The Election Assistance Commission was created in the wake of the 2000 presidential election, which was plagued by administrative errors, to provide election officials with resources and data.
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NPR's Ashley Lopez delivers one of the bulletin's most consequential stories: the Trump administration has gutted the Election Assistance Commission, an independent body born out of the administrative chaos of the 2000 presidential election [1] — Ashley Lopez "The Trump White House removed the last remaining commissioners of the Election Assistance Commission, an independent agency created after t…" 00:58 . The EAC was designed with four commissioners — a bipartisan structure meant to insulate it from partisan influence. But that structure has now collapsed entirely: one Republican resigned abruptly earlier in the year, another followed suit, and the two Democratic members were actively removed by the White House. Lopez also notes Trump simultaneously removed members of the Federal Election Commission, another independent elections watchdog. Together, the moves leave the machinery of US election oversight significantly weakened as the country heads toward midterm elections — a timing that many will find deeply troubling.
Maine's Democratic Party has less than three weeks to register a new US Senate nominee with the Maine secretary of state after moving to replace Graham Plattner.
Maine's Democratic Party is scrambling to replace US Senate nominee Graham Plattner, with fewer than three weeks to submit a new name to the state's secretary of state. The party says it will hold a nominating convention to select the replacement.
The US-Iran war's gas price swings are showing up in PepsiCo's quarterly results. North American food sales stagnated and drink sales fell as consumers stopped making impulse purchases at gas stations — a painful reversal after Pepsi spent the prior quarter cutting prices to win back budget-squeezed shoppers.
A total of 8 states have filed lawsuits against social media platforms, including an ongoing case in Tennessee, using product liability and public nuisance theories to seek accountability.
France built 56 nuclear plants in the 1970s and now has the cheapest energy in Europe, making it independent of Russian or Middle Eastern energy geopolitics.
Estonia has a single tax form, a law preventing the government from asking citizens for the same information twice, and a flat rate of tax — enabling competitive taxation.
Portugal's Lisbon, once a city with a major heroin problem, legalised drugs and redirected enforcement spending into rehabilitation and housing, dramatically reducing crime.
The first Boland Amendment banning CIA and Defense Department funds for the Contras passed the House unanimously — yet the Reagan administration ignored it.
Over just two years, Saudi Arabia alone donated $32 million to the Contra rebels, giving loosely affiliated factions millions they had no way to spend on arms.
The National Endowment for the Preservation of Liberty raised $6.3 million for the Contras but only $3.3 million reached them — a shockingly low 52% program expense rate.
Richard Secord and Albert Hakim marked up their arms shipments to the Contras by as much as 300%, making enormous personal profits from the covert operation.
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, tapped to run the entire covert Contra support operation, had no prior experience in covert operations whatsoever — he was learning as he went.
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