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Maryland Judge Blocks Democrats' Redistricting Amendment From November Ballot, Calls Ballot Wording 'Intentionally Misleading'
A Maryland judge has blocked the Democrats' redistricting constitutional amendment from the November ballot, ruling that the General Assembly violated an election law it had written and...
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A Federal Appeals Court Just Used RFRA to Block ICE at Houses of Worship. A Bush Appointee Joined the Ruling.
A federal appeals court in Richmond has upheld an order barring immigration agents from enforcement actions at a named list of Quaker meetinghouses, a Sacramento gurdwara and...
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Kevin Warsh Never Said "Hike" at Jackson Hole. The Two-Year Treasury Moved 14 Basis Points Anyway, and August Set a Gas Record.
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh told the Kansas City Fed's Jackson Hole symposium Friday that inflation is running 3.7 percent over twelve months and 4.1 percent over...
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Trump Administration Moves Haiti Deportation Flights to Weekly. At 200 Seats a Plane, Clearing the TPS Rolls Takes 32 Years.
The Trump administration is moving deportation flights to Haiti from once a month to once a week, according to internal documents obtained by the New York Times...
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The House Votes This Week on a Stopgap That Cuts Nothing. Mike Johnson Needs About 70 Democrats to Pass It.
The House returns Monday to vote on a stopgap that leaves federal spending exactly where it is through December 11, and Speaker Mike Johnson is bringing it...
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ATF Breach Declared a 'Major Incident.' The Agency Still Won't Say What the Hackers Took.
Hackers breached a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives computer system, and senior Justice Department officials declared it a "major incident." That phrase is a legal...
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Qatar's Sheikh Mohammed Carries the Hormuz Corridor Into Tehran, and Araghchi Answers Trump: 'Pressure Doesn't Work'
A second mediator landed in Tehran on Thursday. Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, spent the day working through the Strait...
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Florida Grand Jury Says the DeSantis Administration Misappropriated $10 Million Meant for Poor Kids' Health Care. Nobody Will Be Charged.
A Leon County grand jury found that the DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million in taxpayer money owed to Florida's poorest sick children, then concluded it could not...
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White House 'Media Offenders' Page Blacklists Apple News, Google and MSN Over an MRC Study. Its Own 620 Figure Is Wrong.
The White House keeps a page on whitehouse.gov that names news organizations as "Media Offenders," and Apple News, Google and MSN are on it. The entry accuses...
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Trump Moves Again to Fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook, and Abbe Lowell Turns the Mortgage Claims on Bessent and Blanche
President Trump is moving to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook a second time, two months after the Supreme Court told him he could not simply order...
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ICE Officer Christian Castro Walks Out of a Texas Jail After Greg Abbott Let Minnesota's 90-Day Extradition Clock Run Out
ICE officer Christian Castro walked out of the Cameron County jail in Brownsville, Texas, shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday, still charged in Minnesota with four felony counts...
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Judge Talwani Blocks Trump's USPS Ballot Mail Rule for 14 Days, One Day After Erasing Her Own Nationwide Injunction
A federal judge in Boston froze the Postal Service's new ballot mail rule for 14 days on Thursday night, 68 days before the midterm election. Judge Indira...