Swift appeal likely as judge blocks Trump mail voting order – US politics live

Judge Indira Talwani placed a 14-day hold on government implementing Trump’s order to limit mail voting

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A federal judge has halted, at least temporarily, attempts to implement Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting.

Plaintiff states have neither time nor funds to design new mail ballots, seek approval of the new designs, order production of mail ballots, update their own election management systems, train election officials to use the USPS portal and upload citizen data to the portal, all before the midterms.

Documents obtained by the Guardian and interviews with military leadership show the war in Iran has depleted the US Navy’s budget.

A senior Democratic senator is calling for a criminal investigation into the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, following reporting by the Guardian that indicated he lied during Senate confirmation hearings last year.

Trump called the media into the Oval Office to watch him sign an executive order to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America”.

“The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means ‘the lake is beautiful, the lake is big’, Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney noted. “The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.”

Three journalists who were fired by the Pentagon from a US government-funded news outlet sued the US Department of Defense in federal court in Washington DC on Thursday arguing that their dismissals were illegal and violated their first amendment rights to free speech.