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President Donald Trump wants to sharply curtail mail ballots. He’s called them “inherently corrupt” and baselessly condemned them as a major source of fraud. But with Republicans falling behind in the polls, the president is now urging his supporters to vote in the midterm elections any way they can, including by…
The South Dakota National Guard has helped process 1,013 deportations for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since July 2025. Gov. Larry Rhoden’s office included the figure on Monday in a news release announcing his decision to extend his order for cooperation with ICE in paperwork processing, a task assigned to…
Citizen observers could play an especially important role in the Nov. 3 general election, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota. “They are a deterrent against bad behavior,” said Samantha Chapman, the organization’s advocacy manager. The group plans to deploy trained, volunteer observers in…
Archaeologists recently removed seven coffins containing human remains and an unknown wooden box from a construction site near the North Dakota governor’s residence, according to the Office of Management and Budget. The archaeologists explored more than 80 areas of interest in September after human remains were…
A court battle that began when conservative-led states sued to block protections for transgender people has ended in a rollback of protections for people with disabilities — a result disability advocates have feared for months. At the end of August, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services joined the handful…
South Dakota’s recently opened women’s prison in Rapid City held 79 women at the end of September, the first month the state began to move them there from the women’s prison campus in Pierre. Overcrowding in the buildings at the older women’s prison spurred the construction of the $87 million Rapid City complex. For…
When Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin declared in September that Immigration and Customs Enforcement could serve warrants on individuals at polling places this fall, officials in Denver, a liberal city where roughly 14% of residents are foreign-born, quickly sued. “Every day we find new things to be…
Since South Dakota’s Republican lame-duck Secretary of State Monae Johnson oddly endorsed the Democrat campaigning to replace her, voters reasonably might wonder: Is she for real? Even though she has been viewed at times during her tenure as just politically eccentric and confounding, this partisan betrayal was a core…
Jobs across the United States rose by 29,000 in September, a disappointing result as recent growth was also revised down in Friday’s monthly jobs report, the last one before midterm elections. September growth was a large dip from a strong August number that was revised down from 162,000 to 133,000 in the new report…
WASHINGTON — A D.C. Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that prosecutors cannot, for a second time, charge former Olympic canoeist David Hearn with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Judge Todd E. Edelman wrote in his ruling that “the observed damage to the Reflecting Pool was due to a contractor’s ‘rushed…
The backers of a South Dakota ballot measure that would make it harder to change the state constitution accused their opponents this week of misleading voters with campaign ads tying the measure to “out-of-state billionaires.” The spokesperson for the opposition called the allegations “comical.” The ads are a nod to…
An appeals court shut down an attempt from South Dakota’s attorney general and governor to overturn a decision that blocks enforcement of a law that criminalizes abortion pill advertising in the state. Gov. Larry Rhoden and Attorney General Marty Jackley, both Republicans, filed the appeal in August after a lower…
WASHINGTON — This summer, arrests of immigrants in the United States soared to the highest levels since President Donald Trump returned to office. An unprecedented increase in cooperation between local and state law enforcement and federal immigration officers through collaborations known as 287(g) agreements helped…
The two candidates for South Dakota governor recently met for a final debate before the Nov. 3 general election, hosted by South Dakota Public Broadcasting and South Dakota News Watch. In this episode of Searchlight Report, host Meghan O’Brien recaps the debate, including disagreements on data center laws, school…
SIOUX FALLS — During a Thursday night debate, the Republican candidate in the race for South Dakota’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives joined a chorus of his party’s members in criticizing President Donald Trump’s approach on beef imports. Republican Attorney General Marty Jackley faces Democrat Nikki…
A South Dakota group suffered a setback Thursday in its effort to protect adequate time for petitioning questions onto statewide ballots, as a federal appeals court vacated an earlier ruling in the group’s favor and set a new hearing for next year. In August, a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of…
