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| Sep 1, 2026 | China is rewriting the rules of open-source software | As you read this article on your computer or smartphone, you are almost certainly using open-source technology in some way. It forms the foundation of the global digital economy, from operating systems and web servers to databases and encry... |
| May 26, 2026 | BUDGET CONFERENCE: STATE PROSECUTORS, PUBLIC DEFENSE LAWYERS TO GET PAY BUMPS AND MORE JOBS, BUT THERE’S A HUGE DISPARITY | The Senate has met the House on its budget offer for new positions for Assistant State Attorneys and Assistant Public Defenders, but the addition of full-time-equivalent (FTE) jobs is disproportionate.
That could create recruitment issues i... |
| May 14, 2026 | BUDGET CONFERENCE: HOUSE (BUT NOT SENATE) OFFERS ASST. PUBLIC DEFENDER, STATE ATTORNEY PAY BUMPS, BUT DISPARITY COULD POSE PROBLEMS | Update May 14, 2026 4:55 p.m.
The House has issued its second offer as part of its criminal justice funding silo, holding firm in its original position on Assistant State Attorney and Assistant Public Defender funding for new positions, wit... |
| Apr 30, 2026 | The GUARD Act Isn’t Targeting Dangerous AI—It’s Blocking Everyday Internet Use | Lawmakers in Congress are moving quickly on the GUARD Act, an age-gating bill restricting minors’ access to a wide range of online tools, with a key vote expected this week. The proposal is framed as a response to alarming cases involving “... |
| Feb 26, 2026 | “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool To Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. | This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
When county clerk Brianna Lennon got an email in November saying a newly expanded federal system had flagged 74 people on the county’s voter rol... |
| Jan 14, 2026 | ICE Is Going On A Surveillance Shopping Spree | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the year 2025 (nearly triple their 2024 budget... |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Details Of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks Of Trump Administration’s Use Of Social Security Data For Voter Citizenship Checks | This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.
This year, when states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check their voter rolls for noncitizens, it was suppose... |
| Sep 9, 2025 | ‘A colossal train wreck’: U.S. energy chief slams odds of net zero by 2050 | Net zero refers to the goal of achieving a state of balance between the carbon emitted into the atmosphere and the carbon removed from it.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s sharp criticism of net zero come as he and Interior Secretary Do... |
| Jul 18, 2025 | Vested interests. Influence muscle. At RFK Jr.’s HHS, it’s not pharma. It’s wellness | The total doesn’t include revenue from speaking fees, the sale of wellness products, or other income sources for which data isn’t publicly available.
The Means siblings have launched wellness companies that have raised more than $99 million... |
| Feb 21, 2025 | The Profit Motive Behind Immigration Detention: A Deep Dive into Local Government Incentives | In the intricate web of U.S. immigration policy, local governments are playing a pivotal role. They are not just enforcers of federal law; they are also profit-seekers. The interplay between local jails and Immigration and Customs Enforceme... |
| Feb 21, 2025 | National Politics | ‘Perverse’ incentives: How local governments might cash in on Trump’s migrant detention | Cell room doors are seen at the Caroline Detention Facility in Bowling Green, Virginia, on August 13, 2018. (SAUL LOEB // AFP via Getty Images)
Trump’s plans will require building a massive nationwide infrastructure, including centers to de... |
| Aug 30, 2024 | Misalignment Under the Radar: Stealth Dual-Class Stock | Executive Summary
Traditional dual-class or multi-class stock structures have received significant attention from market participants because of the disconnect they create between voting rights and economic ownership, thereby insulating com... |
| Aug 27, 2024 | Justice Department Finds Kentucky Unnecessarily Institutionalizes Louisville Residents with Serious Mental Illness in Psychiatric Hospitals | The Justice Department announced today that it has reasonable cause to believe that the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Kentucky) is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro area by unnecessaril... |
| Aug 22, 2024 | National Politics | Fact-checking Day 3 of the Democratic National Convention | Abortion ban
After predicting that Trump and Vance would “gut Social Security and Medicare,” Walz repeated the outdated claim that “they will ban abortion across this country with or without Congress.” Trump used to support that position, b... |
| Aug 20, 2024 | National Politics | Fact-checking Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention | The unemployment rate was 6.4 percent the month of Biden’s inauguration, above the historical norm of 5.6 percent, which is the median rate for all months since 1948.
