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Idaho
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 14 stories to Idaho since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Idaho.
26days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Idaho
10 storiesFederal judge rules the 14th Amendment protects abortion when pregnancy threatens a woman's life or health, blocking Idaho's ban in those cases.
Suicide risk now qualifies as health
Federal appeals court blocks a ruling that let one Idaho doctor perform abortions to protect a mother's health or prevent self-harm, restoring the state's near-total ban.
Doctors face felonies, license revocation
Idaho appeals the ruling that allowed abortions to protect a woman's health or prevent suicide, arguing the exceptions should cover only the doctor who sued.
Voters decide ban repeal this November
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that states may bar transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws over Title IX and equal-protection challenges.
27 states already restrict
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Expectant management raises hemorrhage risk
Oregon, Washington and Native American tribes return to court after Trump killed a $1 billion Biden-era deal to recover endangered salmon runs on the Snake and Columbia Rivers.
4 populations extinct, 7 more threatened
Idaho probation officers compile a list of foreign-born people for ICE using intake forms alone, emailing agents when targets arrive for required check-ins.
Naturalized citizens can appear on list
USDA undersecretary Michael Boren pressed Forest Service staff for more firefighting aircraft on a 7-acre blaze near his Idaho ranch, the Washington Post reports.
Nine aircraft, some diverted from fires
Energy Department names Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah as potential nuclear waste hosts while seeking to scrap the law requiring Yucca Mountain storage.
95,000 tons stockpiled across 39 states
Two Navy electronic warfare jets collide midair at Idaho air show, all four crew eject safely as base scraps remainder of show.
First Gunfighter Skies show in 8 years
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
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesA federal judge blocks most of Idaho's law making transgender bathroom use a crime, two weeks before it would have taken effect.
Only U.S. ban reaching private businesses
CNN, 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
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