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The FBI published indicators for two crews stealing companies' Salesforce data, one by phoning staff posing as IT support, the other with stolen Salesloft Drift tokens.

Executive Order 14352 declared a framework deal a qualified divestiture: TikTok's US app goes to a new US-majority joint venture, with Oracle as the security provider holding all US user data.

Anduril unveiled EagleEye on 13 October 2025 at AUSA in Washington, a family of AI-enabled mixed reality helmet, visor and glasses systems built on Lattice for the Army's SBMC program.

In the Oval Office, the White House announces a deal under which EMD Serono sells its IVF drugs Gonal-f, Ovidrel and Cetrotide at steep discounts through TrumpRx, plus a new standalone fertility benefit employers can offer.

On 22 October 2025 the Treasury's OFAC blocked Rosneft and Lukoil and their subsidiaries under Executive Order 14024, the first major US sanctions on Russia of Donald Trump's second term, forcing Lukoil to sell about $22 billion of foreign assets.

The presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda signed the Washington Accords for Peace and Prosperity at a ceremony hosted by Donald Trump, recommitting to the June 2025 peace agreement and a regional minerals-and-economy framework; the M23 rebels were not party to it.

The Fed, FDIC and OCC jointly requested comment on 19 March 2026 on three proposals that would overhaul US bank capital rules and implement the final Basel III standards, modestly reducing capital requirements for large banks.

Over three days in April 2026 the Recording Academy took artists to Capitol Hill, honoring Sen. Chris Coons and Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar for the NO FAKES Act and lobbying on AI protections.

At a maternal healthcare event in the Oval Office, Trump announces a proposed rule letting employers offer fertility benefits outside their health plans, a day after HHS launched moms.gov for expecting and new mothers.

The Federal Circuit affirmed without opinion a Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruling, won by Lululemon, that the challenged claims of Nike's patent on sharing recorded workouts to social networking sites are unpatentable.

A Federal Circuit panel of Judges Prost, Chen and Stark heard ParkerVision's appeal of the claim construction that ended its receiver-patent claims against Qualcomm.

Proclamation 11035 removed monument-based bans on commercial fishing in parts of Papahānaumokuākea beyond 50 nautical miles, the Islands Unit of the Mariana Trench monument and waters 12 to 50 nautical miles around Rose Atoll, for US-flagged vessels.

The Federal Reserve published its 2026 bank stress test results on 24 June 2026: all 32 banks tested stayed above minimum capital after more than US$708 billion of hypothetical losses.

Scotch and other UK whisky entered the US tariff-free from 24 July 2026, ending the 10% duty imposed in April 2025 on a market worth about £1 billion a year to UK distillers.

The Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruling, won by Lululemon, that every challenged claim of Nike's patent on a heart-rate and fitness watch console is unpatentable.

Gallup's 2026 Consumption Habits poll finds 54% of US adults drink for a second straight year, a record-low 13% say they sometimes drink too much, and 17% have had non-alcoholic beer, wine or spirits instead of a drink in the past year.

A 50% US duty on Canadian beer, wine, cider and spirits took effect after a three-day pause, in retaliation for provinces' boycott of American alcohol, and Canada suspended trade talks and vowed dollar-for-dollar countermeasures.

Executive Order 14430 makes marine recreational fishing a consideration in all federal ocean decisions and orders NOAA to replace mail-in catch surveys with app reporting and to use states' data where its own MRIP estimates are unreliable.

Treasury's OFAC extended the license that lets Lukoil negotiate and sign conditional deals for LUKOIL International from 19 September to 22 October 2026, with the Carlyle agreement still awaiting separate approval.

After Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins warned on 22 September 2026 that the draft order could undermine merit review, the White House dropped a plan for a panel to screen NIH grants, though it has not abandoned changing how research dollars are awarded.

Canadian spirits, wine and malt beer are barred from entering the US from 29 September 2026, escalating the 50% tariff into a near-total import ban over provinces' boycott of American alcohol.

Trump announced on October 4 that Jay Clayton would serve as AI czar and lead the Super Intelligence Force. The appointment supersedes the October 2 forecast; the task force was given 120 days to report on AI risks and opportunities.

The Association of the United States Army's annual meeting, which bills itself as North America's premier land-power exposition, fills the Walter E. Washington Convention Center from 12 to 14 October 2026 under the theme "America's Army: The Foundation of the Joint Force".

The one-year suspension of Section 301 fees on China-linked vessels expires at 11:59 p.m. ET on 9 November 2026 unless USTR publishes a new Federal Register notice, whatever the wider US-China truce says.

President Trump has said US tariffs on cars, trucks, auto parts and steel from Canada will rise to 50% on 1 January 2027, doubling the 25% now charged on Canadian autos, after trade talks collapsed in August.

The anime convention that began in State College, Pennsylvania in 1994 and spent 1999 to 2016 in Baltimore returns to Washington, D.C. for a three-day weekend in August.