who “contribute nothing”, amounted to racial animus driving the decision to end TPS for those foreign nationals.
The Department of Homeland Security has been rolling announcements of the end of TPS status for 13 countries over the last month, with the end of protections for Haitian nationals beginning a wave of deportation enforcement. The litany of recent TPS terminations includes Afghanistan, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Nepal, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Myanmar.
“ALL TPS terminations are now IN EFFECT,” DHS posted Tuesday on X. “Those with terminated TPS should leave NOW. If they don’t, we will DEPORT them.”
Advocates are appealing the decision to the First Circuit Court of Appeals.
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The release by a federal judge of a woman accused of defacing the second world war memorial in Washington DC has drawn a complaint from Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
In a motion to reconsider the ruling by magistrate Judge Matthew J. Sharbaugh, Pirro argues that Melissa L Farris posed a high risk of flight.
“Defendant was defiant and outspoken before, during, and immediately after committing her crimes,” the motion contends. “Her attitude only changed after she did not receive the attention she so desperately craved, demonstrating that any expressed remorse is insincere.”
The US attorney’s office charged Farris, 41, of Elizabethtown, Ky. with defacing the wall of the Atlantic Theatre Pavilion at the memorial on Thursday by spray painting the words “Clean Hands Dirty $” while filling the fountain with detergent causing it to foam. The park service briefly closed the memorial to remove the graffiti and the foam. The government alleges that she livestreamed the event from her phone in a bid for attention and donations from an online audience.
She had been arrested three days earlier for unlawfully camping on federal property near the park.
The incident attracted the attention of President Donald Trump, who commented on the incident on social media. “Our beautiful World War II Memorial was just hit by Spray Painting Vandals,” he wrote on Truth Social. “THERE CAN BE NO GREATER INSULT TO THOSE AMERICAN HEROES WHO DIED IN WORLD WAR II. First the Reflecting Pool, now this. We are on their trail! Where do these animals come from???”
Pirro has been under fire from Trump for withdrawing the high-profile prosecution of a former Olympian initially accused of vandalizing the reflecting pool.
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'Brendan Carr has shown he won't hesitate to weaponize FCC against outlets Trump administration dislikes,' say media advocacy organizations
Media advocacy organizations are weighing in on a lawsuit that the Walt Disney Corporation and ABC has brought against the FCC over political interference and first amendment rights.
Disney and ABC filed the federal lawsuit in the DC Circuit Court on Tuesday, alleging that the FCC’s demand for an early license renewal process is political retaliation against it for ABC News reporting and shows like Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night comedy that upsets President Donald Trump.
“The day of reckoning for Brendan Carr is finally here,” wrote the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression in a post on social media. “Carr has repeatedly shown he won’t hesitate to weaponize the FCC against outlets the Trump administration dislikes.
“Snarky tweets and the president petting him on the back is not going to help him any longer. ABC is right to stand up to Carr’s pressure tactics. In America, government officials cannot abuse their regulatory power to threaten the first amendment.”
“It’s about time for someone to take Carr and his FCC to court over their endless campaign of intimidation and retaliation against journalism that displeases Carr’s thin-skinned boss,” said Seth Stern, chief of advocacy for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
“No matter what pretexts he asserts, Carr’s modus operandi is clear: to serve as Trump’s censorship czar and abuse his office to repeatedly and exclusively target Trump’s perceived adversaries in the media, whether through sham proceedings or threatening letters and X posts.
“Carr knows the FCC is not the journalism police and said so regularly himself before he decided to throw away any integrity he once had to kiss up to Trump. Countless others whose first amendment rights have been chilled by Carr’s antics should follow Disney’s lead.”
“The current FCC has repeatedly used its power over broadcast speech to jawbone, punish, and threaten censorship of its political opponents,” wrote David Inserra, a fellow for free expression and technology at the Cato Institute, in a statement.
“Today’s lawsuit by ABC Disney against the FCC directly challenges the broad and abusive powers that Congress and prior court decisions gave the FCC. No government agency should ever be empowered to restrict free expression based on what it thinks is fair, equal, or in the best interest of the public.
“In a world where the American people and press can speak through print, broadcast, cable, satellite, internet, and other forms of media, there is no justification for the FCC to continue to wield such significant power over broadcast speech.”
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The Walt Disney Company, ABC and a number of its affiliated stations filed a federal suit against the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday to block the government’s demand for an early broadcast license renewal process that the companies describe as motivated by political hostility and an attack on press freedom.
