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Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to revive strict mail-ballot rules before midterms
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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s emergency bid to enforce new U.S. Postal Service (USPS) restrictions on mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, leaving a lower court’s nationwide block in place.
In a brief order, the court said the government was «unlikely to succeed on the merits» for purposes of obtaining emergency relief and had not shown that the legal and practical considerations warranted a stay.
The rules would require federal ballot mail to be sent in envelopes bearing an election-mail logo, capable of being scanned by high-speed equipment and carrying a barcode unique to each voter.
State and local election officials would also be required to submit envelope designs to the Postal Service for review and upload basic voter information to an online USPS portal.
USPS PUBLISHES RULE TO BLOCK MAIL-IN BALLOTS FROM STATES THAT DON’T PROVIDE VOTER LISTS
A large box of pre-assembled mail-in ballots at the Wake County Board of Elections on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, in Raleigh, N.C. (Matt Ramey/AP Photo)
Under the USPS rule, mailings that failed to comply would not be accepted and would instead be returned to election officials to correct and resubmit.
FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FROM RESTRICTING MAIL-IN BALLOTS AHEAD OF MIDTERMS
A federal judge previously blocked the USPS from implementing the rules, including the online portal that could be used to track millions of mail ballots.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed with the Supreme Court’s decision but indicated the USPS may ultimately have the authority to impose the requirements.
TRUMP SCORES SUPREME COURT WIN ON MAIL-IN VOTING RESTRICTIONS BEFORE MIDTERMS
Oregon residents drop off their ballots near the Multnomah County Elections building in Portland, Oregon, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Ankur Dholakia/AFP via Getty Images)
«In my view, based on the briefing the Court has received at this interim stage, there is at least a fair prospect that the final rule falls within the Postal Service’s statutory authority,» Kavanaugh wrote.
However, he said attempting to apply the rules during the 2026 elections would be «arbitrary and capricious» under the Administrative Procedure Act because state and local election officials do not have enough time to reasonably implement them.
JACKSON RIPS INTO SUPREME COURT COLLEAGUES’ ‘SERIOUS LEGAL ERROR’ ON TRUMP MAIL-IN VOTING ORDER
Supreme Court Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas wait to leave the stage after the inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/AFP via Getty Images)
Justice Samuel Alito dissented from the decision, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.
Alito argued that some of the plaintiffs lacked legal standing and that the remaining challengers were pursuing what the court has previously called a «Hail Mary pass» that «rarely succeeds.»
ALABAMA AG MARSHALL FIRES BACK AT USPS MAIL-BALLOT ORDER CRITICS: ‘THIS IS ABOUT SECURING ELECTIONS’
«The Government has made the showings necessary for a stay, so I respectfully dissent,» Alito wrote.
Alito said the USPS has broad authority to regulate the collection, handling, transportation and delivery of mail. He also argued that the government would suffer irreparable harm because any reversal of the lower court’s injunction would come too late for the midterms.
New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose office helped lead the legal challenge, celebrated the decision as a victory for voters.
«Today, the Supreme Court protected one of our most fundamental, inalienable rights – the right to make your voice heard at the ballot box,» James said. «This last-minute change could have thrown our elections into chaos, and I am truly relieved the Court granted this reprieve.»
«Voters should never have to wonder whether a ballot they legally cast will be counted because the federal government suddenly changed the rules,» she added. «We will keep fighting to make sure every eligible ballot is counted come November.»
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., also praised the ruling, calling it «one of the most important cases to protect voting rights before the Supreme Court.»
«Trump’s plan to make it harder to vote was obviously unconstitutional,» Schumer said. «The Supreme Court had no choice but to make the right decision.»
«The President’s attempt to screw around with vote by mail was obscene,» he added. «Finally, his scheme is dead. Trump: you lost another one.»
FEDERAL JUDGE AGAIN BLOCKS TRUMP’S MAIL BALLOT ORDER JUST BEFORE MIDTERMS
President Donald Trump directed the USPS earlier this year to develop new standards for handling election mail. The agency finalized the requirements in late August.
The administration and the USPS then asked the Supreme Court to intervene after a federal judge converted a temporary restraining order into a nationwide preliminary injunction.
The decision leaves the preliminary injunction in place, preventing the USPS from enforcing the new requirements for the 2026 elections while the litigation continues.
