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An AP review found that fewer than half of defendants charged with assault were convicted and that all 12 completed felony trials ended without a conviction.
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An AP review found that fewer than half of defendants charged with assault were convicted and that all 12 completed felony trials ended without a conviction.
McClatchy eliminated more than 90 unionized positions across 17 publications, including substantial reductions at the Miami Herald.
County officials redrew precincts after the primary, but the court ruled that the primary and general election use one consistent set of lines.
A unanimous panel ruled that the Energy Department’s last-resort authority did not cover a long-planned power-plant retirement.
A leadership-aligned super PAC entered the Paxton campaign after sitting out the summer, joining Trump- and Musk-backed groups already spending in Texas.
Letters to 29 states and the District of Columbia ordered litigation holds on records that election officials say federal law already requires them to retain.
Jimmy Kimmel withheld his James Talarico interview from television after saying federal equal-time guidance put ABC affiliates at risk.
A three-judge panel kept a block on federal rules that required states to preclear envelopes and upload voter lists to a portal not yet operating.
Only 65 percent of applications were processed on time in July as new federal rules added work to an eligibility system the state says is not struggling.
The president attached a trillion-dollar dividend to the midterm result without legislation, a funding plan or authority to issue it himself.
The prison agency asked lawmakers to cool 15,700 beds while a federal judge considers what the Constitution requires for the rest.
A federal judge permanently blocked the academy’s approval system for professors’ public writing and its restriction on classroom opinions.
Austin and San Antonio say the governor’s competition plan would cost customers more than $1 billion to implement and remove hundreds of millions from city services.
The United States replaced 50 percent duties with a prohibition on Canadian alcohol, whey and large motorcycles, removing the burdensome purchasing decision altogether.
The president proposed ‘New America’ in a series of posts, while the state constitution continued using the name it already has.
The federal civil-rights survey now protects students from troubling information by replacing every relevant figure with an executive-order suppression code.
The Supreme Court cleared party-coordinated ads for candidate discounts just as the midterm spending season began.
A judge declined to pause the dismissals after newsroom leaders gave an approved interview about keeping military journalism free of military control.
The agency hired 12,000 officers in under a year while basic identity, credit and criminal checks struggled to keep their place in line.
A national wastewater survey designed to identify major PFAS dischargers has waited nearly two years for a review that usually takes about 60 days.
The Senate nominee's federal disclosure places his net worth between $1 million and $27 million while leaving voters considerable room to locate the rest.
The governor blocked new state spending. The existing network averaged one search every four seconds and will remain available for legitimate public safety.
Twenty food banks now serve more than four million Texans, while SNAP, which supplies nine meals for every pantry meal, contracts.
The agency responsible for workplace standards documented harassment, personal errands, travel violations and unreported gifts in its own leadership suite.
Six months of fighting have raised the freight economy's principal fuel by 56 percent, a material consequence of an increasingly immaterial noun.
The blanket ban Abbott vetoed is not the rulebook Texas has now. Delta-8 restrictions, licensing fees and another testing dispute are keeping the state busy.
The state's August award snapshot shows 70 percent of the students in its prior-school comparison were already outside public education. An award is not the same as a claimed payment.
ERCOT released provisional classifications September 3 after a delay. Inclusion in its large-load review still comes with conditions, not a blanket green light to connect.
Regents removed more than 200 courses from core requirements across 11 universities. The classes may still be offered, just with less help toward the required checklist.
The city agreed to remove roughly 445 acres from its limits in a deal for up to $220 million from SpaceX. The offer came with a same-day deadline.
The approved November plan has 224 Election Day sites, down from 316 in 2022. Officials say the remaining locations can handle the task.
The Brandon Road carp barrier's stop-work order was lifted after Whitmer called Trump. The administration had halted the work in July.
Trump signed the extension through December 11. The full-year spending decisions will remain available for a post-election reunion.
A judge rejected the forced sale of AdX while accepting most proposed behavioral remedies. Ownership survives the correction.
July's gap rose to $88.6 billion. The year-to-date figure improved, giving the national scoreboard something for every speech.
The state Supreme Court ordered a referendum and restored the 2022 districts for November. The attorney general plans to ask Washington to intervene.
