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Alaska
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 14 stories to Alaska since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Alaska.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Alaska
10 storiesAlaska deactivates up to 3,500 voters as possible noncitizens off old DMV data, sweeping in naturalized citizens, a 700% jump from last year's flagged total.
Active rolls shrank in election year
ICE arrests an Alaska state government attorney and ships him to Washington state detention, declining to say how he violated his admission terms.
Bar-licensed, no criminal charges filed
Alaska signed a confidential agreement letting DOJ flag individual voters for removal from state rolls, one of at least 12 states that quietly complied while judges ruled against DOJ in every related lawsuit.
DOJ sharing rolls with DHS
The FTC and four states sue the leading transgender-health provider group, alleging it falsely marketed gender-affirming care for minors as medically necessary.
Major medical groups back gender-affirming care
House Republicans unveil election reform bill requiring photo ID to vote, citizenship verification to register, and banning ranked choice voting and universal mail-in ballots.
98% of ballots already cast on paper
Immigrants in remote Alaska fishing town face deportation after state DMV erroneously registered them to vote, despite state admitting fault and apologizing.
Never voted, canceled registration immediately
National Science Foundation decommissions a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring network as Alaska's fisheries face salmon crashes, crab collapses and repeated marine heatwaves.
$5.3 billion industry, 42,000 jobs
Planned Parenthood sues to overturn Alaska's ban on telehealth abortion services, arguing it violates state constitutional privacy rights in a state where many live off the road system.
Won same argument at trial level
U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll arrives in Ukraine to "discuss efforts to end the war" as reports surface of 28-point peace plan requiring Ukraine to cede territory, weapons, and significantly reduce Armed Forces.
26 Ukrainians killed in Wed. attack
Trump opens Arctic reserve's five protected wildlife areas to oil drilling, rescinding Biden rule that 250,000 people supported during public comment.
5 Special Areas now opened
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesCNN, Politico and MS NOW sue Trump over their White House ban, as NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox refuse to film Trump in CNN's place.
Judge who restored Acosta's pass presiding
Supreme Court refuses to let Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule before November over two dissents, three weeks after clearing the executive order behind it.
Kavanaugh cites insufficient time to implement
Stars and Stripes' editor, publisher and a reporter sue the Pentagon to block firings set for Saturday, calling them retaliation for criticizing its takeover of the paper.
Fired after USS Lincoln morale story
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