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Thousands chant "ICE out now" as Springsteen sings for Renee Good and Alex Pretti, killed by federal agents, at Maryland's Power to the People festival.

New Orleans City Council unanimously approves $26.6 million to subsidize backup batteries for about 1,450 homes and businesses, paid by Entergy's nuclear plant settlement.

Trump envoys Kushner and Witkoff help negotiate a Russian oil sale that would free Lukoil assets from sanctions for buyers tied to their families' businesses.

Trump posts Arkansas Sen. Cotton's cellphone number, telling Arkansans to call him over his opposition to permanent daylight saving time.

Treasury inspector general finds 52 IRS employees improperly viewed tax records of 30 celebrities, officials and business leaders through last-name searches that can dodge detection.

Trump tells Ohio rally Springfield is better off without Haitians as the city mourns a Haitian student whose family blames his suicide on an ICE ankle monitor.

Tennessee prison chief Strada resigns three days after Christa Pike survived two lethal injection doses, as Gov. Lee names a former US attorney to review it.

North Carolina's Republican legislative leaders call a special session on fuel prices a month before the election, as state diesel averages $6.03.

Trump urges Republicans to vote by mail to "swamp" Democrats, weeks after calling it a "Nation Destroying SCAM."

Defense Secretary Hegseth calls the US Hormuz blockade "ironclad" after two vessels crossing the strait are struck in two days.

Federal appeals court keeps South Dakota from enforcing a law that can jail people for advertising abortion pills while a free speech suit proceeds.

Virginia begins automatically sealing old low-level convictions, including marijuana possession, a fresh start advocates say could reach 415,000 people.

Kennedy Center Honors move off-site to a sports arena for the first time, as Trump ties the closed center's renovation to adding his name.

ProPublica reporters open private schools in two of three states, one for $45 and a flag in Arkansas, where an official suggests tapping taxpayer money.

Miramar, Florida, ICE field office built for 56 jails up to 150 for days without beds or medical care, a class action alleges.

Filing alleges an ICE agent logged Maine ICE watchers' photos and plates in a Palantir-built database, though ICE told Congress it keeps no protester database.

Former Florida Rep. Rivera gets 10 years for secretly lobbying for Maduro's Venezuela, hired through Delcy Rodríguez, now acting president and Trump's partner.

Federal judge keeps a jury's $425,000 award to a Black Ottumwa, Iowa, teacher whose district failed to discipline students who repeatedly called him the n-word.

Federal judge halts Big Bend border barrier construction until a lawsuit is decided, two days after Homeland Security lifted its own pause.

FBI issues a classified "Patel Report" to staff on where the bureau "fell short," after Director Patel pledged at his confirmation not to look "backward."

Attorney General Blanche won't reopen the criminal probe of former Fed Chair Powell, but says an audit of the Fed's renovation could prompt one.

G7 agrees to release 100 million barrels of emergency oil over four months, focused on diesel, after Trump threatened to ban US diesel exports.

Wyoming Supreme Court unanimously upholds a ban on switching parties within 96 days of a primary, aimed at Democrats and independents voting in GOP primaries.

Trump promises $90 checks to 20 million seniors a month before the midterms, using a Medicare fund he may lack authority to tap.

Florida's dengue outbreak hits a record 252 locally acquired cases, adding 62 in one week and topping 2023's 199.

US sends the Theodore Roosevelt carrier group and an amphibious group to the Middle East, which could put three carrier groups and 20,000 forces there.

Family of Renee Good, killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, sues the US, the agent and Trump officials, alleging a civil-rights conspiracy.

Maryland becomes the first state to ban grocery stores from changing food prices during the day or setting prices from shoppers' personal data.

Trump plans a third dinner for his memecoin's 185 biggest buyers, while the coin paid him $635 million and investors lost over $4 billion.

Trump says he refused a Secret Service proposal to demolish the Oval Office, a year after tearing down the East Wing for his ballroom.

MLB rules out a game at Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park, which The Washington Post reported Trump officials weighed, after local leaders objected.

Defense Secretary Hegseth announces a Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs giving chaplains "a direct line" to him, as religious freedom groups warn of Christian nationalism.

Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Pulte cuts his inspector general's budget 61%, ending its mortgage fraud investigations, a crime he claims to prioritize.

ICE memo bars vehicle chases and limits stops to trained officers with body cameras after fatal shootings, CNN reports, though ICE says nothing changed.

New York Gov. Hochul names Attorney General James special prosecutor in alleged Cornell fraternity gang rape, sidelining the district attorney who declined charges in 2024.

Federal judge restores western Washington US attorney Rogoff, whom Trump fired less than an hour after judges appointed him, ruling presidents can't fire court-appointed prosecutors.

DC judge permanently dismisses Reflecting Pool charge against former Olympian Hearn, citing risk Trump's pressure on prosecutors could revive a case they called meritless.

Justice Department sues Maryland the day its ban on masked officers, including federal agents, takes effect, citing the state attorney general's own warning.

Democrats sue Pentagon for dropping citizens who never lived in the US from overseas voter forms, as Republicans sue to block their votes.

Justice Department says UCLA's law school illegally favored Black and Hispanic applicants over white and Asian students, its second such finding against UCLA.

21 states sue EPA over repealing power plant climate rules, which it paired with a step to bar future administrations from regulating that pollution.

Trump says the US will win the Iran war "right after the election," when strikes could resume, as a third carrier heads to the region.

Federal judge orders Bureau of Prisons to restore its union contract covering 30,000 prison workers, a year after its director called bargaining a "roadblock."

Boulder County, Colorado, grants $11 million to help about 1,000 mobile home park residents counter an anonymous buyer's $42.5 million offer for their park.

Senate confirms acting Labor Secretary Sonderling 47-41 along party lines, filling a Cabinet seat officially empty since his predecessor resigned in April.

ICE plans to hire 5,000 more officers, a 17% jump, after four straight months of record arrests topping 50,000 in August, NewsNation reports.

Human rights groups ask a UN panel to call ICE's removal of 16,000 jailed immigrants with deportation orders from its online locator an enforced disappearance.

Tennessee fails to execute Christa Pike with two lethal injection doses, hours after the Supreme Court lifted her stay.

Tennessee Sen. Blackburn sues former special counsel Smith over her phone records his Trump election probe obtained, a day after his Senate testimony.