The Archive
Every day since the brief took its current shape, newest first. Each day is the whole page — the ten, the Unspun Stories, the episode where there is one.
October 2026
- Mon, Oct 26An Appeals Panel Questioned the Justice Department's Bid to Set Aside 20,000 California Ballots. It Has Not Ruled.▶ episode
- Sun, Oct 25A Federal Appeals Court Set a Sunday Hearing on Holding 20,000 California Ballots After the Justice Department Gave Counties 48 Hours to Set Them Aside.
- Fri, Oct 23The Justice Department Asked an Appeals Court to Stop California From Counting 20,000 Flagged Ballots Before a Judge Had Ruled.
- Thu, Oct 22A Federal Judge Barred DHS Agents From Questioning Possible Citizens About Noncitizen Voting in Nine States.
- Wed, Oct 21Iran Told Pakistan's Army Chief It Will Not Negotiate Until Its Conditions Are Met, and Its Enriched Uranium Stays Home.
- Tue, Oct 20The Justice Department Charged 28 Green-Card Holders in California With Election Crimes and Asked a Court to Hold 20,000 Ballots.
- Mon, Oct 19Obama Called the Federal Citizenship Probe of Rep. Ilhan Omar Selective Targeting. Homan Said Investigators Have a "Strong Case."
- Sun, Oct 18A Justice Department Letter Warned Los Angeles Ballot Counters of Criminal Exposure. Trump Said They Will All Go to Jail.
- Fri, Oct 16The Justice Department Sued California to Stop the Count of Mail Ballots From About 20,000 People It Calls Likely Noncitizens.
- Thu, Oct 15The Justice Department Gave California Until Noon Today to Set Aside Mail Ballots Sent to Suspected Noncitizens.
- Wed, Oct 14Trump Said He Will Decide on Iran "Very Soon" as Reports Said Netanyahu Pressed for Strikes Before Two Elections.
- Tue, Oct 13Federal Agents Searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington Home in a Criminal Investigation Tied to Her Childhood Immigration Papers.
- Mon, Oct 12A Federal Judge Ordered the Administration to Cancel Its Remaining Taxpayer-Funded TV Ads Promoting Trump.
- Sun, Oct 11A Federal Judge Ruled the Justice Department's Voter-Roll Citizenship Program Unlawful and Set It Aside.
- Fri, Oct 9The Labor Department Suspended Microsoft, Adobe and Six IT Firms From a Green Card Program, Citing Fraud Investigations.
- Thu, Oct 8The DNC Sued the Trump Administration, Calling Its Taxpayer-Funded TV Ads Illegal Propaganda Before the Midterms.
- Wed, Oct 7Trump Announced a $6.6 Billion Submarine-Parts Yard Built by Anduril, Whose Co-Founder Also Helps Lead a Pentagon Weapons Study.
- Tue, Oct 6The Justice Department Moved to Strip Citizenship From 40 Naturalized Americans, Its Largest Batch Under Trump.
- Mon, Oct 5The Supreme Court Opens Its Term With Exxon and Suncor's Bid to End Boulder's Climate Lawsuit.
- Sun, Oct 4Trump's Security Team Met at Camp David on Resuming the Iran War. Tehran Says the Strait Comes First.
- Fri, Oct 2A Federal Judge in Miami Ruled the 1996 Law Making Noncitizen Voting a Federal Crime Unconstitutional.
- Thu, Oct 1The Senate Blocked the Stock-Trading and Voter ID Bill, 53–47, and Left Town Until After the Election.
September 2026
- Wed, Sep 30The Supreme Court Let Third-Country Deportations Resume. It Will Hear the Full Case in December.
- Tue, Sep 29A Judge Ruled FEMA Can't Hold Back Counterterrorism Money to Force Election Changes. The Rule Wanted Paper Ballots and Audits.
- Mon, Sep 28Trump Expects Iran Talks This Week. Tehran Says Its Delegation Has No Plans to Meet. Bessent Gives Iran Two Weeks.
