The District of Columbia and Virginia filed a joint lawsuit to halt construction of Trump's 250ft triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery, calling it "flagrantly unlawful" as a third lawsuit joins the fight.
About 320,000 people protested across France over living costs and education in a third weekend of demonstrations, with smaller youth-led protests in Germany and Italy and about 300 arrests nationwide.
Almost 140 people were arrested outside the US embassy in London at the largest demonstration against the ban on Palestine Action since Andy Burnham became prime minister, days before a Supreme Court appeal on the proscription.
A federal judge in Miami dismissed with prejudice President Trump's defamation lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch and The Wall Street Journal over a story about a birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein, finding no plausible claim of actual malice. Trump plans to appeal.
More than 5,000 people have died in DR Congo's Ebola outbreak, the deadliest in the country's history, with more than 10,300 confirmed cases and eight of 26 provinces affected. The Bundibugyo strain has no approved vaccine.
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike, who survived a failed execution in September, said in her first public statement that she is in constant pain and struggles to speak. She remains under a death sentence.
President Donald Trump will hold rallies in Iowa and Kansas after all, a source said, hours after the Republican Party said the events were scrapped for tele-rallies. Both states have competitive Senate races.
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed and primary rival Haley Stevens clashed Friday over an apology and an outside PAC ad, hours before Trump told a rally to send El-Sayed "back to where he came from".
King Charles and Prime Minister Andy Burnham arrive in Antigua for a Commonwealth summit facing "reparations now" protests, after Burnham said he was open to an apology but ruled out financial reparations.
A federal judge late Friday barred the Justice Department from demanding that California officials separate ballots or not count votes, and from threatening prosecution, finding a likely Voting Rights Act violation.
Alaska's top federal prosecutor called the "two Dan Sullivans" allegations troubling and said more law enforcement resources were sent to the state, as the Justice Department asks a court to segregate some Senate ballots.
The State Department approved the sale of 500 Patriot interceptors to Ukraine for $2.1bn, funded by Canada, Germany, Norway and an EU loan. Zelensky thanked Trump but warned deliveries could take years.
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