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In the end, federal spending went up this year by 5.5% to $7.4 trillion.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Kao reflected on his time at Navatek in a deposition taken last month inside a federal prison.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2026
The amount of suspicious financial activity potentially linked to fraud against federal student aid programs, according to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Beforehand, more than a dozen of their loved ones milled around the federal courthouse in downtown L.A., antsy and clearly worried.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
One hundred miles northwest, in Atlanta’s federal penitentiary, the FBI finally gave up on trying to flip Rudolf Abel.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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