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Homeland Security skipped competition to buy ten aircraft from a first-time contractor chaired by a Noem supporter, closed the last five at a markup in her final hours, then left them idle, and Noem's rebuttal disputes one word while leaving the contract record untouched.

Medicare will make some makers of costly infused drugs pay rebates pegged to foreign prices, but a waiver for companies with White House pricing deals has shrunk the projected savings sharply.

A federal judge in El Paso has frozen construction across the Big Bend Sector and suspended the waivers that let DHS set aside nearly 30 laws, the first crack in a power courts have upheld since 2007.

An Arizona appeals court vacated Gabriel Horcasitas's manslaughter sentence because the judge heard and praised an AI video of the dead victim speaking words his sister imagined, and no disclaimer, the panel said, could have cured it.

A federal appeals panel declined to pause a Florida judge's sanctions over President Trump's lawsuit against his own IRS, a preliminary ruling that is narrower than the headlines but still leaves the collusion finding standing, while the Justice Department, the nominal defendant, argues Trump's side.

By the middle of the nineteenth century hanging was, in words the Supreme Court later adopted from Justice Blackmun in Campbell v. Wood, the "nearly universal form of execution" in the United States, used at one time or…

A default can put an account in every child's name, but decades of evidence say who fills it decides who benefits, and the $1,000 seed still needs a parent's election.

A Texas judge struck the 2024 regulation that steers disabled people toward community care instead of institutions, at the joint request of the states and the government meant to defend it, and the federal machinery behind Olmstead is coming apart even though the law itself still stands.

Chief Judge Stanley Bastian ordered Roger Rogoff restored as the top federal prosecutor in western Washington, holding that the removal statute the President invoked covers Senate-confirmed U.S. Attorneys, not those appointed by a court, in the first ruling on a question the Justice Department has already appealed.

Moscow put its 2024 nuclear doctrine in writing to NATO over Kaliningrad, and what is new is the delivery and the target list, not the threat itself.