The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled this week that a father doesn’t have a right to obtain investigation records he wanted about his son’s death. Ryan Pyle, age 37, went missing in August 2020, and his remains were found in November of that year near the Snake Creek Recreation Area in South Dakota, near the
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Keith Sonderling as secretary of Labor on Wednesday, marking one of the few Trump administration picks to get through the upper chamber recently after a North Dakota senator put a hold on “any and all” nominees. But the Senate left town late Wednesday for its weeks-long…
WASHINGTON — U.S. senators departed Capitol Hill on Wednesday night for their campaign break, leaving numerous policy disputes unresolved. The chamber won’t return until Nov. 9 for the five-week lame-duck session, when party leaders will have to decide which bills they want to negotiate during what could be the final…
President Donald Trump is scheduled to kick off a month-long blitz of campaign stops with a Thursday rally in deep-red Oklahoma before heading to other states with strong Republican leanings. The first events in the closing stretch of the midterm election campaign suggest his strength with swing voters is limited, as…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury released new guidance Thursday for participating states, scholarship-granting organizations and taxpayers as the federal scholarship tax credit program prepares to take effect in January. Created through President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending law in 2025, the Education…
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans did not gain any support Wednesday from Democrats as they attempted to advance a bill that mashed together two hot-button midterm issues: requiring voter ID in federal elections and limiting stock trading for members of Congress. The Republican-led bill, titled the Stop Insider…
Eastern South Dakota could soon host the largest transmission project in the state’s history. South Dakota’s first 765-kilovolt line would run through Grant, Deuel and Brookings counties. The larger story is what could follow it. South Dakota’s largest existing transmission lines operate at 345 kilovolts. The proposed…
South Dakota Democratic U.S. House nominee Nikki Gronli announced her top economic priorities Wednesday, including a return to tariff policies predating President Donald Trump, capping insulin costs, giving Medicare more drug-price bargaining power, and requiring higher-income people to contribute more toward Social…
A federal grand jury indicted 10 noncitizens for unlawfully voting in Minnesota, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday, highlighting the administration’s effort to keep election security a top issue, in line with President Donald Trump’s longstanding unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. The indictments…
In the early months of 2022, Democrats in Congress came close to passing an appropriations bill that did not include a provision barring federal funding for abortions — maybe the closest it had ever come in more than 40 years. But those who wanted the Hyde Amendment included won the battle in the end. Three
President Donald Trump is tapping $20 million in Homeland Security funding to pay for TV ads that heavily feature him ahead of the midterm elections, Democrats said Tuesday as the promos critics call propaganda come under bipartisan attack. The Trump administration recently moved the funds into a U.S. Customs and…
South Dakota’s Republican governor issued an executive order to blunt the impact of high diesel prices for farmers during harvest season, but an agricultural leader in the state said the order “doesn’t do anything” to help. Gov. Larry Rhoden’s order allows producers to haul crops, livestock and other agricultural…
WASHINGTON — Most judges on a federal appeals court seemed inclined during oral arguments Tuesday to allow a federal judge to continue investigating Trump officials for possible criminal contempt-of-court charges for defying a judicial order by sending more than 100 Venezuelan men to a brutal Salvadoran prison last…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own. The decision will allow the Trump administration to carry out its aggressive deportation method of quickly removing immigrants to one…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration must spend the $810 million that it said last week it planned to cancel, according to a report released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. The congressional watchdog’s decision contends the White House budget office doesn’t hold the ability to claw back…
WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday defended before a U.S. Senate panel his past investigations of President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents and alleged role in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Judiciary Committee Republicans repeatedly dissected Smith’s work…
SIOUX FALLS — Opponents of a Nov. 3 ballot measure to end Medicaid expansion if federal funding is cut said Monday that the measure would reduce access to care and shift more health care costs onto people with private insurance. South Dakota’s Republican attorney general and its opponents say Amendment I would…
