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Federal officials have conceded in writing that a 250-foot triumphal arch will damage historic sites around Arlington and the Lincoln Memorial, and the preservation statute they are following does not forbid them from building it anyway.

A federal judge found Google an illegal monopolist in advertising technology, then declined to make it sell the exchange at the center of the case, ordering six years of supervised rule-following instead.

A staff-level FCC ruling let Saudi, Emirati and Qatari state funds take roughly half the equity above Paramount's CBS stations, and almost every account of it got the law wrong.

Today's stories and the historical context you need to understand them, in one audio briefing from AskWhy.News.

Almost every American abortion statute written between the Civil War and 1973 contained an exception, and almost none of them explained it.

Long before there was environmental law there was nuisance, and nuisance is still the conceptual ancestor of everything that follows.

A UN-created expert body found reasonable grounds to believe US forces committed war crimes in two strikes on the war's first day, and Washington's answer has been to reject the forum rather than the facts.

Tierra Walker's family says the Texas abortion ban killed her; the state says the law always allowed the care she needed, and the 6,500 pages of her medical record contain no mention of anyone asking for it.

A judge found that ICE likely violated the Constitution when agents delivered a warning notice to a New York man's home telling him to stop criticizing the agency's acting director.

A federal audit found the government spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave in 2025, most of it paying buyout takers to stop working, and the agency that ran the program cannot show whether it saved money.