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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has settled with the Trump administration, closing 18 Education Department investigations and a Justice Department review. UNC admits no wrongdoing and makes no payment, according to Fox News, and the terms run through the end of 2028.
President Trump says New Mexico should rename itself "New America" and promises richer residents and cleaner elections. Candidates for governor from both parties and the state's elections chief pushed back.
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a challenge to an 1868 federal law that bars distilling spirits at home, after two appeals courts reached opposite answers. Behind the whiskey question is a larger one about how far Congress's taxing power reaches.
Treasury told Fox Business that a FinCEN review found about $270 million in suspicious activity possibly tied to student aid fraud, and that the findings went to federal investigators. No suspects, charges or confirmed losses have been made public.
Kristi Noem marked South Dakota's pheasant opener with a photo of herself, a rifle and a dog named Foster. The post drew 2.2 million views on X by Saturday afternoon, per Newsweek, and thousands of comments pointing back to the dog she wrote about shooting.
Barack Obama, in a social media post as reproduced by CNN, said the full weight of the federal government is being brought down on Rep. Ilhan Omar. President Trump says the matter is up to the Justice Department, and Omar has not been charged.
President Trump signed an order suspending many provisions of the Russia sanctions law he signed in September, saying he is negotiating peace. Ukraine's president calls siding with Putin a historic mistake.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended President Trump's waiver of a Russia sanctions law on Meet the Press, saying the only thing lifted was the embargo on Russian diesel. Zelensky and members of Congress have criticized the waiver, and whether a waiver amounts to lifting sanctions is contested.
California voters will decide Nov. 3 whether to levy a one-time 5% surtax on billionaires' wealth, with most of the money going to healthcare. The New York Post reports that Gov. Gavin Newsom is among the opponents, though that detail could not be independently confirmed.
President Trump has signed an order waiving Russia-related sanctions and tariffs in a law named for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham. Lawmakers in both parties, including Republican Sens. Thom Tillis and John Cornyn, are criticizing it, and the White House says it is protecting peace talks.
Nithya Raman called the Gates-era LAPD a 'gold standard' on immigration noncooperation, and Mayor Karen Bass has demanded she retract and apologize. Raman says Bass twisted her words.
Vice President JD Vance told CBS that most ICE officers are patriots and that the administration has a responsibility to prosecute and investigate those who "screw up." He declined to single out any incident, saying some cases have ended in retraining or discipline that is not always publicized.