As FactCheck noted before, that rate would have been higher if millions o... |
| Jul 18, 2024 | National Politics | Fact-checking Day 3 of the Republican National Convention | As the chart shows, wages have fluctuated, but they were on an upward trend before Trump took office. The noticeable spike in the chart came in April and May 2020, during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, when unemployment also shot up an... |
| Jun 28, 2024 | National Politics | Fact-checking the Biden-Trump debate | During the GOP presidential primary, Trump also criticized some of his Republican opponents for proposing to raise the retirement age for Social Security, which budget experts have said would reduce scheduled benefits for those affected.
So... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Brief – Unintended Consequences: Consumer Privacy Legislation and Schools | [ PDF Version ]
The United States needs to enact comprehensive privacy legislation that limits the collection, use, and sharing of personal information to protect everyone, including children. Although such a bill has yet to be enacted at t... |
| Jan 4, 2024 | Как главный хакатон в России стёр 2000 наград, и как предотвратить это снова | «Цифровой прорыв» — главный хакатон в России. Это проект правительства. Он работает с 2019 года, и там участвуют 50 тысяч человек в год. Летом 2023 они удалили свой сайт, который был первоисточником, подтверждающим более 2000 наград в разны... |
| Nov 21, 2023 | FISA Section 702: Key Takeaways From PCLOB Report | The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) recently released its report on Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA 702), a surveillance authority that permits warrantless monitoring of non-US persons loca... |
| Oct 2, 2023 | LEGAL VICTORY: The Biden Administration Waves White Flag in FGA v. HHS Lawsuit on Drug Price Transparency | FGA logo
The Foundation for Government Accountability's successful federal lawsuit holds the Biden administration accountable and protects patients' right to health care transparency.
NAPLES, Fla., Oct. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Today, ... |
| Jun 11, 2023 | Claims That Ventilators Killed Nearly All With Covid-19 Are Unfounded | Social media accounts have been sharing a post on a website called the People’s Voice entitled, ... [+] “Official Report: Ventilators Killed Nearly ALL COVID Patients.” But this “Official Report” posting was not official, not from the voice... |
| Jun 5, 2023 | Can Congress Bar Fully Autonomous Nuclear Command and Control? | Sens. Edward Markey, Elizabeth Warren, Jeff Merkley, and Bernie Sanders recently released a draft bill to safeguard nuclear command and control from future policy changes that might allow an artificial intelligence (AI) system to make nucle... |
| May 26, 2023 | FDA weighs when software becomes a medical device | An effort to get the FDA to pull a widely used prescription drug monitoring software package off the market is stoking a broader debate over how much technology is influencing opioid prescribing.
Driving the news: The Center for U.S. Policy... |
| May 18, 2023 | Why the Manhattan DA’s Trump Case Cannot Be Removed to Federal Court | Last month, a Manhattan grand jury indicted Donald J. Trump for violating state law based on alleged “hush money” payments to Stormy Daniels. To be precise, Michael Cohen, who was then-candidate Trump’s lawyer, paid the adult film star befo... |
| May 2, 2023 | 911: Reimagining a System that Defaults to Dispatching Police | Every person deserves equal, effective treatment and safety, especially when in crisis. In such a vulnerable circumstance, people need professionals trained to provide support and care.
