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The acting deputy attorney general pressed county and state officials to reconsider their refusal to set aside the ballots and warned that knowingly counting them risks aiding a federal crime. Officials say the list came without evidence.
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The department's acting No. 2 official asked state and Los Angeles County officials to set aside the ballots of anyone on a federal list whose citizenship cannot be confirmed, warning of emergency court action.
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Bailey, the deputy who has handled the Senate for the White House, becomes the administration's chief liaison to Congress less than a month before elections that will decide control of both chambers.
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The department told ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News it is examining their September pause in pooled coverage, which followed CNN's removal from the rotation. It says it is only investigating, and no case has been filed.
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An inspector general's audit finds that California Volunteers and three of seven audited recipients did not follow federal grant rules. The state agency disputes the questioned costs and wants the report retracted.
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The conservative commentator, an adviser at the company behind Truth Social, takes over a briefing room that has gone more than a month without a formal briefing. It is not yet clear when she will start.
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A panel of three executive branch officials will tell Trump whether it finds cause to remove Cook over mortgage allegations she denies. Her lawyers voiced grave doubts about the process but said she welcomes a chance to clear her name.
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Nvidia, AMD and OpenAI top a list of eleven companies offering computing credits and research tools for federal science, part of a package the White House puts at more than $6 billion.
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The Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act, sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, directs the White House budget office to publish a yearly report on projects at least $1 billion over their original estimates or more than five years late.
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Federal civil rights officials will examine whether New York City's public schools and Colorado's Jeffco district handled allegations against employees as the law requires. Districts in six other states face similar reviews.
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The Oct. 5 agreement expands the departments' cooperation on markets for feed, fertilizer, fuel, seed, equipment and pesticides. USDA paired it with a two-year program to sequence the plant collections in its gene banks.
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The new "Super Intelligence Force" will coordinate federal outreach to consumers, religious groups and AI companies and answer to Trump and his chief of staff, days after top AI firms signed a voluntary safety pledge.
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The one-time payments will come from a Medicare fund that Congress created in 2008 and that the White House says has never paid out. Most recipients should see direct deposits in early October.
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The 47-41 vote, the chamber's last before senators left Washington to campaign, puts President Trump's pick formally in charge of a Labor Department he has run on an acting basis since April.
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The 12-11 party-line vote sends the radiologist's nomination to the full Senate. At her hearing she called the MMR vaccine the greatest tool against measles and said she does not believe childhood vaccines cause autism.
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Pentagon officials say the services must finish the reductions by Jan. 1, 2027. Sen. Jack Reed, the Senate Armed Services Committee's top Democrat, said removing senior leaders now would add strain and disrupt command.
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