DOJ is investigating ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC for suspending pool coverage of Trump. In court, its lawyers called the networks’ harm “self-inflicted.”
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State Department Stops Taking FOIA Requests by Email
A State Department rule ends emailed FOIA requests on Oct. 21, joining DHS and the FTC. We compared the agencies’ rules, and why each dropped the inbox.
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Webb Traces the Farthest Fast Radio Burst to a Tiny Galaxy
A radio burst from 3 billion years after the Big Bang came from a galaxy too faint to see from Earth. How Webb found it and what it says about magnetars.
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Houthi Strikes on Riyadh, What Saudi Arabia Won’t Confirm
Witnesses saw a missile hit Riyadh’s airport Saturday; Saudi Arabia hasn’t confirmed it. A tally of this week’s Houthi strikes and what Riyadh confirms.
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Ukraine Strikes Russian Oil Sites After Trump’s Diesel Deal
Hours before Treasury licensed Russian diesel, drones hit a Lukoil refinery. Overnight two more Russian oil sites burned. What the license actually allows.
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Trump’s Massive Russia Diesel Deal.
On Friday, October 9, 2026, President Trump announced that he reached an agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin to supply millions of tons of diesel fuel to combat skyrocketing global energy prices. The multi-stage deal relies on a temporary U.S. Treasury Department suspension of energy sanctions against Moscow.
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The First Nuclear Clocks Tick on an Isotope Being Disposed Of
Vienna and Beijing teams built the first nuclear clocks. How they work, how they compare, what they can’t do yet, and the Oak Ridge stockpile behind them.
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SpaceX Buys the 800 MHz Block the FCC Drew for Nextel
SpaceX’s Grain deal buys the 14 MHz the FCC carved out for Nextel in 2004, plus a July 2026 FCC order’s deadlines and a satellite waiver still undecided.
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Running on Reserves: The Oil Crisis by the Numbers, Eight Months In
The U.S. oil reserve is at its lowest since 1982 and global stocks fell 507M barrels in six months. The oil crisis in government data, eight months in.