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President Trump fired the last members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, the small federal agency created after the 2000 election to help states run their elections, leaving all four seats empty four months before the midterms and pointing to the Supreme Court's new removal-power ruling as his authority.

A United Nations investigative body has found that the Rapid Support Forces' atrocities in el-Fasher amount to genocide, a heavier legal charge than the crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing documented earlier, and one that activates the Genocide Convention's duty to prevent, sharpens the questions facing the states arming the RSF, and adds weight to cases building at the International Criminal Court.

A pillar of the Democratic establishment told an Israeli audience that unconditional American aid should end, a stance that tracks a large, measurable swing in Democratic voters against U.S. support for Israel, though analysts disagree over whether the change is durable.

A proposed consent order would require the tractor maker to give farmers and independent shops the same repair software its dealers use for ten years, though it still needs a judge's approval and its practical effect is untested.

President Trump told President Zelensky at the NATO summit in Ankara that the United States would let Ukraine produce its own Patriot interceptors under license, a long-sought win for Kyiv that officials and defense experts say will take many months to years and will not ease the missile shortage now leaving Ukrainian cities exposed.

The Justice Department told election officials in every state they could face criminal charges if noncitizens end up voting and gave them five days to respond, while a separate homeland-security grant program now conditions more than a billion dollars in anti-terrorism money on states changing how they run elections, escalating a federal push that courts have repeatedly blocked over a problem researchers find vanishingly rare.

Sooner or later, every constitutional democracy runs into the same awkward problem.

The Trump administration has formally told Congress it intends to lift Syria's 1979 "state sponsor of terrorism" designation, opening a 45-day process that would make Syria the first country ever removed from the current four-nation list and clear the last major U.S. legal barrier to its reconstruction.

A Paris appeals court kept Marine Le Pen's conviction for embezzling European Parliament funds in place but shortened her ineligibility, lifting the bar that would have kept her off the 2027 presidential ballot, even as it sentenced her to a year under an electronic tag and she vowed to appeal again.

Net interest on the federal debt topped $1 trillion for the first time in fiscal year 2025, surpassing what the government spends on its military, as total debt crossed $39 trillion and the deficit held near 6 percent of the economy.