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Overnight: Supreme Court guts a key Voting Rights Act protection in Louisiana v. Callais; House clears DHS funding to end an 11-week shutdown; SDNY indicts a sitting Mexican governor; Trump…
Today's afternoon briefing: a federal grand jury indicts former FBI Director James Comey, the Pentagon defends its largest peacetime budget request, and the US-Iran ceasefire creaks under strain as CENTCOM…
The week ending April 30, 2026 produced an unusually heavy slate of think tank output across the political spectrum, with the ongoing Iran war driving much of the foreign-policy commentary…
Federal watchdogs delivered a heavy week of findings between April 23 and April 30, with the Department of Justice’s Inspector General opening a politically sensitive review of the Epstein Files…
GAO finds $186 billion in improper FY2025 federal payments; HHS-OIG flags Medicare virtual check-in errors; OpenTheBooks documents $93B end-of-year Pentagon spending; ProPublica-FRONTLINE finds collapsed prosecutions of anti-ICE protesters.
FY 2027 appropriations advance in the House, the Senate adopts a 50-48 budget resolution amid the DHS funding standoff, CBO scores H.R. 8290 and H.R. 7723, a bipartisan TRIA reauthorization…
Federal court filings document a cascade of unpaid defamation awards, a default judgment for FedEx, daily contempt fines from a Trump-appointed judge, and merchant cash advances at interest rates topping…
Defense Secretary Hegseth defends a $1.5 trillion FY27 Pentagon request before Senate Armed Services as the Senate tees up cloture on en bloc nominations and a three-year FISA Section 702…
Purdue Pharma's $5 billion sentence headlines a busy week of federal enforcement, alongside a 276-arrest scam-center takedown, an insider-trading case against a Special Forces soldier, and major fraud, corruption and…
Daily TIJ digest of the Federal Register: OCC preemption of Illinois interchange law, USCIS fee codification under H.R.1, Treasury's paper-check phase-out, HUD HOME delay, Proclamation 11021 tariff corrections, EPA Maryland…