- Sun, Sep 27Trump Rejected Iran's Seven-Day Plan, Then Told Axios He Expects Talks This Week. Iran Says It Is Ready for Both.
- Fri, Sep 25The Senate Rejected an Iran War-Powers Resolution 49-50. Four Republicans Crossed Over, and One Democrat Voted No.
- Thu, Sep 24A Judge Ordered the White House to Restore Press Passes for CNN, MS NOW and Politico for 14 Days.
- Wed, Sep 23The Administration Canceled 315,000 Marketplace Enrollments Covering 760,000 People. It Says They Were Never Authorized.
- Tue, Sep 22An Appeals Court Said Missouri Must Use the Map the Supreme Court Blocked. It Gave Opponents Until Sept. 28.
- Mon, Sep 21Trump Asked of Iran, "If and When Do I Blow the Entire Nation Up?" A Tanker Was Hit in Hormuz Monday.
- Sun, Sep 20Civil-Rights Groups and Four Unions Sued to Keep Armed Federal Agents From Polling Places. Early Voting Opened in Three States.
- Fri, Sep 18An ICE Officer Charged With Shooting a Venezuelan Man Through a Door Appeared in a Minneapolis Court. Texas Had Refused to Send Him for Four Months.
- Thu, Sep 17The House Canceled Thursday and Left Until November. The Hegseth Impeachment Vote Goes With It.
- Wed, Sep 16Kash Patel Would Not Rule Out FBI Agents at the Polls. Federal Law Bars "Troops or Armed Men" at Polling Places.
- Tue, Sep 15The Supreme Court Left the Mail-Ballot Rule Blocked for the Midterms. Alito and Thomas Dissented.
- Mon, Sep 14Trump Said the U.S. Could "Stay and Keep the Oil Like Venezuela" in Iran. Iran's President: "Iran Won't Surrender."
- Sun, Sep 13Speaker Johnson Would Not Guarantee Trump's $5,000 Checks. Lutnick Said They Are "Not Tax Money."
- Fri, Sep 11The Supreme Court Blocked Missouri's New Map. Hours Later the State's Justices Found Hoskins in Contempt, and 14 Legislators Threatened to Impeach Them.
- Thu, Sep 10Trump Promised Every Adult Citizen a $5,000 "Trump Dividend" if Republicans Hold Congress. It Would Cost About $1.2 Trillion.
- Wed, Sep 9U.S. Forces Destroyed Five More Iranian Tankers After Missiles Flew at a Navy Warship. Iran Fired 20 Missiles at Jordan.
- Tue, Sep 8Iran Said Its Missiles Will Now Fire Before a Threat Lands. Hormuz Traffic Fell to 10 Ships a Day.
- Mon, Sep 7The Justice Department Asked the Supreme Court a Second Time to Unblock the Mail-Ballot Rule. Answers Are Due Wednesday.
- Sun, Sep 6A Boston Judge Blocked the Postal Service's Mail-Ballot Rule for November. Ballots Are Already Moving.
- Fri, Sep 4The Trump Administration Asked the Supreme Court to Unblock Its Mail-Ballot Rules. Ballots Go Out in Days.
- Thu, Sep 3A Federal Judge Blocked Trump's Second Birthright Citizenship Order. "No Executive Order Can Undo" the Court.
- Wed, Sep 2The U.S. Struck IRGC Targets Across Southern Iran. Trump Asked When Iranians Will "Rise Up."
- Tue, Sep 1The Pentagon Now Owns 35 Percent of a Venezuelan Oil Venture. The Deal Runs 100 Years.
August 2026
- Mon, Aug 31ICE Sent More Than 100 People to Eight African Countries in Ten Days. None Were Going Home.
- Sun, Aug 30Trump Announced a 100-Year Deal Over 65 Billion Barrels of Venezuelan Oil. The Company on the American Side Has No Name.
