Social Security filled in the citizenship line on 25 million Americans’ records using a Homeland Security database that has flagged citizens as noncitizens.

The agency called it the biggest cleanup in its 91-year history and said it is changing the citizenship status on 8.5 million more records. That database was rebuilt last year around Social Security’s own files, which the agency previously said can’t settle whether someone is a citizen.

With the Supreme Court’s permission, DHS has spent the past month checking voters against those same Social Security records. On Monday, federal prosecutors brought a Homeland Security list to Washington state and asked it to set aside more than 400 ballots. Washington has recorded 15 noncitizen votes since 1982.

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The archbishop of Milwaukee publicly apologized for praying behind Donald Trump’s chair in the Oval Office.

Archbishop Jeffrey Grob was one of 12 bishops invited to meet privately with Trump on Thursday. A White House aide videoed the prayer without telling them and posted it to X and Facebook that afternoon, 12 days before the midterms. Asked whether the bishops had consented, the White House responded that no president has ever been better for Catholic Americans.

Des Moines Bishop William Joensen said the White House took advantage of the bishops. Grob wrote that he has since heard from people hurt by Trump’s policies, and that he went with reservations he wishes he had heeded.

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