Sixteen people in seven states have been charged with illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration and related crimes, the Justice Department announced Friday. The states: Texas, Idaho, Georgia, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Michigan. In Texas alone, eight are accused of voting or registering to vote while they were not citizens. In Georgia, prosecutors allege one woman voted nine times between 2008 and 2024 and was not a citizen for any of them. In New Jersey, a defendant is accused of voting in 2018, 2020 and 2024 while allegedly making false statements on a naturalization application. Todd Blanche of the Justice Department: "We are seeing illegal aliens voting." Colin McDonald, also of the department: "America's elections are for Americans." The department's own warning: "Let this be a warning to anyone trying to cheat and undermine our elections." The Daily Caller reports this brings the administration's running total to 50 such charges. These are accusations, and every one of these people is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Chuck reads the department's announcement, as reported by Breitbart News and The Daily Caller.
Also in today's episode: before dawn Saturday the Iran-backed Houthis fire a ballistic missile at Riyadh, the Saudi capital, and air defenses stop it, per the Associated Press; hours later the president returns from Camp David a day early with no explanation, and the State Department warns Americans in ten countries that "this military conflict has the potential to escalate rapidly"; the president bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House grounds, their reporters are turned away at the gate Saturday, and the objection comes from Jacqui Heinrich, a Fox News reporter and president of the White House Correspondents' Association, who says it "violates the First Amendment"; diesel reaches $6.23 a gallon and AAA cites "volatility in the Strait of Hormuz," while Brent crude climbs above $104 after the Riyadh attack, per Reuters, with Saudi Arabia's main east-west pipeline down for repairs; hours before Yom Kippur a gunman kills Netanel Shukrun, a father of six, at a natural spring near Neve Tzuf, and Israeli commandos capture the suspect the same day, per The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post; Carnegie Mellon's president and provost say a professor's resurfaced 2021 posts used "expletives, racial slurs and derogatory language that demeaned, dehumanized and intimidated," and she is on leave while the university reviews it; and Wilmington, North Carolina holds its first reunion of NICU families, including twins born at 23 weeks.
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