On the eve of the nation's 250th birthday, the president used his clemency power to erase criminal convictions for defeating vehicle pollution controls and to free a fraud-convicted political supporter, completing a broader rollback of emissions enforcement.

The daughter of jailed former strongman Alberto Fujimori won by roughly 50,000 votes out of 18 million, and her defeated rival is alleging fraud, in a country that has churned through nearly a president a year since 2016.

Among the powers the Constitution gives the president, few are stated so briefly or reach so far.

A U.S. district judge ruled the Postal Service's proposed mail-ballot rule violates a 2021 settlement requiring priority handling of election mail, and nine Democratic governors are now pressing USPS to withdraw it.

A foreign government gave the U.S. a jumbo jet now flying as Air Force One, taxpayers paid to convert it, and the plan is to hand it to a foundation Trump controls after he leaves office, testing century-old rules meant to keep presidents from being bought.

The first formal state-level accusation against Kyiv over the Baltic pipeline attack heads for a Hamburg trial this autumn, testing a charge Ukraine denies and straining ties with its biggest military backer.

An exoneree won a clerk's office, the legislature abolished it, the state's top lawyer was indicted for threatening the officials who fought back, and the whole case collapsed inside a day, with a governor promising to pardon his own attorney general.

The decision, reported by an Israeli outlet and the Palestinian Authority's news agency alike, moves settlement expansion from the informal ground reality to a formal, state-level act astride the road Palestinians would need for a contiguous state.

A divided appeals court held that spy agencies broke their own rules and violated due process when they fired 19 career officers, even as the acting intelligence chief was reported to be removing dozens more as alleged "deep state."

As ICE arrests hit a reported record pace, a federal appeals court set a constitutional limit on detention and an unpublished coroner's file exposed the human cost inside the system.