House passes government funding bill to end shutdown; Trump hosts first meeting with Colombian President Gustavo Petro

In an unsparing 83-page decision issued late Monday, Judge Ana C. Reyes of the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., formally denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges the Department of Homeland Security’s attempts to terminate the TPS program entirely.

President Donald Trump floated the idea that Republicans could consider a more centralized role in administering elections, musing on Monday that the party should “nationalize the voting” as he argued that some states cannot be trusted to oversee elections fairly ahead of the midterm contests.

At the time, House Republicans approved legislation, the “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act,” that would cement Trump’s order into law. That bill has stalled in the Senate, though lawmakers have recently revived efforts to bring it forward for consideration.

The judge issued initial rulings on three cases brought by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the Democratic National Convention and League of Women Voters Education Fund, all of whom represented various plaintiffs with worries triggered by Trump’s executive order signed in March 2025.

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was on site in Fulton County, Ga., last week when the F.B.I. conducted an extraordinary search of an election center, seizing truckloads of 2020 ballots.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard arranged for FBI agents who searched the Fulton County Elections and Operations Hub in Georgia last week to have a phone call with President Donald Trump,