As reported by Deadline, the suit argues that the commission is being used by the Trump Administration to wage “a retaliatory campaign against ABC for a single reason: it disapproves of what ABC broadcasts.”
The FCC ordered Disney’s eight owned-and-operated ABC television stations to file broadcast license renewals ahead of schedule, adding to a line of actions targeting the broadcaster, from calls to fire Jimmy Kimmel from his late-night television show – which briefly led to his suspension – as well as a probe into ABC’s “The View” program and an investigation into diversity, equity and inclusion practices at Disney.
Disney and ABC argue in the suit that the commission could not renew licenses at all at this stage of the process, only revoke them, and that the demand for early renewal submissions is meant to mire the network in costly litigation.
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Donald Trump posts image of map of strait of Hormuz labeled 'New US territory'
President Donald Trump posted an image of a map of the strait of Hormuz on his social media platform Truth Social, with a circle around the strait and the words “New US Territory” as the title on Tuesday morning.
This follows comments made on Friday at a speech at a police academy on Long Island, New York, where Trump said “After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz strait a territory of the United States. … Essentially, that’s what it is. We have the blockade. No ships get through unless we want them to.”
About a fifth of the world’s seaborne oil passes through the strait of Hormuz. At its narrowest point, 21 nautical miles across, the strait flows in the territorial waters of both Oman and Iran. The strait itself is international waters under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The convention grants foreign commercial and military vessels the right to freely navigate the strait.
The United States is not a signatory to the convention, however. Treaty ratification has been blocked primarily by Republicans in the US Senate for decades due to concerns about legal liability and the erosion of national sovereignty. Nonetheless, the US has customarily treated the convention as binding customary international law.
Trump has threatened to bomb Oman, a longstanding US ally, if it interferes in negotiations with Iran to end the war.
Trump could not unilaterally seize the strait by executive fiat; the US constitution’s plain language in Article IV, Section 3 of the US constitution grants Congress the exclusive power to acquire and govern US territories.
Top Democrats tussle in Florida primary but progressive liberalism not on menu
If primary elections elsewhere this summer were tussles between progressives and moderates for the direction of the Democratic party’s political future, Tuesday’s contests in Florida could not be more different.
In a former swing state that has in recent years become reliably red, moderate Democratic candidates Alex Vindman and David Jolly are heavily favored to become the party’s nominees for November’s Senate and governor’s race, respectively.
Analysts say the brand of progressive liberalism that worked so well for Democratic candidates in Minnesota, Michigan and New York, won’t cut it with voters in conservative Florida, and neither are Vindman, frontrunner for the Senate nomination to challenge Republican incumbent Ashley Moody, or Jolly, vying to succeed Ron DeSantis as governor, trying to sell it.
“There is a lot of curiosity about me from more traditional, pre-Trump-era Republicans that feel homeless,” Vindman said in March as he weighed the broad coalition of voters he will need to topple Moody, appointed by Republican DeSantis in January 2025 to replace Marco Rubio after his elevation to secretary of state.
“I’m running here as a kind of a different kind of Democrat, I’ve got my handguns, a concealed carry permit, not the standard fare.”
Florida has closed primaries, meaning only those voters who have declared party affiliation can choose its nominees. But Vindman and Jolly are already looking to court independents and disgruntled Republicans beyond Tuesday.
A northern California county that has become a hotbed of activism for those who sow doubts about the reliability of voting machines plans to hire Tina Peters, the prominent Colorado election denier recently released from prison, to work on elections.
Clint Curtis, the top election official in Shasta county, told the Guardian he plans to hire Peters as a consultant to replace Brent Turner, his top deputy, who has been on medical leave. He said Peters would not have access to the county’s voting system and did not directly respond when asked what her responsibilities would be. Plans to hire Peters, who is still on parole and must receive permission to travel outside of Colorado, were first reported by Action News Now.
Shasta county, a conservative region home to 182,000 people, has emerged as a center of the US election denialism movement in recent years. In 2023, the county’s governing body unsuccessfully sought to remake the voting process by cutting ties with the voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems and implementing a hand-count system that experts warned would be costly and far less accurate.
The MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, one of the leading promoters of falsehoods about election fraud in the US, said he would support the county’s effort. The state ultimately blocked Shasta’s plans. In addition, several candidates who lost their race for local office have embraced baseless conspiracy theories about election fraud and sued to overturn results.
