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The EPA killed a $7 billion solar program by claiming a new tax law had quietly erased it. A federal judge read the law and disagreed — but the delay may already have done the job.
Two lawsuits in two weeks are asking federal courts to keep armed federal agents away from polling sites in November. The administration says it has no plans — and keeps declining to rule it out.
Trump signed about 30 pardons and commutations on September 3. The announcement was a social media post naming four of them. One of the people left off just had $1.6 million in restitution to his own union members erased.
Nearly 500 people have been flown out of Boeing Field since late August, often told the night before, with phones cut off so they can't call a lawyer. ICE won't say why.
ICE logged 49,571 arrests in July, its biggest month yet, and the growth strategy is letting the airport check-in counter do the investigating.