The Solicitor General's office has asked the justices to deny former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan's petition, calling his corruption case a poor vehicle and pointing to his own testimony that he knew the law.
A Treasury report obtained by Axios says the naval blockade and sanctions have crippled Iran's economy and limited its ability to raise revenue. It does not say the regime is near collapse, and Trump is weighing his next step after the Nov. 3 midterms.
The State Department has approved a potential $2.1 billion sale of 500 Patriot PAC-3 MSE missiles to Ukraine, with allies reported to be footing the bill, though the funding language in the available reports was incomplete. Delivery timing has not been confirmed.
Two electric aircraft flew in formation from St. Petersburg to Tampa International on Friday, the first in a series of Florida Department of Transportation demonstrations. Gov. Ron DeSantis calls it a new era, but no date for paying passengers has been set.
Rama Duwaji, wife of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, made the animation for the campaign film for Dua Lipa's London Literature Festival. A New York Post headline, as relayed secondhand, says she traveled abroad again, but that has not been confirmed.
At a Manhattan gun-safety press conference, Letitia James and two district attorneys did not answer when a reporter asked whether gun charges were downgraded to keep illegal immigrants in the country. The question referred to a House Judiciary Republican report released earlier that week.
With the midterms a week away, Speaker Mike Johnson is dismissing forecasts that Republicans will lose the House and pointing to enthusiasm on the ground. In a separate ABC News interview, he said gas is too high and blamed "the war."
A Russian drone struck a busy railway platform in Dnipro on Thursday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 14 more, according to the regional governor. Zelensky called the attack "horrific" and renewed his demand that sanctions on Russia not be eased.
Nancy Pelosi told a podcast host that past comments by Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Israel as a Jewish state were wrong. On Friday, she and her spokesperson urged support for his campaign, according to Newsweek.
After the RNC announced Thursday that Kansas and Iowa rallies were scrapped for tele-rallies, anonymous sources and a White House background statement say the in-person stops are back, both on Sunday.
A House Judiciary Committee GOP report says police and sheriffs in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego declined 8,901 federal immigration holds, and it blames Gavin Newsom and Democratic city leaders. Patriot Daily Wire has not seen the report, and the figures are unverified.
Rep. Jared Huffman is asking appropriators to bar seawall money from paying for President Trump's East Potomac golf overhaul and to block any sale of the park to Trump or his businesses. With the course set to close Nov. 15 and a court fight reported underway, the issue now moves to the year-end spending bill.
A New York judge heard arguments Thursday on a request to remove Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the Cornell fraternity rape investigation over her social media posts about the accuser. He did not rule, and James remains on the case for now.
The Daily Caller reports that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, once married to Rep. Ilhan Omar, calls himself a "gay man" in an August academic paper. Its relevance to the federal inquiry into that marriage has not been established.
A bystander was shot in the shoulder outside the Republican Party of Virginia's Richmond offices days before Election Day. Police and the party say it appears unrelated to the party's operations.
House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNN's Manu Raju he will swear in the Democrats who win their midterm races, according to CNN's description of the exchange, and called speculation otherwise a "nonsense narrative." The full answer has not been available for review.
Hennepin County prosecutors have charged James O'Keefe and Cam Higby with felony unlawful voting and identity theft over hidden-camera videos from Minnesota's August primary. Breitbart reports neither man cast a ballot, and Higby calls the case lawfare.
