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Almost every election night this year has gone poorly for the Republicans — a familiar position for the party that occupies the White House.
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The judge found that immigration agents were likely acting illegally when making arrests without a warrant.
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Matt Van Epps fended off a Democrat to protect Republicans' slim House majority, but the relatively close margin in a red district sent the party a warning shot before the 2026 midterms.
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The defense secretary's remarks were the most extensive public accounting yet of his involvement in the military's lethal attack on alleged drug smugglers on Sept. 2.
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As bipartisan criticism intensifies over U.S. attacks on alleged "drug boats" in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, the White House is defending a September 2 operation that killed 11 people. The Washington Post reports Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second attack to kill two survivors of an initial strike, an order that legal experts say would constitute a war crime. The White House on Monday confirmed the second strike but said the authorization came not from Hegseth, but from Admiral Frank "Mitch" Bradley, then head of Joint Special Operations Command.
This comes as Hegseth threatens to court-martial Democratic Senator Mark Kelly, a former naval officer, after Kelly and five other Democratic veterans urged service members to refuse unlawful commands.
"Killing civilians who are not engaged in armed conflict against us is a war crime," says law professor David Cole of Georgetown University.
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The judge found that ICE had violated a 2022 consent agreement and demanded agents have probable cause for their arrests.
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 LawsuitA Tennessee company and its CEO are being sued by the family of a worker who was killed after the factory stayed open in devastating flooding conditions during Hurricane Helene, according to court papers.
The lawsuit, filed by the family of Impact Plastics employee Johnny Peterson, said that the factory denied requests by workers to leave and insisted they stay "to meet order deadlines" despite flash flood warnings and other businesses shutting their doors.
The suit called the deaths of six workers that occurred due to the Sept. 27 flood in Erwin "entirely preventable."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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