Trump is expected to make election conspiracies a focus of his national address. Follow live updates.
President Trump is set to address the nation on Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on topics he said will include elections and voting machines, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden.
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The speech comes as he’s escalated his calls for Republicans to pass tighter federal voting rules ahead of November’s midterm elections.
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Maine Governor Janet Mills tried to visit a memorial site for the man killed by an ICE agent. Protesters chased her away. — 8:28 a.m.
By Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, Globe Staff
A group of protesters chased Maine Governor Janet Mills away from a memorial site for a man killed by an ICE agent this week in Biddeford, Maine.
Mills arrived in the afternoon and spent a short time looking at the growing array of flowers and notes on the corner where Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero died before some people began to raise their voices at her, accusing her of failing to protect Maine residents from immigrantion agents.
“Get out of here!” demonstrators yelled at her multiple times as Mills turned around and walked quickly back to her car, with about 10 people following close behind. “Get away! Get away!”
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Trump is taking longer to approve disaster aid and denying Democratic states more frequently — 8:26 a.m.
By the Associated Press
When major disasters strike, Americans are routinely waiting weeks — or even months — to receive presidential approval for aid. And if they live in a state that didn’t support President Trump, chances are greater that aid will be denied.
Since taking office last year, Trump has approved about 65 requests for major disaster declarations and denied more than two dozen others from states, tribes or territories seeking federal financial assistance following hurricanes, tornadoes, storms, floods and fires.
Trump has taken longer on average to approve disaster requests than any other president, according to an Associated Press analysis of data dating back to 1989, when a federal law setting new parameters for disaster determinations was implemented. And no other president has such a disparity in denials between states that supported him politically and those that did not.
Trump is taking longer to approve disaster aid and denying Democratic states more frequently — 12:55 a.m.
By the Associated Press
When major disasters strike, Americans are routinely waiting weeks — or even months — to receive presidential approval for aid. And if they live in a state that didn’t support President Donald Trump, chances are greater that aid will denied.
Since taking office last year, Trump has approved about 65 requests for major disaster declarations and denied more than two dozen others from states, tribes or territories seeking federal financial assistance following hurricanes, tornadoes, storms, floods and fires.
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Trump has taken longer on average to approve disaster requests than any other president, according to an Associated Press analysis of data dating back to 1989, when a federal law setting new parameters for disaster determinations was implemented. And no other president has such a disparity in denials between states that supported him politically and those that did not.
After six years, Trump brings his election obsession to primetime at the White House — 12:30 a.m.
By the Associated Press
In the weeks after Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, the people that Trump appointed to run the Department of Justice, cybersecurity agencies and intelligence departments all said the same thing — the election was fair, legitimate and free of major fraud or foreign interference.
In his second term, Trump has tried to use the levers of power to rewrite that well-settled history, something that he’s expected to try again on Thursday night with an address to the nation.
He has already appointed loyalists who have echoed his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and made clear he expects everyone to follow his lead.
Trump administration fires US attorney minutes after his appointment — 12:00 a.m.
By the Associated Press
The Trump administration fired a federal prosecutor on Wednesday, less than an hour after he was appointed to lead the U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle, a move that sets the stage for a likely legal battle.
Federal judges in the Western District of Washington had unanimously appointed Roger Rogoff to be the Justice Department’s top official there, filling a vacancy that the president has never addressed. But the Trump administration has largely defied attempts by federal judges to fill vacancies, leading to Rogoff’s swift dismissal, via email, after 54 minutes.
Unlike in similar Trump administration firings, Rogoff has retained an employment law firm and is weighing a legal fight over his dismissal.
Such a challenge would almost certainly entail a lengthy, difficult court battle and raise the extraordinary prospect that a U.S. attorney could operate quasi-independently of the Trump administration. It could also mean that Charles Neil Floyd, the first assistant U.S. attorney who has been the Trump administration’s pick to lead the office, could eventually have to answer to Rogoff.
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