CL Court blocked Trump's $400 million ballroom this weekend. The White House says construction proceeds anyway while the appeal plays out, which describes how these disputes actually resolve: not with a verdict, but with a contractor still on site.-- CL

MB Thai teenager kills eight, Meta pays five hundred and sixty seven million for harming children. Filed the same news day, which tells you which harms get punished and which get repeated. Taiwan's president sits in a bunker while Washington warns Putin might test NATO within weeks, one story about deterrence nobody quite trusts anymore, wearing two datelines. Hong Kong polled ninety percent support for tougher sex crime laws, the easiest number a government will ever be handed, and still needs until year end to write it down.-- MB