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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Prosecutors say Alexander Suvorov, 52, used Hong Kong front companies to buy American parts for end users in Russia. He faces three conspiracy charges in Albany and has denied the allegations, Swedish broadcaster TV4 reported.
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Both cities' ordinances cover federal agents as well as local police and require visible identification. The department says the Constitution's Supremacy Clause bars cities from regulating federal law enforcement.
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The suit, filed in Los Angeles after a 48-hour federal deadline passed, asks a judge to keep those mail ballots from being counted until citizenship is confirmed. State officials call the claims unsubstantiated and vow to fight it.
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A federal jury convicted Brett Blackman in May on three conspiracy counts tied to DMERx, an online platform that produced false doctors' orders. Medicare and other insurers paid more than $450 million on the claims, prosecutors said.
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The ATF-led operation, which began in mid-August, also seized 81 kilograms of drugs and more than $1.25 million in cash. A top Justice Department official said most of those arrested already had outstanding warrants.
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Regulators say Spain turned away U.S.-flagged cargo ships the government keeps on call for emergencies. Limits on Spanish olive oil, perfume and ceramics are also proposed, and Madrid says it will respond with the EU.
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NBC News, CBS News and Fox News reported the seizure Wednesday. About a dozen subpoenas have gone out in the immigration inquiry, and Omar, who denies wrongdoing, has not been charged.
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A 9th Circuit panel ordered a preliminary injunction keeping California from enforcing its identification mandate, ruling that a state cannot directly regulate federal operations.
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The justices stayed an appeals court order that would have forced a fast FCC ruling, leaving lower broadcast rates for party committees in use for the Nov. 3 midterms.
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The department's acting No. 2 official asked state and Los Angeles County officials to set aside the ballots of anyone on a federal list whose citizenship cannot be confirmed, warning of emergency court action.
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An interim rule that took effect Wednesday gives about 8,200 facilities, suppliers and carbon dioxide injection sites until March 10 to file reports first due last March, as the agency weighs ending most reporting.
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The rule took effect Wednesday. It adopts, with one change for mail delays, the interim procedures under which the Homeland Security Department says it issued about 176,000 penalties through mid-September.
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Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming pleaded guilty in 2022 to a Clean Air Act conspiracy over emissions equipment removed from diesel vehicles. Trump has issued more than two dozen earlier clemency grants in Clean Air Act cases.
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The New York Times reported that one of the Minnesota Democrat's sisters received a subpoena, and Fox News said subpoenas went to multiple family members. Omar denies wrongdoing, and earlier federal inquiries brought no charges.
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Prosecutors say Abdulrahman Alfozan concealed an encrypted recorder in a San Francisco room used for confidential meetings. His lawyer says he is presumed innocent, and OpenAI says it has seen no sign he took source code or customer data.
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The U.S. attorney in Washington confirmed the inquiry a day after federal agents searched the Minnesota Democrat's home. A House watchdog recommended in September that ethics allegations over the same filings be dismissed.
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The nation's second-largest bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act, and regulators said it failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions on time.
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The second year of the White House contest for K-12 students and teachers carries the administration's new name for the technology, and whole schools can now earn recognition from the first lady.
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Prosecutors say one scheme put North Korean workers in remote jobs at more than 70 U.S. companies, and an FBI operation that reached more than 40 suspected laptop farms in Texas seized about 187 devices.
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The agency and seven states say the former drug executive has traded shares of at least 60 pharmaceutical companies since leaving prison, and they want him to sell the stock and give up the profits.
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CVS says the deal admits no wrongdoing and disputes the government's claims that it filled opioid prescriptions lacking a legitimate medical purpose and billed federal health programs for many of them.
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A final rule due in Tuesday's Federal Register adds three years to the filing deadline and removes climate change and environmental justice language from the 2024 requirements.
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The Justice Department said Homeland Security Investigations executed a court-authorized warrant. Sources told ABC News and Fox News the inquiry involves the Minnesota Democrat's immigration paperwork.
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Prosecutors say the Colombian businessman, indicted with Maduro ally Alex Saab in 2019, moved money from Venezuelan food and housing contracts through U.S. banks. He is due in federal court in South Florida on Tuesday.
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Bailey, the deputy who has handled the Senate for the White House, becomes the administration's chief liaison to Congress less than a month before elections that will decide control of both chambers.
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Central Command said the Panama-flagged Ocean Molica had left an Iranian port and ignored repeated warnings, and that its crew was unharmed. The command counts four commercial vessels disabled since the blockade resumed in July.
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The department told ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox News it is examining their September pause in pooled coverage, which followed CNN's removal from the rotation. It says it is only investigating, and no case has been filed.
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The agency is replacing a July proposal with a notice built on new HHS limits, and a temporary order could follow 30 days after publication. The limits aim to leave products with only trace amounts outside Schedule I.
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An inspector general's audit finds that California Volunteers and three of seven audited recipients did not follow federal grant rules. The state agency disputes the questioned costs and wants the report retracted.
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The FBI has not named the suspect or disclosed charges. Sources cited by The New York Times and CBS News describe a Canadian citizen held in Pennsylvania, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it is aware of the arrest.
