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2026
- US Government Takes Equity Stakes in Critical Minerals Companies: How Washington's Approach Compares With China and the EU
- Federal Hiring After the Cuts: Strategic Hiring Committees, a One-for-Four Rule and 8,000 Jobs Moved to Schedule Policy-Career
- US Russia Sanctions Move in Both Directions as the EU's 22nd Package and Britain's 600 Tankers Carry the Load
- GAO Finds New Impoundment Violations as the House Proposes a 25% Cut to Congress's Watchdog
- FedRAMP 20x Reaches 538 Certified Cloud Services on a $10 Million Budget, While Europe Still Has No Common Cloud Certification
- DOE Genesis Mission Picks 278 AI Science Projects as Data Center Deals Advance on Federal Land
- Supreme Court Strikes Down IEEPA Tariffs: $122 Billion in Refunds and the Section 301 and 232 Tariffs That Replaced Them
- US Tax Take Stays at 25.6% of GDP as the OECD Average Hits a Record 34.1%, and Pillar Two Carves Out US Companies
- US Court Throws Out 4chan's Suit Against Britain's Ofcom, but Offshore Online Safety Fines Still Go Unpaid
- GSA OneGov AI Deals Move Past $1 Pricing as Federal Procurement Consolidates and the FAR Is Rewritten
- US Cyber Information-Sharing Law Runs on Stopgaps While the EU Cyber Resilience Act Reporting Clock Starts
- DOE's Office of Energy Dominance Financing Shifts Federal Energy Loans to Nuclear, Gas and the Grid
- DOE Emergency Orders Keep Coal Plants Open as a Court Rules Against the Campbell Order and FERC Delays Data Center Rules
- US Government Funded to December 11 After a Year of Record Shutdowns
- Federal AI Preemption vs State Laws: Colorado Retreats, California Holds and Congress Stalls
- EU Cloud and AI Development Act Could Shut US Cloud Providers Out of Sensitive Public Contracts
- US CLOUD Act vs EU Law: The Data Privacy Framework Survives Its First Court Test as US Cloud Giants Build Sovereign Versions
- Permitting Reform Compared: The US Rewrites NEPA, Britain Passes Its Planning Act and the EU Proposes Deadlines With Tacit Approval
- Semiconductor Export Controls Fragment: Nvidia H200 Licences Stall, Nexperia Splits and China Targets Japan
- Pocket Rescissions Explained: How a 1974 Law Against Nixon's Impoundments Became the 2025-26 Budget Fight
- US-China Trade Truce Extended to January 10, 2027: What Each Side Has Suspended and What Is Still in Force
- US Visa Bans and Tariff Threats Meet Europe's Digital Services Act Fines on X and Temu
- DOGE Ends as GAO Calls Its $110 Billion Savings Claim Unreliable and the Federal Workforce Shrinks 11%
- The US Still Has No National Digital ID, So OMB Orders Agencies Onto Login.gov Within Two Years
- US Threatens to Pull Buy American Waivers as Europe Writes 'Buy European' Into Defence Spending
- As Washington Fights the States Over AI Rules, the EU Delays Its High-Risk AI Act Obligations to December 2027
- Five Eyes Under Strain: Allies Limit Intelligence Sharing With Washington Case by Case
- Why Government IT Projects Fail: HealthCare.gov, the FBI's Virtual Case File and the Lessons From Phoenix, Horizon and Robodebt
- US Debt Limit of $41.1 Trillion Expected to Bind in 2027: How Denmark, Germany and the EU Handle Borrowing Limits
- A US Export Rule Split Nexperia in Two: Dutch Court Probe, Chinese Asset Freeze and a Deal With India's Tata
- US Federal Workforce Shrinks by 11% While Britain's Civil Service Stays Near a 20-Year High
- US-Japan Critical Minerals Pact Moves Toward Price Floors as China Squeezes Japan's Rare Earth Supply
- Statistics Agencies Under Strain: BLS After the Firing, ONS After the Review, and Argentina's Shelved Inflation Index
- GSA's $50 Billion Multiple Award Schedule vs Britain's G-Cloud: Two Ways to Buy Government Technology
- Chip Subsidies Compared: US Takes an Intel Stake, EU Drafts Chips Act 2.0, Japan Funds Rapidus and Korea Legislates
- GAO 2026 Duplication Report: $774 Billion Saved Since 2011, $100 Billion Still on the Table, and $186 Billion in Improper Payments
- US Spends 3.17% of GDP on Defence While Five NATO Allies Pass 3.5% in the Alliance's 2026 Estimates
- California High-Speed Rail Loses Its Federal Grants as Britain's HS2 Resets at Up to £102.7 Billion
- Second Avenue Subway vs Madrid Metro: Why New York Pays Over Ten Times the Global Average per Mile
- GAO 2025 High-Risk List: 38 Federal Programs, 10 Improved, 3 Got Worse
- NATO's Ankara Summit Kept the Text Short for Washington: €70 Billion for Ukraine and a $40 Billion Counter-Drone Push