Space analysts and national security insiders say a Russian satellite likely intended to attack a U.S. radar satellite last week, but that the Kremlin may have called off the strike.
Questions were still swirling after the incident in which the Cosmos 2612 satellite came within an estimated 85 feet of a U.S.-Finnish satellite believed to provide high-resolution intelligence to the Ukrainian military.
Specialists say the encounter appears to be intentional on Russia’s part, the result of months of careful planning and choreographed movements by the Russian satellite. The operation has fueled speculation that Russia intended to launch a kinetic attack in space or executed a dress rehearsal for such a mission.
The Supreme Court will hear a case challenging a 19th Century law that bans home distilling.
The case, Department of Justice v. McNutt, will test how much power Congress can claim under the Constitution to enact laws necessary for protecting its taxing power.
McNutt prevailed in lower courts, with a circuit court ruling this year that the federal ban stretches the Constitution’s Necessary and Proper Clause too far and the law must fall. The Trump administration has asked the justices to uphold the law, saying the government needs the revenue from taxing legal distilleries and that allowing home operations would undercut that revenue.
The federal ban applies to distilled spirits. Current federal law exempts home brewing and wine making for personal consumption from licensing and tax requirements.
Democrats running in some of the most competitive congressional races have reignited calls to expand the Affordable Care Act into a government-run system.
Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson is among several high-profile candidates in battleground states who have made “Medicare for All” a major selling point to bring down the high cost of health insurance and healthcare.
Yet critics say Democrats aren’t talking to voters about its price or that it would likely eliminate private health insurance and significantly increase taxes.
Government-run healthcare for all Americans could cost as much as $50 trillion over the next decade, according to an analysis by the conservative Manhattan Institute.
In Democratic-leaning states, companies are pouring money into factories, technology centers and other projects, creating opportunities for workers in places where President Trump remains deeply unpopular.
Roughly $670 billion in announced or completed investments have gone to the 19 states that voted Democratic in the last presidential election, according to review of data provided by the White House, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and National Association of Manufacturers.
The $670 billion has created or is expected to create more than 400,000 direct jobs and nearly 1 million indirect jobs. President Biden attracted $1 trillion in private investment nationwide during his four years in office, according to data released by his administration in November 2024. In his first 18 months, about $220 billion in new projects were announced.
And finally … The historic East Potomac Golf Links in Washington has become the center of a political battle over its future.
President Trump said on social media that work on his redesign at the course along the Potomac River would begin immediately — a claim that his officials disputed hours later during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes.
She presided over six hours of hearings as she sought to get to the bottom of why the National Park Service cut down more than 400 trees on the course on Oct. 10, despite what she thought was a clear instruction to give substantial notice before any major changes at the park.
Reyes said she has become the target of over-the-top criticism, including possibly death threats, over her actions in the case.
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