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A Princeton University professor who was named a MacArthur Foundation fellow said on social media that the institution declined to quote her in an article on its website announcing her award.

Dr. Ruha Benjamin, an African American Studies professor at Princeton, was honored by the foundation for “illuminating how advances in science, medicine, and technology reflect and reproduce social inequality,” according to its website.

She wrote in a post, “Princeton chose not to include my responses to their Qs about the #MacFellow award in this announcement…bc I asked them to accurately recount my response to Q1 or to not quote me at all.”

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A local elections official who became a hero to election deniers was sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday for leading a voting system data-breach scheme inspired by the rampant false claims that fraud altered the 2020 presidential outcome.

Tina Peters allowed a man affiliated with the pillow salesman and election-lie trafficker Mike Lindell to misuse a security card to access the Mesa county election system.

Jurors found Peters guilty in August, convicting her of seven counts related to misconduct, conspiracy and impersonation, four of which were felony charges.

The document is expected to include the fullest account and evidence of what happened in the lead-up to the 2020 election and the attempt to subvert the result as if it were an opening statement to a jury. Smith argues that Trump’s actions were not covered by presidential immunity.

With just a month to go before the election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remain deadlocked in the key battleground states according to new polling by The Cook PoliticalReport.

A federal court ruled Tuesday that a student group at the University of Maryland could move forward with a vigil for Gaza on Oct. 7 after the school canceled all events on campus that day, the first anniversary of Hamas’s terror attack against Israel, which spurred the ongoing war.

Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations sued on behalf of the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group in Maryland after the school canceled a previously approved event on campus that was organized to honor those killed in Gaza since the conflict began last fall.

“It is clear to the Court that UMCP’s [University of Maryland College Park] decision to revoke its permission to SJP to hold its event on October 7 was neither viewpoint-neutral, nor content-neutral, nor narrowly tailored to serve a significant government interest. The decision clearly came in response to possible speech that several groups or individuals claimed would be highly objectionable,” Judge Peter Messitte said in his ruling.

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The Department of Justice is suing Alabama in the latest counter to the state's efforts to purge the voter rolls of noncitizen registrations.

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced Aug. 13 he had instructed all 67 counties in the state to take necessary steps to inactivate voter registrations for those who are not U.S. citizens after finding more than 3,000 registered voters with noncitizen ID numbers, according to a news release.

Despite lack of evidence of widespread voter fraud from noncitizens, Allen has repeatedly raised it as an issue. Republicans have signaled noncitizen votes may be a factor if Donald Trump loses the election. But some are pushing back, and the DOJ lawsuit filed Friday is at least the second against the Alabama Secretary of State for the move, as Election Day draws closer.

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A former spokesperson for Kyle Rittenhouse says he became disillusioned with his ex-client after learning that he had sent text messages pledging to “fucking murder” shoplifters outside a pharmacy before later shooting two people to death during racial justice protests in Wisconsin in 2020.

Dave Hancock made that remark about Rittenhouse – for whom he also worked as a security guard – on a Law & Crime documentary that premiered on Friday. The show explored the unsuccessful criminal prosecution of Rittenhouse, who killed Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

As Hancock told it on The Trials of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 90-minute film’s main subject had “a history of things he was doing prior to [the double slaying], specifically patrolling the street for months with guns and borrowing people’s security uniforms, doing whatever he could to try to get into some kind of a fight”.

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