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Federal prosecutors charged 15 people under a Civil War conspiracy law for organizing against an immigration crackdown, and the case will turn on whether watching, following and blocking federal agents adds up to force, intimidation or threat.

Judges in The Hague published warrants charging the Taliban's supreme leader, chief justice and two education ministers with persecuting women and girls by decree, a legal first in its reasoning that depends on states that will not act and a court Washington is sanctioning.

Fiscal 2026 closed with an estimated $2 trillion deficit and about $1.1 trillion in net interest, a line Congress cannot appropriate away that now costs more than defense, and rising yields mean the bill has not finished growing.

Since February 2025 the administration has closed the FBI's foreign-influence task force, let election-threat prosecutions stop, cut a third of CISA and ended its election cyber-sharing funds, and its stated reason, censorship, does not cover most of what was cut.

State officials say satellite detection has helped stop at least 18 major methane leaks since May 2025, but the counts are self-reported, landfill fixes stay voluntary until 2027, and dairies sit outside the system entirely.

Swapping tacrolimus for tegoprubart left all 12 trial patients producing their own insulin, but the cohort is small, follow-up is short, the drugs are lifelong and donor islets remain scarce.

Federal troops and a rival Tigrayan militia took Tigray's capital without a siege, but the TPLF left intact to fight on, and the neighbours Addis Ababa accuses of arming it are now organising in public.

A proposed NRC rule would end prompt reports for five kinds of non-emergency plant events, narrow how the agency forces safety fixes, and loosen decommissioning and operator licensing rules, for a projected saving of $15 million to $22 million a year.

The administration is spending about nine-tenths of a $2.06 billion Medicare reserve on a pre-election rebate, under a statute that speaks of program improvements and provider payments and has never been read this way.

A reported Lukoil sale in the Ukraine talks would benefit investors tied to the two U.S. envoys, and the White House's choice not to designate Jared Kushner a government employee keeps the main conflict-of-interest law from reaching him.