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DOJ Calls the OpenAI Bugging Case "National Security." The Charge Is a Five-Year Wiretap Count, and No Foreign Government Is Named.
The Justice Department says the arrest of an OpenAI engineer for hiding a recorder in an executive conference room is "a matter of national security." The charge...
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Supreme Court Freezes the Fight Over GOP's Discounted TV Ads Through Election Day, and the FCC's Own Defense Is That Nothing Changed
The Supreme Court on Wednesday froze a Fourth Circuit order that would have forced the FCC to rule on discounted TV ad rates for Republican party committees...
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Inflation Hits 3.7% as Gasoline Jumps 9.1% in a Month. Hassett Calls It 'Temporary,' but Real Wages Fell 0.5%
Consumer prices rose 3.7% in September from a year ago, up from 3.4% in August, and gasoline did most of the damage. The Labor Department says a...
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El Salvador's Protected Status Expired Sept. 9 With No Decision. Federal Law Already Wrote the Default.
Temporary Protected Status for about 200,000 Salvadorans hit its Sept. 9 expiration date with no decision from the Trump administration. Politico reported that DHS had already approved...
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ABC Got Its Trump Sons Story Wrong. Now Carr's FCC Is Reportedly Probing It While a Judge Weighs ABC's Retaliation Claim
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has reportedly opened an investigation into ABC News over its deleted story on the Trump sons and Anduril, and ABC's own editor's note...
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Pastor Jailed After China Claimed a D.C. Sidewalk, but Even China's Embassy Sits on U.S.-Owned Land
A Christian pastor who prayed outside China's embassy in Washington spent five hours in a holding cell after Chinese diplomats told the Secret Service the sidewalk "belongs...
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Before Hasan Faces a Firing Squad, Remember What the Senate Found: Colleagues Called Him a "Ticking Time Bomb"
Nidal Hasan is set to face an Army firing squad at Fort Hood on Dec. 3, and Washington is now arguing over whether the public should get...
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Trump's Russian Diesel Deal Adds Up to About Nine Days of U.S. Demand
President Trump's Russian diesel deal, all 4.8 million tons of it, works out to about nine days of what America burns, by our math from federal data....
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Ilhan Omar Raid: Why Her Late Father's Paperwork Could Still Cost Her Citizenship
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home Monday in a criminal probe that sources say centers on immigration paperwork her late father filled out. Omar calls...
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Lansing Seated Two Democrats for Every Republican at the Polls. Michigan's Deadline to Fix It for November Is Today.
Lansing, Michigan put 140 Democrats and 71 Republicans to work at its Election Day polling places in August, and the Republican Party has now sued to force...
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Judge Pulls Trump's DHS Ads on Their Last Night, and the Court Record Shows CNN Was on the Buy List
A Biden-appointed federal judge ordered the Trump administration Sunday night to pull its $20 million Homeland Security TV ads, effective at 6:45 p.m. on what the government...
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Hawley Asks Whether FDA's Abortion Pill Study Skips the Mail-Order Years
Sen. Josh Hawley wants to know whether the FDA's abortion pill safety study is looking at the right years. In a letter sent Friday, he warned that...