The election campaign officially kicked off over the weekend with the two main parties, but honestly, it feels like we've been in campaign mode for years now. National and Labour gathered their party faithful in their respective happy places: the swanky International Convention Centre for the blue team, Dew Drop Events Centre in South Auckland for the red team. Both had their party heavyweight champions in their corners: John Key and Bill English in the blue corner, Helen and Peter Clark in the red

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Today, Hoover announces a major new initiative to comprehensively transcribe the Richard Nixon White House tapes, offering unparalleled insight into the decision-making of the 37th president; a new explainer offers an overview of California’s ballot Proposition 4, concerning public financing of elections; and Barry Strauss outlines several lessons from the Iran War, drawing on his expertise in military history.Hoover Daily Report | September 30, 2026

On November 3, 2026, California voters face a critical policy decision on the statewide general election ballot: Proposition 4, officially titled the Allow Public Financing of Election Campaigns Measure (or the California Fair Elections Act of 2026).Proposition 4 is a legislatively referred state statute that seeks to repeal California’s longstanding constitutional/statutory prohibition, originally enacted by voters in 1988 under Proposition 73, against using public funds to finance political

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Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Filed: 2026-10-05 Docket: 5:25-CR-00091-SLP-1) The tenth-circuit granted the government’s motion to enforce an appeal waiver and dismissed the defendant’s appeal. The court applied the three-part standard from *United States v. Hahn*, requiring that the disputed appeal falls within the waiver’s scope, the defendant knowingly and voluntarily waived his appellate rights, and enforcement would not result in a miscarriage of

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Filed: 2026-10-05 Docket: 4:19-cv-00316-RSB-CLR The eleventh-circuit dismissed the appeal sua sponte for lack of jurisdiction because the notice of appeal was untimely. The court held that under 28 U.S.C. § 2107(a) and the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, the 30-day deadline to file a notice of appeal expired on December 28, 2020, following the entry of judgment on November 24, 2020. Although the petitioner is a pro se prisoner

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Filed: 2026-10-05 The Fifth Circuit affirmed the district court’s judgment imposing a 72-month prison sentence on Francisco Nova-Carrillo for illegal reentry in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1326(a) and (b). The court applied an abuse of discretion standard to review the defendant’s claim that the sentence was substantively unreasonable, noting that the district court had varied upward from the advisory guidelines range of 46 to 57