The rejection demonstrates the department’s harried push to prove President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of rampant voter fraud.

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Rejecting President Trump’s election denial playbook, nationalist leaders in Serbia and Hungary opted for an orderly retreat.

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The president will make his closing arguments before the midterm elections at a landmark that came to symbolize his administration’s dysfunction.

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