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Israel's cabinet declared it will not honor a High Court ruling on the country's broadcast regulator, the first time a government has openly refused to obey the nation's top court, in a dispute bound up with the sale of a television channel critical of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

After Anthropic refused to let the military use its Claude AI for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons, the Pentagon branded the company a "supply-chain risk" and barred contractors from working with it, and a federal judge found the move was likely unlawful retaliation for the company's public stance.

Federal agents say Lorenzo Salgado Araujo tried to run one of them over, the same self-defense account given in earlier shootings that video later contradicted, and as in those cases the only bodies investigating answer to the same government that employs the officer who fired.

After three tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, the United States struck more than 80 targets inside Iran, Iran fired back at U.S. bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, and President Trump, speaking from a NATO summit, called the two-week-old truce "over" and "a waste of time," pushing oil up about 5 percent.

Jackson's former mayor admitted taking $50,000 from FBI agents posing as developers, one of five officials felled by a single sting, but his plea to a lone conspiracy count leaves the case's central legal question, what counts as an "official act," forever untested.

A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump granted summary judgment to The Washington Post, finding that Trump Media had no evidence the paper acted with "actual malice", the latest large presidential defamation suit that courts have rejected even as some news organizations chose to settle.

The federal government is buying the detention centers it already runs, its internal watchdog is investigating people who criticize it online, and a citizen who sent an angry email got a visit from officers, three moves that together narrow outside scrutiny of immigration enforcement.

Beijing freed Zion Church founder Ezra Jin Mingri and let him fly to Los Angeles after President Trump pressed his case with Xi Jinping, a rare release of a Chinese citizen that leaves at least eight fellow church leaders behind bars.

A civil rights group alleges in federal court that U.S. agencies gave Iran confidential details from the asylum claims of Iranians they were trying to deport, a charge the Department of Homeland Security calls false.

Hours after three tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz, Washington revoked the license that had briefly let Iran sell oil on the open market and launched a wave of military strikes inside Iran, as each side accused the other of breaking their month-old truce.