What isn’t being litigated in DC these days? A federal judge spent roughly seven hours Monday grilling Justice Department lawyers over a public golf course. Ana Reyes, who already found the government acted in “bad faith” when crews felled hundreds of trees at East Potomac Golf Links over Columbus Day weekend, said she’ll likely extend her order blocking further clearing. The notice to the public went out at 4:55 p.m. on a Friday.

The famed course is a century-old public track on federal land in Washington, and the clash is less about fairways than about whether the administration follows court orders while President Donald Trump reshapes the city. According to NPR , more than 430 trees came down. While the stakes of the case are relatively low, it’s taken on symbolic importance as the latest blowup between Trump and the federal courts.

Here’s where it got strange. Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward and acting Park Service Director Jessica Bowron testified that no final renovation plan exists. That was one day after Trump announced a Tom Fazio design and a Nov. 15 closure—and called Reyes a “crazed lunatic.”

”Do I believe the president of the United States or do I believe you?” Reyes asked. She denied a recusal request and issued no injunction Monday, leaving the central question—who’s telling the truth about the plan—hanging in open court. No ruling had landed as of Monday, and the trees already down aren’t coming back. What’s still unresolved is the bigger one, as Vox framed it: whether a court order means anything here at all.

Saudi Arabia just pushed its flagship investor conference to 2027. The Future Investment Initiative was set for Riyadh Oct. 26-29, a “Davos in the Desert” so to speak, that pulls in Wall Street’s heaviest hitters. Organizers said new dates would be announced soon. Translation: not now, not with missiles in the air.

Iran-backed Houthi militants have escalated missile and drone attacks on the kingdom, and an Oct. 10 strike on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport killed at least 12 and injured more than 300, CNBC reports. On Monday the Houthis claimed fresh strikes on airports, Aramco facilities at Yanbu and the Shaybah oilfield. Those claims are unverified. The guest list that won't be flying in: Jamie Dimon, David Solomon, Stephen Schwarzman, Larry Fink and Jane Fraser.

We’re still not sure of the damage from Monday’s claimed strikes, how long the attacks continue and whether a 2027 date holds. Saudi Arabia has spent a decade selling itself as open for business. A canceled conference can be seen as a small loss, but the signal it sends is pretty big.

Jalen Hurts is done for the season. The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback has been diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis and bilateral pulmonary emboli—blood clots that traveled from his leg into his lungs—the team and his agent, Nicole Lynn, said Monday. A person familiar with the situation told the AP he’s out for the year.

The trail starts with something that looked routine: a cleat to the calf on Oct. 4 against the Rams. Hurts was diagnosed in London with a superficial vein thrombosis, then played the full game against Jacksonville. A follow-up scan back in Philadelphia showed the clot had moved. He’s now on blood thinners, and he can’t participate in football activities while he’s taking them. The Eagles said he’s clinically stable, has no significant functional limitations and is expected to make a full recovery.

When he plays again is genuinely unsettled. BBC Sport reported a recovery expected to take three months; NBC News noted that blood thinner treatment typically runs three to six months. Neither is a team-stated return date. The Eagles have put no exact timeline on it.