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On April 29 the Supreme Court reconstructed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to require near-proof of intent; eight days later Tennessee enacted a map dividing Memphis across three districts, and a unanimous federal panel found nothing in the new standard that stopped it.

Rand Paul's committee ruled that Biden's pardon stripped Fauci of the Fifth Amendment and voted along party lines to hold him in contempt, but the pardon cannot reach testimony given in 2026, and the referral Paul says he will hand-deliver is not the certification federal law describes.

The headline was a 15 percent tariff, but the instrument that actually reshapes the market is a set of minimum import prices that abolish price competition outright, and they take effect on December 4, after the midterms.

The Interior Department is paying the German utility RWE $1.22 billion to give up three offshore wind leases, the fifth such deal of 2026 and part of roughly $3.9 billion in payments made after federal courts struck down every stop-work order the administration had issued.

Registered blasphemy cases and blasphemy riots in Pakistan have dropped sharply since the army-led ban on the country's largest anti-blasphemy party, an improvement produced to protect a trade preference and a relationship with Washington, and delivered by methods that carry their own cost.

A proposed rule would strike more than 1,400 federal regulatory provisions governing Head Start and let state licensing set ratios and standards instead, and the savings and enrollment figures the administration announced are larger than the ones in the rule's own impact analysis.

A Government Accountability Office report finds 2,503 contracts listed as terminated on which no termination action was taken, 108 lease cancellations already underway before DOGE existed, and $1.7 billion in claimed savings on a Pentagon contract everyone agreed to leave alone.

The FCC voted 2-1 to scrap the rule barring any one company from reaching more than 39 percent of US television households, and the legal fight turns on a second thing Congress did in 2004: it took the cap out of the review process that lets the agency change ownership rules on its own.

A single interagency determination is all the statute requires, and the published evidence behind the two new listings is stronger for the robots than for the inverters that prompted the loudest alarm.

The only office with authority to discipline Justice Department lawyers has lost nearly half its staff and its fired director has not been replaced, and it opened fewer new investigations last fiscal year than in any year in two decades, even as complaints against DOJ attorneys reached a record.