
Republican-led legislatures push forward with efforts to restrict voting access
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Republican-controlled legislatures are charging forward with a raft of new state laws imposing limits on voting.
GOP lawmakers in Montana recently passed new voting restrictions. And GOP legislators in Florida, Arizona and Texas soon could follow -- as Republicans scramble to change the ground rules for future elections. "It's continuing full-speed ahead on this nationwide trend by state legislators to restrict voting access," said Jonathan Diaz, legal counsel for voting rights at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center.
Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani bitterly clashed over age and experience Thursday in the final debate before New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, as Cuomo warned that electing the progressive state assemblyman is unprepared for the job and Mamdani hammered the former governor over scandals during his time in Albany.

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security posted a striking graphic on its official X account. Uncle Sam, a symbol of American patriotism, is depicted nailing a poster to a wall that reads, “Help your country… and yourself.” Written underneath the poster is the sentence, “REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS,” and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement hot line.