The Unspun News for American Citizens · Thursday, October 15, 2026 06:13 AM EDT
Noise removed — for independent thinkers.
Ballots · Guard · Ads · Agents · Fed · Absentee · Inflation · Hormuz · Debanking · Bodycams
Executive Summary
The Justice Department’s deadline for California arrives at noon Eastern today. Acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter told the state and Los Angeles County to check a list of suspected noncitizens who were mailed ballots, and to set those ballots aside. Otherwise, the department said, it will seek emergency relief in court. The letters follow a July Homeland Security claim of noncitizen registrations that California’s secretary of state said she doubted. Los Angeles has not opened the thumb drive. In North Carolina, early voting opens today while a federal judge weighs new absentee rules.
Appeals judges pressed the government on the National Guard’s yearlong deployment in Washington. A judge kept taxpayer-funded ads featuring President Trump off the air through Nov. 8. The Ninth Circuit barred California from requiring federal officers to show identification. Fed Governor Lisa Cook declined a White House removal hearing set for Nov. 5. A bank regulator said the nine largest national banks denied customers service over politics or religion. Federal auditors faulted ICE’s body-camera rules.
Consumer prices rose 3.7 percent over the year, led by gasoline, and Social Security checks will rise 3.6 percent. In the Strait of Hormuz, a container ship sank. Iran has stepped up attacks on ships using a U.S.-guided route, under a U.S. blockade of its ports. Iran blamed a mine; a U.S. official said a missile. Ukraine’s drone units lost high-speed Starlink service. The country meets a moment in which a ballot waits on a thumb drive, a soldier waits on three judges and a gas pump waits on a strait, each answer due before most votes are counted.
The work behind this brief
Today’s Production: Articles Researched 151 · Sources 38 · Citations 62 · Facts Checked 203 · Bias Unspun 114
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