Nigeria, Venezuela, Yemen and Ethiopia are all on the State Department's 2026 list of governments tied to child soldiers. That list is supposed to cut off certain U.S. military aid. But in a determination signed Sept. 30 and made public Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio certified that these governments are taking "effective and continuing steps" and waived the ban. Here is every country he named and exactly what each waiver covers.

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.

Ahmed Gadalla says George Clooney's investigative group got it all wrong. In a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Washington, the Libyan financier says The Sentry falsely accused him of bankrolling a warlord's assault on Tripoli with $300 million in public money, paying Russia's Wagner Group and printing counterfeit cash in Russia. He says the lending bank certified his company owes it nothing. Here's what the complaint says.