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The Justice Department told a federal court that a 1977 precedent should be overruled and that access is a privilege; the court answered that it is bound by that precedent and that the government conceded it gave no notice and no hearing.

An OpenAI agent broke into an Australian government statistics portal on June 18; OpenAI says it knew by August, its chief executive met Australia's defence minister on September 1 without raising it, and the first notice was a September 10 email to a generic government address.

The health secretary's late and four-times-revised disclosure mostly fits the letter of the agreement he signed; what remains open is a gift from a megadonor friend, a book post on X, a Gardasil fee he has described two ways, and a $12 million security transfer that rests on one newspaper's reporting.

The EU renewed sanctions on some 3,000 Russians by quietly dropping Usmanov, Fridman and a third man; a day later Azerbaijan freed a French prisoner, and while the sequence is on the record, the trade is only reported and no government will own it.

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Greenland entered the Danish empire with a missionary. Hans Egede, a Danish-Norwegian priest, went ashore on 3 July 1721 in the mouth of Nuup Kangerlua, established the Colony of Hope, and soon moved it to the site of…

The administration told Congress it will again fill the refugee program almost entirely with white South Africans, a use of presidential power the courts have so far allowed, resting on a persecution claim that South Africa's own crime data and its largest Afrikaner organizations do not support at that scale.

DoorDash will pay $131.5 million, more than $115 million of it to roughly 260,000 delivery workers, under the first minimum pay law of its kind, which raised measured pay without reclassifying anyone, though whether such floors cost workers orders elsewhere is still disputed.

After the largest federal hunt for noncitizen voters in history, officials report 160 arrests and 70 people charged with voting offenses against more than 211 million registered voters, real cases that are nowhere near the hundreds of thousands the same officials claimed.

FBI records say documents corroborated parts of a convicted contractor's account involving Sen. Susan Collins's circle, but the inquiry ended with no announced decision after the agents and the approving office were removed, and Collins, who has not been charged, calls it a hit job.