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The filing puts the legality of the president’s push to impose limits on mail voting squarely before the justices even as states begin sending out ballots.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to allow new U.S. Postal Service mail-in ballot restrictions, leaving the lower-court temporary block in place ahead of the midterm elections; the administration says it will comply with the ruling.
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NYTimes – US Legal fight continues as states begin sending out ballots for voters to vote by mail in November’s midterm elections The Trump administration renewed its appeal to the US supreme court on Sunday to allow restrictions on mail-in voting, after a federal judge had blocked new limits on such ballots, just ahead of November’s midterm elections. The latest filing follows a decision by US district court judge Indira Talwan…
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NYTimes – US President Donald Trump approved the execution by U.S. Army firing squad of former Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Pentagon confirmed. Hasan was convicted and sentenced to death in 2013 for killing 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. The execution will be the first by the U.S. military since 1961 and the first by firing squad since World War II; the date and location have not yet been set.
Sky News – Front Page Former "American Idol" contestant and Ohio music pastor Caleb Flynn was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of his wife, Ashley Flynn. Prosecutors said he staged a home invasion after shooting her while having an affair. Flynn maintained his innocence at Monday's sentencing hearing in Ohio.
The FBI arrested Wanying Zhang, also known as Heather, at Los Angeles International Airport as she was departing for China, accusing her of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government by surveilling the son and family of Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te at the behest of Chinese officials. Lai condemned the alleged operation as a "barbaric" act and criticized China for disregarding human rights and suppressing personal freedoms.
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