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Republican House speaker Mike Johnson claimed — without evidence — that there will be “cheating” in the 2024 election, once again raising unfounded doubts about electoral integrity. In 2020, Johnson voted against the certification of President Joe Biden’s win.

“I think there is going to be some cheating in this election,” Johnson said in an interview Sunday on Face the Nation. “I think non-citizens are going to vote.”

Johnson’s claims parrot Donald Trump’s repeated baseless allegations of election fraud that he has been spreading ahead of election day.

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Washington, Aug 25 (Ians) The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has sued Elon Musk-run SpaceX for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring.

The lawsuit alleged that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider them, because of their citizenship status, in violation of the US Immigration and Nationality Act (Ina).

In job postings and public statements over several years, SpaceX wrongly claimed that under federal regulations known as “export control laws,” SpaceX could hire only US citizens and lawful permanent residents, sometimes referred to as “green card holders”, the DoJ lawsuit alleged.

“Our investigation found that SpaceX failed to fairly consider or hire asylees and refugees because of their citizenship status and imposed what amounted to a ban on their hire regardless of their qualification, in violation of federal law,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke.

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Kiss member Paul Stanley waded into the trans youth debate with an Instagram statement calling the encouragement of kids to gender transition “a sad and dangerous fad.”

“There is a Big difference between teaching acceptance and normalizing and even encouraging participation in a lifestyle that confuses young children into questioning their sexual identification as though some sort of game and then parents in some cases allow it,” the singer-guitarist wrote in a post titled “My Thoughts On What I’m Seeing.”

“There Are individuals who as adults may decide reassignment is their needed choice but turning this into a game or parents normalizing it as some sort of natural alternative or believing that because a little boy likes to play dress up in his sister’s clothes or a girl in her brother’s, we should lead them steps further down a path that’s far from the innocence of what they are doing,...

The Department of Justice announced on Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s new law banning gender-affirming treatments for minors — one of several bills targeting the state’s LGBTQ+ community.

The DOJ said that SB1 violates the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause by denying “necessary medical care to youth” based on transgender status.

“The right to consider your health and medically-approved treatment options with your family and doctors is a right that everyone should have, including transgender children, who are especially vulnerable to serious risks of depression,...

After a two-year investigation by the Department of Justice concluded that the Louisville Police Department has definitely been discriminatory toward Black people, Marlon Wayans isn’t surprised at all. On Thursday night’s episode of “The Daily Show,” he mocked the findings, wondering if the DOJ also discovers obvious things like Nick Cannon’s disregard for protection during sex.

“I almost got through the whole entire week without talking about racist cops,” Wayans lamented while kicking off the final Headlines segment of his turn as guest host on “The Daily Show” on Thursday night. “But, guess what we’re gonna talk about today!”

Wayans then waded into the findings of the investigation by the DOJ, first launched after the botched raid on a no-knock warrant that killed Breonna Taylor in her home in March of 2020. And, according to the DOJ’s findings, the Louisville police department has “for years” used...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on policing on Tuesday that addresses officers’ use of chokeholds and attempts to establish a database for law enforcement misconduct, but it will be up to Congress to legislate more robust reforms.

At a Rose Garden ceremony on Tuesday, the president also leaned in heavily on his contention that the problems in policing are due to a small number of officers.

“I use the word ‘tiny.’ It is a very small percentage, but you have them,” Trump said.

The executive order calls for police departments to be eligible for federal grants if they pass a certification process, which includes banning chokeholds “except in those situations where the use of deadly force is allowed by law.”

The executive order also directs Attorney General William Barr to create a database “concerning instances of excessive use of force related to law enforcement matters, accounting for applicable privacy and due process rights.

Federal judges have been a thorn in the side of Brian Kemp.

The Friday before the midterm elections, U.S. District Judge Eleanor L. Ross ruled that the Georgia secretary of state’s controversial “exact match” voting law was discriminatory, ordering him to change it after expressing “grave concerns” about the “differential treatment inflicted on a group of individuals who are predominantly minorities.” As expected, Kemp’s gubernatorial race the following Tuesday against Democrat Stacey Abrams was too close to call, and as officials continue to sort through provisional ballots and otherwise unaccounted for votes,...