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Republican California Sheriff Seizes Ballots In Election Probe
Republican California Sheriff Seizes Ballots In Election Probe
Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is running to be the next California governor, has seized more than half a million ballots from a November 2025 special election on redistricting, triggering a political and legal confrontation with state officials.
Sheriff Chad Bianco of Riverside County speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on May 15, 2024. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images
Bianco obtained the ballots with a court-approved warrant in February as part of what...
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But they often do just that.
President Donald Trump speaks from the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington on April 1, 2026. Alex Brandon/Pool/Getty Images
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Key Events This Week: Payrolls, Quarterly Refunding, Confidence, And More Earnings
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Key data releases this week will be the US April jobs report and the University of Michigan’s consumer survey. Other economic events feature the US Treasury quarterly refunding announcement and rate decisions in Australia, Norway and Sweden. Corporate earnings include AMD, Palantir and Rheinmetall.
The focus this week will be on the US April jobs report due Friday. Economists see payrolls up +65k in April, down from +178k in March, with a
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Weather & Weak Demand Drive US PMIs Down To 10-Month Lows In February, But...
Weather & Weak Demand Drive US PMIs Down To 10-Month Lows In February, But...
While 'hard' data has been fading modestly in recent weeks, 'soft' survey data has bounced back but today we get a first glimpse at February's PMIs from S&P Global to see if that survey-based confidence is continuing.
It is not as both Manufacturing and Services PMIs dropped notably.,
Flash US Services PMI Business Activity Index: 52.3 (January: 52.7). 10-month low.
Flash US Manufacturing PMI: 51.2 (January: 52.4). 7-month low.
Source: Bloomberg
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