The FTC and 20 states sued Dollar General after seven state settlements and 29,265 pricing complaints. The delay shows what federal consumer protection can and cannot do, from political texts to AI.
Opposition icon MarÃa Corina Machado returned to Venezuela on October 25 after ten months in exile, nearly a year after a U.S. military operation captured Nicolás Maduro. But the Maduro ally the Trump administration chose to back is still ruling past her legal mandate — and no election date has been set. Here’s the verified timeline and the open questions.
House Republicans say a nonprofit network bankrolled by Shanghai-based businessman Neville Roy Singham has quietly fueled dozens of local campaigns against U.S. data centers — and that Beijing may be behind the push. Three subpoenaed groups call it a McCarthy-era witch hunt. Here’s what’s verified, what’s alleged, and what’s still unproven.
The Upper Tribunal found forged bank statements, council tax bills, residence cards and death certificates in five EU Settlement Scheme appeals. One had been allowed on evidence the Home Office was not served in time.
Palm Beach County paid a contractor for sheriff headquarters work up to 355 business days before commissioners approved it, and paid $223,243 in fees it could not document, an inspector general audit found.
A Treasury inspector general audit found IRS name searches of public figures went unflagged, 22 employees kept their jobs after browsing taxpayer records, and 276 victims were never told.
Britain’s ‘one in, one out’ pilot with France has closed. Official figures show 1,087 returns against about 28,000 small-boat arrivals, at roughly £56,000 each, and no published test of whether it deterred anyone.
A High Court test case on Britain’s France returns scheme turned on a Home Office caseworking entry nobody read. The government won the legal standard it wanted and lost the case anyway.
A federal judge vacated the Justice Department’s nationwide voter-roll program. The goal was lawful; the method was not. What the 78-page opinion found, what DOJ argues on appeal, and what remains unproven.
A Trump-appointed judge has blocked the White House ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico, finding almost nothing in the record to support its national security rationale. The larger question is what the administration is asking the courts to give up, and who would inherit that power next.
The Home Office can now offer foreign nationals with limited leave a choice between admitting a minor offence and leaving Britain, or facing prosecution. Its own impact assessment says the power has been used only about 130 times, and that few expect to accept it.
A High Court judge ordered the Ministry of Defence to pay indemnity costs after it repeatedly missed deadlines in the Afghan relocation test cases. The ruling decides nothing about the policy, but a good deal about whether the state keeps the rules it sets for others.