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J.P. Morgan estima que las negociaciones para reactivar Cobre Panamá podrían extenderse hasta 2027
J.P. Morgan considera que las recomendaciones presentadas por el Gobierno panameño sobre Cobre Panamá abren una vía más favorable para la reapertura de la mina de lo que inicialmente reflejó el anuncio oficial.
El banco mantiene como escenario base una reanudación de las operaciones bajo condiciones renegociadas, aunque advierte que todavía existen obstáculos capaces de retrasarla.
El análisis fue publicado después de que la Comisión Interministerial entregara al presidente José Raúl Mulino su informe final sobre el futuro del proyecto minero. Los analistas Holt Williamson y Katherine Marney señalaron que las recomendaciones resultaron más favorables a una reapertura de corto plazo de lo sugerido inicialmente.
La diferencia surgió alrededor del concepto de “cierre ordenado”. Durante la presentación gubernamental, los ministros enfatizaron la necesidad de conducir el proyecto hacia un cierre progresivo, pero el documento completo plantea evaluar un acuerdo que permita poner nuevamente en marcha la operación para financiar precisamente ese proceso durante un período prolongado.
El mercado reaccionó inicialmente con fuerza. Las acciones de First Quantum Minerals llegaron a caer hasta 31% durante la jornada, mientras se conocían las primeras declaraciones sobre el cierre de Cobre Panamá.
Posteriormente recuperaron parte de las pérdidas y terminaron aproximadamente 15% abajo, después de que el contenido completo revelara una posible ruta de negociación y reapertura.
Scotiabank fue más explícito al evaluar lo ocurrido y calificó de “confusa” la actualización ofrecida por el Gobierno. La entidad interpretó que los ministros estaban autorizando en la práctica conversaciones para reiniciar la operación, mientras que el cierre ordenado mencionado reiteradamente correspondería al final de la vida útil del proyecto y no a una clausura inmediata.
J.P. Morgan llegó a una lectura similar sobre el horizonte de la mina. El banco señaló que el documento sugiere un esquema de operación de aproximadamente 25 años, seguido por las etapas correspondientes de monitoreo y cierre. Ese período resulta cercano a la vida útil promedio de una mina de cobre a cielo abierto.
Ese plazo, sin embargo, representa también uno de los principales focos de incertidumbre. J.P. Morgan advirtió que no está claro si los 25 años constituyen una posición inicial de negociación o una condición definitiva del Gobierno. First Quantum podría objetar el período propuesto y extender las conversaciones antes de alcanzar un eventual acuerdo.
En un escenario de negociaciones prolongadas, el banco considera que el reinicio de las operaciones podría desplazarse hasta bien entrado 2027. A pesar de ese riesgo, mantiene la reapertura como su escenario central y asigna una probabilidad relativamente baja a un cierre definitivo sin reanudación previa de actividades.
La lectura financiera también está condicionada por el precio internacional del cobre. Desde el cierre de Cobre Panamá en diciembre de 2023, la cotización del metal habría aumentado alrededor de 70%, según J.P. Morgan.
Ese escenario modificaría sustancialmente los ingresos potenciales de una operación reactivada bajo un esquema con mayor participación económica del Estado panameño.
El banco estima que una combinación de precios elevados y mejores condiciones para Panamá podría mejorar las cuentas fiscales entre 0.5% y 1% del PIB. Antes del cierre, las regalías e ingresos asociados a la mina rondaban los $400 millones anuales, mientras la operación representaba directa e indirectamente alrededor del 5% de la economía.
El impacto fiscal adquiere mayor importancia porque J.P. Morgan proyecta para Panamá un déficit cercano al 3.5% del PIB durante 2026. Una eventual recuperación de los ingresos mineros contribuiría a reducir esa presión, al tiempo que el futuro de Cobre Panamá continúa siendo observado por las calificadoras de riesgo soberano.
El Gobierno, por su parte, insiste en que todavía no existe una decisión definitiva. La Comisión recomendó evaluar un acuerdo que resuelva los arbitrajes internacionales pendientes y permita una puesta en marcha, pero estableció que la actividad deberá conducir hacia un cierre progresivo financiado por la propia operación y sin recursos públicos.
Entre las condiciones planteadas figura que la huella territorial de la mina no aumente, sino que se reduzca progresivamente durante el período que llegue a establecerse. También deberá existir un fondo para garantizar el cierre, mecanismos independientes de verificación y una solución jurídica compatible con el fallo de la Corte Suprema de Justicia.
