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Italy's Senate gave the government 12 months to write the rules for small modular reactors, but the law funds no plant, only weighs creating a regulator, and sends every siting and cost decision into decrees that land around a 2027 election.

A committee made up mostly of rival politicians voted to remove both Arab-majority slates from Israel's election and let the far right run, and the Supreme Court, which has reversed nearly every such ban for two decades, must rule within days.

Federal judges keep ordering immigration courts to give detained people a real hearing on release, and in more than 100 cases they have found that the immigration judges, who work for the Justice Department, did not.

Hungary's parliament voted 139-0 to lift the immunity of two former Orban ministers accused of multibillion-forint graft, and of Prime Minister Peter Magyar in a minor case, turning post-Orban accountability from raids into detentions and testing whether it runs on courts or on political choreography.

With the fiscal year ending, 92 lawmakers say HHS had spent almost none of the teen pregnancy prevention money Congress ordered, a judge stopped the money from expiring, and the fight is now over whether HHS is spending it the competitive way the law requires.

The Federal Trade Commission's chairman says the agency will stop trying conduct and consumer-protection cases before its own judges, a retreat the courts partly forced and partly did not, announced without a vote or a rule.

Washington removed the 1964 rule that let schools be judged by the effects of their policies and then told them that trying to shrink racial gaps in discipline is itself discrimination, while fourteen attorneys general answered that effects-based liability is still lawful under state law, setting up schools that must answer to two governments giving opposite instructions.

The Government Accountability Office says the department has stopped systematically checking whether states follow the rules for Title I, the largest federal program for high-poverty schools, and cannot say when it will start again, even as it hands the program's staff and payments to another agency.

Nineteen weeks in, Congo's Ebola outbreak has recorded about twice the confirmed cases West Africa's epidemic had at the same point, and the shortages now holding the response back include the partner programs and surveillance that Washington stopped paying for in 2025.

A federal finding against UC San Francisco turns three decades of California's race-neutral admissions workarounds into evidence of intent, and the first court to test it will decide what the Supreme Court's 2023 ruling left open.