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A rule that took effect Friday lets immigration officers count Medicaid, food stamps and school lunch against a green-card applicant, and the government estimates it will push about 950,000 people off benefits they are entitled to.

Twelve states sued to block the largest media merger in Hollywood history, and the settlement now under discussion would trade the structural remedy they demanded for conduct promises of a kind that history says expire.

A sixty-five-year-old dam came out of a Maine river and opened the last of its main stem to endangered salmon, but the science says the decisive losses now happen at sea.

The Fifth Circuit ruled 2 to 1 that Congress cannot stop a licensed dealer from selling a handgun directly to an out-of-state buyer, because the government could not find founding-era laws that did anything similar.

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American banking law begins not with a product but with a permission.

A president may choose whom he talks to, but the badge that admits a reporter to the press areas is governed by a published regulation whose only question is physical danger, and the stated reason for revoking three outlets' badges was their coverage.

A federal judge vacated the EPA's destruction of the $7 billion Solar for All programme, holding that Congress rescinded only the money nobody had claimed yet and the agency took the rest anyway.

Congress gave custody of unaccompanied migrant children to a health agency in 2002 so the deporting agency would not control where they lived, and the government's own data now shows that separation has been worked around without a single change to the law.

A unanimous federal appeals panel held that the Department of Homeland Security cannot deport people to countries they have no ties to on a receiving government's blanket promise of safety, because without notice of the destination the right to contest it does not exist.