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California’s attorney general said Fidelity Digital Asset Services agreed to pay $500,000 after complaints that customers were blocked from fully accessing crypto holdings. The case fits a broader consumer-protection push against platforms that promise control while quietly limi…
Anti-Trump organizers staged rallies across the country Saturday to boost early voting and turn backlash into ballots, a sign that opposition to the administration is becoming a turnout operation, not just a protest mood.
A senator said the White House had reached an agreement to ease sanctions on Russian oil, triggering immediate criticism that the move helps Moscow more than American consumers.
HHS pushed a new “Real Food” promotional event on October 16, another reminder that the department is still mixing public health with branding exercises. The substance is thin, the messaging is loud, and the contrast between policy work and spectacle is doing most of the talking.
The Justice Department announced a settlement with Lexington, Mississippi, tied to alleged unlawful police practices.
A federal complaint filed on October 15 and surfaced in the docket on October 16 adds new factual claims about how California handled voter registration and ballot mailing. The filing is the kind of document that can move a case from accusation to immediate litigation consequenc…
A bicameral group of lawmakers is accusing the Education Department of illegally redirecting money away from minority-serving institutions, calling the move a political stunt dressed up as support for historically Black colleges and tribal schools.
The White House put a new Russia sanctions package on ice just after Trump signed it, triggering a bipartisan recoil and inviting the obvious question: why back a hard-line bill only to suspend it days later?
Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs side introduced legislation to block what they describe as Trump’s Russia diesel deal. The measure is both substantive and deeply political: it turns a foreign-policy dispute into a legislative attack on the administration’s handling of Rus…
The Civil Rights Division opened a new investigation into whether Pennsauken is dragging its feet on firearm permits so badly that it amounts to a constitutional violation. It’s another example of the department using civil-rights tools to police local gun policy.
Federal prosecutors in New York said five noncitizens were arrested on voter-fraud charges. The allegations are still just allegations, but the timing and volume of the announcement fit neatly into the administration’s broader push to portray election fraud as a live national th…
OSHA said six construction employers in New York and New Jersey exposed workers to safety hazards and piled up nearly $650,000 in proposed penalties. This is a concrete enforcement action, not a stale reminder that construction can be dangerous. It also underlines how often work…
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