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The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled a September 15 sale of oil-and-gas leases across 2,840 acres of the Wayne National Forest, the decisive step toward fracking Ohio's only national forest for the first time, on an environmental review that conservation groups are still fighting in court.

In a 6-3 ruling the Court erased the last major post-Watergate cap on how much party committees may spend hand in hand with their own candidates, overruling a 2001 precedent.

The Dutch government has finalized a decree that, from September 22, makes it illegal to import, sell, or broker goods from illegal Israeli settlements, making the Netherlands the latest EU state to act alone while the bloc stays deadlocked.

The administration paused more than a billion dollars in federal Medicaid payments to two Democratic-run states over "suspected fraud," but produced no specific cases and gave the states no methodology, reviving a long fight over who controls the federal purse.

Israeli troops have begun handing the first southern Lebanese pilot zones to the Lebanese army as President Joseph Aoun brings Washington a plan to disarm Hezbollah, a real but fragile opening in a decades-old fight over who holds a monopoly on arms.

The Pentagon has told the Senate the war has cost $37.5 billion and needs $67 billion more, even as Houthi forces choke a second oil route and the fighting enters a fifth month with no authorization and no end in sight.

Federal officials moved the Hawaiian stilt from endangered to threatened after fifty years of predator control and wetland work, a genuine milestone that its own reviewers, and a still-fragile population, say is not yet a finish line.

The commission's Republican majority voted 2 to 1 to propose scrapping the EEO-1 report, the standardized race-and-sex-by-job-category count that has anchored systemic-discrimination enforcement since 1966.

Two years after the Supreme Court ended race-conscious admissions, the federal campaign has reached from the medical-school admissions office into the classroom, and universities and professors are fighting back on two very different legal grounds.

The reason a national forest can be leased for oil and gas is that American property law lets the surface of a piece of land and the minerals beneath it be owned separately.