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The acting deputy attorney general pressed county and state officials to reconsider their refusal to set aside the ballots and warned that knowingly counting them risks aiding a federal crime. Officials say the list came without evidence.
World
The executive order sets the law's tariffs on Russia and on top buyers of its oil and gas, then waives them along with most of its new sanctions, while leaving earlier Russia sanctions in place.
4 min readLaw
Prosecutors allege Jamar Geeter, already serving 97 years in California, used contraband phones behind bars for part of a scheme to force three minors and a woman into commercial sex. The FBI says all four were rescued.
3 min readLaw
Ygor Fokin Saviolli was the last of six defendants sentenced in a scheme that ran drug cash through U.S. banks. Treasury has tied the network to the PCC, a Brazil-based gang it calls Latin America's largest.
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U.S.
The temporary restriction, which took effect Friday, reaches from the ground to 400 feet across the first nautical mile north of the border. The agencies have not said how long it will last.
3 min readU.S.
Preliminary Homeland Security figures put the first full fiscal year of President Trump's second term 95% below the Biden-era annual average, with no Border Patrol releases.
3 min readLaw
Prosecutors say Manjit Singh Bedi fled to India within a week of pleading not guilty in April. He was turned over to federal agents this week, and the government will ask a judge to hold him until trial.
3 min readLaw
A voluntary disclosure to the Fraud Division's health care section now earns the benefits of both agencies' programs, but a report made only to the HHS inspector general generally will not count with prosecutors.
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A civil complaint says San Diego-based REPS & Company spent more than $1.3 billion on tickets to at least 83,500 events since 2022 and cleared at least $120.8 million reselling them.
5 min readEconomy
The Retire through Ownership Act, which passed the Senate unanimously and the House 401-14, lets trustees of employee stock ownership plans rely in good faith on independent appraisals of privately held shares.
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