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A federal grand jury indicted a trio of Iranian nationals for what prosecutors say was a long-running government hacking campaign that targeted U.S. officials, including a hack against the Trump campaign this summer.

“These authoritarian regimes, which violate the human rights of their own citizens, do not get a say in our country’s democratic process,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a press conference on Friday. “The American people, and the American people alone, will decide the outcome of our country’s elections.”

The charges, unsealed on Friday, allege that since 2020, three men, Masoud Jalili, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri and Yasar Balaghi, were part of ascheme on behalf of Iran’s Islamic Revolutoinary Guard Corps to go after U.S. interests and “stoke discord and erode confidence in the U.S. electoral process.”

All three men are described as having their last known residence in Tehran.

The Iranian government denies responsibility for the hack.

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Trump’s event tonight offers a comparatively rare chance to hear him speak with actual voters, instead of his usual campaign speech riffs onstage.

The former president will participate in a town hall at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, that’s expected to start any minute.

We’ll cover the latest news from the town hall live. Stay tuned.

Not even Donald Trump could summon a frenzied crowd outside of the federal courthouse in New York City like Eric Adams did Friday when the mayor pleaded not guilty to the five criminal charges he’s facing.

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Embattled gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was not the only Republican absent at former president Donald Trump’s rally in Wilmington, North Carolina last weekend.

While North Carolina’s junior senator Ted Budd addressed the crowd, its senior senator and longtime power broker Thom Tillis notably did not speak. In the days after CNN’s report that Robinson had allegedly commented on a porno site called Nude Africa calling himself a “black Nazi” and a “perv” who would have owned slaves if he had the chance, the incumbent lieutenant governor has vehemently denied his involvement. He has also hired a lawyer who he says will help to prove the allegations are false.

But Tillis told The Independent that Robinson needs to come forward to substantiate his claims that artificial intelligence was behind the posts.

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Just hours before New York City mayor Eric Adams was hit with a federal indictment, a split within the New York Democratic Party had already began.

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JD Vance is being criticized for a planned town hall this weekend with Lance Wallnau, a pro-Trump evangelical leader who has backed election conspiracies and accused Kamala Harris of using witchcraft.

“This is Vance’s endorsement of one of the worst, most conspiratorial, Christian supremacist spectacles in the country,” Matthew D. Taylor, a scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, & Jewish Studies,” wrote on X on Thursday.

He warned the Monroeville, Pennsylvania, event would take on extra significance because it’s close to where Trump was nearly assassinated, a near-miss Trump’s more religious supporters take as divine intervention.

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Donald Trump bizarrely claimed migrants have a phone app direct to Kamala Harris during a speech at Trump Towers on Thursday.

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Former first lady Melania Trump is now a bestselling author, as calculated by Amazon’s sales rankings.

Her forthcoming memoir, Melania, is the #1 seller in Amazon’s “Books” category, as of Friday afternoon. It is scheduled for an October 8 release.

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