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EXPLAINER: Judge Ali frees more than $200 million in counterterrorism money FEMA had tied to the vote
On September 28, federal judge Amir Ali struck down a 20% holdback on the money Washington sends states and cities to prepare for attacks.
FACT CHECK: Zelensky is right about Lyman, but his 10,660 Russian casualties remain unverifiable
Volodymyr Zelensky said on September 27 that the Ukrainian army had put 10,660 Russian soldiers out of action in one week. On Lyman, he…
ANALYSIS: 100 strikes on warehouses since June, and Moscow takes its war to Kyiv’s shelves
ACLED has recorded about 100 Russian strikes, or series of strikes, on civilian warehouses in the Kyiv region since mid-June, against around 50 between…
EXPLAINER: Mishustin withholds the military figure; Kyiv reads US$12 billion for jet drones
The draft budget the Russian government approved on September 24 shows no amount for the military.
ANALYSIS: Copenhagen fears a limited Russian strike, and Moscow decorated the Gedser commander
On September 24, Danish military intelligence wrote that Moscow could strike a NATO country bordering Russia “in the coming months.”
ANALYSIS: November 3 would time Trump’s strikes on Iran, and Tehran reads the same calendar
On NBC, on September 27, Mike Waltz insisted that when it comes to the war against Iran, “politics have nothing to do with this.”…
EXPLAINER: Vought gives Congress five days on $810 million the law protects for 45 days
On Friday evening, September 25, the White House announced the cancellation of $810 million that Congress had appropriated. The U.S. fiscal year ends on…
FACT CHECK: The Graham law is 10 days old, and Trump’s Treasury has listed no Russian name yet
At the UN on September 22, Donald Trump brandished “enormous new tariff authorities” against Moscow’s war. The law that gives them to him has…
ANALYSIS: Hoekstra relays an idea to tax us like Europe, a ceiling that hides a 10% floor
The National Post, in an article picked up this Monday, September 28, writes that Washington is reportedly weighing a way to punish Mark Carney’s…