Jun 6, 2017

Top Dem: Russian interference "much broader" than reported

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Mark Warner, the top Dem on the Senate Intel Committee, said Tuesday that what has been made public thus far about Russian hacking during the 2016 election is the tip of the iceberg:

"The extent of the attacks is much broader than has been reported so far...none of these actions from the Russians stopped on Election Day."

This comes after the report that Russian military intelligence operatives targeted more than 100 local election officials in the buildup to the election. Warner said he is encouraging intelligence agencies to declassify the states hit by the hack before midterm elections.

Warner added a caveat: "I don't believe they got into changing actual voting outcomes."

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Pennsylvania GOP asks Supreme Court to halt mail-in ballot extension

Applications for mail-in ballots in Reading, Pennsylvania. Photo: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Republicans in Pennsylvania on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt a major state court ruling that extended the deadlines for mail-in ballots to several days after the election, The Morning Call reports.

Why it matters: It's the first election-related test for the Supreme Court since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and could decide the fate of thousands of ballots in a crucial swing state that President Trump won in 2016. What the court decides could signal how it would deal with similar election-related litigation in other states.

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  1. Global: Total confirmed cases as of 3 p.m. ET: 33,217,895 — Total deaths: 999,273 — Total recoveries: 22,975,269 — Map.
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  3. States: Cuomo extends New York moratorium on evictions until 2021
  4. Business: Companies are still holding back earnings guidance.
  5. Health: The childless vaccine — Why kids get less severe coronavirus infections.
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Democrats on Trump tax story: "This is a national security question"

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that the New York Times report that President Trump has hundreds of millions of dollars in debt coming due within the next four years is a "national security question," and that the public has a "right to know" the details of his financial obligations.

The big picture: Democrats have already leapt on the Times' bombshell, which Trump has dismissed as "total fake news," to attack the president for allegedly paying less in federal income taxes than the average middle-class household.

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