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A Kremlin-connected boxing official with business before Washington paid for the president's son's wedding celebrations through a Dubai entity, and because Donald Trump Jr. holds no office, the only check left is a Senate committee whose Republican chair has not decided whether to use it.

Fighting has spread from Tigray into Afar and Amhara, and the 2022 peace deal is dead in practice because neither side that signed it carried out the terms that bound it.

The judge who tried her found her innocent and the prosecutor conceded evidence was withheld, but an unsigned five-judge order replaced their findings with its own, and federal law now tells every later court to presume those findings correct.

The White House is spending public money to air three spots about the president, and under the tests Congress's own auditor applies, the disclosure label it points to settles only the one question nobody was asking.

Court files show the maker of the weedkiller paraquat held studies on skin absorption, worker exposure and brain damage that it never gave the federal regulator whose approval may now shield it in court, and the regulator has not acted on them.

A divided appeals panel let Ohio again require citizenship papers from people registering at the BMV before the October 5 deadline, but it ruled on who sued and when, not on whether federal law allows the rule, a question the only other appeals court to try it answered against Kansas.

A federal appeals court ruled that a bet on a ballgame is not a Wall Street swap, so states can police Kalshi like any other sportsbook, and the Supreme Court is now being asked who gets the final say.

Eritrea began as an Italian project. From 1869 the territory came "under Italian control as part of the so-called 'Scramble for Africa' among European powers," and in 1882 it became an Italian colony (BBC News).

A proposed bill from Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar would create a Department of Artificial Intelligence, outlaw superintelligence under threat of 20-year prison terms, and, less noticed, freeze training of every large AI model already on the market until that department says it is ready.

Social Security mostly pays for itself through its own payroll tax. Defense, health insurance, interest and roads compete for the same general revenue, and defense counted whole took nearly 38 cents of every general-revenue dollar.