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What was initially a lighthearted challenge has become a physically taxing sport, formalized by Major League Eating and extensive media attention.

Without necessarily formalizing the terms, families regularly work out a spectrum of options and boundaries around how much contact to have with each other.

However, nobody showed up in court that May for the hearing to formalize or extend it, so it was dropped.

The rules, once formalized, will apply to new construction first; existing properties will have to be retrofitted within a few years.

While the executive order formalizes a parallel overlay of the federal government in the form of Musk's DOGE, it still does not clearly define its legal status.