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FOX 24 US U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani on Wednesday lifted an injunction that was the last bulwark against President Donald Trump’s order to let the federal government take over large parts of voting by mail. But the executive order is unlikely to remain unblocked for long. Talwani wrote that the League of Women Voters’ complaint that led to the now-lifted injunction would likely be shot down by the Supreme Court on the same grounds that it turned back another challenge to the executive order on Monday: The agencies that the executive order directs to act hadn’t yet promulgated final…

FOX 24 US On Monday afternoon, Craig Moss was testing out a new silage chopper. The machine can dice up an entire green corn plant into half-inch chunks before the milky pieces are packed tight into what Moss calls “big concrete bunkers” where they’ll ferment and become cow feed. “It’s got a really distinct smell to it,” Moss told TPM in a phone interview. “You probably wouldn’t wanna eat it, but cattle love it.” An average day on Moss’ farm in Sioux County, Iowa starts around 6:30 a.m. He works alongside Eric, his farm’s one full-time employee, and a part-time…

FOX 24 US Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) defeated Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) in Tuesday’s South Carolina runoff, securing the Republican nomination for the state’s Senate seat — which had been occupied by her brother, late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), until earlier this summer. With some 91% of the votes counted, per the AP, Graham had 52% to Norman’s 48%. Graham will run in the general election against Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews, a pediatrician. Graham was tapped for the role by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) after her longtime senator brother passed away unexpectedly last month. Shortly after she started…

FOX 24 US Tom Smith sort of stumbled into the Republican nomination in his Michigan House district. But based on dozens of posts he made on social media, Smith’s path to the Jan. 6, 2021 protests against President Donald Trump’s election loss was far more deliberate.  After unearthing the series of messages, which were posted to the X.com account for “Jar Head Salsa,” a business Smith has operated with his son in their hometown of Flint, TPM reached out to him for comment. In a statement, Smith said he did not participate in unlawful activity in conjunction with the protests,…

FOX 24 US The White House directed federal law enforcement last year to pursue the opposition in broad strokes: if a person is “anti-fascist,” if they support “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity,” then that indicates a potential for domestic terrorism. The next step, the White House said, was to investigate and prosecute. The directive was contained in National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, issued in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Since then, the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security have operationalized the memo’s requirements. They’ve charged opposition protestors across the country with material support for terrorism, notching a run…

FOX 24 US On Tuesday, a federal judge advanced the ball in a challenge to President Donald Trump’s order to overhaul mail-in voting, an important step in what will be a furious few weeks of litigation critical to the 2026 midterms.  The Supreme Court handed down an order Monday in which the unsigned majority declared that a group of blue states had filed its lawsuit against the executive order too early, when the resulting actions agencies would have to take were still hypothetical. The Supreme Court’s Monday order was clearly written before last Friday, when the U.S. Postal Service promulgated…

FOX 24 US Federal law enforcement’s undercover campaign to surveil Minneapolis protesters included monitoring a makeshift memorial to Alex Pretti, joining a neighborhood rapid response Signal group, and having an undercover agent vote for an activist group to endorse abolishing prisons, new documents filed in federal court today suggest. The new documents submitted for the court by attorneys for Minneapolis protesters Tuesday appear to show undercover agents trying to suss out whether certain protest groups were likely to engage in violence in the days and weeks after the killings of Pretti and Renee Good, Minnesota residents who were both killed…

FOX 24 US Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom is just distraught that his antics — sitting courtside in an anti-trans shirt after proclaiming himself a woman to declare for the 2027 WNBA draft — are distracting from the play of the league’s athletes. “Just focus on your game, let all the outside talk not distract you,” he told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Monday, describing the text he sent Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham after he got in a mid-game fight with the Chicago Sky’s Natasha Cloud on Sunday and was ejected from the game.  Cunningham’s anti-trans comments last month…

FOX 24 US The Supreme Court on Monday lifted an injunction on an executive order that would create citizenship lists to control who can vote and give the federal government control over who receives a ballot. But another injunction keeps the order blocked, for now. The three liberal justices dissented. The unsigned majority wrote that the states that are suing the government lack standing, and that the time isn’t ripe for their lawsuit. They argued that the injury to the states is too tenuous — premised on actions the Homeland Security secretary may take in the future in response to…

FOX 24 US House Democrats are gearing up for investigations into the Trump administration’s push to investigate left-wing political protests. House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) asked Attorney General Todd Blanche on Monday for records relating to DHS and DOJ’s use of undercover agents to surveil left-wing protesters in Minneapolis over the past year. Garcia is also seeking records relating to “Operation Puppet Master,” a recently revealed DHS probe into supposed backers of Minneapolis protests that saw the department take a strikingly expansive view of its powers, including issuing an administrative subpoena for the SEIU’s financial records.…