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Grift
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Senate nominee Ken Paxton reports no rental income from 6 homes listed for rent and omits $1.3 million in golf resort mortgages, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune find.
Experts: apparent federal ethics law violations
Source: ProPublica
September 4, 2026
Environment
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Trump orders agencies to start removing gray wolves from the endangered species list and tells Interior Secretary Burgum to push states to let ranchers shoot them.
Colorado voters approved reintroduction in 2020
Source: USA Today
September 4, 2026
Criminal Justice
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Prosecutors admit in court they have no evidence Olympian Davey Hearn damaged the Reflecting Pool yet fight a permanent dismissal, as Trump keeps claiming vandalism.
No open investigation, no economic damage
Source: WRC Washington
September 4, 2026
Justice Dept
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Justice Department antitrust official orders a "Pause on Canada" in cooperation during the tariff fight, then calls it a mistake after The Wall Street Journal reports it.
Inventory of joint cases demanded Friday
Source: The Wall Street Journal [gift link]
September 4, 2026
Epstein Sex Crime Network
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Fake website for Republicans' first midterm convention redirects visitors to the Justice Department's Epstein files 5 days before the Dallas event.
Daily Wire among ~140 linking sites
Source: NBC Dallas
September 4, 2026
Voting Rights
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North Carolina's Republican-led elections board votes party-line to toss more mail ballots over errors it previously let slide, the same morning counties begin mailing ballots.
Proposals kept secret until vote
Source: WRAL Raleigh
September 4, 2026