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The title is older than the problem it now names. In the winter of 1778, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, a Prussian officer who had made his way to Washington's camp at Valley Forge, began drilling a hundred man…

The Bureau of Prisons went to the market for FDA-authorized nicotine pouches, then made a brand the FDA has never authorized the only one its commissaries could stock, with no solicitation and no signed contract.

An airman's widow was told her husband's combat pay and tax breaks did not apply because the country was not at war; the money never depended on that word, but whether Congress gets a vote still does.

The president has ordered a delisting determination the law says must rest solely on the best available science, on a deadline the science cannot meet, at an agency that has lost roughly a third of its people since 2024.

A grand jury indicted ICE officer Christian Castro on six counts of lying about a Minneapolis shooting the Department of Homeland Security had publicly defended, but the prosecutor who pushed for civil rights charges was overruled by Washington, fired, and is now under investigation himself.

The rule bars an adviser from being paid to manage a government's money for two years after a political contribution to an official who influences hiring, and the Commission now says it is not the nation's elections regulator, while leaving the identical restriction in force for everyone but advisers.

Missouri's Supreme Court held unanimously that a referendum petition suspended the state's Trump-backed congressional map before it ever took effect, and Maryland's top court cleared a Democratic map-drawing amendment for the ballot, putting the same century-old question to two states from opposite directions.

The Inspector General substantiated misuse of travel funds and a hostile workplace, and in the same report described senior aides investigating who was cooperating with the watchdog and running termination lists past the department's White House Liaison.

Sitting as a full court, the Fifth Circuit held that neither freedom from municipally supplied contaminated water nor truthful information from public officials is a right deeply rooted in American history, wiping out an earlier panel decision and splitting openly with the Sixth Circuit's Flint rulings.

In January 2025 a surgical team in Boston sewed a kidney taken from a pig into a 66-year-old man in kidney failure, and the organ worked.