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Brazil cut clear-cutting in the Amazon to 3,335 square kilometres in the year to July, a record low credited to restored enforcement, though the preliminary figure leaves out fire and degradation and its survival may turn on the October 25 runoff.

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The leaked list does not prove that anyone bought a favor, but it shows how much money moved from companies with business before the government into an account the president controls, through an arrangement designed to keep the public from checking.

Metre Convention states meeting in Versailles adopted a continuous UTC that lets atomic time drift up to an hour from Earth's rotation, removing a recurring source of computer outages and a never-tested negative leap second, while Russia's GLONASS, astronomers, and a deferred "leap hour" carry the costs.

HHS wants pharmacies to start compounding peptides that FDA's own scientists found little or no human evidence for, and it is reaching for the one legal tool that skips both public comment and the evidence test the bulks list was built on.

The Government Accountability Office found ICE officers unsure when to record and never disciplined for failing to, and recommended cameras that switch on when a weapon is drawn, a control CBP already uses, but the Department of Homeland Security rejected it as a risk to privacy and operations.

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Oracle's Project Jupiter and Meta's El Paso campus are building their own gas-fed power plants that could release up to 10 million tons of greenhouse gases a year, more than El Paso and Hudspeth counties emitted in 2019, through permit and utility channels that never weigh those emissions against New Mexico's or El Paso's climate goals.

A unanimous panel held that a state cannot require federal officers to display their names or badge numbers, even when it imposes the same rule on its own police, leaving a growing wave of state and city laws on the wrong side of a two-century-old doctrine.

A Trump-appointed judge who twice ruled narrowly on process has now found the President's own words, not national security, explain the press ban, and the government's appeal must get past a line the D.C. Circuit itself drew.