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Congress wrote an exception into the Equal Credit Opportunity Act in 1976 that let lenders build credit programs around race, a Regulation B amendment closed it to for-profit lenders in April, and August's seven-agency rescission, which the Federal Reserve declined to join, largely ratified a wind-down that had already happened.

The widely repeated claim that roughly 400 FAA radar technicians were cut does not survive the agency's own documents, but the FAA's first published technician workforce plan says the $12.5 billion modernization will increase the workload on a workforce it cannot fully staff today.

The chief executive and board chairman of the company that runs the last conventional uranium mill in the United States, about a mile from the old Bears Ears boundary, bought roughly a million dollars of their own stock in the week before President Trump reopened 1.24 million acres to mining, and this week a reopened federal lawsuit put those trades into the court record.

A federal judge found that a statute Congress wrote to stop foreign saboteurs was used to punish a contractor for criticizing the government in public, and that the Department of Defense could have gotten the thing it actually wanted, a different AI vendor, lawfully at any time.

Police agencies in ten states spent opioid settlement money on license plate cameras the settlement's own approved-use schedules never mention, and no authority has been asked whether that was allowed.

Meta settled with 52 attorneys general eight days into trial, agreeing to rebuild its teen products and pay for a decade, and in doing so left untested the design-defect theory that got the case to a jury in the first place.

Today's stories and the historical context you need to understand them, in one audio briefing from AskWhy.News.

Venezuela occupies the Caribbean coast of South America and sits on one of the largest accumulations of crude oil ever found.

The relationship now popularly described as a blank cheque began with an American arms embargo.