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• 司法部宣布扩大对唐纳德·特朗普2024年总统竞选团队及相关政治行动委员会筹款和支出模式的刑事调查，重点关注其对联邦竞选财务和外国捐赠者法律的合规情况。 • 据听取了调查简报的执法官员称，调查人员正在审查至少十几笔大额捐款，这些捐款可能通过壳公司账户或与外国有关联的实体进行转账。 • 白宫发言人将此行动描述为“例行的选举后审查”的一部分，而特朗普的盟友则指责该部门存在党派偏见，并警告称，在2026年中期选举前提出任何指控都可能引发一场政治风暴。

• 在拜登总统技术监管议程下召集的一个两党咨询小组提交了一份报告草案，建议国会禁止传播有关投票程序、候选人或选票获取渠道的“明显虚假或误导性信息”的政治定向数字广告。 • 该小组的成员包括前 FEC 委员和民权领袖，他们认为此类广告破坏了对选举的信任，并对有色人种选民产生了不成比例的影响，敦促各平台采取更严格的标签和广告库规则。 • 该提案引发了言论自由倡导者的强烈抵制，他们警告称，任何由政府定义的政治错误信息标准都可能抑制合法辩论，并使执政党受益。

• 该裁决赋予 Republican 州的地图绘制者将选区拆分并使选票稀释至化为乌有的权力 • Voting Rights Act 是一份用 John Lewis 的鲜血写成的政治和平契约。 • US supreme court 的 Callais v Landry 裁决搁置了 Voting Rights Act 的 section 2 的大部分内容，从历史上抹去了那些鲜血，以及千千万万名为争取政治平等而在午餐柜台、大巴站和法院与种族隔离主义白人至上主义者斗争的其他美国人的鲜血。继续阅读...

Chief minister Aminuddin Harun says he would continue in his post for now, even though he no longer enjoys majority support in the 36-seat state assembly in light of UMNO’s move over his handling of a crisis involving the state’s monarchy.

Conservatives expected to push for privileges committee involvement in a Commons vote on MondayA series of senior Labour figures have dismissed calls for a new investigation into what Keir Starmer told MPs about the appointment of Peter Mandelson as political point scoring, before a possible Commons vote on the issue.The Conservatives have called for the cross-party privileges committee, the remit of which includes examining whether MPs broke rules, to look at whether the prime minister misled parliament when he said normal procedures were followed with Mandelson’s appointment. Continue reading...

• President Trump was evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner due to a nearby shooting incident on April 25, 2026. • NBC News' Garrett Haake questioned Trump on the trend of political violence in the U.S., to which he replied, 'No country is immune'. • The event highlights ongoing concerns about security at political gatherings and increasing incidents of violence.