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FOX 24 US As Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger (R) famously fought to protect the 2020 presidential election from Trump’s attempt to steal it. The events of December 2020 and January 2021, when Trump demanded the state “find” the votes he needed to win, prompted a host of Trump-aligned conspiracy theorists to attempt to seek Raffensperger’s office themselves. On Tuesday, one of the most prominent of those candidates, Vernon Jones (R), lost to state Rep. Tim Fleming (R), a candidate who has towed the line between endorsing the basic tenets of democracy and pushing the kind of restrictive voting…

FOX 24 US Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen announced an eight-count felony indictment against 15 anti-ICE protesters Tuesday, centered on a broad “antifa”-inflected conspiracy. During a Tuesday press conference, Rosen would not say whether any federal officers were actually harmed, despite one of the counts being conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer and two of the counts being assault on a federal officer.  “Whether or not they actually at the end of the day caused bodily harm is not the measure of whether or not they committed a serious federal crime,” Rosen said.  The new indictment comes as…

FOX 24 US Hal Duncan, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the deputy director for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), was in front of the Senate Budget Committee Tuesday morning for the first leg of his confirmation hearing. Democratic members of the panel grilled Duncan on the actions of OMB Director Russ Vought throughout the first year and a half of Trump’s second term, during which he impounded and — with the help of congressional Republicans — rescinded funds that had been appropriated by Congress, in the process undermining the legislative branch’s power of the purse. Duncan’s responses…

FOX 24 US In the Trump administration’s latest effort to meddle in election administration, investigate baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and sow doubt in the country’s election system ahead of the midterms, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators were reportedly granted access to voter files in counties in Texas and North Carolina. Election officials in Forsyth County in North Carolina and Webb County in Texas handed over individual voter files — which can include things like registration history, drivers license numbers, addresses, dates of birth, among other information — to ICE investigators, Axios was first to report. It’s…

FOX 24 US There’s a particular genre of Georgia political reporting with which Americans nationwide might soon become much better acquainted. These stories often begin with some variation of a common refrain: “Mike Collins is once again under fire for…”  For hiring a chief of staff accused of various violent acts.  For replacing said staffer with someone caught in a white nationalist group chat. For making light of the January 6th insurrection attempt, calling it a “self-guided, albeit unauthorized,” tour of the Capitol. For tapping out any number of Islamophobic, antisemitic or racist social media posts.  For being one of…

FOX 24 US Like so many moments in the second Trump administration, the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s “Freedom 250” event on Sunday night began with money flowing to the president’s allies. The night of mixed martial arts bouts, which were staged on the White House’s South Lawn, was billed by President Donald Trump’s Cabinet as a “gift to the American people.” However, the public was only able to watch it with a subscription to Paramount Plus, the streaming arm of the media conglomerate owned by billionaire Trump backer Larry Ellison.  As TPM’s resident martial arts correspondent, I dutifully ponied up my…

FOX 24 US Isabel Flores used to have nightmares about her teeth falling out when she was young. To this day, the 56-year-old Arizonian does her best to take care of her teeth to prevent that from happening. But her teeth are very sensitive, and her past struggles with substance use weakened them. Around 10 years ago, a dentist told her that she was losing bone in her teeth, and that she needed an emergency deep cleaning to scale plaque from below her gum line. But Isabel was on Medicaid at the time, and Arizona does not offer adult dental…

FOX 24 US ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA — In a major blow to President Trump’s anti-weaponization slush fund, a federal judge in Virginia issued a preliminary injunction blocking the fund. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema gave the administration a week to file a declaration, under penalty of perjury, that the fund is not going forward.  Brinkema issued her ruling from the bench after a brief Friday hearing in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria. The judge’s decision swept away arguments raised by the administration that she lacked jurisdiction to hear the case and that other procedural problems meant that…

FOX 24 US This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation. On June 6, 1966, on a stretch of Highway 51 just south of Hernando, Mississippi, a portly, middle-aged white man named Aubrey Norvell stepped out of a gully, lifted his shotgun and fired three shots at James Meredith, a Black civil rights activist and Air Force veteran. Famous for integrating the University of Mississippi four years earlier, Meredith was on the second day of a walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, with the aims of registering voters and…

FOX 24 US The Broadview Six case didn’t happen in a void.  In the month that Chicago federal prosecutors returned three times to the same grand jury to try to secure an indictment of the same set of protesters, their office was under intense pressure. Greg Bovino had arrived in the city the month before, heralding a surge of federal officers under so-called “Operation Midway Blitz” that prompted mass protests. Trump-appointed DOJ leadership was demanding that prosecutors bring the most aggressive possible charges against those involved in anti-ICE demonstrations. At the same time, those cases kept collapsing: in some cases,…