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The conservative commentator, an adviser at the company behind Truth Social, takes over a briefing room that has gone more than a month without a formal briefing. It is not yet clear when she will start.
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A new Treasury license lets Russian diesel be sold and shipped, including into the United States. Trump says Moscow will deliver millions of tons, but the White House did not immediately say who is paying or when the fuel will arrive.
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A panel of three executive branch officials will tell Trump whether it finds cause to remove Cook over mortgage allegations she denies. Her lawyers voiced grave doubts about the process but said she welcomes a chance to clear her name.
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Treasury added the Hague tribunal to its sanctions list Friday and issued licenses for some dealings. Rubio told allies to rein in the court, and its deputy prosecutor said the work would go on.
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Draft guidance released Thursday says the agency would not enforce any of the rule's requirements against retailers and restaurants averaging $250,000 to $1 million a year in food sales.
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A superseding indictment unsealed in Manhattan accuses the deposed Venezuelan president and his wife of overseeing the torture of political opponents and detained Americans. Maduro's lawyer says he denies the charges.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the public will be able to watch the execution of the 2009 Fort Hood gunman. Hasan's longtime lawyer says a federal court challenge that could delay it is possible.
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The Missile Defense Agency award, announced Thursday, carries a $4.4 billion base value and covers production and sustainment of an interceptor the Pentagon wants built faster as it rebuilds missile defense stocks.
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Nvidia, AMD and OpenAI top a list of eleven companies offering computing credits and research tools for federal science, part of a package the White House puts at more than $6 billion.
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The Justice Department says the tools scanned a South Carolina power company and airports in Japan and Poland, as cyber agencies from seven countries issued a joint warning about the China-based company.
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The complaint names Mayor Mike Johnston, the city attorney and the police chief, and argues that a city has no authority to set rules for what federal officers wear or how they identify themselves.
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The Trump administration's trade office opened a public docket on the European Union's carbon border adjustment mechanism as EU institutions negotiate an extension that could cover hundreds more steel- and aluminum-intensive goods.
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The Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act, sponsored by Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, directs the White House budget office to publish a yearly report on projects at least $1 billion over their original estimates or more than five years late.
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Prosecutors say Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud planned an Oct. 24 shooting at the Bloomington mall. Agents arrested him Tuesday after he bought a rifle from an undercover FBI agent in a sale an informant arranged.
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Prosecutors say the three-month Johnson County investigation, carried out with state and federal agencies, also identified 31 potential victims. More enforcement actions could follow, they said.
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A new memorandum announced by the State Department aims to strengthen counterterrorism information sharing between U.S. and Greek law enforcement. Athens said it could offer naval help in Hormuz under a viable peace process.
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Federal civil rights officials will examine whether New York City's public schools and Colorado's Jeffco district handled allegations against employees as the law requires. Districts in six other states face similar reviews.
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James Cody Bryant, 30, was arrested in Bellingham on a charge of conspiracy to murder persons in a foreign country. Prosecutors say Bryant advised the shooter, sent money and agreed to stream the February attack that killed eight people.
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The Oct. 5 agreement expands the departments' cooperation on markets for feed, fertilizer, fuel, seed, equipment and pesticides. USDA paired it with a two-year program to sequence the plant collections in its gene banks.
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A former Georgia resident faces two felony counts of terroristic threats over an Instagram message that threatened the congressman and his son-in-law. He was taken into custody Friday near Buffalo.
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The White House and Anduril unveiled the plan Tuesday ahead of a visit by President Trump. The yard at the old Bethlehem Steel site would start with torpedo tubes for Virginia-class submarines, with initial operations expected in 2030.
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The all-cash deal, valued at $81 billion before debt and nearly $111 billion with it, puts CNN, CBS, HBO and two of America's oldest film studios under David Ellison's control.
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Insurers and employer plans will post leaner rate files each quarter, disclose more out-of-network prices and put a senior official's name behind the numbers.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recommended death by firing squad for the former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people in 2009. The Army secretary will set the time and place, though a habeas appeal could delay it for years.
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Prosecutors say Wanying Zhang, 34, watched relatives of a senior Taiwanese official near Seattle last year and passed photos, video and license plate numbers to Chinese officials. Taipei called it transnational repression.
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The civil complaints, which the department calls its largest batch under President Trump, include one against a former Navy sailor sentenced to prison for spying for China.
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Records released by a White House task force describe a 2023 pen register on the future chief of staff's phone and show Merrick Garland approved opening the inquiry in 2022 at the FBI's request.
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The Education and Justice departments say district rules keeping a student's gender identity from parents violate two federal privacy laws. They also warned every state attorney general that the laws' funding conditions are nonnegotiable.
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A report released Monday says the memo went out despite internal objections. Parents who were subjects of FBI assessments under it may review them, and the department will apologize where it finds rights were violated.
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Moro cleared the runoff threshold by about 6,800 votes, and Deltan Dallagnol, who led the investigation's prosecutors, won a Senate seat whose validity still rests with the electoral court.
