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One OFAC licence reopened a market Congress closed by statute in 2022, for a volume of diesel the market itself does not believe will lower prices.

A federal judge vacated the Justice Department's program of collecting every state's voter file, checking it against an immigration database and sharing it with ICE, finding no law authorizes it and the Privacy Act forbids it, but about 50 million records had already reached immigration investigators.

Immigration agents have held more than 500 Americans in this crackdown, and the rules that let them stop people, and the courts that would make them pay, were built on the assumption that a citizen goes free in minutes.

Governor Hochul's order lets pharmacists, paramedics and midwives give measles shots for 30 days, and the lawsuit New York joined the same day targets seven other vaccines, not MMR.

A Kenyan man sick for about a month crossed a closed border and two airport checks before a Nairobi hospital identified Ebola, which shows the real defense against Congo's outbreak is clinics, labs and contact tracing, not the border controls Washington has put first.

After a police grenade tore off a schoolboy's hand, France suspended that one device for the high-school protests only, a fast and genuine step that still follows the country's long habit of retiring weapons one mutilation at a time rather than changing how it polices protest.

A twelve-page disclosure puts named officials, an internal email and an opening document on the record, but its most explosive claim, that the President saw a TikTok video and wanted protesters arrested, reaches the whistleblower secondhand, and the administration says it only ever pursued people who obstructed or assaulted officers.

Drones sank one ship and set another on fire inside Bulgaria's economic zone, Kyiv says Russia did it, Sofia says it has no proof, and the treaties that define an attack on the alliance were written around territory and flags that neither ship can claim.

Washington lifted sanctions on Milorad Dodik after Trump-connected lobbyists were paid to seek it, then backed a Bosnian pipeline deal for a firm from the same circle; the record shows paid access and a thin public rationale, but not a proven exchange.

A 2024 Army exercise found the gloves ICE has since bought by the thousands stop resistance through intense pain and fear of more, yet the test never measured safety and ICE has published no policy, training standard or answer to senators on how its agents will use them.