El presidente José Raúl Mulino recibió las 17 recomendaciones y seis criterios elaborados por la Comisión y anunció que estudiará el documento antes de comunicar una decisión al país. El informe tampoco determina todavía la estructura jurídica, el calendario de reapertura ni las condiciones económicas que tendría que aceptar First Quantum para regresar.
Para los bancos de inversión, precisamente esas definiciones marcarán la siguiente etapa. J.P. Morgan observa una ruta que acerca nuevamente a Cobre Panamá a la producción, pero reconoce que la negociación puede ser compleja.
Scotiabank coincide en que el documento permite conversaciones para reactivar la mina, mientras el Gobierno mantiene que cualquier acuerdo deberá priorizar el interés nacional y el cierre responsable.
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Violent scenes are emerging from France Tuesday as tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to demand education reform, forcing the reported closure of more than half of the country’s high schools.
France’s interior ministry said 6,100 people have been taken into custody since the protests began in September, while at least 715 police officers and 215 teenagers have been injured in clashes, according to Reuters.
Video taken in cities including Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg showed demonstrators facing off with police, lighting fires and dodging tear gas. In other areas, such as Marseille and Nantes, protesters held up signs with messages like, «The state has killed national education,» Reuters reported.
The Interior Ministry estimated that 86,000 people took part in demonstrations outside Paris on Tuesday morning. More were gathering in the capital for a protest scheduled for the afternoon.
«What’s happening in France is nothing less than out of control mass migration. This isn’t about schools, this is about Islam wanting to take over a once great Country!» Trump wrote Tuesday on Truth Social.
TEEN’S HAND BLOWN OFF BY POLICE GRENADE DURING FRENCH STUDENT PROTESTS: REPORT
Riot police use a water cannon as they face students during a protest against under-resourced schools in Rennes, western France, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Jeremias Gonzalez/AP)
The protests are quickly blowing up as a hot topic in the election campaign to replace President Emmanuel Macron next May. Far-left presidential hopeful Jean-Luc Mélenchon has decried the government response to the protests as repressive. Critics have accused his party, La France Insoumise, (LFI), of seeking to use the unrest to score points in the presidential campaign and of inciting violence.
Video previously posted to social media showed the Seine-Saint Denis mayor, Bally Bagayoko of the LFI, joining in with students, smiling and high-fiving pupils after a trash can was set on fire in the street. And the president of the Île‑de‑France region told Radio Monte Carlo, «There is a call to action being issued by LFI today: ‘Trash your high school.’ It is being spread via TikTok challenges.»
LFI has denied the accusations, according to Reuters.
«This is a combination of the Islamists, together with the communists, the socialists, the far-left that are joining forces, and this is an outright uprising and insurrection basically is what it is that we are witnessing in France,» Nile Gardiner, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, told Fox News’ «The Faulkner Focus» on Tuesday. «The stakes are incredibly high for the French people and this is a warning for the United States, as well.»
Authorities began shutting schools last week to try to defuse tensions after widespread damage to schools and mounting injuries among staff, students and police. Classes were totally or partially suspended Tuesday at 891 schools, according to the Education Ministry. The High School Students Union also told Reuters that over half of France’s high schools were closed or blockaded Tuesday.
Students have drawn attention to rundown classrooms that lack basics such as desks and chairs, become sweltering in summer without air conditioning and, in some cases, are infested with rats.
French riot police stand near burning objects during clashes with protesters in Paris on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Reuters)
Other common complaints include staff shortages and exhausting workloads. French high school students’ compulsory classroom hours are among the highest in Europe.
«We want more money for the national educational system so that high schools are renovated,» Roberta, a recent high school graduate in Paris, told Reuters.
FRANCE ROCKED BY STUDENT RIOTS AS HUNDREDS ARRESTED, VIOLENCE SPREADS NATIONWIDE
Students march with a large red banner reading «Police officers, enemy of the people» during a protest against under-resourced schools in Rennes, western France, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Jeremias Gonzalez/AP)
In one of the recent demonstrations in the town of Lens on Monday, a 15-year-old had picked up a police dispersal grenade that detonated, losing his hand and part of his lower arm, officials said.
Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has asked ministers in France to address student demands, including repairs to aging buildings, a call for longer lunch breaks and a review of the 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. school day, according to Reuters.
French riot police officers remove elements of a burning street barricade during a demonstration by French high school and university students in Lyon on Oct. 6, 2026. (Reuters)
Felix Barney, a university student, told The Associated Press that the police response was disproportionate.
