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The cable and broadcast line Carr drew is real law, and Cruz is not a candidate, so the question is not whether the ruling was wrong but whether the same standard reached comparable conduct, and the record shows one side got a months-long proceeding while the other got a weekend social media post.

A judge in Boston suspended the question that asked federal job applicants to name a Trump executive order significant to them, finding the government never explained why political views matter for a crane operator.

A Princeton researcher used published data and a commercial AI coding tool to reconstruct who cast which ballot in Georgia's May primary, and the State Election Board has declined to order the fix before November.

The Justice Department charged 102 protesters in four cities with felony assault on a federal officer and won not one felony conviction at trial, against a federal norm of 82 percent.

A green card holder in Texas was deported to Afghanistan under a 1996 secret-evidence law no administration had ever used, and because she agreed to go, no judge ever ruled on whether the procedure is lawful.

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

On 8 December 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower stood before the United Nations General Assembly and proposed that governments "begin now and continue to make joint contributions from their stockpiles of normal uranium…

This is the story of why the rules governing American workplaces change every time the presidency does, while the law itself sits unchanged.

The National Labor Relations Board's chief prosecutor has published a list of thirteen decisions she wants the Board to reverse, an ordinary and comparatively restrained use of an instrument both parties have used, arriving at a moment when the safeguards that once slowed such swings have been dismantled.