The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge rose 0.5% in September and 3.6% from a year earlier, complicating President Donald Trump’s economic message days before the 2026 midterm elections.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, the Joint Staff’s top strategy and planning officer, as President Donald Trump considers renewed military action against Iran.
Judge David O. Carter rejected the Trump administration’s emergency request to segregate about 20,000 California mail ballots, finding its evidence unreliable and warning of voter disenfranchisement.
Trump called for Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola to be prosecuted after a report linked campaign aides to recruiting a second Dan Sullivan for Alaska’s ballot; no criminal charge has been announced.
Trump declared imported robotics and industrial machinery a national-security concern and ordered trade negotiations, but his proclamation imposed no immediate tariffs or quotas.
HHS directed the FDA to temporarily refrain from enforcement against qualifying pharmacies that compound six unapproved peptides while the agency considers a formal rule change.
A federal judge temporarily stayed a $20 million funding decision and ordered two Trump administration agencies to stop developing, airing and distributing five taxpayer-funded advertisements.
A Reuters investigation found that the Trump administration issued more than 100 subpoenas for voter records in at least 12 states, expanding a noncitizen-voting campaign days before the November 3 midterms.
Flávio Bolsonaro and his family landed in Miami after Trump approved his entry and U.S. officials said they would receive visas, resolving earlier uncertainty about the defeated Brazilian candidate’s destination.
Trump said he would approve Flávio Bolsonaro entering the United States, while U.S. officials said visas would be issued and Argentine authorities reported the defeated Brazilian candidate was flying to Ecuador.
A coalition of 21 attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia sued to block a Trump administration rule that exempts nearly all companies from federal beneficial-ownership reporting requirements.
President Donald Trump conditioned his commitment to respect the November 3 midterm results on the elections being ‘honest,’ after discussing how he might work with a Democratic-controlled Congress.
