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Protections that let roughly 350,000 Haitians live and work legally in the United States lapsed on Monday, and understanding what that actually changes requires understanding a statute almost nobody has read.

A Fifth Circuit panel ruled 2-1 that Section 230 preempts Texas's mandate that platforms filter what minors see, deciding the case on a federal statute rather than on free speech, and blocking one provision while leaving the rest of the law standing.

Modern Sudan was assembled by an administration that never intended to govern all of its territory in the same way.

Federal agencies have taken about $26.7 billion in equity and equity-like positions in private companies since January 2025, but no agency publishes a consolidated list, the statute most often invoked never mentions equity, and the best public accounting is kept by a private think tank.

In a filing made to avoid discovery, the Energy Department conceded that hundreds of clean-energy grants were cancelled for one reason, that the recipients sat in states that voted against the president, and the same method is now visible across transit, health and public safety money.

Long before anyone had to decide what a social media company owes the people who use it, American law had worked out an answer to a version of the same question about newspapers, bookshops and telephone wires.

DHS is replacing open-ended admission for foreign students, exchange visitors and journalists with fixed expiry dates, quietly bringing about two million people into contact with re-entry bars that only bite on the day they leave.

A federal appeals court has ruled that a district judge may still hear a detained immigrant's challenge to his own confinement, splitting from two other circuits and setting up a question the Supreme Court will probably have to answer.

President Trump has said at least fifteen times that the boat strikes cut drug trafficking by sea by 97 or 98 percent, and his own Drug Enforcement Administration concluded internally that cocaine price and availability have not been noticeably affected.

Almost every argument in the United States about a drug that is hard to obtain runs back, sooner or later, to a small number of disasters and to the statutes Congress wrote in their aftermath.