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Judge Tanya Chutkan orders 48 hours notice before any work beyond artifact surveys at the site of Trump's 250-foot arch, a day after Interior Secretary Burgum said excavation starts within 2 weeks.
Government insists digging isn't construction
Source: The Independent
September 5, 2026
US ends $45 million a year in HIV support for Namibia after the country refuses to hand over health data and biological specimens, the 5th African nation to reject at those terms.
Namibia already exceeds UNAIDS targets
Source: The Associated Press
September 5, 2026
US forces sink 3 Ecuadorian boats they call fuel stations for drug speedboats, as relatives of the detained crew say the men were fishing and no drugs were found.
28 crew detained, not bombed
Source: Al Jazeera
September 5, 2026
Trump administration drafts rule paying married stay-at-home parents from a $12 billion child care fund now serving mostly single working mothers, with no new money, the New York Times reports.
Vance priority; unmarried parents excluded
Source: The New York Times [gift link]
September 5, 2026
US casts the only vote against a 164-1 UN resolution urging replacement of the Mercator map, which shows Greenland about the size of Africa, a continent 14 times larger.
Equal Earth projection favored instead
Source: Africa News
September 5, 2026
Trump's business partner Witkoff and son-in-law Kushner meet Putin in Moscow for the 8th time, as Russia says it remains "confident" of seizing the rest of eastern Ukraine.
Source: AFP
September 5, 2026
