Gavin Newsom rejected measure he claimed is legislative overreach

Newsom signed 13 bills to safeguard California elections and preemptively address potential actions by Trump to interfere with voting ahead of the midterms.

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

The deployments mark a major break from past departmental norms.

The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

Today, Senator Alex Padilla sent a letter to Kash Patel, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Todd Blanche, Attorney General of the Department of Justice (DOJ), demanding informa...

Federal employees involved in the massive operation that led to a surge...

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The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.

Armed Border Patrol agents raided a protest camp in Lochiel, in southeast Arizona, making way for contractors to cut down the last standing cottonwood tree Monday morning for a double border wall, aft...

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The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.

Trump’s counter-terrorism ‘czar’, Sebastian Gorka, was scheduled to speak at conference but White House says he will no longer attend

CBP says in response to lawsuit use-of-force cases are ‘thoroughly investigated, reviewed, and presented’

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

As midterm elections approach, concerns are growing that President Trump may attempt to nationalize voting or invoke the Insurrection Act to maintain power if Republicans face significant losses.

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

The diverted funds include tens of millions of dollars that Congress approved for countries affected by the war in Ukraine.

Hegseth’s push comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have pursued a series of legal and administrative changes that could make it harder for the same military voters and their famili...

“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.