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Daily SummaryAUG 29, 2026

War Costs, Free-Speech Battles and a Reckoning in the 9/11 Case

The United States closed Saturday with major legal, economic and foreign-policy developments shaping the national agenda. A consequential ruling in the long-running prosecution of accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed renewed scrutiny of the legacy of CIA interrogations, while Americans continued to feel the economic effects of the Iran war and a federal court weighed in on the limits of immigration enforcement and political speech. At the same time, Washington explored a renewed diplomatic opening in the Russia-Ukraine war as NASA prepared a major new space observatory for launch.

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