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The First Circuit declined to lift the injunction blocking the President's order to build federal citizenship lists and restrict mail ballots, but it decided only the timing question, not whether a president has any power over elections, and the administration has now asked the Supreme Court to step in before the midterms.

A ProPublica and Texas Tribune investigation found Ken Paxton voted six times from a Collin County home his wife's divorce filing says he left in 2024. He has not been charged, and the complaint about it sits with the Secretary of State.

Every argument about when a state may use force against a boat begins with a question that has no equivalent on land: whose law applies?

The NRC has proposed removing ALARA, the fifty-year-old duty to keep radiation exposure well under the legal ceilings, while leaving the ceilings themselves unchanged.

A federal judge ruled that the FDA never identified the risk its prescriber, patient-form and pharmacy requirements are meant to mitigate, then sent the rule back to the agency instead of voiding it, so nothing has changed for prescribers or pharmacies.

American strikes on Iran have stopped for three days while mediators report progress, and reporting says the top U.S. commander in the Middle East advised that the bombing had reached the limit of what it could achieve.

A state grand jury has charged Hawaii's lieutenant governor, who spent a decade running the House money committee, along with a lobbyist and three current or former officials, over campaign contributions and an emergency Covid testing appropriation.

The United States began its life owning stock in a private corporation, and it began arguing about it almost immediately.

The American Constitution does not divide the spending power evenly among the branches of government.

Syria's place on the American terror list, and the sanctions architecture stacked on top of it, answer a question about one particular kind of state: a republic governed for half a century by a family from a poor rural…