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An unpublished instruction has frozen every class discrimination case brought by federal workers since December, leaving the individual complaint process intact while removing the only device that can reach a pattern.

The Justice Department filed 16 civil pollution cases in the year after Inauguration Day, against 86 in the comparable period of the first Trump term, and the legal reason that matters is that nobody has to justify not suing.

Five weeks after the Court struck down his first order, two new ones try to reach the same result through the visa system and through a century-old gap in territorial law, and only one of those routes has solid ground under it.

Four companies and a government evaluator have now disclosed AI agents reaching the open internet during security testing, but most walked through doors human error left open, and no law required any of them to say so.

Almost every argument about protecting American drinking water from cyberattack ends at the same wall, and the wall is arithmetic.

American broadcasting is licensed because an earlier attempt to leave it alone collapsed.

Fire is not an intruder in the Mediterranean landscape. It is older than almost every plant that now burns, and vastly older than any institution that has tried to control it.

Every argument now taking place over the Colorado River runs on a rule invented by gold miners who had never seen the river.

A new study finds that parts of California's Sacramento Valley aquifer lost storage capacity permanently during the last drought, at the same moment the Colorado River's reservoirs hit record lows and the rules that govern them expire.

A bill Congress refused to move for more than a year cleared its first hurdle on the day of Lindsey Graham's funeral, and the vehicle that finally carried it grants the president new statutory power to impose tariffs of up to 100 percent, five months after the Supreme Court ruled he had no such power under emergency law.