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Treasury's new diesel license runs 180 days with no tonnage, price or loading cutoff. How much fuel actually moves is decided by Russia's own export ban and by refineries Ukraine keeps hitting.

Four Treasury licenses soften the sanctions on the court's 900 staff, but only one has an end date, and it falls 180 days out. Banks and vendors outside the U.S. are the exposed layer.

H-1B status is untouched, but the green-card line now stalls at different points. The extension clock still counts from when a PERM was filed, while certified cases face a 180-day deadline to reach USCIS.

The 2.9 points measures 67 goods categories, about a fifth of the basket, against less-exposed goods in February. Across a whole budget it works out to about 0.6 points (0.8 if all goods behaved alike), or roughly $320 to $460 a year for an average household by Daybreak Wire's arithmetic.

DHS's own math charges even STEM extensions the full $70,000 in the rule's first year, and every dollar of the estimated $12.4 billion a year would go to the general Treasury, not ICE.

The Federal Reserve Act lets a president remove a governor only "for cause." That standard, paired with 14-year staggered terms, is why Trump's second attempt to oust Lisa Cook faces the same wall as his first.

When trade wars escalate, the retaliation list is never random — it's aimed at specific industries and the politicians who represent them.

The House has impeached only 15 federal judges since 1803, all for crimes like bribery or perjury. A 2025 wave of impeachment threats over rulings broke that pattern.

The U.S. Mint struck its last circulating penny in November. Now state legislatures are racing to write the rounding rules cash registers will actually use.

Mid-decade redistricting used to happen about twice a generation. In the last year alone, five states did it. Here's the mechanism behind the current fight for the House.

A senator gavels the Senate in, says nothing, gavels out — and that ritual is enough to strip a president of the power to fill vacancies without Senate consent.

A 110-year-old Senate custom gives home-state senators a quiet veto over judicial nominees, and in 2026 both parties are testing how far it bends.

One blue-colored form, sent to two home-state senators, can freeze a federal judge or prosecutor nomination indefinitely -- no vote, no law, just a century of Senate custom. Trump wants it scrapped. Grassley won't move.

Five days before NATO's leaders gather in Ankara, the president reopened the burden-sharing fight, and tied it to a grievance over Iran.

Trump says the two-day event at the American Airlines Center will be a ‘rally like none other,’ the first national party convention ever held in a midterm year.

Washington let the deadline to renew the USMCA pass, keeping the pact alive but subjecting a $1.6 trillion trade zone to yearly reviews through 2036.

A 6-3 court held that the president cannot narrow by executive order a citizenship guarantee the majority located in the Constitution itself.

The justices left Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve Board while her suit proceeds, but cleared Trump to remove an FTC commissioner the same day.

ICE hasn't had a Senate-confirmed director since 2017. Trump's pick of an Oklahoma trooper, Lance Schroyer, tests whether that decade-long gap finally closes.

A mid-June ceasefire between Washington and Tehran is buckling as both sides trade strikes over the Strait of Hormuz.