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A three-page filing, unsealed Oct. 26, charges James Comey with transmitting national defense information, but it cannot support an arrest or trial. Whether it stopped the 10-year clock is now up to Judge Trevor McFadden.

The full Fifth Circuit ruled on Oct. 23 that three men held without bond have no Fifth Amendment right to a hearing. Whether that matters turns on Rhoney v. Barbosa da Cunha, the Supreme Court case on what the statute itself requires.

The Senate Finance Committee's file for Wyden's data center package is a discussion draft with the key numbers missing. Meta's 2% tax rate comes from a different break entirely.

A federal judge's preliminary injunction limits DHS field interviews likely to reach U.S. citizens in nine states through Nov. 3, but it is stayed until 5 p.m. Friday and leaves lawful investigations open.

Zelenskyy says the US sends 12 Patriot interceptors a month and is sitting on paid-for ones. The record shows who must approve, what the numbers are, and what no one has said on the record.

Polls open at 9 a.m. in Edmonton on Monday, Oct. 19, and no result exists yet. The separation question asks only whether to start a legal process, and it is the four constitutional questions on the same ballot that bind the government by statute.

The law's only congressional review and disapproval vote applies to ending sanctions, not waiving them. Here is what the Oct. 16 order switched off, what stays in force and who it spares.

The 15-page complaint asks a federal judge to order California to hold mail ballots on a list state and county officials say they could not review, with no verification process and no end date, as counting runs to Dec. 3 and certification to Dec. 11.

Judge Vince Chhabria kept Congress's ban on reprogramming money for relocations and struck the committee-approval escape hatch, so the Forest Service's Salt Lake City move now needs an act of Congress. The Dec. 11 stopgap is the first bill that could renew or lift it.

PJM's market monitor ties $29.4 billion in capacity costs to data centers, and several battlegrounds on its grid saw some of this year's sharpest home power price increases. No candidate's fix touches costs locked in through May 2028.

In 1981 CNN sued ABC, CBS, NBC and the Reagan White House to get into the White House TV pool. Now the Justice Department is demanding the five pool networks' internal messages about their four-day halt in covering Trump, on a theory the Supreme Court's own boycott cases make hard to win.

Treasury's new diesel license runs 180 days with no tonnage, price or loading cutoff. How much fuel actually moves is decided by Russia's own export ban and by refineries Ukraine keeps hitting.

H-1B status is untouched, but the green-card line now stalls at different points. The extension clock still counts from when a PERM was filed, while certified cases face a 180-day deadline to reach USCIS.

DHS's own math charges even STEM extensions the full $70,000 in the rule's first year, and every dollar of the estimated $12.4 billion a year would go to the general Treasury, not ICE.

Congress moved the fiscal year to October 1 in 1974 to buy itself three more months. Fiscal 2027 began this month on a stopgap anyway.

A government shutdown doesn't switch off the federal government. It switches off only the parts Congress funds one year at a time.

The House and Senate funded the government a month early this year, but the fix was the same one Congress has used 141 times since 1998: a continuing resolution, not a budget.

Virginia, New Jersey, Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi elect governors on a calendar built, in part, to keep the electorate smaller. It still does.

No seniority, no vote, just a numbered chip pulled from a wooden box. That's how the House has decided which freshmen get a good office since 1908, and this November's class draws again.

The Federal Reserve Act lets a president remove a governor only "for cause." That standard, paired with 14-year staggered terms, is why Trump's second attempt to oust Lisa Cook faces the same wall as his first.