The new proposal would counter Chinese propaganda with paid influencers after the old center was dismantled as a censorship machine.
The first microreactors will supply a fraction of each installation's power while contractors and utilities preserve the necessary connections.
The directed-energy program has now demonstrated that it can defeat hostile aircraft once the owner is correctly identified.
Twenty-three states sued after HHS required applicants and recipients to remain aligned with federal policy priorities.
NORAD safely escorted every aircraft away while reminding pilots that a notice is easier to read before takeoff.
The department denied credentials to reporters from three major financial newsrooms and explained that the choices had nothing to do with point of view.
Initial support could rise to $4,500 per person as South Africans account for more than 99 percent of this year's refugee arrivals.
Past prostitution and employer theft are no longer automatic bars in some cases as the bureau works to replenish its ranks.
A 133-page assessment says the 250-foot structure would adversely affect dozens of landmarks while endorsing its chosen site.
The administration is promoting a national election-security case while state officials wait for evidence and a reproducible method.
Republican candidates prized the president's support in spring. Several discovered independent leadership by summer.
A Texas National Guard veteran accepted an honorable discharge and enhanced separation pay. The discharge arrived first.
An antenna was moved after the president's helicopter came too close to a passenger jet. Controllers lost contact again the day the repair was announced.
Congress preserved NASA's Roman mission through two Trump administrations. The observatory responded by departing early.
A White House aide made $107,539 trading prediction contracts on phrases in speeches he could see before the public.
A judge rejected a nationality-based suspension. Days later, immigrant visa appointments everywhere stopped for staff training.
Ambassador Tilman Fertitta is touring Italy aboard his $450 million yacht. The republic's message now comes with a scuba room.
A judge protected the young man from the Taliban. The administration found a third country and called the itinerary complete.
Commanders warned that the prolonged operation is weakening readiness elsewhere. The Pentagon's paperwork has a box for disagreeing while obeying.
Kristen Welker described a primary record that included wins and losses. The White House identified the missing third result: federal punishment.
Trump praised a network selling gas 40 cents below market. A lawsuit says a distributor behind some of those gallons left nearly $4 million unpaid.
A $1 fee approved to fight catalytic-converter theft funded an AI license-plate network. The governor paused state money as the investigation arrived.
The executive order announced a federal academy. Its operative achievement is a commission with 120 days to propose what establishing one would require.
A federal judge struck down deportation provisions used against noncitizens for protected political speech after student journalists stopped covering protests out of fear.
The administration says the cutting is routine maintenance. The public-course redesign still lacks a final plan, schedule, disclosed cost, and required approvals.
The original military timeline has survived by becoming a ceasefire, a peace memorandum, a blockade, and an open-ended economic campaign.
The agency arrested 49,571 people in July. More than half had no criminal conviction and no pending criminal charge.
A federal settlement reimburses RWE for abandoning offshore wind, then directs most of the money into a gas investment purchased from a donor-led fund.
Bulldozers began clearing land before officials finalized what they planned to build. A court agreement stops the work until September 15.
Trump says the agreement gives America majority control at no taxpayer cost. The oil is real; the terms are not yet public.
Chairman Kevin Warsh says inflation remains too high and that the central bank has work to do if prices do not move faster toward 2 percent.
Two Justice Department officials tried to interview voters and examine tabulators after their notice may have gone to the wrong email address.
A judge found that paying and concealing hush money did not become an official presidential act when discussed inside the White House.
The administration plans to waive processing rules after first trying to lower beef prices with more imported beef.
The no-bid order covers 6,000 pairs designed to gain compliance from detainees and protesters through painful electrical pulses.
A judge said the supply-chain designation was designed to make a public example of an AI company that resisted unrestricted military use.
The Tohono O'odham Nation says masked federal agents blocked tribal police while contractors drilled at three sites.
Economists say correcting that and other assumptions turns the agency's claimed benefit into a $670 billion cost.
The official farewell praised Karoline Leavitt's clarity and preserved remarks including 'What a stupid question' and 'You're kidding, right?'
Officials say European stocks are 'beyond critical,' with limited ability to stop even a stray Russian ballistic missile.
