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- The White House says that on December 1, 2025, President Trump sent five names to the U.S. Senate to be checked and voted on: James Bishop for U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina (a 4‑year job, the document says), Megan Blair Benton for U.S. District Judge in Western Missouri, Christopher Michael De Bono for Associate Judge of the D.C. Superior Court (a 15‑year term, the document says), Brian Charles Lea for U.S. District Judge in Western Tennessee, and Justin R. Olson for U.S. District Judge in Southern Indiana. This affects the five people named, the courts where they would work, and people who live in those places because prosecutors and judges make decisions about criminal cases, lawsuits, and how laws are applied. The nominations must be approved by the Senate before the nominees can take the jobs, so the Senate’s action will decide whether these people get those posts. Read full document →
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The Department of Defense changed rules in 32 CFR part 161 so that, starting December 1, 2025, the word “gender” is replaced by “sex” and people cannot ask to change the “sex code” (previously called “gender marker”) in DEERS except if there was a clear administrative mistake; this affects members of the uniformed services, their spouses and dependents, retirees, and contractor employees who have DoD ID cards. The rule is effective December 1, 2025, and the public can send comments until January 30, 2026. This matters because DEERS is the system that holds military ID and benefit records, so the change affects how names and sex appear on ID cards and records that are used for medical care, commissary and exchange access, and other military benefits. Read full document →
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On Dec. 1, 2025, bank regulators changed the special leverage rule (the rule that says how much capital the very biggest banks must keep compared with their total size). Now those big bank holding companies must have a buffer equal to 50% of their “method 1” GSIB score (a number that measures how big and connected a bank is); their bank subsidiaries get the same 50% rule but that buffer is capped at 1%. The hard minimum leverage ratio stays 3%. This replaces the old extra buffers (the prior holding‑company buffer was 2% and some big bank subsidiaries had to meet 6% to be “well capitalized”). Banks can start using the new rule on Jan. 1, 2026 if they want, and must follow it by Apr. 1, 2026. This matters to everyday people because it may give giant banks more room to buy safe assets (like U.S. Treasury bills), trade and lend — which can help markets work — but it also means those banks may hold a bit less extra capital for losses, which could slightly affect bank safety and the deposit insurance system. Read full document →
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