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A federal judge on Friday issued a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump’s executive order related to the Post Office’s mail-in ballot rules. US District Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, replaced the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that she granted last month. The Trump DOJ on Thursday already asked the Supreme Court to lift Judge Talwani’s TRO. States are already beginning to send out ballots for the midterm elections. The Trump Administration will likely appeal Judge Talwani’s preliminary injunction. DOJ Solicitor John Sauer argued in his emergency petition that the Postal Service possesses legal authority to regulate mail-in ballot designs. John…

Columbus police have paused their use of Flock automatic license plate readers after an officer was accused of searching the same plate more than 270 times over roughly 14 months. The Columbus Dispatch reports that Mayor Andrew Ginther called the allegations against the officer “deeply troubling” in comments made this week as the city moved to immediately halt use of the cameras and cover them with bags to prevent further data collection. The city will also audit all Flock searches conducted by Columbus police, and City Council is drafting legislation to govern how the cameras can be used going forward. The…

The South Korean government said on Friday that it is still reviewing its options for a military deployment to protect international shipping against Iranian terrorism in the Strait of Hormuz, but “nothing has been decided” yet. The comments from an unnamed government official in Seoul were a response to South Korean media reports that the government would seek parliamentary approval for a military deployment before the end of September and could have air and naval assets in the Strait of Hormuz by the end of the year. South Korean broadcaster JTBC reported on Thursday that the deployment could include maritime…

The Weekly Wrap: This Is What Full Employment Looks Like Welcome back to Friday! It’s the first Friday of the month, which means it is Jobs Friday, and it is now Labor Day weekend. This will be a special edition of our weekly wrap focused on the employment situation in America. Plus we’ve got a lot of musical accompaniment to get you through the weekend. Let’s go! The Summertime Blues Is Back Because Everyone Is Working Eddie Cochran’s 1958 hit “Summertime Blues” was about the problems of summer employment—not the difficulty of finding a job but the trouble of having…

On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that “instead of just going to all of these job sites and raiding these job sites, what we’re doing is we’re focusing on truly the worst of the worst. We’re focused on these detainers” that are released by sanctuary cities and states. Mullin said, “[W]e’re doing it different too. We’re targeting, instead of just going to all of these job sites and raiding these job sites, what we’re doing is we’re focusing on truly the worst of the worst. We’re focused on these detainers that these liberal…

Excluding Russia would have betrayed the 131-year-old institution’s tradition of welcoming everyone, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco has said Venice Biennale President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco has defended his decision to reopen Russia’s pavilion at the event, saying “art won” despite EU pressure and Brussels stripping the exhibition of €2 million in funding.In early March, the Venice Biennale announced Russia’s return despite the Ukraine conflict, Moscow’s standoff with Brussels, and unprecedented EU sanctions.Russia, which has owned one of the exhibition’s oldest pavilions since 1914, went on to stage a show titled ‘The Tree Is Rooted in the Sky’ there in May, bringing together more than…

Milei: the Argentine president is going for the Malvinas (Falklands) Maybe, in the future, historians will mark today, September 4, 2026, as the start of the Second Falkland War. Javier Milei gave a televised speech today in which he launched a renewed push for the control of the Falkland Islands – or, as they call it, the Malvinas. Milei described Britain as a country in decline, and vowed that Argentina would ‘prevail’. He also announced sanctions for companies drilling for oil in the seas around the islands. It’s not a coincidence that this comes a day after U.S. President Donald…

Sam Altman OpenAI has released a new model called GPT-6 Astra to a limited set of customers, calling it the world’s most intelligent AI system and the first of its models to trigger advanced internal safety protections because of its cyber capabilities. NBC News reports that Astra can control computer systems on its own to a degree OpenAI hasn’t shipped before, filling out spreadsheets or building whole websites without step-by-step direction from a person. It replaces GPT-5.6 Sol, and OpenAI says it beat that predecessor on ExploitGym, a cybersecurity benchmark, while using fewer output tokens. “Astra can really do anything a…

The Taiwanese cabinet on Thursday approved a supplementary defense budget that pushed total defense spending over $1 trillion in New Taiwan (NT) dollars for the first time. The supplemental budget of NT $145.7 billion was intended to fill some shortfalls in military procurement after the Taiwanese opposition cut about a third of the NT $1.25 trillion requested by the government over the next eight years. The New Taiwan dollar currently trades at around 0.0315 to the U.S. dollar, so the trillion-dollar milestone works out to $31.6 billion in U.S. dollars. This brings Taiwan’s defense spending for the year up to…

Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) said “Democrats have a much smarter strategy on national security.” Khanna said, “I thought J.D. Vance and Donald Trump wanted to end these endless wars, and it saddens me. It actually saddens me that they have stumbled and bumbled into another endless war in the Middle East, and this with a ferocious adversary. There were people in the administration and people like Ted Cruz who didn’t know the population of Iran. They, through bluster, have gotten us into a mess. Our service members are at risk. We don’t have ammunition,…