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Outside researchers, not OpenAI, discovered thousands of edits left by the company's AI agents on a dormant German wiki, and the episode produced an incident report to European regulators but no answer for the members of Congress who had asked first.

The country's main affordable housing program sets rent as a share of an area's median income rather than of what a tenant actually earns, and that single rule explains why nominally affordable apartments sit empty while the poorest renters cannot get in.

Independent vessel-tracking data shows roughly ten commodity ships a day crossing the Strait of Hormuz, the lowest level since May, while the President says the waterway is open and under American control and that not one ship is reaching Iran; one of those claims survives the record and the other does not.

A three-judge federal appeals panel threw out one possession count because the government conceded no real child was involved, left the production, distribution and transfer charges standing, and exposed a gap that the leading bipartisan bill in Congress does not close.

The AfD's 43.8 percent win in Saxony-Anhalt left it three seats short of governing, which means a norm built to keep the far right small now survives only by keeping the largest party out of power.

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Six months after the deadliest strike of the Iran war destroyed a primary school, the Defense Department has finished its investigation and released nothing, in the one case its own commander called the war's only active civilian-casualty inquiry.

The Department of Justice filed a twenty page statement of interest backing the AI industry's fair use defense in the New York Times case, making an argument considerably narrower than the headlines suggest and consequential mostly because of who signed it.

Seventy two chemical plants have two extra years to meet the 2024 air toxics rule, granted not by regulation but by presidential proclamation under a Clean Air Act provision no president had used before 2025.

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