Todd Blanche
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Trump’s AG Todd Blanche loses it when pressed about overturning elections results
Trump’s efforts to block the certification of Alaska’s US Senate race if the Republican candidate doesn’t win are reminiscent of the doubts he sowed before his 2020 election loss
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Trump boasts he ordered DOJ to sue Alaska to toss out results if Republican loses
Attorney General Todd Blanche has declined to pledge DOJ’s independence from the White House and would not rule out similar suits in other states
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Trump team files lawsuit to block certification of Alaska Senate race
Many in both parties believe the midterm fight could come down to Alaska, where Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan faces Democrat Mary Peltola
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Trump tells Iowa rally crowd he encouraged Ramaswamy to keep running widely criticized campaign ad – as it happened
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Todd Blanche won’t rule out DOJ action to stall midterm election results
Todd Blanche suggests the Justice Department could intervene in a ‘doomsday’ scenario as federal agents ramp up investigations and prosecutions while voting is already underway
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California latest target in Department of Justice efforts to end public benefits fraud
Authorities have charged more than a dozen people in California with allegedly siphoning nearly $2 billion in fraudulent healthcare costs
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Virginia state senator indicted over alleged drug scheme vows 'I will not be bullied'
An indictment unsealed on Thursday charged Lucas and six other defendants, including several of her relatives
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Trump weighs in after his envoy calls Putin a ‘humanitarian’
President claims Russia has been barely involved in Iran war despite evidence to the contrary
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Trump weighs in after his envoy calls Putin a ‘humanitarian’
President claims Russia has been barely involved in Iran war despite evidence to the contrary
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Epstein’s attorney and accountant accused of ‘facilitating and concealing’ his crimes in lawsuit
New Mexico lawsuit claims ‘in exchange for furthering Epstein’s criminal project, his associates received generous salaries’
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Trump says he will have spent $400m to support Republicans in midterms – as it happened
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All the president’s women: a familiar downward trajectory in Trump’s cabinet
Half of Trump’s female cabinet officials have been replaced by men, while men facing misconduct allegations remain
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Trump admits ‘I have some very severe problems’ in Biden-like ramble
Trump’s latest lengthy soliloquy in the Rose Garden evoked memories of the last octogenarian to occupy the Oval Office. Andrew Feinberg explains why
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Polymarket is taking bets on when Trump’s press secretary Katie Zacharia will be out
Trump’s new press secretary got off to a rocky start Tuesday as she stumbled through prepared remarks and took just three questions before wrapping up her first briefing
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Who is Katie Zacharia? Trump’s new press secretary that replaced Karoline Leavitt
The incoming press secretary briefly worked for the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year
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Fugitive businessman taken into US custody in Venezuela bribery case
A businessman wanted in the US for allegedly bribing top Venezuelan officials has been taken into custody
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Trump has picked a replacement for White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
The incoming press secretary briefly worked for the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year
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What US ban on Indian IT firms means for H1B visas and businesses
Analysts warn companies could face higher hiring and compliance costs for being forced to rely on US talent
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Media attorneys ask court for help in preventing White House ban until legal case is resolved
An attorney for three news organizations is telling a federal judge that the Trump administration must be prevented from barring their reporters from the White House
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Leon Botstein resigns from Bard roles as key Democrat demands investigation into Epstein links
Jamie Raskin says ‘startling’ email asked whether young woman was ‘for me, or are you keeping her for yourself’
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Jan 6 rioter says she wants a ‘refund’ for attacking the US capitol
Despite being sentenced to 30 months in prison, the Capitol rioter told ‘The Daily Show’ she would ‘absolutely’ participate in the attack again
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Trump’s ‘Judgment day’? Why death penalty crusade is bringing back firing squads
Trump is letting the Pentagon revive a killing method that hasn’t been used in decades while the president tries to speed up executions of federal death row inmates, Alex Woodward writes
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Israel marks third anniversary of 7 October Hamas attacks
Site of the Nova music festival near Re’im one of the locations where grieving relatives have gathered
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Trump pushed FBI to investigate anti-ICE demonstrators in LA, whistleblower claims
‘Using the FBI to target Americans for exercising their First Amendment rights directly undermines our nation’s foundational values,’ Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California says
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DOJ plan to deploy 1,000 poll monitors could ‘jeopardize the election,’ lawsuit warns
DOJ is planning to deploy 1,000 federal agents to observe the polls on Election Day, drawing fears of voter intimidation
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The one GOP incumbent who’s poised to defy the odds in midterms bloodbath
Susan Collins might be the one Republican who survives a GOP electoral bloodbath, Eric Garcia writes, defying the old saw, 'As goes Maine, so goes the nation'
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John Kennedy is thinking about running for president: ‘Why not me on a rainy day?’
The Louisiana Republican says he’ll enter the race ‘if a bunch of goobers’ seek the GOP nomination
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Here’s why Maine’s famous election slogan will be disproven in midterms
Susan Collins might be the one Republican who survives a GOP electoral bloodbath, Eric Garcia writes, defying the old saw, 'As goes Maine, so goes the nation'
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Republican senator’s angry and profanity-laced texts to Trump revealed
Thom Tillis wrote that, if the president had threatened him, he would have promptly told him to ‘f*** yourself’
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Christa Pike: What is pentobarbital and why did Biden ban the lethal injection drug?
Christa Pike, 50, remained alive and loudly snoring after the attempted lethal injection
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Trump calls co-pilot who tried to hijack Israel flight ‘a terrorist or a whack job’
The president also praised the pilot who was stabbed during flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv as a hero for helping prevent plane crash
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DOJ looks to censure judges who spoke to the NYT about Minnesota ICE crackdown
One judge at the center of the report, Patrick Schiltz, accused the government in January of ignoring roughly 100 court orders
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The White House Is Starting to Panic Over the Midterms
President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced.
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Netanyahu says pilot arrested after stabbing fellow pilot and apparently trying to crash Israel-bound plane – as it happened
Israeli PM issues statement on flydubai incident, which saw plane plummet mid-air before emergency landing in Saudi Arabia
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Israel flight hijacking: Pilot arrested after stabbing co-pilot, Netanyahu says
Benjamin Netanyahu said that the man was being interrogated by Saudi authorities
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Top Trump FBI appointee Andrew Bailey abruptly quits after just one year
Throughout his brief period as deputy director, Bailey largely maintained a low public profile
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Andrew Bailey, an FBI deputy director, says he's leaving the post after just over a year in the job
Andrew Bailey, one of the FBI’s two deputy directors, says he is leaving the position after just over a year on the job and will be returning to Missouri to spend time with his family
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After a chaotic weekend in the Trump-media standoff, it’s now a wait-and-see game for networks
Exactly one week after news outlets filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his sudden ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds, the standoff continues
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Top FBI official announces resignation after one year in role
Throughout his brief period as deputy director, Bailey largely maintained a low public profile
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Trump’s former press secretary Karoline Leavitt shopping her next big move: report
Leavitt, the youngest person to ever serve as White House press secretary, is reportedly pitching a book about her tenure to publishers
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Iran says it ‘has no plans to negotiate with US’ despite Trump claims – US politics live
Trump had told Axios he expected talks to resume a day after he rejected Iran’s proposal to reopen the strait of Hormuz
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Blanche defends Trump’s White House media ban: ‘It’s a privilege … not a right’
US attorney general argues that president is ‘sick and tired’ of inaccurate reporting by CNN, MS Now and Politico
