A group representing FanDuel and DraftKings gave $200,000 to the Southeastern Conservative Foundation, a dark-money nonprofit formed in July 2025 by people at the center of Tommy Tuberville's run for Alabama governor. Online sports betting is illegal in Alabama, and Tuberville says the next governor should leave gambling to the legislature.
Lee Zeldin's EPA canceled Solar for All in August 2025, calling it a 'boondoggle.' On September 18, a federal judge ruled the agency had no legal authority to do it and that Congress clearly meant for the money to keep flowing. The EPA says it may appeal.
Under deals announced September 18, UPMC and NYU Langone will stop providing gender-affirming care to minors and pay the government $9.45 million combined. Both denied wrongdoing. The Justice Department had spent a year demanding the private records of trans children — and losing in court.
A proposed Census Bureau rule would drop undocumented immigrants — and refugees, asylees and others here legally — from the count that decides each state's House seats, tie where you 'live' to your tax records, and end race and ethnicity questions. Census staff have been told to halt public events on the 2030 census until comments close on October 13.
A DHS email obtained by NPR shows officials shared a 78-page list of counties and states that offer election materials in languages other than English, alongside a Justice Department checklist for prosecuting voter-related crimes. Federal law requires many of those places to offer those ballots.
Asked on the radio whether he'd put cameras in public school classrooms so parents could monitor teachers, Andy Biggs said 'Absolutely, I would.' Experts say classroom feeds can be hacked, and Republican Doug Ducey rejected the same idea when Kari Lake proposed it.
Wired found outside groups — mostly a super PAC funded through Andreessen Horowitz — have spent about $600,000 backing Mike Rounds, and he's taken roughly $215,000 more straight from employees and PACs of AI labs and other tech companies. Rounds co-wrote the Senate's AI roadmap, and AI executives see him as 'a top supporter of the industry.'
At a September 17 campaign stop, Tom Tiffany told supporters the U.S. Department of Justice is 'coming to Wisconsin for this election.' His campaign couldn't point to anything specific to Wisconsin, as the Trump administration talks about putting ICE and FBI agents near polling places.
Before Jim Pillen recommended lobbyist Julie Bushell for a $208,333-a-month no-bid contract, she was pushing lawmakers to fund her company's nitrate sensors. The state's top environmental official warned Pillen's chief of staff the technology was unproven. The lawmaker carrying the bill says he never saw the warning.