But too often, when a person is experiencing a mental ... |
| Mar 24, 2023 | FGA v. HHS: The Fight for Transparent Drug Pricing in America | The American people deserve to make informed choices with all cards face up. The Biden administration has made that impossible by putting the needs of Big Pharma before the needs of patients. FGA is fighting for transparency that puts peopl... |
| Feb 9, 2023 | Egypt: Amendments to Family Law Establishing New Marriage Requirements and Family Support Fund Proposed | EGYPT, February 8 - On December 24, 2022, the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, announced the establishment of a new family fund aimed at supporting certain needy, divorced women under a proposed bill to amend the Egyptian personal ... |
| Jan 26, 2023 | Egypt: Supreme Administrative Court Rejects Petition to Obligate Local Administrative Authorities to Allocate Burial Site for Baha'i Religious Minority | EGYPT, January 24 - On December 20, 2022, the Appeals Examination Circuit of Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court upheld a ruling issued by the Alexandria Administrative Court allowing the Governorate of Alexandria to deny a request submitt... |
| Dec 8, 2022 | Egypt: New Law Allows Egyptian Expats to Import Personal Cars with No Customs Duties | EGYPT, December 7 - On October 27, 2022, Egyptian President Abu al-Fatah al-Sisi ratified Law No. 161 of 2022 regulating the import of personal vehicles by Egyptian expats. The new law, which is the first of its kind in Egypt and will remai... |
| Nov 21, 2022 | We Live in an Age of Futile Impeachments | During the Republic’s first 41 presidencies (Washington through Bush I), there were only two presidential impeachment episodes, both of them weighty. President Andrew Johnson was impeached in 1868 and avoided conviction by a single vote. In... |
| Oct 29, 2022 | Robert Malone’s New Claims About Seasonal Flu Vaccines, Manufacturing, And Markets | Robert Malone, MD, MSc, who’s made a lot of questionable Covid-19 vaccine claims during the ... [+] pandemic, recently asserted that people are being coerced to get the annual flu vaccine in order to “maintain warm base manufacturing in cas... |
| Oct 1, 2022 | Libya: Immigration Authorities Detain Egyptian Minors Smuggled into the Country | EGYPT, September 29 - On September 4, 2022, the Security Directorate of Tobruk, a city on Libya’s eastern Mediterranean coast, announced that it had detained 287 undocumented Egyptian migrants who had illegally crossed the Egyptian-Libyan b... |
| Sep 20, 2022 | The Fifth Circuit’s Social Media Decision: A Dangerous Example of First Amendment Absolutism | On Sept. 16, the Fifth Circuit issued its opinion in NetChoice v. Paxton, upholding the controversial Texas law that limits the ability of large social media platforms to moderate content and also imposes disclosure and appeal requirements ... |
| Jul 19, 2022 | Modularity for International Internet Governance | The modern-day “global” internet faces a dubious future. On the battle lines of internet freedom, Russia’s increasing authoritarian control aspires to China’s great firewall levels, while the annual Freedom on the Net report for 2021 found ... |
| Jul 18, 2022 | Want to Reduce the Deficit? Cut the Pentagon’s Wish Lists. | President Biden recently announced that his administration oversaw a federal budget deficit reduction of $350 billion last year and is projecting a $1.7 trillion reduction by the end of the fiscal year. Now that the administration is windin... |
| Jun 29, 2022 | Watch out for Zombie Records! Yours can hurt you. | How Sealed or Expunged Court Records in Tenant & Employment Screening Reports May Illegally Cost People Jobs & Housing
From the National Consumer Law Center, June, 2022
Today, to rent an apartment or nail down a job, you almost alwa... |
| May 5, 2022 | Egypt: Cabinet Approves Draft Law on Criminalizing Underage Marriage | EGYPT, May 4 - On April 12, 2022, the Egyptian Cabinet approved a draft law on criminalizing underage marriages in Egypt. The draft law would punish the parents of the underage bride and groom, the officiator conducting such a marriage, and... |
| Apr 29, 2022 | Jordan; Saudi Arabia; Egypt: COVID Restrictions Eased during Month of Ramadan | EGYPT, April 29 - The Kingdom of Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Republic of Egypt have each implemented measures to ease COVID-19 pandemic restrictions during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which started at sundown on... |
| Apr 27, 2022 |
Is Bitcoin Legal? | As the market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market continues to climb, regulators around the world are stepping up the debate on oversight into the use and trading of digital assets.
To date, very few countries have completely outlaw... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | Platforms at War | The Russian invasion of Ukraine triggered a flurry of diplomatic, political, economic and military responses. But more than in previous geopolitical crises, tech giants’ policies and sanctions have played a major role in the Ukraine conflic... |
| Mar 24, 2022 | In numbers: Europe’s plastic problem | This chart first appeared in our sustainability-focused newsletter, Sustain. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox every Thursday.
