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A favorable court ruling has cleared the way for the administration to press forward with new federal mail-in ballot protocols, with the president directing USPS, DHS and DOJ to prepare. Several states argued they'd be harmed by the changes, but the court's majority rejected that challenge outright. Expect a fresh round of state-level litigation heading into the fall cycle.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that US job growth was overstated by 79,000 positions over the twelve months ending in March. The revision landed the same week Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh called the inflation numbers "troubling" and said the central bank isn't finished fighting for price stability. Futures markets now put September rate-hike odds above fifty percent.
The president signed paperwork Friday letting farmers and ranchers process their own meat, targeting what he called a "nasty monopoly" among the big packers. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins promised more moves soon, including red-tape waivers and expanded interstate sales for smaller processors. Ranchers welcomed the attention but warned that more processing capacity alone won't fix the industry's structural problems.
A military judge ruled that portions of the 2007 confession by the self-professed 9/11 mastermind were involuntary and cannot be used at trial. The decision threatens to extend a Guantanamo case that has already dragged on for the better part of two decades. Families of the victims are once again left waiting for a verdict that keeps receding.
Operation Epic Fury passed its six-month mark Friday with no clear off-ramp, as roughly 6,000 sailors remain stranded aboard ships in the Persian Gulf and 19 seafarers have been killed since the conflict began February 28th. More than 70 attacks on international shipping have been logged. Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi met Qatar's prime minister in Tehran this week to discuss de-escalation and reopening the strait.
Russian forces fired 164 drones overnight into Friday, striking more than a dozen apartment buildings and storage depots around Kyiv after air raids locked the capital down for fifteen hours Thursday. Ukraine hit back at the Slavneft-YANOS refinery in Russia's Yaroslavl region, sparking a fire. Ukrainian officials say the barrages are the opening of Moscow's annual campaign to weaponize winter against the power grid.
Moscow warned Britain of "catastrophic consequences" and floated strikes on UK military targets after reporting that British-made drones supplied to Kyiv hit sites inside Russia for the first time. A Kremlin insider went further, raising the prospect of "semi-military" action against Britain. London has not backed off its support for Ukraine.
Revolution Medicines' daraxonrasib, branded Rasonque, won approval for metastatic pancreatic cancer patients who failed chemotherapy. Trials showed median overall survival of 13.2 months versus 6.7 months on chemo. It's a once-daily tablet in a disease that has resisted almost everything thrown at it.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman confirmed the agency holds imagery of objects it cannot explain, saying plainly that "we don't know what it is." It's a notably direct acknowledgment from the top of the agency rather than a hedged press statement. NASA is separately preparing three unmanned moon base missions before year's end.
The British-born commentator and former Breitbart editor was taken into ICE custody and is being held at a major deportation hub in Louisiana. Yiannopoulos has lived in the US for years and has been a fixture of online right-wing media. His immigration status is now the whole ballgame.
