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States Push Back as Washington Moves to Rewrite the Rules on Homelessness Aid

States Push Back as Washington Moves to Rewrite the Rules on Homelessness Aid

The legal battleground shifted to Rhode Island this week, where a coalition of states launched a challenge against the Trump administration’s attempt to redraw the map of federal homelessness funding. At stake: more than $3 billion that keeps roofs over heads and entire support networks alive for some of the country’s most vulnerable residents. The …

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Courtrooms Keep Tripping the Wires of a White House Revenge Machine

Courtrooms Keep Tripping the Wires of a White House Revenge Machine

The Justice Department’s attempt to turn political grievance into criminal prosecution has begun to look like a stretched rubber band—snapped back by federal judges who aren’t buying the theatrics. It all came to a head when Lindsey Halligan, thrust into the role of interim U.S. attorney in Virginia with barely enough time to find the …

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Gulf Markets Drift as Traders Chase the Scent of a Possible U.S. Rate Cut

Gulf Markets Drift as Traders Chase the Scent of a Possible U.S. Rate Cut

The Gulf’s trading floors opened the day in a half-step—one foot tapping to the rhythm of U.S. rate-cut whispers, the other planted firmly in local crosswinds. Hints from Washington have once again set the region’s pulse. A senior Fed official signaled that the U.S. job market has softened enough to make a December trim in …

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GAS Arabian Services Scoops Up Discounted Stakes as It Expands Its Industrial Footprint

GAS Arabian Services Scoops Up Discounted Stakes as It Expands Its Industrial Footprint

In Riyadh’s ever-shifting industrial chessboard, GAS Arabian Services has quietly made a decisive double move—snapping up strategic stakes in two engineering-focused firms at a bargain. The Tadawul-listed technical solutions player is set to invest 65.8 million riyals ($17.5 million) to deepen its reach across the kingdom’s energy and industrial services landscape. Its first acquisition: a …

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Ooredoo’s Market Horizon Widens as ADIA’s Share Sale Lands on the QSE

Ooredoo’s Market Horizon Widens as ADIA’s Share Sale Lands on the QSE

Ooredoo has nudged the doors of the public market a little wider. The telecom giant confirmed that the global secondary sale of shares recently offloaded by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority has officially crossed the finish line. More than 160 million shares were ushered through an accelerated, fully marketed bookbuild — a fast-paced financial relay …

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Cenomi Centers Draws Heavy Market Heat as $500 Million Sukuk Snaps Into Place

Cenomi Centers Draws Heavy Market Heat as $500 Million Sukuk Snaps Into Place

Cenomi Centers—Saudi Arabia’s powerhouse of lifestyle hubs—has once again stepped onto the financial stage with the confidence of a developer that knows its malls keep buzzing even on the slowest weekday. Fresh off a six-month run that saw more than a thousand leases renewed and over two hundred new brands pulled into its orbit, the …

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Robotics Showdown: Tesla Pulled Into Patent Storm Over Self-Driving Tech

Robotics Showdown: Tesla Pulled Into Patent Storm Over Self-Driving Tech

In a fresh legal squall swirling around the future of automated driving, a Virginia-based robotics firm has taken aim at Tesla, accusing the electric-vehicle titan of quietly stepping on years of patented innovation. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Alexandria, claims that Perrone Robotics built a flexible robotics operating system designed to liberate engineers …

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Crypto Giant Pulled Into the Crosshairs as Hamas Attack Victims Target Binance

Crypto Giant Pulled Into the Crosshairs as Hamas Attack Victims Target Binance

In a lawsuit that reads like the collision point of geopolitics, crypto wealth, and digital shadows, hundreds of victims of the 2023 Hamas assault on Israel have taken aim at Binance, accusing the exchange of quietly opening the sluice gates for terror financing. The newly public complaint alleges that the platform—long crowned the world’s largest …

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DOJ Retreats: States Win Back Power to Aid Immigrant Survivors of Abuse

DOJ Retreats: States Win Back Power to Aid Immigrant Survivors of Abuse

In a quiet but consequential reversal, the U.S. Department of Justice has stepped back from a policy that would have barred nearly two dozen states from using federal funds to offer legal help to undocumented survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. The shift prompted nineteen states and Washington, D.C., to withdraw a lawsuit they …

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When a Name Starts a Firestorm: Trump Team Defends Blocking AP From Oval Office

When a Name Starts a Firestorm: Trump Team Defends Blocking AP From Oval Office

The latest clash between a White House and the press isn’t about policy, power, or scandal—it’s about a name. More precisely, what to call a stretch of water that has never asked to be renamed. Inside a Washington courtroom, government lawyers argued that the former president did nothing unlawful when he shut Associated Press reporters …

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