WASHINGTON — The three news organizations that President Donald Trump barred from entering the White House grounds earlier this month have asked a federal judge to ensure their reporters continue to have access after a temporary restraining order expires in early October. Attorneys for CNN, MS Now and Politico filed…
WE BUY HOUSES. CASH 4 HOMES. FA$T CA$H. The signs, text messages and mailers promise cash, quick sales and a seamless means of unloading unwanted homes. But advocates say the business of buying homes for cash can confuse vulnerable homeowners and rob them of home equity. And now, many states are cracking down…
Local governments should have more authority over where data centers are built and how they use local resources, Democratic candidate for South Dakota governor Dan Ahlers said during a debate on Monday. “We should be asking the people of South Dakota what they want, and what they’ve been telling us is they don’t want…
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan measure to overhaul the college sports landscape got a step closer to becoming law Monday after passing the U.S. Senate. The bill — which sailed through on a 77-22 vote — would set a national framework for college athletes’ compensation, provide certain antitrust protections to the NCAA…
WASHINGTON — Small businesses will once again challenge President Donald Trump’s tariffs in federal court this week as they continue to feel the squeeze of the administration’s roller coaster policy on import taxes. Spice importer Burlap & Barrel and rare watch importer Collective Horology will argue Wednesday in the…
Five weeks before Election Day, President Donald Trump’s sprawling effort to identify and remove noncitizen voters hasn’t produced the kind of large purges that could meaningfully affect the midterm elections. Even a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision giving states access to a supercharged Department of Homeland…
The challenges and dire threats surrounding the unchecked growth of artificial intelligence appear unlikely to move Congress or President Donald Trump to act as the U.S. Senate enters its last week before the midterms. The rapid emergence of the technology has sparked a host of policy debates, with some warning of an…
SIOUX FALLS – The adjutant general of the South Dakota National Guard encouraged business leaders in Sioux Falls to make a “full-throated” case for bringing newer Air Force jets to the city. The South Dakota Air National Guard’s 114th Fighter Wing is located at Joe Foss Field, near the Sioux Falls Regional Airport…
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress. The $810 million in the “pocket rescission” would have gone to refugee assistance programs at the Department of Health and Human…
As physicians continue to navigate care for patients with complex pregnancies in states with abortion bans, a group of maternal-fetal medicine specialists has developed new guidelines to help providers in those states navigate legal risks for themselves and medical challenges for their high-risk patients…
When fire commanders try to figure out how to contain a major wildfire, the last thing you might expect them to deploy is a herd of beef cattle. But on the recent Gold Mountain Fire in western Colorado, cows are eating the “fine fuels” along a three-mile fire line on the Big Cimarron River. Putting
South Dakota lawmakers can anticipate a raise and a salary of nearly $16,500 next year; meanwhile, the average payout per legislator was $26,813 during the last fiscal year after accounting for mileage, an allowance for living expenses, and out-of-state travel to conferences, according to data obtained by South Dakota…
Recent events have some South Dakota Republicans questioning the integrity of “election integrity” enthusiast Monae Johnson. This happened after the secretary of state endorsed a Democrat who’s running for election to her office. Johnson’s election as secretary of state and her tenure there has been a long, strange…
WASHINGTON — An appeals panel Friday seemed inclined to agree that more than 100 Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador are entitled to due process hearings to challenge their removal, which was made under an archaic 18th-century wartime law. Arguing on behalf of the class of…
A question on the Nov. 3 general election ballot asks South Dakotans to add language in the state constitution specifying that people who are not U.S. citizens are disqualified from voting. The state constitution already includes citizenship as a voting eligibility requirement. Two years ago, state officials…
An audit report released Thursday recommends ways to improve mail service in South Dakota, and a member of the state’s congressional delegation said the report serves as “a reaffirmation that the mail service is worse than the Postal Service is suggesting.” Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds made a request in December…
A member of the public could have a vote on South Dakota’s Open Meetings Commission if the state’s incoming attorney general, legislators and governor back a proposal recommended Thursday by an open meetings task force. The commission is a five-member board established in 2004 to hear complaints about alleged…
