The environmental impact statement for an 88-mile railway in Utah ran to 3,600 pages. When the case reached the US Supreme Court in May 2025, the justices used it to change how the country’s main environmental review law works. In Seven County Infrastructure …
On 1 October 2026 every state started paying a bigger share of the cost of running SNAP, the food assistance programme. Their share of …
American cloud companies run most of Europe’s computing, and American law can reach their data. The CLOUD Act of 2018 lets US authorities …
The Office of the US Trade Representative’s fees on Chinese-built and Chinese-operated ships are suspended only until 11:59 pm on 9 November …
In August 2026 Login.gov, the federal sign-in service run by GSA, began accepting mobile driver’s licences to prove identity. Users with a …
On 25 September 2026, five days before the fiscal year ended, the White House sent Congress a special message proposing to cancel $810 …
Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 lets the Commerce Department investigate whether imports threaten national security and lets …
On 28 September 2026 China’s Commerce Ministry confirmed what Washington had announced a few days earlier: the US–China trade truce is …
On 17 September the State Department notified Congress of a proposed sale of 48 F-35 fighters to Saudi Arabia, worth $24.3 billion. It would …
On 1 April 2026 the FDA approved Eli Lilly’s Foundayo, an obesity pill, 50 days after the company filed. Standard reviews take about ten …