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The party of Jair and Flávio Bolsonaro is on course for 121 of the 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, up from 98 and above the top of a closely watched pre-election projection.
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The governor won 62.65 percent of valid votes against Fernando Haddad, settling the race in one round, and vowed to make Brazil's largest electorate decisive for Flávio Bolsonaro in the Oct. 25 presidential runoff.
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The Liberal Party won at least 19 of the 54 seats on Sunday's ballot, more than any rival, and is on course to hold more than a third of the 81-member chamber when the new Senate is seated in February.
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The right-wing senator outran pre-election polls and finished more than 2 million votes ahead of the incumbent, but neither candidate won the majority needed to avoid a second round.
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The new "Super Intelligence Force" will coordinate federal outreach to consumers, religious groups and AI companies and answer to Trump and his chief of staff, days after top AI firms signed a voluntary safety pledge.
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FBI affidavits allege the three separately posted threats on TikTok and X before the president's Oct. 2 campus appearance. A federal magistrate judge ordered them held until detention hearings on Monday.
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The one-time payments will come from a Medicare fund that Congress created in 2008 and that the White House says has never paid out. Most recipients should see direct deposits in early October.
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A Miami jury convicted the Florida Republican in May of failing to register as a foreign agent and conspiring to launder money, in a case built around a $50 million contract tied to Venezuela's state oil company.
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Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre faces fraud, money laundering and terrorism-support conspiracy charges in a case prosecutors tie to the Tren de Aragua gang.
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A federal jury in Utica, N.Y., found a New Jersey woman and her Colombian husband guilty of using stolen identities to collect transit and homeless-aid grants for services their nonprofit never provided.
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Leaders meeting by video under France's G7 presidency agreed to release stocks over four months, with substantial diesel in the first 20 days, after the Trump administration pressed Europe to tap its reserves.
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The determination, signed Sept. 25 and published Friday, starts the fiscal year at a level reached only after a May emergency increase and keeps the broader suspension of refugee admissions in place.
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The Treasury Department and the IRS issued proposed and temporary rules for the Education Freedom Tax Credit, which starts Jan. 1. Married couples could claim up to $3,400, and states have until New Year's Day to opt in.
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Secretary Markwayne Mullin's determination, effective Friday, reaches well drilling for border barriers and roads. New Mexico sued in August over wells it says were drilled without state permits.
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Federal civil rights officials say the school turned away white and Asian applicants with the same LSAT scores as admitted Black and Hispanic students. The law school calls its process merit-based.
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Prosecutors say the owner of a City of Industry computer company used false paperwork and transit points such as Malaysia and Singapore to move high-end servers with U.S.-made graphics chips to buyers in China.
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Prosecutors say the Richland, Washington, man used an official passport to enter Yemen, bought explosive precursors and drone parts, and gave technical help to an FBI informant claiming to work for a Houthi colonel.
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Prosecutors say the 41-year-old hounded the conservative podcaster with dozens of disturbing calls, texts and voicemails and sent messages to her parents. The case had already stirred upheaval in the FBI's Washington field office.
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The department also opened Iran's auto and rail industries to penalties against anyone operating in them and blacklisted parts suppliers in Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Hong Kong.
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Treasury's financial crimes bureau also proposed barring fund transfers involving the network's sub-agents, companies the department says moved money for Russian sanctions evaders and Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
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The suit, filed the day a state law on officers' face coverings and identification took effect, also targets Prince George's and Montgomery counties and argues that states and localities have no authority to regulate federal officers.
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The 47-41 vote, the chamber's last before senators left Washington to campaign, puts President Trump's pick formally in charge of a Labor Department he has run on an acting basis since April.
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Prosecutors say the 10 lawful permanent residents voted as noncitizens or falsely claimed citizenship to vote between 2022 and this August's primary. Minnesota's secretary of state said the cases show such voting is vanishingly rare.
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Trump called the day "a decisive victory over ISIS." The Pentagon said primary responsibility for Iraq's remaining security challenges now rests with Baghdad, and the anti-ISIS task force has moved to Jordan.
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Seoul has finalized the Texas plant, which it will fully finance. A framework for up to eight nuclear reactors and possible South Korean participation in the Alaska LNG pipeline still face further review.
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Project Meridian's findings are due in late January, and the department aims to stand up the new four-star command by Oct. 1, 2027. Musk's SpaceX and Luckey's Anduril already hold large Pentagon contracts.
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The new tally, up from more than 175,000 in August, includes 2,300 visas pulled over birth tourism. The numbers are the department's own, and a revoked visa is not the same as a deportation.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the filing, which asks the Eighth Circuit to investigate and to order the judges off Homeland Security cases. A court spokeswoman said the judges acted within ethics rules.
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The 12-11 party-line vote sends the radiologist's nomination to the full Senate. At her hearing she called the MMR vaccine the greatest tool against measles and said she does not believe childhood vaccines cause autism.
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Pentagon officials say the services must finish the reductions by Jan. 1, 2027. Sen. Jack Reed, the Senate Armed Services Committee's top Democrat, said removing senior leaders now would add strain and disrupt command.
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