Politics

FILE - President Joe Biden talks with the U.S. Border Patrol and local officials, as he looks over the southern border, Feb. 29, 2024, in Brownsville, Texas, along the Rio Grande. Biden's migration order aims to shut down asylum requests at US-Mexico border if illegal crossings average 2,500 per day.

Biden rolls out migration order that aims to shut down asylum requests, after months of anticipation

June 4, 2024, 9:47am Latest News

President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections. Read story

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court in New York, Thursday, May 30, 2024.

Trump’s felony conviction may not bar him from WA ballot, says secretary of state

June 4, 2024, 8:31am Election

Washington’s top election official says he does not believe a state law that allows voters to challenge the right of a candidate with a felony conviction to appear on the general election ballot applies to presidential candidates. Read story

Former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump Tower, Friday, May 31, 2024, in New York. A day after a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony charges, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee addressed the conviction and likely attempt to cast his campaign in a new light.

After guilty verdict, Trump will appear on the ballot in the last presidential primaries of 2024

June 4, 2024, 8:29am Latest News

Donald Trump’s name will appear on the ballot Tuesday for the first time since his historic conviction on felony crimes as a handful of states hold the last Republican presidential primary contests of 2024. Read story

FILE - People line up against a border wall as they wait to apply for asylum after crossing the border from Mexico, July 11, 2023, near Yuma, Ariz. Arizona lawmakers are expected to take a final vote Tuesday, June 4, 2024, on a proposal that would ask voters to make it a state crime for noncitizens to enter the state through Mexico at any location other than a port of entry.

Arizona proposal to let local police make border-crossing arrests is set for lawmakers’ final vote

June 4, 2024, 8:29am Nation & World

Arizona would step directly into immigration enforcement by making it a state crime to cross the Arizona-Mexico border anywhere except a port of entry, under a proposal that’s up for a final vote by lawmakers on Tuesday. If approved, voters would decide in November if the measure becomes law. Read story

Rep. Jim Jordan urges GOP to use spending bills to hamper Trump cases

June 4, 2024, 8:25am Politics

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan on Monday recommended using the congressional appropriations process to curtail prosecutions against former President Donald Trump. Read story

Intelligence chairman says US may be less prepared for election threats than it was four years ago

FILE - Mark Warner, D-Va., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, speaks during a hearing at the Capitol in Washington, March 8, 2023. Warner said Monday, June 3, 2024, the U.S. may be less prepared for the threat of foreign election disinformation ahead of this year’s election than it was four years ago. Warner based his assessment on the development of powerful new AI programs that make it easier than ever to generate deepfake audio and video that can fool voters.

June 4, 2024, 8:25am Politics

With only five months before voters head to the polls, the U.S. may be more vulnerable to foreign disinformation aimed at influencing voters and undermining democracy than it was before the 2020 election, the leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Monday. Read story

Justice Department’s ‘deepfake’ concerns over Biden interview audio highlights AI misuse worries

FILE - Special Counsel Robert Hur listens to recorded remarks of President Joe Biden during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 12, 2024.

June 4, 2024, 7:35am Politics

Releasing an audio recording of a special counsel’s interview with President Joe Biden could spur deepfakes and disinformation that trick Americans, the Justice Department said, conceding the U.S. government could not stop the misuse of artificial intelligence ahead of this year’s election. Read story