Democratic Party groups lost a bid to temporarily block the Trump administration from pressuring states to set aside mail-in ballots of people the US claims are likely non-citizens, a significant win for federal officials less than 24 hours before the midterm elections.

A federal judge threw out Donald Trump’s renewed $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and ruled that it can’t be filed again, marking another setback for the president’s legal fights with the press.

A US judge blasted the Trump administration’s effort to force California to set aside as many as 20,000 mail-in ballots from people who it claims are likely non-citizens, saying that doing so would “wreak havoc” on the midterm elections that are already underway.

A US judge blasted the Trump administration’s effort to force California to set aside as many as 20,000 mail-in ballots from people who it claims are likely non-citizens, saying that doing so would “wreak havoc” on the midterm elections that are already underway.

A US judge in Los Angeles expressed skepticism about a Trump administration attempt to block California from counting 20,000 mail-in ballots from people the federal government claims are likely non-citizens registered to vote in the upcoming midterm elections.

The Trump administration on Monday struck out in its attempt to rapidly block California from counting 20,000 mail-in ballots from people it says are “likely” non-citizens, though the fight may still be far from over.

With one landmark courtroom victory this week against Meta Platforms Inc., New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is poised to bring in almost double the state’s annual revenue.

National Democrats sued President Donald Trump and the US Justice Department over what they say is a coordinated effort to erode confidence in the upcoming midterm elections, including by demanding that states like California and Nevada set aside ballots of suspected non-citizens.

California asked a judge to deny a Trump administration request to make the state set aside mail-in ballots of 20,000 suspected non-citizens, saying the lawsuit is at best a “reckless political stunt” in the run-up to the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

Federal agents across California on Monday arrested 11 non-citizens who were charged with crimes including fraudulently registering to vote in US elections, part of a dragnet that the government says bolsters its lawsuit against the most populous state in the run-up to the midterm elections.

A judge threatened to sanction President Donald Trump for failing to sit for a mandatory deposition in the $10 billion defamation suit he filed against the British Broadcasting Corp.

The Trump administration sued California for allegedly failing to join an effort to remove suspected non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls, the latest escalation in the federal government’s clash with Democratic-led states in the run-up to the Nov. 3 midterm elections.

A federal judge said journalists with CNN, MS NOW and Politico can continue to have access to the White House while their lawsuit against the Trump administration proceeds.

For more than a year, President Donald Trump has sought to push out members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and gain more leverage over the central bank’s policies. In early October, the White House resumed that effort, announcing the formation of a committee to investigate mortgage fraud allegations against board member Lisa Cook. She will be required to appear at a White House hearing on Nov. 5 to defend herself, Trump said in a memo.

New York’s attorney general takes over the high-profile investigation as voters weigh her bid for a third term. 

The US Federal Communications Commission asked a judge to dismiss Walt Disney Co.’s lawsuit accusing the regulator of waging an illegal “retaliatory campaign” against its ABC network over programming criticized by the Trump administration.

Billionaire Leon Black failed to appear Thursday morning before the House committee investigating Jeffrey Epstein and instead filed a lawsuit seeking to block subpoenas for his testimony and documents related to women in Epstein’s orbit.

A California immigrant-rights group supported by the state’s Democratic candidate for governor, Xavier Becerra, sued the Trump administration for allegedly trying to suppress the voting rights of non-US born citizens by imposing a new federal list of eligible voters.

Nestled into Meta Platforms Inc.’s landmark $18 billion settlement with US states to address social media harms to children was a seemingly unrelated agreement to resolve a different controversy that rocked Facebook after the 2016 presidential election.

President Donald Trump won permission to revise his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corp. by excluding his earlier claim that a 12-second clip in a documentary caused massive financial damage to his business.