DOJ emergency bid to block 20,000 California ballots, West Bank closure, DeepSeek $15B ra…
The Justice Department filed an emergency motion to stop the counting of about 20,000 California ballots it says were cast by noncitizens, also petitioning the Ninth Circuit to discard them outright. India banned ethanol production from sugarcane to protect food prices as sugar output falls short. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup affected by a U.S. ban, raised $15 billion in a round led by Tencent and CATL just two days later.
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