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The Financial Times has reported that four federal agencies pushed to have Megaspeed blacklisted by the Commerce Department run by Howard Lutnick, but the latter did not do so.
From Barron's ● Nov. 15, 2026
As a result, air-traffic control competes with other federal spending priorities, and it faces operational trade-offs between efficiency and safety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the US government's closure of a historic golf course and park in Washington DC.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
A federal judge temporarily barred the Trump administration from closing a Washington, D.C. public golf course for a planned overhaul to turn it into a championship-level course.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2026
On the all-important question of sovereignty, the same artfully contrived ambiguity also obtained: Sovereignty did not reside with the federal government or the individual states; it resided with “the people.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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