In the years Democrats have held three-fifths of both chambers, Oregon's Legislature has passed seven bills that created, raised or extended major taxes, by Profoundd's count of state records, and sen...
via Oregon Legislative Revenue Office
2026-10-06
Republicans say Democrats want to open the borders. No party plan does that, but the left wing has moved far: the DNC has called for abolishing ICE and ending immigration detention, and an Illinois co...
via Office of Rep. Delia C. Ramirez
2026-10-06
The Justice Department has told Congress it will not appeal a Texas ruling that bars the ATF from enforcing federal registration of suppressors and short-barreled guns. The ruling covers only the plai...
via Oregon Firearms Federation
2026-10-06
Finnish President Alexander Stubb, whose country has NATO's longest border with Russia, says he sees no evidence that Russia plans to attack the alliance, and warns Europe not to overreact. Germany's ...
via Politico Europe
2026-10-06
California, New York and Illinois now have near-identical safety laws for the most powerful AI systems, their authors are acting together, and New York's law lets its regulator share companies' safety...
via Lawfare
2026-10-06
The Democratic National Committee has formally called for abolishing ICE and reaffirmed a law barring arms sales to abusive security forces, both pushed by its progressive wing. The votes are nonbindi...
via Truthout
2026-10-06
Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces say they have retaken the Bab el-Mandeb strait and the port of Mocha from the Houthis, who seized them in September; the Houthis call the claims fabricated, and t...
via Al Jazeera
2026-10-06
The Energy Department has offered Vistra a conditional loan of up to $4.2 billion to squeeze more power out of three nuclear plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania and keep them running 20 more years. It is ...
via U.S. Department of Energy
2026-10-06
An executive order signed October 5 lets truckers burn untaxed red-dyed diesel, normally limited to farm and off-road use, on highways through the end of 2026, and defers the 24.4-cent federal tax. Th...
via The White House
2026-10-06
A lawsuit says DHS agents entered people who watched and filmed immigration arrests in Maine into ICM, a Palantir-built investigative database, labeling some a "Threat to Law Enforcement." DHS calls t...
via WIRED
2026-10-06
FBI and Coast Guard investigators found that hackers got into the propulsion system of the supertanker VL Prosperity as it sailed, fully loaded, toward Galveston this summer. U.S. officials say the ac...
via Bloomberg
2026-10-06
The NAACP has sued the Justice Department for records on its plan to send about 1,000 federal monitors to polling places in November, the most ever. The department says the monitors protect lawful vot...
via Democracy Docket
2026-10-06