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US Supreme Court reverses Trump administration push to restrict treatment for transgender inmates

The court denied the Justice Department's emergency request to lift a federal judge's order blocking the Federal Bureau of Prisons from implementing the policy.

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Mike Rogers, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, poses during an interview at a Tim Horton's in Walled Lake, Mich., Oct. 20, 2026.

Mike Rogers says his opponent Abdul El-Sayed is ‘anti-Jew.’ Do Michigan’s Jews agree?

An MH-60 Seahawk helicopter approaches for landing on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) while underway in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii, during Exercise RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific) 2026 on July 17, 2026; illustrative.

Pentagon deploys USS Theodore Roosevelt to Middle East as Trump weighs Iran strikes - report

US President Donald Trump listens as first lady Melania Trump delivers remarks as he prepares to sign an executive order in the Rose Garden of the White House on October 19, 2026 in Washington, DC.

Netanyahu vows to eliminate Iran regime, sources tell 'Post' Trump 'very close' to renewing strikes


Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil asks US Supreme Court to hear case seeking to avoid re-arrest

Khalil's lawyers argue that noncitizens must be able to challenge detention allegedly intended to punish constitutionally protected speech as his deportation case reaches the Supreme Court.

Columbia graduate and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil attends a press conference announcing a lawsuit against the university in New York City, September 14, 2026.

Israel is overestimating its leverage in Washington - opinion

My unequivocal position is that those who argue that the United States could not “survive” without Israel’s technological contribution are overstating the case.

 US-ISRAEL-DIPLOMACY Israeli and US flags are seen on the table as US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Pentagon in Washington, DC on February 5, 2025; illustrative

Netanyahu insists he offered Trump nothing to secure US president's election endorsement

"You're the man I want by my side, Bibi," Trump told Netanyahu in a video of a conversation between the two leaders released by the PMO following the US president's endorsement.

US President Donald Trump with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a special plenum session in honor of  Trump at the Knesset on October 13, 2025.

Kamala Harris criticizes Biden administration's failure to curb Israel's conduct during Gaza war

Harris said that the United States needed to uphold its obligation to international law and that the Biden administration's response to Israel's war was a failure in that regard.

Former US vice president Kamala Harris speaks at the third annual SHE LEADS Conference at SLS Hotel on September 29, 2026 in Los Angeles, California.

Judge blocks sanctions against two US-based human rights orgs. over working with ICC against Israel

In his order, US judge Jesse M. Furman cited a case in 2025 in which two law professors brought forward a lawsuit against Trump's executive order imposing sanctions on the ICC.

People stand outside the International Criminal Court in the Hague, Netherlands.

Federal judge limits search of Ilhan Omar's documents due to constitutional protections - report

Sharbaugh reportedly told prosecutors ahead of the search that they would need to set up a process to screen Omar's records in order to protect her legislative work from the investigators.

Agents of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) work at the entrance of the residence of US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), after US authorities conducted a raid as part of an ongoing investigation by the Justice Department, in Washington, DC, US, October 12, 2026.

UK finance minister calls for tighter Russian shipping sanctions

"My message to finance ministers here today...on Ukraine, is to stay the path on tough economic sanctions on Russia," said British finance minister John Healey.

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey delivers a speech at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry, Britain, September 7, 2026.

US considers easing sanctions on shadow fleet vessels to cut freight rates, official says

The new talks center on the United States potentially allowing "legal oil" to flow on previously sanctioned vessels, the US official said.

A sailboat sails as a boat approaches to the boarding ladder of the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 as it sits anchored after it was seized in July by British Royal Marines off the coast of the British Mediterranean territory on suspicion of violating sanctions against Syria, in the Strait of Gibraltar,

Trump says ‘leakers should be shot’ at Arizona rally, days after approving firing-squad execution

Recalling a leak Trump said delayed the June 2025 B-2 strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the president declared: “In the old days, we used to shoot leakers.”

US President Donald Trump attends a campaign rally at Laughlin/Bullhead International Airport in Bullhead City, Arizona, US, October 14, 2026.

Families of American October 7 victims call for US congressional inquiry into massacre

During a ceremony, CENTCOM head Adm. Brad Cooper displayed the murdered hostage and dual Israeli-US national Itay Chen's military dog tag, which his father gave him at the funeral.

Ruby Chen, father of Israeli-US dual citizen, murdered hostage Itay Chen, seen in Washington, with The Capitol in the background.