- Fri, Aug 28A Federal Judge Threw Out the Pentagon's National-Security Blacklisting of an AI Company and Called It Retaliation
- Thu, Aug 27The Judge Who Blocked Trump's Mail-Ballot Rule Took Her Own Order Back. Twenty-Four States Sued the Same Day.
- Wed, Aug 26ICE Made Nearly 50,000 Arrests in July. More Than Half of Those Arrested Had No Conviction and No Pending Charge.
- Tue, Aug 25The Supreme Court Cleared One Barrier to Trump's Mail-Ballot Order. A Second One Still Stands.
- Mon, Aug 24A Federal Agent Shot a Man During a Suicide Call. His Family Has Now Seen the Video.
- Sun, Aug 23The Postal Service Wrote the Rule for Mail Ballots. A Court Says It Cannot Use It.
- Fri, Aug 21The U.S. Has Deported 2,284 Mexicans to Guatemala This Year. Mexico Says They Have a Right to Come Home.
- Thu, Aug 20Soldiers Outnumber Police in Washington. Court Records Show They Almost Never Stop Crime.
- Wed, Aug 19Minnesota Sues the Governor of Texas to Force an ICE Officer Home for Trial
- Tue, Aug 18Trump Refuses to Extend the Iran Memorandum, Posts a Map Claiming the Strait, and Says He Would Bomb Oman
- Mon, Aug 17Indiana and New Hampshire Stop Taking Student IDs at the Polls, and Florida Follows in 2027
- Sun, Aug 16Trump Says He Will Declare the Strait of Hormuz American Territory as Two More Ships Are Struck
- Fri, Aug 14The Justice Department Let the Clock Run Out, and Federal Registration for Suppressors Stopped Binding
- Thu, Aug 13HHS Hands a $158 Million No-Bid Contract for Migrant Children's Lawyers to an Anti-Trafficking Group
- Wed, Aug 12A Year of Soldiers in Washington: 4,700 Troops, $1.4 Billion More, and No Settled Law
- Tue, Aug 11Oil Settles Up 5 Percent as Washington and Tehran Trade Compensation Demands Over a Closed Hormuz
- Mon, Aug 10Oil Holds Above $84 as the White House Recasts the Hormuz Standoff as an Economic-Pressure Campaign
- Sun, Aug 9Iran Layers New Conditions on a "Close" Hormuz Deal as a Missile Hits a UAE Tanker
- Fri, Aug 7Trump Signs Two New Orders Against Birthright Citizenship, Testing the Edges of June's Supreme Court Loss
- Thu, Aug 6Tariff Refunds Cross $100 Billion as Courts Enforce the Supreme Court's Ruling
- Wed, Aug 5Trump Says a Hormuz Deal Could Come This Week; Qatar Drafts the Text; Oil Falls
- Tue, Aug 4Twenty-Three States Tell the Supreme Court to Keep Trump's Mail-Ballot Order Frozen; a Ruling Could Come in Days
- Mon, Aug 3Trump Says Iran Talks Resume This Afternoon; Tehran Says No Talks Were Agreed
- Sun, Aug 2Trump Calls Off the Iran Strike, Says a Deal's "Perimeters" Are Set; Tehran Calls It a Lie
July 2026
- Fri, Jul 31The War Spreads Sideways: Iranian Strikes Hit Kuwait and Egypt as U.S. and Saudi Jets Hit Iraq
- Thu, Jul 30America Strikes Back: Two Hours of U.S. Attacks Hit IRGC Sites Across Iran
- Wed, Jul 29Iran Fires Two Missile Waves at Jordan Bases; U.S. and Saudi Jets Answer in Iraq
- Tue, Jul 28The Mail-Ballot Fight Reaches the Supreme Court, 98 Days Before the Election
- Mon, Jul 27U.S. and Iran Hold Their Fire a Third Night as the Talks Get "Space"
- Sun, Jul 26U.S. Strikes on Iran Stay Paused a Second Night as Iran Says It Has Stopped Too
- Fri, Jul 24Twenty-Five States Sue Over Election and Immigration Strings on Federal Disaster Grants