The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from Fulton County, Georgia, the latest push in the Trump administration’s unprecedented reinvestigation of the 2020 vote. The effort, according to internal communications reviewed by ProPublica and an agency tech specialist familiar with…
A federal judge in Georgia ruled Wednesday that the federal government did not have to return 2020 election records seized by the F.B.I., rejecting a request from Fulton County that the materials be returned. After F.B.I. agents carried out an extraordinary seizure of about 660 boxes of records from Fulton County’s elections hub, county officials…
Pakistan said Monday that it had helped transfer 22 crew members from an Iranian ship, describing the move as a “confidence-building measure” coordinated with the United States and Iran. Pakistan’s foreign ministry said the crew, who had been held aboard the MV Touska after its capture by the U.S. Navy, were flown to Pakistan on…
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