WASHINGTON — Despite skyrocketing fuel prices and sinking approval ratings for President Donald Trump’s conflict in Iran ahead of the November midterms, Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ efforts Thursday to check the president’s unfettered military action in the Middle East. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Lisa…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Food and Drug Administration appeared to disappoint senators from both political parties Thursday with how she answered questions about medication abortion access during her confirmation hearing. Dr. Heidi Overton also faced skepticism from committee Chairman…
WASHINGTON — Government investigators Thursday released a report that found the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration detention, including warehouse purchases strongly opposed in numerous U.S. communities. The nonpartisan Government…
SIOUX FALLS — Inflation is affecting South Dakota businesses before it reaches consumers, and two executives say tariffs, artificial intelligence demand, high interest rates and a tight labor market are among the culprits. Tariffs — taxes the federal government charges on imported goods — implemented by the Trump…
Tens of thousands of Americans continue to lose access to food assistance each month, even as Congress debates slowing down major cuts to federal food stamps. New data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows more than 330,000 Americans lost access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP…
WASHINGTON — U.S. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly early Thursday issued an order that temporarily blocks President Donald Trump’s ban of three news organizations from the White House. Kelly, in the eight-page order, said that the White House must “immediately return, reinstate, and restore the White House ‘hard…
WASHINGTON — A vast and growing network of artificial intelligence-driven Flock cameras could violate constitutional privacy rights, U.S. senators on a Judiciary Committee subcommittee said during a Wednesday hearing. GOP Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, the chair of the Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee, said the…
WASHINGTON — U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Kelly indicated during a Wednesday hearing he may order the Trump administration to reinstate White House press passes for reporters from three news organizations who had their credentials revoked this weekend. Kelly, of the U.S. District Court for the District of…
On Tuesday, Sept. 15, I paid $36 to send a small box containing a Minnesota Vikings jersey from Watertown to Rapid City by two-day mail guaranteed to arrive Thursday. It arrived Monday. By then, U.S. Postal Service tracking information indicated it had traveled some 1,500 miles: from Watertown to Huron, Fargo, West…
RAPID CITY — Getting Ellsworth Air Force Base removed from a closure list 21 years ago was the beginning of the work needed to secure the base’s future in western South Dakota, Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds said Wednesday. “Once we knew Ellsworth was safe, we also knew that building up the base’s infrastructure and
It could cost up to $697,000 a year for South Dakota’s state-level public defender to begin taking on trial-level cases in the state, an advisory committee heard on Wednesday. The Office of Indigent Legal Services opened in 2024 with the hiring of a director, and expanded the following year to add four additional…
If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources. The mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial earlier this month places her future in doubt, three years after she killed her three children…
WASHINGTON — Education experts and advocates on Tuesday urged Congress to repeal an incoming national school voucher program over concerns that it will divert critical funds away from public schools to private institutions. U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono convened a Democratic-led panel to sound the alarm on the sweeping…
South Dakota regulators are considering permit applications for projects that would add about 160 miles of electrical transmission lines along the eastern edge of the state. Transmission lines carry high-voltage power over long distances. The larger proposal is part of the PowerOn Midwest Project, from companies…
The U.S. Postal Service announced plans Tuesday to improve delivery speed in South Dakota, following years of complaints about service in the state. Beginning Jan. 1, a Sioux Falls processing and distribution center will become a regional center thanks to new machinery. The plant will handle more of the mail leaving…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump faces a “big decision” to make a deal with Iran or “annihilate” the country, he told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. During a 37-minute speech to his international counterparts including Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in New York City, Trump asked, “Will a deal…
Regionalizing ambulance services would preserve them for rural areas and allow the state to guarantee a basic level of coverage, but the state would still need to pick up some of the cost of that guarantee, members of a legislative task force said this week. What regional service looks like and what the state might
