— A federal judge in Washington has relaunched his contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around two planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.
— Asked for details on which countries are considered "of concern", the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services pointed to a June presidential proclamation listing 19 countries "considered deficient with regards to screening and vetting." Afghanistan is one of the countries on the list, which also includes Haiti, Iran and Venezuela.
— "This week, a German court issued an arrest warrant for Ukrainian Serhii Kuznietsov, which may finally confirm what was long suspected: that Ukraine was responsible for the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in the waters near Denmark and Sweden. The Biden administration may have been given prior warning. It was allegedly told years ago by a Ukrainian whistleblower that a six-person team of Ukrainian special forces was planning to rent a boat, dive to the sea floor and blow up the Nord Stream project. The operation was reportedly led by Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces. Nevertheless, after the attack, the Biden administration and many in the media fueled speculation that Russia had destroyed its own pipeline, despite evidence and logic to the contrary. [It] allowed the Biden administration to ignore the possibility that Ukraine had not only engaged in environmental crimes but had also knowingly lied to its allies."
— On Truth Social, Trump claimed that "Sleepy Joe Biden" signed 92 per cent of documents with the machine, which is used to automate signatures. "The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States," he wrote. "The people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury."
— It also raised concern about three other nations' implementation of the Convention against torture and degrading treatment: Albania, Argentina, and Bahrain.