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Arizona, California Score Separate Court Wins Over Election Rules Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times, Election officials in Arizona and California won separate court victories Friday in disputes over voting rules, with a federal appeals court upholding key provisions of an Arizona voter-registration law and a California judge temporarily blocking a local election overhaul. Arizona Voter Registration Law In Arizona, an 11-judge en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously ruled that voting rights organizations lacked standing to challenge two provisions that dictate how counties...

Fed's Favorite Inflation Indicator Surges In September As Soaring Energy Costs Drags Americans' Savings Rate To 4-Year Lows Following the hot CPI and PPI (and the internals), this morning's PCE should not provide too many surprises with expectations for the headline price Index to rise a significant 0.5% MoM in September (accelerating notably after deflating for the first time since COVID in June).And sure enough, headline PCE rose 0.5% as expected, pulling the price index up 3.6% YoY - highest since May...The (old) Fed's favorite inflation indicator - Core PCE...

DOJ Alleges UCLA Law School Discriminated By Race In Admissions Authored by Aaron Gifford via The Epoch Times, The University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law allegedly denied admission to whites and Asians in favor of lower-performing black and Hispanic applicants, the Department of Justice announced Thursday. Under federal Civil Rights Laws and a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled against affirmative action practices in university admissions, the public institution could lose federal funding if it doesn't take corrective actions, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said in...