The health secretary told senators his 2019 visit had nothing to do with vaccines. His advance letter proposed studying Samoa's MMR program.
A proposed expansion of semiconductor tariffs could reach computers, game consoles, and data center servers before new American capacity is ready.
Layoffs remain rare and unemployment is low. The arrangement works less well for anyone attempting to obtain a job.
Conservative farmers and environmental groups have found common ground in sending America's AI infrastructure to a neighboring county.
The civilian energy agreement has entered a 90-day review tied to a separate diplomatic breakthrough that has not happened.
Darline Graham defeated a five-term congressman after entering the race as the sitting senator and the late senator's sister.
Lake Ontario sits between New York and Canada. Washington may give the water a new name now that getting along with the other shore has become difficult.
Internal projections show revenue deteriorated after the name appeared. Government lawyers say removing it could leave the building with no choice but to come down.
A judge said the executive branch could not impose the original charge without Congress. The proposed replacement adds $3,265 and a public comment period.
The 90-day tariff holiday is meant to lower grocery prices. Ranchers would prefer the domestic cattle market not be the part that gets cheaper.
The justices lifted the block on his order without deciding whether anything done under it is legal. 'Time will tell,' they wrote, of a midterm two months away.
The administration vowed to cut off every dollar reaching Iran. The clearest result so far is a record $4.11 gallon of gas at home.
A new memorandum sets a target of a thousand annual launches. It does not say who is building, paying for, or catching them.
The stop cited record tax cuts, the most secure border in history, plunging crime, and an emergency waiver for the fuel prices, which are at a record high.
A Fed official said the inflation target is out of reach until the fighting stops. The Fed does not control the fighting.
Section 338 sat untouched for 96 years. It is now the basis for a 50 percent tariff on cut flowers, school supplies, and a neighbor.
The State Department suspended visas for 75 countries to keep out people who could someday need public benefits. A court found the theory nowhere in the law.
The figure doubled in under a decade and arrived months earlier than forecast. Nobody has decided whether the speed is the good news or the bad.
A think tank found the National Guard surge had no measurable effect on violent crime. The reply was a demand to retract by Friday, or pay.
Heidi Overton would run the FDA weeks after co-signing an order that cut the childhood vaccine schedule with no new data behind it.
Palm Beach County records show the president voted by mail in Florida's primary, five months after he signed an order making mail voting harder for everyone else.
The department will deploy more election observers than any administration on record. Officials emphasize the monitors will watch the process, which this year prominently includes the voters.
A federal judge blocked the plan to relocate FBI headquarters to a Washington office building, finding the administration illegally diverted money Congress had set aside for a new Maryland campus.
Oman is close to a deal with Iran to keep ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz. For this, the president has now twice threatened to bomb Oman.
World Liberty Financial, 38 percent owned by the family, is helping sell access to models built by firms the Pentagon lists as military-affiliated. Customers can pay in the family's own coin.
The chamber confirmed an attorney general, advanced Russia sanctions and approved stopgap funding. Elements of the proof-of-citizenship proposal were deferred until September.
The administration calls it election security. The court says the executive branch cannot regulate elections with fewer than 90 days to go.
The service sells traders access to presidential policy posts milliseconds before the public. The company calls that an industry standard; plaintiffs call it unconstitutional.
The termination emails said 'changing priorities.' The new priority appears to be flattering angles.
You paid them to scan you. You also framed it.
The Trump Organization says it will take no royalty on the renaming, and has chosen a dignified silence on the flight suits.
The map now shows a different name depending on which country you're standing in.
The Pentagon discharges thousands of soldiers who passed every test, citing the danger of them being too prepared.
It rolls back a water-efficiency rule and promotes a years-long presidential grievance to federal policy.
'The system is working exactly as designed,' says the agency now detaining a bronze statue of Paul Revere.
'They break, they explode,' the president explained, of straws.
The order's symbolic half declares that America speaks English. Its operational half quietly revokes help for the Americans who don't.
The move saves about $56 million a year. It only took nineteen years of losing money on the coin to stop making the coin.
Sovereign wealth funds are built from money left over. The U.S. runs a deficit.
He had himself installed as chairman, then his name appeared on the building. A judge has now taken it back off.