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A foreign government gave the U.S. a jumbo jet now flying as Air Force One, taxpayers paid to convert it, and the plan is to hand it to a foundation Trump controls after he leaves office, testing century-old rules meant to keep presidents from being bought.

An exoneree won a clerk's office, the legislature abolished it, the state's top lawyer was indicted for threatening the officials who fought back, and the whole case collapsed inside a day, with a governor promising to pardon his own attorney general.

As ICE arrests hit a reported record pace, a federal appeals court set a constitutional limit on detention and an unpublished coroner's file exposed the human cost inside the system.

The first formal state-level accusation against Kyiv over the Baltic pipeline attack heads for a Hamburg trial this autumn, testing a charge Ukraine denies and straining ties with its biggest military backer.

A divided appeals court held that spy agencies broke their own rules and violated due process when they fired 19 career officers, even as the acting intelligence chief was reported to be removing dozens more as alleged "deep state."

A U.S. district judge ruled the Postal Service's proposed mail-ballot rule violates a 2021 settlement requiring priority handling of election mail, and nine Democratic governors are now pressing USPS to withdraw it.

A leaked internal memo orders roughly 260 FBI analysts to review Fulton County's 2020 ballots by July 17, reopening a result the state's own Republican officials certified and three counts confirmed.

The decision, reported by an Israeli outlet and the Palestinian Authority's news agency alike, moves settlement expansion from the informal ground reality to a formal, state-level act astride the road Palestinians would need for a contiguous state.

To understand the politics, start with the physics. Natural gas at ordinary temperature and pressure is a diffuse, low-density fuel, which makes it awkward to store and to move.

The Islamic Republic of Iran rests on a theological concept with no real precedent in the prior history of Islamic governance: velayat-e faqih, which translates as the "Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist." The doctrine…