Medicaid enrollees from five states and leading medical organizations filed a lawsuit Friday challenging new Medicaid work requirements. The broad tax and spending law that President Donald Trump signed last summer, known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, established work, school or community service requirements for…
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public. Individuals and industries may kill endangered animals in the course of logging projects, developments and other activities, it…
SIOUX FALLS — Partisan squabbles are keeping Congress from effecting change, and President Donald Trump has made it worse when he has “lost focus,” said South Dakota Republican U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, who added that he finds many of Trump’s personal characteristics “lacking.” Johnson, who will leave office in…
WASHINGTON — Diesel prices hit a record average of $6.51 a gallon Monday, and some in President Donald Trump’s own party are breaking their support for the ongoing war in Iran that has driven fuel prices to staggering levels in the United States and across the globe. Already House Republicans locked in tight races as
After pledging to protect press freedoms throughout his nearly two years in office, Republican South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden found himself standing in front of reporters Friday with President Donald Trump as the president defended a decision to ban three news organizations from the White House. Rhoden was in the Oval…
WASHINGTON — The three news organizations that President Donald Trump has barred from entering the White House filed a lawsuit against the administration on Monday. CNN, MS Now and Politico wrote in a joint statement the suit is intended “to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the…
Women giving birth in rural communities were more likely than peers in urban areas to receive oral opioid prescriptions for pain upon leaving the hospital after a cesarean section, according to a new analysis of data from half a million C-sections. The study was conducted by researchers at Truveta, a health data and…
Four years after refusing to acknowledge the legitimacy of a Democratic president’s electoral victory, the Republican who serves as South Dakota’s top election official has endorsed a Democratic candidate to succeed her. “I understand that this decision will disappoint some people in my party and anger others,”…
As they cast their ballots now through Election Day on Nov. 3, voters will decide on four constitutional amendments, all courtesy of the South Dakota Legislature. Three of the amendments reflect their origins in a Legislature that’s top-heavy with Republicans. Those three deal with popular Republican topics: tinkering…
WASHINGTON — The rare 2026 issue that draws huge support from Republicans and Democrats in Congress is the same one that’s mobilized many Americans: restrictions on giant data centers. The House has overwhelmingly passed legislation forcing state regulators to consider requirements that data centers absorb the cost of…
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court Friday struck down the Trump administration’s policy to quickly send noncitizens to countries they are not from, finding that immigrants must have an opportunity to challenge their removal if they fear for their safety. The decision largely upheld a Boston federal judge’s February…
WASHINGTON — A federal judge told the Trump administration Friday a case against the Department of Justice’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is “still alive and kicking.” The administration sought to dismiss the case brought against President Donald Trump’s negotiated settlement terms to drop his $10 billion…
South Dakota has collected over $1 billion in unclaimed property over the years, from sources including abandoned cash, stocks, bank accounts and even gold teeth. Much of that money has gone into the state budget, because not all of the rightful owners come forward to claim their property. Yet they could come forward…
WASHINGTON — A coalition of civil rights groups and union organizations Friday sued the Trump administration to prevent the deployment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling locations during November’s midterm elections. The suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is the…
South Dakota Republican lawmakers who placed a state constitutional amendment on the Nov. 3 ballot have repeatedly said it would not automatically end expanded Medicaid eligibility. It would merely give them authority, they’ve said, to consider ending the expansion if federal funding for it falls below 90%. But the…
A third-grade teacher for the Harrisburg School District was recognized as South Dakota’s 2027 teacher of the year at a banquet Wednesday in Fort Pierre. Christina Berger has taught at Liberty Elementary School for the last eight years, though she has more than 20 years of experience in elementary education. She…
Voting rights groups and Democratic officials are looking to defend against what they see as possible election interference from the Trump administration ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, now that they’ve won a major battle over mail ballots. Common Cause, a nonpartisan pro-democracy organization, announced a…
