The Unspun News for American Citizens · Sunday Edition · Sunday, October 04, 2026 06:12 AM EDT

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Executive Summary

Washington emptied out this week, and the decisions kept coming. The Senate rejected its stock-trading and voter-ID bill 53–47 on Thursday and left until after the election. Courts filled the space. A judge in Miami struck down the federal ban on noncitizen voting as applied to one defendant. A judge in El Paso stopped border-wall work across Big Bend. On Friday the economy reported 29,000 new jobs, the G7 opened its emergency oil stocks, and the president announced $90 payments for 20.8 million seniors. A former congressman drew 10 years for lobbying for Venezuela unregistered. In Tennessee, a failed execution cost the prisons chief his job. In Britain, two Iranian nationals were charged in an alleged plot against Manchester’s Jewish community.

Iran: Trump rejected Tehran’s seven-day plan on Sept. 26, and the U.S. counterproposal sent through Qatar has gone unanswered. His security team met at Camp David on Friday to weigh resuming major combat. On Sunday Iran’s foreign minister said there is “no military solution.” The rules of November: the voter-ID bill failed, the Justice Department moved to appeal the Miami ruling, and registration closes Monday in Texas, Ohio and Georgia. Immigration and the courts: the Supreme Court let deportations to third countries resume until it hears the case in December, then agreed to decide whether ICE may hold people without bond hearings.

Ahead: the Court’s first arguments Monday, the Fed’s minutes Wednesday, and Thursday’s hearing on the White House press ban, the day the order protecting three outlets runs out. A strait held shut, a law struck in one courtroom, a fund opened by one office — three tests of who decides, run while the people elected to decide were home: that was the week the country lived.

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