A federal judge granted the Justice Department's request to close the landmark Proud Boys prosecution, saying separation of powers gave him no basis to keep a case the executive branch had chosen to abandon.

The Justice Department is compelling four Times journalists to testify about their Air Force One reporting while, on a separate front, the paper is suing a civil rights agency it says targeted it for its coverage.

In his first message since his father's funeral, Iran's unseen new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to avenge Ali Khamenei's killing, hours after President Trump threatened to "completely decimate" Iran if he is assassinated and Washington demanded Tehran declare the Strait of Hormuz open to all shipping.

The government has finalized a rule so that destroying or degrading a listed species' habitat no longer counts as prohibited "harm," a change that reaches logging, mining, drilling and development, and that will almost certainly be fought in court.

Apple's complaint alleges a systematic scheme to poach engineers and extract confidential hardware secrets, claims OpenAI denies and a court has not tested.

A trade secret is business information that derives independent economic value from not being generally known and that its owner takes reasonable measures to keep secret.

A United Nations investigative body has found that the Rapid Support Forces' atrocities in el-Fasher amount to genocide, a heavier legal charge than the crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing documented earlier, and one that activates the Genocide Convention's duty to prevent, sharpens the questions facing the states arming the RSF, and adds weight to cases building at the International Criminal Court.

President Trump fired the last members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, the small federal agency created after the 2000 election to help states run their elections, leaving all four seats empty four months before the midterms and pointing to the Supreme Court's new removal-power ruling as his authority.

After renewed US-Iran strikes, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed toward zero on the US-backed route, and because roughly a fifth of the world's oil and gas normally passes through the 21-mile waterway, the near-closure of one narrow channel is reverberating through global energy markets far beyond the Gulf.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says the purchase closes a "strategic gap," bringing long-range, ground-launched missiles back to German soil for the first time since the Cold War.