Friday, October 30, 2026 · Updated 8:20 AM
Lawyers for the former FBI director were due in a Washington courtroom Friday to argue that prosecutors filed charges too late and without a grand jury. The Justice Department says the filing was needed to beat a 10-year statute of limitations.
A federal judge refused to let the government hold ballots from up to 20,000 Californians it calls likely noncitizens, while Washington's top election official says a similar list of 400 names includes many citizens. The Justice Department says it will appeal.
Official results give Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc 53 of 120 Knesset seats and his main rival's bloc 48, short of the 61 needed to govern. Netanyahu's Likud party says, without evidence, that the vote was stolen, while election officials say they found no basis for claims of systematic violations.
The $65-a-share offer, announced Thursday, is a 26% premium over Instacart's price before talks leaked. Closing is not expected until late 2027 or early 2028 and depends on antitrust review.
With the midterms days away, the lead story is the Justice Department's third attempt to charge James Comey, whose lawyers argue in court today that it comes too late. A companion story covers the fight over federal lists of alleged noncitizen voters in California and Washington state, which bears directly on how ballots are counted. Abroad, Israel's inconclusive election is the day's biggest political story, and DoorDash's $17 billion deal for Instacart is the main business story, backed by the company's own filing. Briefs cover a record crypto theft, Alphabet's market drop, Italy's strikes, a Pentagon firing, Tennessee's lethal injection protocol and the death of Patrick Stewart.
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