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Today’s late coverage leads with a Ninth Circuit decision leaving California mail ballots in normal processing while a related dispute proceeds. A World report examines verified outages from Ukraine’s strikes on Yandex and finds insufficient evidence for claims of a sustained Russian bot shutdown.
2–1 Ninth Circuit Dismisses Bid to Segregate 20,000 California Ballots
A divided appeals court dismissed the Justice Department’s emergency attempt to segregate about 20,000 California mail ballots, leaving normal processing in place while a district judge prepares to hear the dispute.
Yandex Strikes Caused Outages, but Claims of a Russian Bot Shutdown Fall Short
Ukraine’s attacks on Yandex caused verified outages. A review of network data, independent research and Ukraine’s own monitoring finds limited evidence of brief disruption, but no proof of a sustained collapse in Russian influence operations.
