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The Pentagon has divided its count of Americans killed in the Iran war between two separate pages, so the running toll of a war still being fought no longer appears anywhere in one place.

Attackers reached the control systems of more than thirty Minnesota water utilities over two days in July, forcing several onto manual operation, and the reason a sector everyone calls critical was that exposed is a twenty-year argument nobody has settled.

The House Ways and Means Committee has ordered BreakThrough News to produce the identities of its foreign donors and its internal communications by August 7, using a tax-jurisdiction hook and a branch of government whose subpoenas the courts will rarely touch.

A resolution filed by Democrats and cosponsored by Rep. Thomas Massie would compel Speaker Mike Johnson to sue the administration for waging a war Congress has twice voted to end, using a legal theory built to fix the exact flaw that has sunk every previous war powers lawsuit.

For most of American history there was no federal law that said food had to be what it claimed to be.

The FCC ordered Disney to file renewal applications for ABC's eight owned stations years ahead of schedule, two years early for the earliest of them and as much as five for the latest, and on July 28 thirteen former FCC officials appointed by presidents of both parties told the Commission in its own docket that the proceeding is unprecedented and unconstitutional.

Roughly a third of a million people have been evacuated in France and Spain, but the satellite record shows the crisis is not continent-wide, and the reason France is the outlier has as much to do with accumulated fuel as with heat.

Thirteen months after arresting the head of SEIU California at an immigration raid under a Civil War era conspiracy statute, prosecutors walked away, which is neither the vindication his side claims nor the accountability the government describes.

A cyclospora outbreak has reached more than 18,000 confirmed or suspected cases nationwide with no reported deaths, and the fight over whether it is under control has exposed how thinly America oversees the fresh produce it urges people to eat.

The Endangered Species Act rests on a premise that had to be learned rather than reasoned out: that wild abundance is not self-renewing.