The Latest: Trump overhauls US elections in new executive order, including proof of citizenship

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul U.S. elections, including requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and demanding that all ballots be received by Election Day.

The order says the U.S. has failed “to enforce basic and necessary election protections” and calls on states to work with federal agencies to share voter lists and prosecute election crimes. It threatens to pull federal funding from states where election officials don’t comply.

Trump often claims elections are being rigged, even before the results are known, and has waged battles against certain voting methods since he lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden and falsely blamed it on widespread fraud.

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Waltz on Signal group chat: ‘We made a mistake’

National Security adviser Mike Waltz says he created the Signal group chat where details about an upcoming U.S. attack on targets in Yemen were mistakenly shared with a journalist.

Waltz told Fox News Channel, “We made a mistake. We’re moving forward.” He said he was taking responsibility for what occurred and that no staffer was to blame.

Waltz said he’d not spoken to Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief for The Atlantic, who was added to the chain. He said he was trying to add someone else’s number and that Goldberg’s somehow appeared under another name. He wouldn’t say whom he meant to add.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pulls back $11.4 billion in COVID-19 funds

Federal health officials say they were withdrawing the funds sent to recipients, which include public health departments throughout the nation.

“The COVID-19 pandemic is over, and HHS will no longer waste billions of taxpayer dollars responding to a non-existent pandemic that Americans moved on from years ago,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement. “HHS is prioritizing funding projects that will deliver on President Trump’s mandate to address our chronic disease epidemic and Make America Healthy Again.”

The statement said the CDC will start recovering the money 30 days after termination notices, which the agency started sending on Monday. They were issued to health departments and other recipients.

Nonprofit sues Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to preserve Signal messages about Yemen strike

American Oversight alleges in the lawsuit that messages on Signal about official government actions “are federal records and must be preserved in accordance with federal statutes, and agency directives, rules, and regulations,” citing the Federal Records Act.

The government transparency advocacy group also alleges using Signal to relay sensitive plans for a military strike against Yemen’s Houthis was “unauthorized,” saying the app can be set up to automatically delete messages and that messages are only stored on an individual’s device, with no back-ups on the company’s servers.

The lawsuit also names Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, among others.

Republicans in Mike Waltz’s old district aren’t mad at him or Trump over Yemen Signal chat

As Washington was roiled by the news that Trump’s national security adviser added a journalist to a group chat discussing military plans, many Republicans going to the polls in Florida to replace Mike Waltz’s old U.S. House seat have brushed off the story.

“I think it was a faux pas, and it was a mistake that somebody made,” said Gary Caples, a Republican voter in DeLand, Florida. “Nobody’s perfect.”

Zelma Cohen, West Volusia’s Republican Party vice president, said none of the early voters had mentioned the report and that in Washington, “they get excitable about everything.”

The muted Republican reaction both in Florida and among many lawmakers nationally reflects how incidents that may have once sparked bipartisan outrage are dismissed as hiccups as Trump stands firm backed by his allies and supporters.

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America’s allies are alarmed by a leaked group chat about attack plans

Allies of the United States see the group chat between top U.S. officials about a planned attack in Yemen that accidentally included a journalist as a jaw-dropping security breach which casts doubt on intelligence-sharing with Washington and the security of joint military operations.

Neil Melvin, a security expert at defense think tank the Royal United Services Institute, called it “pretty shocking.”

“Scary” and “reckless” was the verdict of one European diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

In public, however, European officials insisted all was well in the trans-Atlantic relationship.

▶ Read more about U.S. allies’ reaction to the attack plans leak