The Supreme Court on Monday, November 2, 2026, refused to order California to keep some mail ballots separate from the rest. In application No.
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United States v. California, No. 26A624
An application for an injunction pending appeal. The United States asked the Supreme Court to order California to keep some mail ballots separate while a lower-court appeal goes on. On November 2, 2026, the Court denied the application. The order notes no dissent.
, the United States said it has identified more than 20,000 people on the state's rolls who, in its view, are likely not citizens, and it wanted their ballots held aside until citizenship could be checked. The one-page order does not note a dissent.1
Judge Trina L. Thompson refused on November 2, 2026, to pause her order barring federal officials from threatening election workers. Her new order, in case
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Order Granting Temporary Restraining Order, SEIU v. Department of Justice
The San Francisco election-worker case, 3:26-cv-12800-TLT. On October 30, 2026, Judge Trina L. Thompson ordered federal officials to stop threatening election workers. On November 2, 2026, she refused to pause that order and, with both sides' consent, set it to expire at 5:00 p.m. on November 13, 2026. The orders do not name a time zone.
A child in Lewis County has died in a case New York health officials tie to measles. The State Department of Health and Lewis County Public Health said on November 2, 2026, that it is the first known measles-associated death in the state in more than 30 years.1
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team said on November 2, 2026, that it has a research prototype, called FlashProve, for proving a reply came from a specific model. On one large model, the lab says, a single graphics chip produced those proofs at more than 100 tokens a second.1
Cyclone Murasu crossed the coast of Andhra Pradesh near the city of Ongole between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. ET Monday, with winds of about 60 to 70 mph, and then weakened as it moved inland. As of 4 a.m. ET Tuesday, the India Meteorological Department said it was about 25 miles west-northwest of Bapatla, creeping north-northwest at about 4 mph with winds of about 50 to 55 mph.1