Today’s edition of quick hits.

* A criminal case worth watching: “An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has been criminally indicted after he struck a man with his car while pursuing him in Houston earlier this month, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said Friday. … It is the first such indictment of an ICE officer in Texas.”

* Israeli election results: “The final vote count in Israel’s election, released early Friday local time, confirmed that neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right coalition nor the main opposition alliance won enough votes to form a government. The result sets the stage for weeks of jockeying and political uncertainty.”

* The first such strike in over a week: “Ukrainian drones struck a large oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region on Friday, according to a Ukrainian defense company, just a few days ahead of the U.S. midterm elections and in defiance of Washington’s pressure to halt such operations as President Donald Trump hopes to stabilize diesel prices ahead of the vote.”

* The 9th Circuit tells Team Trump want it didn’t want to hear: “A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Justice Department’s request for California to set aside disputed ballots received in the midterm election.”

* Quite a day on Wall Street: “A sell-off in artificial intelligence stocks accelerated on Friday, as investors fretted about whether the industry’s debt-fueled spending spree still justified such high share prices. The tech-heavy Nasdaq index dropped 3 percent on the last trading session of the month. Intel plunged 30 percent after the chipmaker reported financial results that fell short of Wall Street’s expectations. The shares of Amazon, Nvidia and other tech giants also fell.”

* The latest in the golf course case: “A federal judge who has openly sparred with government attorneys throughout the case of a D.C. golf course is launching a formal inquiry into their conduct to determine if they misrepresented President Trump’s plans, which he has publicly announced on social media.”

* The practical consequences of moves such as these are too often devastating: “The State Department intends to shift up to $125 million in foreign aid to defray soaring energy costs, including nearly $49 million that Congress had appropriated to supply contraception to women in low-income countries, according to a memo sent to lawmakers last month. The memo, obtained by The New York Times, invoked a provision of the Foreign Assistance Act that allows the president to divert certain aid funds to address ‘unanticipated contingencies.’”

* Following up on earlier reporting on the latest Pentagon purge: “The Pentagon said Thursday that it has made a criminal referral in an alleged leak case, claiming the ouster of a top general was necessary ‘to protect sensitive information.’ The unusual announcement followed reports by The Washington Post and others that Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia had been abruptly removed from his job as director for strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Staff. In that role he reported to Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.”

Have a safe weekend.

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