Last year, the Shasta county board of supervisors appointed Curtis, a Florida-based attorney who had never before overseen an elections office, to serve as the county clerk and registrar of voters. Curtis, who opposes the use of voting machines and has long argued US elections are being manipulated, vowed to overhaul the elections and set an example for the rest of the US.
Donald Trump voted by mail in Florida’s Republican primary, Politico reports, citing Palm Beach county voting records. The White House has confirmed the president’s mail-in vote, according to the New York Times, which added that this is at least the third time the president has mailed his ballot.
In March, the president signed an executive order restricting the use of mail-in ballots ahead of the November midterm elections that will decide control of US Congress. Trump has repeatedly criticized mail-in voting, calling for restrictions on the policy for years and falsely claiming that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread voter fraud.
In a post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump continued his years-long false claims of election fraud in the United States – including by implying that mail-in voting is insecure.
“Earlier this month, India’s Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, asked our Administration – How can you have Elections in the U.S. without a valid Photo ID? India’s last Election had 646,000,000 Voters! Less than 1% voted by mail, and every single Voter had to have a VALID Photo Identity Document. We need to pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, now!” Trump wrote.
A federal judge has blocked the US Postal Service from implementing part of the executive order, although Trump’s administration has asked the supreme court to intervene.
Trump says concerns about conditions on USS Lincoln are ‘fake’
Donald Trump has downplayed reports about conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln to reporters in the Oval Office.
The aircraft carrier has been the subject of escalating concern over mental health and supply issues for American sailors enduring nearly nine months at sea.
The carrier has had a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days, AP reported.
But Trump said he spoke with a retired admiral over the weekend who recounted being on ships for “much longer.” Trump said the admiral assured him that the Lincoln is “beautifully maintained and beautifully taken care of.”
Trump did not name the admiral.
Deadline approaching for plaintiffs to lay out case for blocking White House ballroom project
Today is the deadline for plaintiffs in the White House ballroom case to lay out their case on blocking the project.
The Trump administration has asked the US supreme court to allow construction of the president’s controversial $400m White House ballroom to proceed after an appeals court ordered work to halt.
In a case testing Donald Trump’s presidential authority, the Washington-based US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit ruled last week that the controversial project lacked the necessary approval from US Congress.
The US president, who demolished the historic East Wing of the White House last year to make way for the planned ballroom, has repeatedly touted it as “a gift” to the US people. He and his aides have repeatedly cited national security as a benefit of its construction, too.
In a filing, Trump’s administration asked the supreme court justices to keep the decision by the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit on hold while it prepares a full appeal.
“This case involves an extraordinary and unlawful injunction that will halt the ongoing construction of the integrated military complex including a totally secure ballroom space, at the East Wing of the White House, which is vitally required by national security,” D John Sauer, the solicitor general, wrote in the filing.
Chief Justice John Roberts set a deadline of today for the plaintiffs challenging the project to respond.
Trump warns Alaska voters against 'imposter' Dan Sullivan
Donald Trump is up early today, weighing into the Alaska primary and urging voters to back the “real Dan Sullivan”. In typical capital-letter-laden style, he posted on Truth Social:
ALASKA: Be careful, VOTE FOR THE REAL DAN SULLIVAN TODAY. Through me, he’s brought HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BACK TO YOUR STATE. The Dumocrats know how good he is and have put up an imposter of the same name. Vote for the “INCUMBENT SENATOR.” Don’t let these Fraudsters get away with this HOAX. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
CNN defends its reporter and says personal attack 'beneath the office'
CNN defended its journalist Kristen Holmes in a statement, calling her “one of the most respected and accomplished journalists covering the White House”.
The White House’s “rapid response” social media account posted a clip of the exchange and tagged Holmes, calling her a “disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession”.
The White House later sent out another post criticizing Holmes, writing: “Someday, your children will come across your disgusting and inhumane question. They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive. It’s quite troubling.”
In response, the network said:
This afternoon, she did her job and asked the president of the United States a tough, relevant and newsworthy question on behalf of the American people.
Public officials are free to challenge reporting they disagree with, but personal attacks on journalists for asking questions are beneath the office and inconsistent with the principles of a free press.
We stand firmly behind Kristen and reject these attacks in the strongest possible terms.
Trump has a long history of aggressively attacking and insulting women in the press corps who ask tough questions, including saying, “Quiet, piggy” to a Bloomberg reporter, calling another CNN journalist “corrupt”, and storming out of NBC’s Meet the Press after calling the moderator “crooked or stupid”.
