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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 19, 2026.
WatchWith the midterms two weeks away, 60 Minutes reports that federal agents have seized ballots, the Justice Department has sued states that refused to hand over voter rolls, and a Republican election chief says she is under federal investigation.
The suit asks a federal court to bar California from counting mail ballots from suspected noncitizens; the state calls the department's voter-roll claims unsubstantiated.
Delhi shut metro stations and cut mobile internet before the protest; three leaders were freed Sunday on a condition that they commit 'no breach of peace for one year.'
In a 6-3 emergency order, the justices lifted a ruling that found the expanded system broke federal privacy laws. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned eligible voters could be burdened or disenfranchised.
A March executive order told USCIS and Social Security to build a list of every adult citizen in every state. Sixty days before the midterms, the portal still is not open.
WatchHomeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has refused to explain how his department matched Social Security numbers to voter files that do not contain them. California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania say they still have no idea where the number came from.
The DOJ wants full registration lists with Social Security and driver's license numbers. So far, no court has sided with the department — and a dozen states have handed the data over voluntarily.
An Arizona case headed to the justices in October could reshape a decades-old protection that bans systematic voter removals within 90 days of a federal election.
Government lawyer warns no 'responsible state' should use presidential order's voter eligibility data to update rolls.
The Justice Department is screening state lists through SAVE — a 1980s immigration database notorious for false positives — within months of an election that triggers a federal 90-day no-purge rule.