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Two senior counterterrorism agents were reassigned after concluding that calls to a top White House aide's wife did not warrant an FBI case, and the bureau and the White House now give different answers about who made that call.

A campaign that replaced arrest with lethal force has now killed more than two hundred people, spread into Ecuador's waters under an immunity deal, and drawn the same "extrajudicial killing" label the State Department uses for the Philippine drug war.

The justices let DHS resume Social Security-powered citizenship checks of voter rolls, saying federal law still allows "individualized inquiries" before November, but they never said what counts as individualized, and the last appeals court to apply that word to SAVE called bulk matching systematic.

The White House timed an $810 million cancellation request so the money expires before Congress can vote on it, a manoeuvre Congress's own auditor has called illegal and no court has ever ruled lawful.

A Santa Fe jury found nearly 44 million willful violations of the state consumer-fraud law, and the penalty, anywhere from modest to $219 billion, is now a judge's call.

A federal judge in Manhattan has permanently capped and regulated the ICE holding rooms at 26 Federal Plaza after finding the agency held people for days in inhumane conditions to push them to self-deport, then misled the court about complying with his orders.

A federal appeals court held that a 2018 law lets the Pentagon treat a vendor's openly disclosed limits on its product as a national-security risk, whatever the vendor's motives, leaving Anthropic barred from defense work under one statute while a California judge's ruling protects it under another.

Today's stories and the historical context you need to understand them, in one audio briefing from AskWhy.News.

Today's stories and the historical context you need to understand them, in one audio briefing from AskWhy.News.