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investigation
A live North Carolina outlet and a One Nation-branded Michigan staging build complete an eight-state footprint matching Senate Leadership Fund's $342 million map. Five previously reported properties also carry 14 articles dated before their domains were registered.
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Three states vote on the same day, but their rules, deadlines and stakes are not interchangeable.
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Wisconsin and Michigan produced razor-thin outcomes. Reading them responsibly requires more than sorting a spreadsheet.
analysis
Michigan and Minnesota moved left in marquee Senate races. Wisconsin and Connecticut showed why that is not the whole story.
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America's decentralized election system produces many official records—but no single official national results feed.
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Budgets, vetoes, appointments and election administration make the 2026 governor contests about far more than party scorekeeping.
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Ten House incumbents had already lost by August 11, but the defeats do not add up to one simple anti-establishment wave.
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A first-place finish can still lead to a second election—with a smaller electorate and a different campaign.
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Open-seat victories in Michigan and Minnesota clarified two major contests, while late primaries and a South Carolina runoff leave part of the field unsettled.
analysis
The president helped defeat Republican critics, but losses in governor races expose the limits of treating every endorsement as an equal test.
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Most of the midterm field is set, but late primaries and runoffs will keep shaping the November ballot into September—and Louisiana will wait even longer.
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Schools, nonprofits, municipalities and community groups could request educational presentations through a voluntary form estimated at 10 minutes per response.
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The unfinalized proposal covered state reporting on out-of-home care, adoption and guardianship and related penalty rules; its withdrawal takes effect Aug. 12.
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Starting Sept. 2, most new probationary-termination, suitability and reduction-in-force appeals move out of the Merit Systems Protection Board, while earlier matters and Foreign Service RIF cases remain.
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The direct final rule also aligns advisory-committee terminology and codifies security-eligibility criteria; it takes effect Oct. 26 unless significant adverse comments prompt withdrawal.
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The direct final rule revises proprietary-information affidavits, post-promulgation comments, advisory-committee terms and security-eligibility criteria unless adverse comments trigger withdrawal.
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Beginning Sept. 10, pending individually owned applicants must establish social disadvantage without the former rebuttable presumption; already certified participants are not required to requalify.
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A July executive order says most waivers under a defense sourcing law must stop in 2027 unless contractors submit an accepted mitigation plan.
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The department says its civil-rights office will focus Title VI enforcement on intentional discrimination while retaining a complaint process.
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The agency compared a $30.3 trillion projected OASI shortfall with $55 trillion in top-1% wealth, warning that design and behavior would sharply reduce collections.
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Treasury closed four priority items since August 2025, but auditors still flag improper payments, cybersecurity and federal financial management.
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The shortfall for the first 10 months of fiscal 2026 was $169 billion larger than a year earlier as outlays grew faster than revenues.
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The office expects the ratio of people ages 25–64 to those 65 and older to fall from 2.7 to 2.2 over three decades.
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The watchdog says stronger eligibility checks could prevent up to $1 billion a year in health-benefit improper payments, alongside IT and workforce reforms.
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Over 2027 through 2036, the request would add $2.4 trillion in defense discretionary outlays and cut $2.6 trillion in nondefense discretionary spending.
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CBO says highway, aviation, tobacco and alcohol, and stock-buyback taxes produced 88% of 2025 receipts.
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The request included $113 billion from the 2025 reconciliation law, and CBO says the funding mix makes enduring costs harder to project.
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The budget method projects $15.3 billion in lifetime savings, while a fair-value method that accounts for market risk projects a $51.9 billion cost.
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Fifty-three open matters could produce financial benefits, GAO says, including 13 with at least $1 billion in potential savings each.
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Revenues rose 4% in the first nine months of fiscal 2026, but a 3% increase in outlays left the cumulative deficit $35 billion above the prior-year period.
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GAO says more than 20,000 congressionally directed projects were funded in fiscal years 2022–2024, while recipients and agencies reported implementation challenges.
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GAO reviewed 311 commitments and found recurring delays, fragmented public access and incomplete procedures under the amended Case-Zablocki Act.
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A review of 21 large-project mission statements found the majority named a preferred approach before a full comparison of alternatives.
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The Federal Reserve, FDIC and OCC lack documented procedures and cannot clearly connect long-cycle paperwork reviews to later regulatory changes, the watchdog found.
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CBO expects annual support to reach 8.4% of GDP by 2036 while the uninsured population rises from 30 million to 37 million.
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The audit covers 467 proposed and final regulations and finds no policy for mass AI-assisted submissions, limited virtual hearings and gaps in documenting public input.
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The bill would reduce budget-resolution levels for long-unauthorized programs, but CBO says appropriations decisions still control actual spending.
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The watchdog says managers too often track spending and service counts without clear goals, outcome data or evaluations that can isolate a program’s effect.
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Debt held by the public reached about $31.3 trillion in April, while net interest exceeded national-defense spending in fiscal 2025.
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GAO’s annual review finds that programs on the five-year rapid pathway often begin with immature technology, while major milestones continue to slip.
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The watchdog’s 16-year scorecard credits past congressional and agency action with $774.3 billion in benefits while tracking 610 unfinished items.
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More than half of departing employees had at least 11 years of service. The watchdog says missing agency records prevent a complete assessment of the reorganization.
vote report
Four Republicans joined every voting Democrat in the House, while the Senate rejected a procedural motion on a separate joint resolution 47-49.
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The draft would limit appellate cases to the nine most recently appointed justices while allowing other justices to retain office and perform narrower duties.
executive action
The executive order directs federal officials to use available funding, contract and property authorities and calls for temporary signs on approaches to the National Museum of American History.
explainer
The House approved a concurrent resolution and the Senate blocked a separate joint resolution. Neither event alone ends military operations.
explainer
The institution receives federal money and includes national officeholders on its board, but it is not a normal executive agency under direct presidential control.