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A ranking senator has released whistleblower allegations that the Trump-controlled Kennedy Center rushed renovations and bypassed federal contracting rules to meet deadlines for the president's December events, while the Center and the White House say the work was lawful and long overdue.

Apple's complaint alleges a systematic scheme to poach engineers and extract confidential hardware secrets, claims OpenAI denies and a court has not tested.

A federal judge granted the Justice Department's request to close the landmark Proud Boys prosecution, saying separation of powers gave him no basis to keep a case the executive branch had chosen to abandon.

In his first message since his father's funeral, Iran's unseen new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed to avenge Ali Khamenei's killing, hours after President Trump threatened to "completely decimate" Iran if he is assassinated and Washington demanded Tehran declare the Strait of Hormuz open to all shipping.

The Justice Department is compelling four Times journalists to testify about their Air Force One reporting while, on a separate front, the paper is suing a civil rights agency it says targeted it for its coverage.

The government has finalized a rule so that destroying or degrading a listed species' habitat no longer counts as prohibited "harm," a change that reaches logging, mining, drilling and development, and that will almost certainly be fought in court.

A sitting US congressman says armed settlers and Israeli soldiers detained him in the occupied West Bank, days after Israel ordered the seizure of Palestinian land to expand a road linking settlements.

Australia and India signed an arrangement to unlock long-stalled uranium exports for civilian nuclear power, reviving an old argument about selling atomic fuel to a country that never joined the treaty built to stop the spread of the bomb.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz says the purchase closes a "strategic gap," bringing long-range, ground-launched missiles back to German soil for the first time since the Cold War.

After renewed US-Iran strikes, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed toward zero on the US-backed route, and because roughly a fifth of the world's oil and gas normally passes through the 21-mile waterway, the near-closure of one narrow channel is reverberating through global energy markets far beyond the Gulf.