USDA decided this food-safety research could wait

America has spent the summer learning far more about cyclospora than anyone wanted, so naturally this is when the federal government’s research operation has started losing the people who study it. The Guardian reported Sunday that two of the three US Department of Agriculture projects studying the foodborne parasite were defunded by Congress earlier this year.

Trump got a 6-3 answer on mail voting

Donald Trump won an important Supreme Court round Monday in his campaign to tighten mail-voting rules, but even the court that helped him made a point of not calling the whole thing legal. The justices voted 6-3 along ideological lines to lift a June injunction issued by a federal judge in Massachusetts.