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Can Trump’s Arch Be So Tall? A Panel May Redefine a Law to Get to Yes.

LUKE BROADWATER, EMILY BADGER AND JUNHO LEE

The proposed 250-foot arch would violate a height limit on Washington structures under the traditional reading of the law. But the panel, now led by the president’s allies, has other ideas.

Platner’s Exit Sets Off Scramble for New Senate Candidate in Maine

TIM BALK

The state Democratic Party has said it will pick a replacement through a nominating convention before a July 27 deadline. Candidates are already lining up.

A Justice With No Plans to Retire and a Trump Lawyer Now on the Bench

A roundup of legal news from the country.

American mother murdered in Irish tourist town as international manhunt targets alleged asylum seeker

Jamey Carney, a 43-year-old New Yorker living in Killarney, was found dead as Irish police launch an international manhunt for a person of interest.

Illegal immigrant soccer coach who used alcohol and drugs to sexually abuse kids learns fate

A tipster discovered explicit videos on a cell phone left at a Franklin, Tennessee, business, launching a probe into the illegal immigrant coach.

Accused Charlie Kirk assassin allegedly confessed in texts, apologized and described motive, agent testifies

Text messages read in court reveal that Tyler Robinson allegedly told his roommate and lover that he shot Charlie Kirk because he "had enough of his hatred."

Video of Kirk Assassination Suspect’s Ex-Partner to Be Played in Court

NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS

A judge said he would allow prosecutors to play the recording at a hearing on Thursday as prosecutors seek to take Tyler Robinson to trial on a charge that he murdered Charlie Kirk last year.

Black bear raiding a garbage can at Lake Tahoe garage triggers dramatic wildlife encounter

Video captures the moment a black bear charges a Sacramento man outside his Lake Tahoe vacation home, forcing him to deploy bear spray nearby.

Second Person in a Week Killed by Federal Task Force in Memphis

EMILY COCHRANE

Tennessee authorities are investigating both shootings involving agents working with the task force in Memphis.

Former Olympian Pleads Not Guilty to Damaging Reflecting Pool

POOJA SALHOTRA AND CLARENCE WILLIAMS

David Hearn is one of at least four people accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that has been plagued with challenges.

Big Tech Is Now Targeting Native American Land for Massive Data Centers

DAVID W. CHEN AND TAMIR KALIFA

The data center boom has roiled communities across the country, but on Native land, a Big Tech push for quick approvals has pitted the need for development against a history of exploitation.

Wally Funk, aviation pioneer who was the oldest woman to travel into space, dies at 87

Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer who was the oldest woman to launch into space, has died

NASA chief confirms agency has unexplained UFO imagery; 'we don't know what it is'

Jared Isaacman says NASA has captured imagery of unknown objects it cannot explain, as Trump pushes broader UAP declassification efforts forward.

North Carolina man broke into ex's home, fatally stabbed his 5-year-old son before going to Taco Bell: police

A North Carolina man allegedly broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment and stabbed his 5-year-old son before being arrested at a nearby Taco Bell.

Man charged with killing National Guard member hospitalized after refusing food

Federal prosecutors say a man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House, killing one of them, has been taken to a hospital for treatment of a potentially life-threatening medical condition after he refused to eat food in jail