The world’s producing twice as much plastic waste as it was two decades ago, and plastics account for 3.4%... |
| Jan 12, 2022 | Rethinking the Homeland Security Enterprise | The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America passed in Sept. 2021. The 20th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) looms in early 2023. And yet it is fair to say that DHS (and more broadly ... |
| Dec 20, 2021 | Secrecy Creep | In 1968, the Central Intelligence Agency discovered a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine resting deep on the ocean floor. The agency built a 600-foot ship outfitted with a giant claw to raise the submarine to the surface and access the valuabl... |
| Oct 5, 2021 | Perma Pipe International : Announces $3.0 Million Share Repurchase Program (Form 8-K) | Perma-Pipe International Holdings, Inc. Announces $3.0 Million Share Repurchase Program
NILES, IL, October 4, 2021- Perma-Pipe International Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PPIH) (the "Company") announced today that its board of directors... |
| Sep 28, 2021 | Perma Pipe International : Announces Contract Awards of $5.0 Million in Egypt | Perma-Pipe International Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPIH) is pleased to announce today that its subsidiary Perma-Pipe Egypt has recently been awarded approximately $5.0 million in contracts for the provision of thermally insulated pipes, field... |
| Jul 16, 2021 | Migrants Say They’re Being Electrocuted by ICE-Mandated Ankle Monitors | For months, Ms. C couldn’t sleep through the night. After being released from Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) custody, she was ordered to wear an electronic ankle monitor that needed to be charged every 4 to 5 hours. She told lawy... |
| Jun 15, 2021 | New Zealand’s Troubling Precedent for China Extradition | On June 4, the Supreme Court of New Zealand issued an important judgment in a case involving the extradition to China of Kyung Yup Kim, a South Korean national resident in New Zealand wanted on a murder charge. Initial reports about the 150... |
| May 19, 2021 | Why the McGahn Agreement Is a Devastating Loss for Congress | Over two years ago, the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election focused the spotlight on President Trump’s longtime White House counsel, Don McGahn, whose testimony to the special coun... |
| May 10, 2021 | Drug Advice Is Better Than Government Approach of 'Just Doing Nothing', Research Finds | New research published today indicates that significant numbers of people who use drug checking services at UK festivals have reported ongoing behavioural change when using illegal substances.
At three UK festivals in 2017, 1,482 people che... |
| Apr 30, 2021 | Pattern-or-Practice Investigations and Police Reform | On April 21, the morning after a Minneapolis jury convicted former officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Justice Department had opened a civil investigation “to determine w... |
| Mar 11, 2021 | Создаём личный «Архив интернета» | Как показала история, сеть из миллиардов связанных между собой документов — очень хрупкая и эфемерная система. Странички живут недолго. Если нашли интересную страницу, сайт или видео — нельзя просто сделать закладку и надеяться, что контент... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | Beyond the China Initiative | In late 2018, the U.S. Department of Justice launched the China Initiative. The initiative’s stated goals include identifying and expanding law enforcement’s capacity to investigate and prosecute cases involving the theft of trade secrets a... |
| Dec 17, 2020 | Alibaba facial recognition tech specifically picks out Uighur minority - report | By Reuters Staff
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has facial recognition technology which can specifically pick out members of China’s Uighur minority, surveillance industry researcher IPVM said in ... |
| Oct 30, 2020 | Preparing for Election Night: Counting and Reporting the Vote in Battleground States | Lawfare is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the na... |
| Sep 22, 2020 | Online Voting Wasn’t Ready for 2020. Don’t Count on It Anytime Soon. | Lawfare is partnering with the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project to produce a series on election integrity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis. The Healthy Elections Project aims to assist election officials and the public as the na... |
| Sep 1, 2020 | The Importance of Giving Reasons (Even in Secret) | News broke on Aug. 29 that the director of national intelligence has decided to curtail in-person briefings to Congress about election security. Instead, reporting indicates that intelligence officials will only provide updates to Congress ... |
| Jun 24, 2020 | Is Data Privacy A Privilege? The Racial Implications Of Technology Based Tools In Government | While we often read about (and most likely experience ourselves) public outrage regarding personal data pulled from websites like Facebook, the news often fails to highlight the staggering amounts of personal data collected by our governmen... |
| May 18, 2020 | Judge Sullivan Can Reject the Government’s Motion to Drop Flynn’s Case | In the wake of Attorney General William Barr’s unprecedented decision to drop the Department of Justice’s years-long prosecution of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, many observers are asking: Is this the end of the case... |
| Apr 16, 2020 | Facebook to alert users exposed to coronavirus misinformation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Following an investigation that revealed gaps in ... |
| Apr 16, 2020 | Facebook to alert users exposed to coronavirus misinformation | Following an investigation that revealed gaps in Facebook’s efforts to fight coronavirus misinformation, the social networking company announced it would retroactively send alerts to any users who had interacted with content subsequently la... |
| Mar 31, 2020 | Counterterrorism and Humanitarian Action: Will 2020 Be a Turning Point for International Humanitarian Law at the United Nations? | A debate is emerging slowly at the United Nations headquarters: Can and should a counterterrorism body authoritatively and authentically interpret and assess compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL), the principal body of law re... |
| Mar 24, 2020 | What Is Happening With the Foreign Women and Children in SDF Custody in Syria? | British-born Shamina Begum is a U.K. citizen no more. In February 2019, the British government stripped citizenship from Begum, who fled for Syria at age 15 to join the Islamic State.