Other journalists condemned the White House’s personal attack against Holmes, with one of her colleagues at CNN saying: “Kristen is an incredible reporter, person and, above all, mother. I don’t understand such a reaction to a journalist asking the president for his response to something a Democratic senator has leveled against him.”
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White House launches personal attack on CNN reporter over question to Trump
The White House launched a personal attack against a CNN reporter on Monday with a social media post that mentioned her children and accused her of asking a “disgusting and inhumane question”.
A White House post targeted Kristen Holmes, a senior White House correspondent for the network, after she asked Donald Trump to respond to a widely shared comment by Democratic senator Jon Ossoff in a speech on Sunday.
The Georgia senator told a crowd that Trump “doesn’t want to do the job” and instead “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar”.
The comment was an apparent reference to Natalie Harp, the president’s executive assistant, fueling scrutiny of her perceived closeness to Trump.
When Holmes asked Trump in the Oval Office to respond to Ossoff’s remark, the president dismissed her, calling the senator a “Pee-wee Herman lookalike”.
The White House’s “rapid response” social media account posted a clip of the exchange and tagged Holmes, calling her a “disgraceful, humiliating embarrassment to her alleged profession”.
The post went on to criticize her for taking a “cheap shot” at a staffer, adding: “These scumbags are the lowest of the low.”
Redistricting scrambles Florida primary as Alaska awaits Dan Sullivan vs Dan Sullivan
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Attention turns to Florida and Alaska, where primaries later on Tuesday will highlight Republican-led redistricting efforts that have scrambled congressional maps.
Today’s contests will also help shape the fiercely contested midterms this fall to determine control of Congress, where Republicans retain a narrow edge, and offer a referendum on president Donald Trump’s second term, AFP reported.
In the Alaska Senate race, incumbent Republican senator Dan Sullivan, a Trump ally seeking a third term, is facing another candidate, curiously also named Dan Sullivan.
Republicans have argued the second Sullivan, who’ll be appearing on the ballot as “Daniel J Sullivan Jr,” is a sham candidate running at the behest of Democrats to cause confusion. Dan J Sullivan Jr, a retired teacher, has denied the charge.
Also in the race is former US representative Mary Peltola. She was the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress, and she would become the first Alaska Native senator if she wins in November.
Meanwhile, in Florida, a GOP-led redrawing scrambled the congressional map, which has created some awkward matchups.
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, first elected to Congress in 2004, is running for a new seat in Florida’s 20th congressional district, centered in Broward County, after her existing seat was redrawn to favor Republicans.
Wasserman Schultz, who is white, has faced some criticism for running in the historically Black district from activists who are already worried about losing Black representation in Congress following a Supreme Court decision that weakened a landmark civil rights law. She faces several Black candidates, including rapper Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell, who found fame with the 1989 hit “Me So Horny,” and former Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who faces criminal charges of stealing $5m in disaster relief funds. Cherfilus-McCormick, who has denied wrongdoing, resigned from Congress in April ahead of a possible expulsion.
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Donald Trump voted by mail in Florida’s Republican primary, Politico reports, citing Palm Beach County voting records. The White House has confirmed the president’s mail-in vote, according to the New York Times, which added that this is at least the third time the president has mailed his ballot.
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A northern California county plans to hire Tina Peters, the prominent Colorado election denier recently released from prison, to work on elections. Shasta county, a conservative region home to 182,000 people, has emerged as a center of the US election denialism movement in recent years. California governor Gavin Newsom’s office said the state is investigating Peters’ hiring.
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CNN has said it stands behind reporter Kristen Holmes after Trump repeatedly told the CNN reporter to “be quiet” and accused her of being “a fake reporter” during questioning over conditions onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. Shortly after the president reprimanded Holmes, the White House invoked her children in a social media post further attacking the reporter when she asked about comments from Democratic senator Jon Ossoff in a speech on Sunday. He had told a crowd that Trump “doesn’t want to do the job” and instead “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar”. It was an apparent reference to Natalie Harp, the president’s executive assistant.
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Trump again threatened to bomb Oman if it “gets in the way” of his effort to end the US-Israel war on Iran, as the two-month window to negotiate peace with Iran expired on Monday with no end to the conflict in sight. “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them,” Trump told Fox News.
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Trump said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had responded to his overtures after he ordered the US to scale back military exercises with South Korea. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump was asked why Kim had not responded to his overtures.
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