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Reuters, the Telegraph and Ukrainian officials all trace the speed cap on Ukraine's drones to the White House; the denials cover only the president, and nobody has said who did it.

Democratic committee staff say the President's drug-company holdings rose to as much as $56.2 million as he signed a Medicare carveout worth billions to some of those companies, and the disclosure forms can confirm the overlap but not the motive.

Seven Republican attorneys general and one Democrat are suing OpenAI under decades-old deception statutes, betting that what the company told parents about safety can do what Congress has not.

A day after asking a judge to hold back 20,000 California ballots, the Justice Department told the officials who run the count that doing their state-law duty could make them federal criminals, on a theory with no known prosecution of an election worker behind it, issued three weeks before a vote the department's own manual says it should generally avoid interfering with.

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

Vargas sent men into the forest to tap it. The generals sent them in to clear it.

An executive order suspended nearly every new Russia sanction and tariff before any took effect, and the law Congress wrote gives it no vote to stop that.

USDA tried this once before, in 2019, and most of the people it moved quit. This time a court read the spending law the department said it only had to mention, and the fight now runs to the Ninth Circuit and to a December 11 funding deadline.

Two weeks before trial, federal prosecutors in Manhattan agreed to drop foreign-agent charges against a former CIA analyst accused of working for South Korea's spy agency if she keeps clear of its officers for a year, and they have not said why.