FORT YATES, N.D. – Protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline left a ripple effect for Indigenous people to stand up for their communities, Standing Rock Sioux tribal leaders said Thursday at a renewable energy event that included reflections on the demonstrations a decade ago. Indigenized Energy hosted the first…
A South Dakota fund for airport projects is growing faster than the state Aeronautics Commission is spending it, which led the commission to approve two policy changes Thursday. “We have this money. Let’s spend it on aviation,” said Chairman Robert Huggins, a pilot and retired air traffic controller from Sioux Falls…
Advance voting begins Friday for South Dakota’s Nov. 3 general election. People hoping to cast a ballot must first be registered to vote. Anyone unsure of their registration status may check it in the South Dakota secretary of state’s Voter Information Portal at vip.sdsos.gov/viplogin.aspx. The voter registration…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Thursday took another step forward on a sweeping bipartisan bill to overhaul the college sports world. The measure, clearing its second procedural hurdle on a 77-22 vote, would set national standards for college athletes’ compensation, provide certain antitrust protections to the NCAA…
WEST FARGO, N.D. — Jared Hagert said his main message to farmers at the Big Iron farm show was: If you haven’t set up an account at login.gov, get it done. Hagert is the North Dakota farmer and former lawmaker now overseeing federal farm programs who was back in his home state Tuesday to speak
Republican members of the Senate Agriculture Committee voted Wednesday to advance a farm bill, though Democrats on the committee voted against the package due to continued disagreements on a nutrition section of the bill. The committee marked up the bill in August, then recessed after a failed vote as Democrats held…
SIOUX FALLS — A request for clemency from a man convicted of a sex offense 25 years ago spurred a discussion on the purpose of a pardon Wednesday at a meeting of the South Dakota board empowered to make recommendations to the governor. The 57-year-old who applied for the pardon hasn’t been charged with a
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve raised interest rates Wednesday for the first time in three years as inflation continues to dog the economy, largely driven by soaring gas and fuel oil prices while the war in Iran drags on. The central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee voted 12-0 to increase its benchmark interest…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House departed Wednesday for a seven-week campaign break after spending less than two weeks in session during August and September. The extended “district work period” is intended to give incumbents from both political parties time to meet with constituents and fundraise back home before voting…
Fewer South Dakota middle-schoolers are trying nicotine than they were two years ago, but slightly more of them are using it every day. Nicotine use rates for Native American kids in grades six through eight are higher than they are for non-Natives, meanwhile, and South Dakota kids overall are slightly more likely on…
WASHINGTON — As the November midterms approach, vulnerable U.S. House Republicans voted late Tuesday to require congressional approval for President Donald Trump to continue his war in Iran. Seven Republicans broke ranks and joined all Democrats to pass a War Powers Resolution sponsored by Rep. Seth Moulton, a…
A multi-billion-dollar federal program that helps schools and libraries afford broadband internet is under review by the Trump administration, leaving education officials and advocates worried about potentially significant cuts. The E-Rate program provides about $3 billion annually for internet access and…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday moved forward on a sweeping bipartisan bill that would set national standards for college athletes’ compensation. The measure breezed through its first procedural vote that needed 60 senators to advance, 74-24. The legislation is the latest congressional push to overhaul the…
The Trump administration will comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s order this week blocking new restrictions on mail voting for this year’s elections, but President Donald Trump was right to attack the ruling, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche said during a wide-ranging White House press conference Tuesday. Concerns…
South Dakota Secretary of State Monae Johnson has instructed county auditors to send voters stripped of their right to vote in state and local elections more accurate letters explaining why. The letters will also offer guidance on how to get those rights back for those who feel they shouldn’t have lost them. The…
WASHINGTON — FBI Director Kash Patel sidestepped questions about FBI agents at polling places in the midterm elections at a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday that also featured a tense exchange between GOP Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey. With the November midterm elections fast…