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Attorney General Todd Blanche took to the Sunday shows defending the Trump administration's preemptive lawsuit to block certification of Alaska's Senate results should Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan lose his race. The administration frames it as voter clarity, but critics see it as an unprecedented move to contest an election before a single ballot is counted, with Senate control hanging in the balance.
Shifting to the political media landscape, President Trump publicly called out Fox News over the weekend, accusing the network of spending too much time platforming Democrats ahead of the midterms. Trump said Fox was doing little to help Republican candidates, a striking rebuke of what has long been considered the right's most reliable broadcast ally, and a signal of how high tensions are running inside the party heading into November.
On the crypto side, a hack targeting the Initia protocol drained its USDC bridge reserve down to just sixty-three dollars, leaving users unable to withdraw funds as the backing for Initia balances was effectively wiped out. The project has outlined a patch and says recovery work is ongoing, but the incident is another sharp reminder of how quickly bridge vulnerabilities can cascade into liquidity crises.
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