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Trump Admin Warns 4 States Over 250,000 Potential Noncitizens Voting

Published Jul 17, 2026 at 10:07 AM EDT updated Jul 17, 2026 at 01:52 PM EDT Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin this week sent letters to officials in four states, warning that a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) review identified what the agency described as more than 250,000 potential non-citizens registered to vote. Mullin sent letters to the secretaries of state in California, New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania, urging them to work with the department and respond within two ...

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07/17/26 3:11 PM ET A federal appeals court invalidated New Jersey’s ban on “assault” firearms and high-capacity magazines in a 10-5 vote on Friday, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment. The decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals hands gun rights advocates one of their biggest legal victories yet on the issue as the Supreme Court gears up to provide a nationwide resolution next term in a separate case. “The text of the Second Amendment covers all magazines, not just magaz ...

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Leon Black walked out of Epstein interview after refusing to answer questions about NDAs

July 17, 2026, 11:28 AM Private equity billionaire Leon Black walked out of his transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee regarding his decades-long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein after refusing to answer questions about nondisclosure agreements allegedly related to the disgraced sex offender, according to a transcript of the June 26 interview released by the committee Friday. While he said he would be willing to talk about three women involved in lawsuits against him, Black ...

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U.S. strikes bridges in Iran; Tehran targets U.S. bases in the Gulf

July 17, 2026 7:13 AM ET The U.S. and Iran expanded their targets in the latest round of strikes on Friday, as fighting over the control of the Strait of Hormuz reignites fears of an all-out war. The U.S. military said it struck Iranian air defense sites and military logistics infrastructure in its attacks, as it sought to pressure Iran to lift its chokehold on the strait. Iran said those targets included six bridges in the Hormozgan province facing the key waterway, as well as power infrastr ...

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FCC commissioner says Trump call to revoke ABC, NBC licenses is unconstitutional

July 17, 2026 2:28 PM EDT Updated 3 hours ago WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - The sole Democrat on the Federal Communications Commission on Friday criticized President Donald Trump's call for Disney-owned ABC (DIS.N), opens new tab and Comcast (CMCSA.O), opens new tab unit NBC to lose their broadcast ‌licenses because they refused to air his speech. During a nearly half-hour prime-time speech on Thursday, the Republican president revived many of his longstanding claims that U.S. ...

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Epstein survivors accuse 'condescending' Todd Blanche of gaslighting in meeting held as part of his AG bid

(The Independent) A survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation said that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche behaved in a “condescending” manner during his meeting with her and other survivors. The meeting came as Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) made meeting with Epstein survivors a prerequisite for his vote to confirm Blanche, the deputy attorney general and President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney. Lara Blume McGee described the meeting to The Independent in a text message on Thursday evening. “Today, Epstein survivors confronted Todd Blanche — and he treated it like a perfunctory audition for votes, not accountability,” Blume McGee said.

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In primetime speech, Trump doesn't provide evidence for illegal voting

(NPR) President Trump, who for years has sowed doubt about the security of American elections, raised claims on Thursday that the country's voting systems are vulnerable to being "rigged and stolen," without providing new evidence of a single fraudulent vote cast in any election. In a 25-minute primetime address from the White House's East Room that included many baseless claims, Trump said he was declassifying intelligence documents that he said reveal "shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure." However, many of the documents the White House posted online during the speech did not appear to fully support sweeping claims the president made.

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Trump's Election Security Speech: A Good Night for Putin

(Mother Jones/David Corn) On Thursday night, after days of buildup, Donald Trump delivered a speech on election security in which he suggested US elections were threatened by China. As Trump assailed US elections as totally rigged and lacking credibility—without offering any evidence of this—he fixated on Beijing. But he provided no proof of Chinese interference with US elections or of any voter fraud. And, perhaps more significantly, he left out a big piece of the picture: Russia. In 2020 the major culprit in terms of election meddling was not China, but Moscow. Who says so? Trump’s own intelligence community.

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Speaker Johnson suffers humiliating political defeat, yanks veterans benefits bill

(CNN) Speaker Mike Johnson suffered another humiliating political defeat at the hands of his own party on Thursday when he was forced to abandon plans to pass a veterans benefits bill designed to be one of the GOP’s big legislative wins before the midterms. Just minutes before the bill was slated to come to the floor, Johnson and his team were forced to pull it from the schedule as more than a half-dozen holdouts refused to back the measure.

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