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Pakistan hit ten Afghan sites after an alleged drone incursion, but a year of strikes has coincided with more militant violence in Pakistan, not less, and hundreds of verified civilian deaths in Afghanistan.

Prosecutors say a forensic software firm lied about who owned it on a federal self-certification form for three years, and the case shows that the government's tougher foreign-ownership checks never applied to it.

A Reagan-appointed judge ruled that Oklahoma likely cannot shut a Jewish school out of its charter program for being religious, a preliminary order built to carry the question the Supreme Court could not decide back to a full Court.

The Transportation Department has rewritten fuel economy standards down to about 34.9 miles per gallon by 2031, and the law that is supposed to demand the maximum feasible level now carries a fine of zero dollars.

A Nottingham-built nanopore test now being piloted at five English centres cuts a wait that could stretch to eight weeks to about two hours, matching the final diagnosis in nine of ten cases in its published study, though its effect on survival and cost has yet to be measured.

Mississippi law requires Board of Health members to recuse on the record from any department action that could benefit their businesses, and neither the members nor the state will say whether that happened.

A near-census survey found members of about 510,000 Mexican households were forced to move by violence or crime between 2020 and 2025, a harm that falling homicide numbers do not capture and that a displacement law stalled since 2020 was meant to address.

A clause in the federal rule lets states demand a doctor's paperwork from sick Medicaid enrollees a year early, and at least six states are using it, on a record that says the paperwork step, not the work rule, is where eligible people lose coverage.

Federal agents said they were not raiding workplaces in southwest Kansas, but fear kept packing crews home and U.S. cattle slaughter fell about 16 percent on the worst day.

The administration tried to use bomb squad and fusion center money to push paper ballots and citizenship checks, and a federal judge ruled the counterterrorism law Congress wrote never gave FEMA that lever.