Israeli troops have begun handing the first southern Lebanese pilot zones to the Lebanese army as President Joseph Aoun brings Washington a plan to disarm Hezbollah, a real but fragile opening in a decades-old fight over who holds a monopoly on arms.

The Pentagon has told the Senate the war has cost $37.5 billion and needs $67 billion more, even as Houthi forces choke a second oil route and the fighting enters a fifth month with no authorization and no end in sight.

Federal officials moved the Hawaiian stilt from endangered to threatened after fifty years of predator control and wetland work, a genuine milestone that its own reviewers, and a still-fragile population, say is not yet a finish line.

The commission's Republican majority voted 2 to 1 to propose scrapping the EEO-1 report, the standardized race-and-sex-by-job-category count that has anchored systemic-discrimination enforcement since 1966.

Two years after the Supreme Court ended race-conscious admissions, the federal campaign has reached from the medical-school admissions office into the classroom, and universities and professors are fighting back on two very different legal grounds.

The reason a national forest can be leased for oil and gas is that American property law lets the surface of a piece of land and the minerals beneath it be owned separately.

The Department of Labor has withdrawn the Title VI rules that let federally funded programs be challenged for discriminatory effects rather than intent, one visible piece of a coordinated, executive-order-driven retreat from disparate-impact liability.

A leak investigation into how reporters learned the Qatari-gifted Air Force One lacks antimissile defenses has expanded to seek the call records of journalists' family members, testing the last guardrails that restrain the government from reaching into a newsroom.

For the first time since Congress built it in 1996, the Justice Department has filed a case in a secretive court that can deport noncitizens on classified evidence they are never allowed to see, testing how much due process the Constitution demands.

With his emergency-powers tariffs voided by the Supreme Court in February, the president reached for Section 338, a dormant Depression-era discrimination statute, to put an additional 50 percent duty on Canadian autos, alcohol, and cheese, and the untested legal theory is already headed for court.