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The Secretary of the Air Force confirmed that American weapons are deployed in space and refused to say anything else about them, a first that is lawful under a 1967 treaty written to stop a different weapon.

The Pentagon's watchdog says the war has cost $33.4 billion and drained munitions stockpiles; Congress's own scorekeeper says $38 billion and reports the Department would not answer its questions, while the Senate has put off any war funding vote until after November.

A federal watchdog has confirmed for the first time that detainees at Florida's Everglades detention site were held in metal enclosures of about eighteen square feet, and found that no one could say which detention rules governed the place.

The Senate refused to take up the crypto bill the President had personally negotiated, and the three Republicans who broke ranks were worried about community banks, not about his $1.4 billion.

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A federal judge in Boston postponed the four-year cap on student visas hours before it took effect, finding the government's national security rationale "borders on the absurd," but he blocked the rule on how it was written rather than on whether it could be written at all.

Houthi forces took Yemen's entire Red Sea coast and the islands inside the Bab al-Mandeb strait between September 3 and 14, and a drone strike closed the Saudi pipeline built to route around the other chokepoint, pushing Brent past $108 and American diesel to a record $6.23.

EPA has repealed most of the 2024 carbon limits on coal and gas power plants and proposed scrapping the rest, claiming $310 billion in savings from a model that by its own terms ignores environmental quality.

Joe diGenova subpoenaed former CIA Director John Brennan to a Fort Pierce grand jury and resigned the next day, and the venue, the staffing and the fight that preceded it say more about this case than any charge yet filed.

Senate Republicans filed text the president agreed to, barring officials from issuing or sponsoring digital assets, but its definitions leave the token holdings, the stablecoin business and the new trust bank outside the rule.