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The approval took longer and carried more conditions than comparable crypto charters, but the agency decided that whether a president's family should hold a federal banking franchise was not its question to answer.

Ordinary trade law asks two questions about a shipment. What is it, and where did it come from.

In state after state, the terms that decide whether households pay for new power plants are sealed by nondisclosure agreements, redacted commission filings and public-records exemptions, and the officials casting the votes often cannot say what they are approving.

A watchdog group says conditions at Central Romana are essentially unchanged since 2022, and the agency that quietly restored the company's access to the U.S. market has never published the evidence that persuaded it.

The justices stayed one of two injunctions and held only that the states had sued too early, but a separate nationwide order still blocks the Postal Service, and the November election is closing in.

The Army Corps approved Enbridge's tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac using emergency procedures that let it record the objections of seven tribes and the state historic preservation office without ever having to resolve them.

The Ninth Circuit disqualified Nevada's top federal prosecutor on August 17 and the Second Circuit ruled the same way about New York's four days later, so three federal appeals courts have now held that the Attorney General cannot install a U.S. Attorney by designating that person first assistant to an office that is already empty.

Nothing in American law creates a company. States do. A corporation or a limited liability company exists because a state office accepted a piece of paper and issued a number, and there are fifty such offices, each with…

The FBI says the violent crime rate fell 9.7 percent in 2025 and the murder rate tied the lowest ever recorded, independent city data confirm the drop is real, and nobody claiming credit has produced evidence for it.

USDA has filed a proposed rule striking the regulation that has barred road building and logging across 44 million acres of national forest since 2001, and the agency's own draft impact analysis quietly undercuts the wildfire argument it is making in public.