Secretary of State Marco Rubio says American companies called the State Department to complain that Ukrainian strikes in the Black Sea hit ships carrying their oil, though he said he doesn't believe Ukraine did it on purpose. On Monday in Uzbekistan he also pushed back on Zelensky's claim that U.S. intelligence used to warn Kyiv of Russian missile attacks had been paused.

Making whiskey at home has been a federal crime since 1868. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether that ban is constitutional. The justices on Monday agreed to hear the Justice Department's appeal of a Fifth Circuit ruling that struck the law down, finding it goes beyond Congress's power to tax. The challengers include a hobby distillers group with about 1,300 members.

The agency that builds and maintains America's nuclear weapons has its biggest workload since the Cold War. It also has 236 fewer federal employees than it did in early 2025. A new GAO report shows where the cuts landed, from nuclear engineers to field offices at Los Alamos and Nevada, and what NNSA officials told auditors about oversight of nuclear material security after one office lost about 40% of that staff.