A federal judge in Anchorage threw out the Justice Department's lawsuit over Alaska's Senate ballot on November 1, 2026. The department had asked the court to stop the state from certifying a result pending an investigation of whether votes for a second candidate, Daniel J. Sullivan, were meant for Senator Dan S. Sullivan. The case is closed in that court, and the department has told the judge it intends to appeal.1
Judge Trina L. Thompson set a hearing for Monday, November 2, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. in San Francisco on the government's request to pause the order that bars federal threats against election workers. The same night she filed questions that say her October 30 order contains errors.1
A federal judge ordered the government on October 30, 2026, to stop distributing three advertisements, "$5,000 to Americans," "Every Democrat Voted Against No Tax on Tips," and "Cost of Socialism," and to take them off official websites. Judge Jennifer L. Rochon's order, in case
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Case 1:26-cv-08882 in Manhattan. On October 30, 2026, Judge Jennifer L. Rochon ordered the government to stop distributing three named advertisements and to remove them from official websites. The order lasts 14 days from that day unless the court extends it. It does not name a time zone.
The Justice Department said on October 30, 2026, that it and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota had charged, convicted, or sentenced 13 defendants since September 30, in schemes it said caused nearly $83 million in intended losses to the federal government. About $29.1 million of that, it said, was in the newly charged cases.1
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services posted a fact sheet on October 30, 2026, saying the open-enrollment period for Healthcare.gov coverage in 2027 began on November 1 and runs through January 15, 2027. Open enrollment is the window when a person can sign up for a marketplace plan or switch plans.1
Google said on October 30, 2026, that a prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher answered a prompt from orbit with a poem. During a ground-station pass, the company asked a Gemma 4 model on board for a haiku about being in space, and the reply came down: "Blue marble below Data streams in silent grace Starlight feeds my core."1
Cyclone Murasu is closing in on India's Andhra Pradesh. Early Monday it was about 90 km, about 55 miles, east of Nellore, and India's weather department forecasts the storm will come ashore on the state's south coast Monday afternoon, ET. The expected storm surge, seawater pushed onto land by a storm's winds, has risen to 1.5 to 2 meters, about 5 to 6.5 feet, aimed at low-lying districts still recovering from Cyclone Arnab less than a week ago.1