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A court-martial death sentence needs a president's signature, and before this month only one had been signed since 1961; the Army's own regulation left the method open, and a federal habeas court could still hold Dec. 3 back.

The Navy's new submarine parts deal with Anduril has a real industrial rationale, but the rules meant to keep advisers and the president's family away from the money barely reach this arrangement, and the documents that would settle it are not public.

Saxony-Anhalt made the AfD's Tobias Rausch its parliamentary president with at least four votes no party will own, giving the far right real control of the chamber's order and staff and a preview of the arithmetic for its bid to govern in December.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, still called food stamps by most of the people who use it, gives low-income households money each month that can only be spent on groceries.

The task force chaired by intelligence chief Jay Clayton has a 120-day clock and a mandate to recommend, and the order renaming artificial intelligence keeps the old legal definition word for word, so the government's real leverage over AI companies sits exactly where it sat before.

Washington withheld General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's UN visa, by sources' account to force a truce, then sat him down at Egypt's table, and three days later he vowed to take back every inch, because the Quad pressures the general it can reach and not the patron at its own table.

Food assistance rolls fell from about 42 million to 36.4 million in a year, far faster than Congress's own scorekeeper projected, and the record suggests much of the drop is eligible families lost to paperwork rather than people the law meant to remove.

Iran sells its oil through private middlemen because sanctions shut its banks out, and its own inspectors now admit some of those middlemen kept the money.

A minister who once campaigned against Khan al-Ahmar now controls the order to remove it, the E1 tenders it stands in the way of are due to close days before Israel's election, and the law the village's removal would rest on is a permit system that approves almost nothing for Palestinians.

A White House drug grant program is pooling local police plate-camera data on federal servers and passing some of it to the DEA, while the agency says it has no custody of the records and the courts mostly decline to call it a search.