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Mesa County Clerk and Colorado Republican candidate for secretary of state Tina Peters reacts to early election returns during a primary night watch party at the Wide Open Saloon on June 28, 2022 in Sedalia, Colorado. (Photo by Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)

Tina Peters, convicted in election-security breach, emerges defiant and vows legal fight

The former Colorado election clerk  struck an unrepentant pose in her first interview after her prison sentence was commuted by Colorado Governor Jared Polis.
Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for the second Trump administration speaks during a Senate Committee on the Budget hearing to examine the President’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal in Capitol Hill on April 16, 2026. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

White House charts new course for federal agencies and cybersecurity logging

A Trump administration memo published last week replaces one from its predecessor, with at least one analyst fearful of potential harmful results.
US President Donald Trump (L) speaks, flanked by US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, during a roundtable discussion on his “no tax on tips” policy at the AC Hotel Las Vegas Symphony Park in Las Vegas, Nevada, on April 16, 2026. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump postpones executive order focused on AI security 

Under a draft executive order, the NSA, Treasury Department and other federal agencies would get 90-days to test new models for cybersecurity and national security concerns.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks as FBI Director Kash Patel listens at a press conference at the Department of Justice on April 27, 2026 in Washington, DC. The officials took questions from the press and gave updates about the case against Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

DOJ releases legal rationale for nationwide voter data collection

The memo claims a robust executive branch role vetting voter eligibility. One Secretary of State called it a “fantasy” that “isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.”
Sean Plankey, of Pennsylvania, responds to questioning during Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearings to examine his nomination to be Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, of the Department of Homeland Security, in the Dirksen Senate office building, in Washington, DC, on Wednesday July 24, 2025. (Mattie Neretin/CNP/Sipa USA)

CISA director pick Sean Plankey withdraws his nomination

Plankey had been waiting for more than a year, prompting the request to withdraw him as the one tapped to lead an agency now in further upheaval.
UNITED STATES – APRIL 14: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, left, and Commissioner Mark Meador, testify during the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing titled titled “Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission,” in Russell building on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The FTC’s AI portfolio is about to get bigger

The commission is preparing to enforce key parts of a new law against sexual deepfakes and searching for ways to block AI-driven scamming using voice clones.
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States Kash Patel is seen in the Capitol near a meeting on the administration’s use of FISA authority on March 18, 2026. (Photo by Alex Kent/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The surveillance law Congress can’t quit — and can’t explain

Congress overhauled Section 702 in 2024 with 56 changes. Now, as the law nears expiration, supporters and critics can’t even agree on what the numbers show.
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