«It doesn’t have any sense to hit minors,» he said.
A masked protester throws an object amid clashes with French police during a demonstration in Paris on Tuesday. (Reuters)
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez on Tuesday defended policing methods used against high schoolers, saying the police response has been proportionate in «almost all cases.»
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano, Tyler Speicher, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Trump turns to emerging tech giant in multi-billion bid to ramp up US submarine production
The Trump administration is turning to a defense technology giant in a $6.6 billion effort to speed production of submarines as the U.S. struggles to keep pace with China’s vast shipbuilding capacity.
The ramp-up in production brings a Silicon Valley-style manufacturer into one of the Pentagon’s most troubled industrial bases as they fall behind expected pace of two Virginia-class attack submarines per year.
Anduril will build a more than 2-million-square-foot shipyard at Sparrows Point shipyard just outside of Baltimore to manufacture critical submarine components, eventually scaling up to large sections of the vessels. A senior administration official said the facility could add roughly 9 million labor hours a year, equivalent to about a 15% increase in submarine production capacity.
President Donald Trump will visit the shipyard on Tuesday afternoon to formally announce the new initiative in Baltimore alongside Anduril leadership.
NAVY SECRETARY WARNS SHIPYARDS MUST ‘ACT LIKE WE’RE AT WAR’ AS CHINA’S AI-POWERED FLEET RACES AHEAD
The investment takes aim at a problem the Navy has struggled for years to solve: shipyards are delivering roughly 1.3 Virginia-class submarines a year, well short of the Navy’s goal of two, even as demand for the nuclear-powered attack boats grows. The Navy currently projects reaching the two-per-year rate around 2032. It currently has 26 Virginia-class submarines and expects to add two more in the spring, according to a senior administration official.and
For the submarine project, Anduril plans to invest $3.7 billion of its own capital to build the facility, workforce and manufacturing capacity. The Navy could spend up to another $2.9 billion purchasing the resulting production.
The deal represents an unusual bet on a commercial model for fixing one of the Pentagon’s most stubborn industrial problems: Anduril will risk billions of dollars of its own capital building new submarine production capacity, while the Navy pays for what the company can successfully produce.
«I wouldn’t say that the government’s paying us back. We feel the government [is] buying the results of what we’re able to produce,» an industry official told reporters of the deal.
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The deal also deepens Anduril’s growing relationship with the Pentagon just days after War Secretary Pete Hegseth tapped company founder Palmer Luckey, along with Elon Musk and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to launch Project Meridian — a 120-day study of how future wars will be fought and what weapons and technologies the U.S. military will need.
The arrangement puts Luckey in a position to help shape recommendations about the Pentagon’s future technology needs as the company he founded expands its own business selling weapons and other systems to the department. Project Meridian does not have procurement authority, and the Pentagon has said «appropriate» safeguards will be used to address potential conflicts of interest.
Anduril will work under General Dynamics Electric Boat and alongside HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding, initially producing components that have become bottlenecks in the construction of new Virginia-class boats.
Among the first will be torpedo tubes , which a senior administration official described as a current «gating component» holding up production. The official said getting those tubes earlier could allow the Navy to move.
Anduril has already begun work on torpedo tubes at a facility in California and plans to shift that production to Baltimore as the new shipyard, dubbed Arsenal-2, comes online. The company eventually hopes to move from individual components to complex modules and large sections of submarines.
«We just need new production capacity,» an industry official said. «We need to grow the maritime industrial base, the submarine industrial base, so that we can produce more submarines.»
The company plans to build Arsenal-2 around software, automation and digital manufacturing to break historically complex shipbuilding work into simpler tasks that can be done without years of shipyard experience.
The push comes as the Navy faces growing pressure to expand the attack-submarine fleet while also preparing to transfer Virginia-class submarines to Australia under the AUKUS security pact. Meeting those commitments will require the industrial base not only to reach the Navy’s longstanding two-per-year goal, but eventually move beyond it.
Arsenal-2 is expected to create 3,100 direct jobs and another 11,000 indirect jobs nationwide. Anduril expects the Baltimore facility to begin operations around 2030, though the company said production of some submarine components is beginning now in California.
The approach will still have to clear the certification and safety requirements that govern nuclear submarine construction. Anduril acknowledged that it will have to prove it can meet those standards before graduating from individual components to increasingly complex sections of the boats.
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