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Trump administration retreats in Newsom lawsuit over National Guard deployment
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-12-31/trump-administration-retreats-in-newsom-lawsuit-over-national-guard-deployment

Trump administration retreats in Newsom lawsuit over National Guard deployment
In a brief filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Tuesday, Justice Department lawyers said they no longer oppose lifting a partial administrative stay and formally withdrew their request to keep California National Guard under federal control while the appeal proceeds.

New court filings allege that federal and state officials withheld evidence of the Trump administration’s involvement in the Everglades detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” a revelation that could revive a court-ordered shutdown. The Jan. 7 filings come as the Miccosukee Tribe presses ahead with its legal challenge amid President Donald Trump’s recent veto of legislation expanding the tribe’s control over Everglades lands.
The filings, submitted by Friends of the Everglades…

New ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ records suggest federal funding and involvement in Florida detention camp
Court filings appear to undermine DHS claims that “Alligator Alcatraz” was a state project, potentially reviving a court-ordered shutdown

Anduril conducts the first flight of its jet-powered unmanned drone, flying it "semi-autonomously", as the US Air Force plans swarms of unmanned jet drones (David Jeans/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace

On Friday, Judge Boasberg ordered the administration to submit declarations by December 5
from all officials involved in the decision not to return the flights to the U.S.
He said he will then decide whether to seek testimony from witnesses.
The declarations should detail the officials’ roles in the decision, the judge said in the brief order.
Justice Department attorneys had urged him to abandon the probe,
but Boasberg said he must determine whether Homeland S…

Trump officials face contempt probe over migrant flights
A federal judge in Washington has relaunched his contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around two planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Friday ordered the administration to submit written statements by December 5 from all officials involved in the decision not to return the planes to the U.S. Boasberg wants to determine whether the Republican administration flouted his order to turn the flights around. The sta…

When you're sizing the solar array for your autonomous communist-anarcho-syndicalist collective polycule compound, please take the following data into consideration:
(mine is 4kWp)

Federal prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty against
Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson,
a federal judge ruled Friday,
foiling the Trump administration’s bid to see him executed
for what it called a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America.”
Judge Margaret Garnett dismissed a federal murder charge
that had enabled prosecutors to seek capital punishment,
finding it technically flawed.
Sh…

Federal murder charge against Luigi Mangione dismissed, death penalty off the table
A federal judge says federal prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Judge Margaret Garnett's Friday ruling foiled the Trump administration’s bid to see Mangione executed. Garnett dismissed a federal murder charge against Mangione, finding it technically flawed. She left in place stalking charges that could carry a life sentence. In a win for prosecutors, Garnett also ruled prosecutors can use evidence collected …

The leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals,
following claims from his team that Covid vaccines were linked to the deaths of at least 10 children.
Experts suggest the announcement will make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
Dr Vinay Prasad, whose vaccine policy direction has been supported by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, told FDA staff that…

A Ukrainian delegation arrived in Florida on Sunday
to begin talks with top members of the Trump administration,
-- the first meeting with the Americans following the resignation of Andriy Yermak,
a powerful aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
US special envoy Steve Witkoff,
and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner,
were all in attendance at Sunday’s meeting.
Rustem Umerov, the se…

The "Board of Peace" was created as a result of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adoption of Resolution 2803 on November 17, 2025,
which authorized the organization as a “transitional administration with international legal personality”
intended to “set the framework and coordinate funding for the redevelopment of Gaza.”
However, the organizational charter revealed in Davos is light on details and makes no mention of Gaza.
This has caused many to…

“Board of Peace” Trademark Filings Reveal Its Murky Legal Status
The “Board of Peace” trademarks are not owned by the organization itself, but by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, marking an unprecedented use of executive branch power to protect rights of an ambiguously defined supranational entity.

Flying drones used during the Ukraine war have changed land battle tactics for ever.
Now the same thing appears to be happening under the sea.
Navies around the world are racing to add autonomous submarines.
https://www.theguardian.com…