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Sen. Bernie Moreno speaks to reporters at the White HouseOfficial White House Photo by Molly Riley

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Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno Files Bill to Tax State Data Center Incentives at 100% and Bar Federal Aid to Big AI Data Centers

Sen. Bernie Moreno's S. 5689, the RECLAIM Act, would impose a 100% federal excise tax on state and local incentives for AI data centers of 100 megawatts or more and bar them from federal grants, loans and tax breaks. "Taxpayers will not subsidize data centers, period," he said.

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Los Angeles County Tells a Federal Judge Its Sample of the Justice Department's 20,000 Name Voter List Was 42.9% Canceled Registrations and 25.8% U.S.-Born

Los Angeles County filed a 36-page opposition Oct. 20 to the Justice Department's bid to hold back 20,000 California mail ballots, telling Judge John W. Holcomb its sample of the list was 42.9% canceled registrations and 25.8% U.S.-born voters.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, official Senate portraitUnited States Senate / Wikimedia Commons

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Five Senate Democrats Give CENTCOM Until Nov. 2 to Make Public What Iran's Strikes on U.S. Bases Have Cost

Five Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee asked CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper to publicly disclose, by Nov. 2, the cost of Iranian damage to U.S. bases and facilities since the war began on Feb. 28.

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Judge Quashes DHS Subpoena for 17 Million Truck and Bus Drivers' Records, Calling It "a Textbook Example" of an Improper Fishing Expedition

A federal judge in Virginia quashed a Homeland Security subpoena for the records of about 17 million commercial drivers, siding with 21 states and D.C. and finding the demand exceeded DHS's authority and would violate federal privacy law.

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Supreme Court Turns Away Google's Challenge to the Patent Office's "Settled Expectations" Policy for Refusing to Review Older Patents

The Supreme Court on Oct. 19 denied Google's petition challenging the Patent Office's practice of refusing reviews of long-standing patents on "settled expectations" grounds, leaving a 2009 VirtaMove patent shielded from review.

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Voters lined up outside an early voting site in Charlotte, N.C.James Willamor from Raleigh, NC, USA / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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Democrats' 569,000-Voter Lead in North Carolina Is Down to 3,241. The Official Party Rolls in 10 Battlegrounds, Then and Now

Official state records: North Carolina's Democratic registration edge fell from 569,168 in 2018 to 3,241; Pennsylvania's from 840,443 to 241,217; Nevada's from 74,923 to 4,387. Independents are now the largest group in five battlegrounds.

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President Donald Trump at a Cabinet Room roundtable with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.Official White House Photo by Abe McNatt

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Judge Freezes USDA's Plan to Move the Forest Service to Salt Lake City and Close Offices Nationwide, and the Trump Administration Appeals

A federal judge in San Francisco has stayed the Agriculture Department's office closures and forced relocations, including the Forest Service move to Salt Lake City, finding USDA likely broke appropriations limits. The administration has appealed to the Ninth Circuit.

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