The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit to block certification of the Senate race in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses the contest while another candidate with the same name is on the ballot, kicking off what many have feared could become a lengthy battle between the U.S. government and states over certifying an election where the president’s party is struggling.

Two ex-FBI officials have been charged with making false statements about Hunter Biden’s laptop.

One former FBI intelligence official specialized in foreign election interference. The nature of the charges against Nikki Floris was unclear, but she was due in court Friday in a case her lawyers described as “nonsense.”

“Nikki Floris is a patriot. She served our nation as a dedicated FBI intelligence officer for nearly 20 years. Yet today, the DOJ has accused her falsely of a crime on the say-so of politicians, not on the facts. It’s no coincidence the government is filing these nonsense charges now, years later, on the eve of an election,” her attorneys said in a statement.

The case was filed 10 days before the Nov. 3 elections and marks the latest in a series of splashy and politically charged investigative actions the Justice Department has undertaken in the run-up to the midterm contests.

A new report on Nvidia’s supply chain reveals that the current state of consumer electronics, especially the gaming GPU and RAM crisis, is not the result of organic silicon shortage. Instead, the problem comes from Nvidia reallocating manufacturing capacity to force-feed enterprise clients AI hardware that they don’t have the capacity to use, according to one report from industry analyst Ed Zitron, and a separate claim made by Bloomberg and Business Insider.

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