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Trump promises $90 checks to 20 million seniors a month before the midterms, using a Medicare fund he may lack authority to tap.
Calls Medicare fund a "Slush Fund"
Source: USA Today
October 2, 2026
Federal appeals court keeps South Dakota from enforcing a law that can jail people for advertising abortion pills while a free speech suit proceeds.
Suit cites sweatshirt as banned speech
Source: The South Dakota Searchlight
October 2, 2026
Federal judge keeps a jury's $425,000 award to a Black Ottumwa, Iowa, teacher whose district failed to discipline students who repeatedly called him the n-word.
Principal took no offense to slur
Source: The Iowa Capital Dispatch
October 2, 2026
Miramar, Florida, ICE field office built for 56 jails up to 150 for days without beds or medical care, a class action alleges.
Pregnant woman held untreated for 3 weeks
Source: The Florida Phoenix
October 2, 2026
ProPublica reporters open private schools in two of three states, one for $45 and a flag in Arkansas, where an official suggests tapping taxpayer money.
West Virginia can't oversee microschools
Source: ProPublica
October 2, 2026
Filing alleges an ICE agent logged Maine ICE watchers' photos and plates in a Palantir-built database, though ICE told Congress it keeps no protester database.
Observer flagged for border searches into 2027
Source: Wired
October 2, 2026
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