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A federal judge has now found the Postal Service likely to lose on the ground that Congress never gave it any power over elections, but the operational changes that already left tens of thousands of ballots without a timely postmark sit outside the rule, and outside the case.

An unsigned emergency order revived an FCC staff notice giving political parties and joint fundraising committees the discounted broadcast rate Congress wrote for candidates, on the ground that the appeals court should never have heard the case, with Justice Jackson dissenting alone.

A gene-edited pig kidney carried one patient's kidney function for nine months and then handed off cleanly to a human donor organ, which is a real result, a bridge rather than a cure, and a case of one.

The company that sells almost all the chips open AI models run on has agreed to buy the place those models live, and the real risk is not that it shuts the door but that it decides which path is easy.

The National Institutes of Health and the Pentagon have signed an agreement to move infectious-disease research money to military biodefense before the fiscal year ends, and whether that is a lawful purchase or an unlawful transfer turns on documents no one outside the executive branch has seen.

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A supervisor who ran background checks says ICE issued final job offers before fingerprints, identity verification and credit checks were done, and the government's own emergency waiver rule is the one place that particular step cannot be skipped.

Six people who refused to get off a US deportation flight in Liberia were flown onward the same day to Equatorial Guinea, a country none of them had ever seen, under a clause of the removal statute that is supposed to be the last resort.

The history that ends in a federal courthouse begins with a choice about metal, and the first thing to understand about that choice is that it was not made in ignorance.

The Department of Justice has now lost all 23 district court rulings on whether it can demand states' unredacted voter lists, so it is pursuing the same records by subpoena, while the noncitizen claim that started the Nevada fight has fallen from 15,903 to 185.