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As Republican anger grew on Thursday over a Democratic effort to stack Alaska’s Senate ballot with candidates to siphon votes from the G.O.P. incumbent, the Justice Department issued dozens of subpoenas to people believed to be connected to the plan, according to two officials familiar with the investigation.The actions come after a New York Times article on Wednesday revealed a secret plan involving national Democratic operatives and top aides with the Senate campaign of Mary Peltola, a Democrat, to recruit candidates to split votes from Senator Dan S. Sullivan, her Republican opponent. In particular, the group was involved with recruiting…

The downtown streets of Mason, Mich., yield to vast stretches of open fields, where developers want to build a $1 billion data center a few miles from the farm that Bryan Droscha’s family has owned for more than a century.He fears that construction could pollute the groundwater and air that his cattle and maple syrup operation, as well as the deer that he hunts, depend on. It’s why, he said, he supports a national pause on new data centers proposed by William Lawrence, the Democratic candidate in his purple congressional district.But Mr. Droscha, 64, said he wasn’t sure if Mr.…

Alaska’s governor on Wednesday night said he was ordering an investigation into whether Mary Peltola’s campaign for Senate should face criminal charges or civil penalties over its role in recruiting candidates to draw votes from the state’s Republican incumbent.The announcement by Gov. Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, followed a New York Times report detailing the Peltola campaign’s involvement in recruiting a retiree named Dan J. Sullivan to enter the race against Senator Dan S. Sullivan.“Deliberately tricking voters into casting their ballots for someone else strikes at the integrity of our elections,” he said in a post on X. “Anyone or any…

When I was Politics editor of The Times in 2018, polls indicated that Democrats were likely to ride a wave of anti-Trump energy to win big in the midterm elections. Democrats went on to capture control of the House of Representatives, but Republicans did better than expected in a couple of red states — Missouri and Indiana — and increased their Senate majority.Now we face another midterm election with President Trump in office, and polls again favor the Democrats, including in the House. Recent New York Times/Siena polls also show the party with a slight edge to flip the Senate.…

For the second time in just over a week, Ken Paxton and James Talarico were on opposite sides of the same city at dueling rallies Tuesday evening in the western Texas city of Lubbock.The rallies struck starkly different tones but conveyed the same message: The future of Texas and perhaps the nation hinged on the outcome of their U.S. Senate race.Thousands of people packed into each event. But at Mr. Paxton’s, attendance was stoked by the headliner, President Trump. Mr. Paxton did not deliver a traditional speech, only speaking when the president called him to the stage toward the end…

Former President Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail on Saturday for midterm rallies in Cleveland and Detroit, setting up a rare split screen with President Trump, who staged a rally in the evening in a small city in central Georgia.Their pitches offered a contrast in style and substance. Mr. Obama prosecuted his case against the Trump administration in two tightly scripted, roughly 40-minute bursts on Saturday.Mr. Trump, who has been crisscrossing the country for weeks in a midterm push to save his party’s congressional majorities, defended his administration in a rambling and at times profane hour-and-a-half speech Saturday night.Here’s…

Carnegie Mellon University said it’s taking “swift action” against tenured professor Uju Anya after determining that her recent social media posts violated the school’s community standards, with some colleagues reporting they now fear for their safety. The president and provost of the university said Anya used “expletives, racial slurs and derogatory language that demeaned, dehumanized and intimidated” while invoking her Carnegie Mellon affiliation and implying support from university colleagues. Source link

A man refusing to eat food while jailed on charges he shot two National Guard troops near the White House, killing one of them, can be fed against his will under a judge’s emergency order. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta agreed Saturday to order “nonconsensual” nutrition and medical treatment for Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who was rushed to a hospital in July after he stopped eating. Judge Mehta said federal Bureau of Prisons medical staff can feed Mr. Lakanwal intravenously or through a medical tube to save his life. Redacted court filings haven’t specified a reason for Mr. Lakanwal’s refusal to eat, but prosecutors…

LAS VEGAS — A prosecutor urged jurors Monday to convict Duane “Keffe D” Davis of first-degree murder in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, arguing that Davis’ own words and a case “drenched in circumstantial evidence” prove he orchestrated the drive-by shooting. Chief Deputy District Attorney Binu Palal told jurors that Davis acquired a gun and “went hunting” for Shakur and Death Row Records co-founder Marion “Suge” Knight after they beat up Davis’ nephew earlier that night. Palal acknowledged that Davis’ accounts of the killing evolved over the years but argued those differences reflected Davis’ changing motivations and efforts to…

WASHINGTON — The sole pipeline that supplies water for millions of Grand Canyon visitors was badly damaged by weekend flash flooding, setting up a tricky repair scenario and upending a yearslong construction project to upgrade the line laid over terrain so rugged helicopters are often required to make basic fixes. Park officials said roughly 40% of the pipeline was damaged or destroyed. The long-term implications of the damage to the park’s infrastructure, visitors and year-round residents weren’t immediately clear. The 12.5-mile (20-kilometer) long Transcanyon Waterline has endured dozens of breaks in recent years. A more than $200 million repair and…