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The Chicago Board of Elections says a coding error caused ballot shortages and long lines at some polling places during Tuesday's midterm election, as officials continue counting votes and investigating the problem....

A California federal judge has temporarily barred the Justice Department and Homeland Security from threatening election officials or pressuring them over ballots before the midterm elections.

'Extortion at the highest level': Trump directs DOJ to investigate Democratic lawmakers The Times of India Trump targets Slotkin in call for DOJ probe of alleged Democratic threats to Republicans CNBC Trump accuses...

President Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to investigate Democrats, including Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), for allegedly threatening to impeach or otherwise punish administration officials and...

Trump orders DOJ to look into Democrats for 'threatening' people.

The FBI said mailings in early October were addressed to state election officials in all 50 states. It also believes Martin had sent threatening letters in 2024 to election and postal officials.

The Department of Justice charged an Oklahoma man with allegedly mailing white powder to hundreds of officials and public figures before the midterm elections. Investigators arrested Robin Martin on Monday and have...

Oklahoma City man charged over threatening letters to election officials Reuters

An Oklahoma man is facing federal charges amid allegations that he sent more than 700 letters containing a white powdery substance to public officials, lawmakers, media organizations and others in the weeks before...

The Trump administration has sent fresh warnings of criminal prosecution to election officials nationwide, a day after a federal judge said threats against election workers “must stop,” Votebeat reported Friday. The...

An expanded panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday blocked a judge’s order restricting the Trump administration’s demands that election officials segregate ballots from suspected noncitizens and...

A federal appeals court reversed itself on Election Day, handing the Trump administration a green light to pressure the workers counting ballots. On Tuesday, a majority of an 11-judge en banc panel of the 9th Circuit...

Trump wins Election Day court battle over ballot demands, poll worker threats Axios Full 9th Circuit caps whiplash-inducing series of election orders by backing DOJ’s 'core' functions until further notice Yahoo...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gave Trump a win on Monday to lift a block on the administration's investigations into voting by noncitizens in California, but only a few hours later the same court reversed its own...

The lawsuit comes in a closely watched contest for U.S. Senate that has grown increasingly contentious in recent weeks.

U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola's (D-AK) campaign is taking legal action to find out the names of rejected absentee voters as the heated midterm race continues in Alaska.

Democrat Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign sued Alaska election officials Friday, seeking records that would identify voters whose absentee ballots have been rejected as the state continues counting votes in one of the...

Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign is suing the state of Alaska to obtain access to records for absentee ballots that were rejected by the Alaska Division of Elections, a new court filing shows. Peltola’s campaign said...

Trump weighed in Saturday after a series of legal setbacks for the Justice Department.

The Justice Department has targeted President Trump’s political opponents and sued states over election administration ahead of the midterms. Our reporter Devlin Barrett explains how this activity compares with the...

The Trump administration's push to back up its unproven voter fraud claims in California has now followed one election worker home. The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into alleged noncitizen...

A crucial and contentious midterm election arrives next week, and President Donald Trump's Justice Department has been scrambling with a blitz of headline-making actions and cases that defense lawyers, Democrats and...

Several counties in Northern California were hit with fresh grand jury subpoenas over alleged noncitizen voting just days before the midterm elections, local officials told CBS News.

Trump’s DoJ charges six more people in ‘voter fraud’ crackdown in California The Guardian Trump Is Playing Up Voter Fraud Prosecutions. Meet Some of the Accused. The New York Times Justice Department Announces...

Latest arrests come after DoJ unsuccessfully fought to force state election officials to set aside about 20,000 ballots US midterms – live updates The US Department of Justice (DoJ) in California has charged six more...

President Trump declared the Senate race in Alaska “over” and his favored candidate Sen. Dan Sullivan to have "won" – even though the the outcome of his race against former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Ak.) was far from certain.

The president has declared a winner in the nation's most controversial Senate battle despite outstanding ballots.

Washington Examiner Editorial Director Hugo Gurdon joins Investigations Editor Sarah Bedford to discuss the controversial Alaska Senate race with the two Sullivan names. Vice President JD Vance diverting from...

Retiring Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) congratulated his likely successor, Republican candidate Paul LePage, on winning Maine’s 2nd Congressional District and flipping the seat red despite the blue wave that swept the...

Dunlap would have to net the vast majority of blank and write-in ballots to overtake Paul LePage.

Law enforcement officials are expected to hold a briefing Thursday focused on cases tied to more than $4.6 million in gold bar schemes.

New batches of King County election results are scheduled for release at 4 p.m. daily throughout the week.

Two more top officials have resigned from the Justice Department just days after Democrats won back control of Congress. John Eisenberg led the department’s National Security Division, where he oversaw cases...

Three Justice Department officials resign following midterms USA Today

Two top Justice Department officials resign as post-election exodus accelerates.

A federal judge warned the Justice Department Monday that there would be “hell to pay” for misleading his court as conflicting accounts emerged about who would monitor polls on Election Day. “I would have to hope and...

The trilateral meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday will be the first since talks in February, which came just before the US and Israel went to war with Iran.

Student-backed election winners demand sweeping resignations in Serbia BBC Serbia’s students demand resignations in police, judiciary as they prepare to take power The Hindu What European students can learn from...