The U.K. Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) d... |
| Feb 19, 2020 | Rocky Mountain Power, a Warren Buffett-owned utility, is again seeking to kill off residential solar power | Utah’s Rocky Mountain Power, a publicly managed monopoly electricity provider, has proposed a new rate for net-metered solar electricity that will effectively destroy the value of the program.
The Warren Buffett-owned utility, in a docket f... |
| Oct 17, 2019 | Food waste is a global issue. Here’s how 2 Singapore startups are working to fight it | Moving on to the second part of our #WorldFoodDay coverage – this time, on the big problem of food wastage. The UN has been working hard to pilot programs to improve understanding of reducing food loss and waste as pledged in its Sustainabl... |
| Oct 2, 2019 | Armed Militias Are Taking Trump’s Civil War Tweets Seriously | Over the weekend, the president sent a tweet that seemed to warn of civil war if he were to be impeached and removed from office:
....If the Democrats are successful in removing the President from office (which they will never be), it will ... |
| Sep 25, 2019 | How Much Power Did Facebook Give Its Oversight Board? | Last week, Facebook announced the final charter for its independent Oversight Board, which will have the power to hear cases and overrule Facebook’s decisions about what can and cannot remain on Facebook’s platforms. This is a potentially p... |
| Aug 22, 2019 | Administrative National Security | In the past two decades, the United States has applied a growing number of foreign and security measures directly targeting individuals—natural or legal persons. Administrative agencies have taken the lead in designing and implementing thes... |
| Jul 25, 2019 | The Most Prosecuted Federal Offense in America: A Primer on the Criminalization of Border Crossing | Overview
The federal statute criminalizing illegal entry into the United States, 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a), has become an unlikely focus of the Democratic presidential primary. During the first round of debates, Julián Castro called for decriminal... |
| Jan 11, 2019 | China’s Hostage Diplomacy | An obscure Chinese drug case has been pushed to the center of China’s relations with Canada—and, by implication, with the rest of the world. The case appears to reinforce the message, previously suggested by the detentions of Canadians Mich... |
| Nov 27, 2017 | The Fifth Amendment, Decryption and Biometric Passcodes | The spread of commercially available encryption products has made it harder for law enforcement officials to access to information that relates to criminal and national security investigations. In October, FBI Director Christopher Wray said... |
| Sep 7, 2016 | Thanks, Google, For Fucking Over A Bunch Of Media Websites | We’ve discussed a few times in the past how Google’s seemingly arbitrary policies are a potential problem for various media companies that often rely on the company. We’ve detailed ridiculous warnings we’ve received because our news stories... |
| May 24, 2016 | The Misbegotten Court of Military Commission Review | Anyone following the Guantánamo military commissions would do well to read Bob Loeb and Helen Klein's trenchant take on last Friday's D.C. Circuit decision in In re Khadr, in which the Court of Appeals declined to issue a writ of mandamus e... |
| Oct 23, 2015 | Sean and Eunice – Lawfunder.org | website facebook LinkedIn
Sean Roche and Eunice Wells are from Lawfunder.org, Australia’s first legal cause and litigation crowdfunding platform. As part of the legal industry’s rising Gen-Y cohort, Sean and Eunice put their tech minds into... |
| Porn Uploads: A Shield for Copyright Infringement Penalties on YouTube? | YouTube is the world’s most watched streaming platform. The endless library of videos, uploaded by both amateurs and professionals, is simply unrivaled.
This popularity translates into hard cash, with YouTube and its creators generating bil... |
| Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried hit with campaign finance complaint over GOP ‘dark’ money | An ethics watchdog group asked the Federal Election Commission to investigate former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried for alleged “serious violations” of election law.
The complaint by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW,... |
| After the Cawthorn Ruling, Can Trump Be Saved From Section 3 of the 14th Amendment? | Last month, a federal appeals panel gave the back of its hand to Rep. Madison Cawthorn, who was trying to stifle an attempt to block his bid for a second term.
A group of voters in Cawthorn’s district, represented by an out-of-state advocac... |
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| How China Is Rewriting the Norms of Human Rights | It is often taken for granted that human rights law embodies the pursuit of individual rights and freedom, but that link can no longer be taken for granted. As I discuss in my forthcoming Note in the Columbia Law Review, the People’s Republ... |