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The United States won permanent basing, overflight and undersea rights across Greenland and a bar on Chinese and Russian installations, while Denmark and Greenland kept sovereignty on paper and locked a future independent Greenland into the same deal.

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Haiti won independence from France in 1804, the first country in history to free itself from slavery through a successful uprising.

CNN, MS NOW and Politico filed a three-count complaint asking a federal judge to switch their reporters' credentials back on, and the count most likely to decide it is not the First Amendment claim everyone is quoting.

The United States promised in 1947 not to impede travel to the United Nations, and this month it barred the Palestinian delegation while admitting the president of a country it is at war with.

Haiti could not try the murder of its own president, so eighteen suspects were flown to Florida under statutes that reach the plot only because it was built on American soil.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly listing where it holds detainees with final removal orders, and because a habeas petition must be filed where a person is confined, a lawyer who cannot find a client cannot file for one.

A federal appeals court held that switching maps between the primary and the general election violates Article I, Section 2, then paused itself until September 28 so the Supreme Court could decide before ballots make the question moot.

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Trump signed a sanctions law that locks in thousands of existing designations but leaves the new tariff powers, and every waiver, in his own hands.