US Marshals

Senator Roger Marshall's re-election campaign in Kansas has drawn attention for how credit card issues are playing into the race. Commentators describe it as the latest example of how the Trump era has scrambled the traditional alliance between the Republican Party and the banking industry, with payments policy emerging as an unexpected campaign issue.

The United Nations is calling on Washington to do more to address the lasting fallout of its nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands during the Cold War. Decades of tests, including the 1954 Castle Bravo blast, left communities displaced and islands contaminated, and UN experts say compensation and cleanup efforts remain inadequate. The appeal, reported by major international and US outlets, has drawn renewed attention to the Pacific nation's unresolved grievances.

The United Nations is calling on the United States to do more to address the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands, where US weapons testing during the Cold War left lasting contamination and health consequences. The appeal is drawing renewed attention to unresolved compensation and cleanup obligations decades after the testing programme ended.

On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African American justice on the United States Supreme Court. Nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson, Marshall had previously argued the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. His confirmation marked a historic milestone in American civil rights, and anniversary retrospectives note his lasting influence on the court.