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For most of the internet's commercial history, the places where digital business happens have narrowed to a handful of controlling points.

In the 1870s, the British survey ship HMS Challenger dragged its dredges across the deep Pacific during a four-year voyage that founded the science of oceanography.

Read Article I of the Constitution looking for Congress's power to investigate, and you will not find it.

The phrase most people reach for comes from the biologist Garrett Hardin, whose essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" appeared in the journal Science in December 1968 (published as a presidential address to a division of…

"Reporter's privilege" is the claim that a journalist has a legal right to refuse to identify a confidential source or to hand over unpublished newsgathering material, even when a court or grand jury demands it.

The Trump administration wants to sell 20-year mining rights across more than 31 million acres of ocean floor off American Samoa, the first sale of its kind anywhere, while a parallel push into international waters challenges the UN regime that treats the deep seabed as the common heritage of mankind.

In a Truth Social post, the president set a phased tariff on imported generics rising to 100 percent in 2028 and 200 percent in 2029, aiming to reshore production of the low-margin medicines that fill nine in ten American prescriptions but mostly originate in India and China.

One day after signing a 30-year civil nuclear pact with Saudi Arabia, President Trump declared on social media that the deal is void unless Riyadh recognizes Israel, and insisted it bars enrichment, as the agreement heads to a Congress with a live statutory path to force the nonproliferation gold standard the reported text omits.

A unanimous D.C. Circuit panel ruled that Peter Navarro could not defy a January 6 subpoena by claiming a privilege only Donald Trump could invoke and never did, leaving intact the misdemeanor statute Congress leans on to enforce its subpoenas.

Washington condemned Russia's strikes on Ukraine's power grid as barbaric war crimes; now President Trump vows to destroy an Iranian bridge or power plant for every ship Iran fires on in the Strait of Hormuz, testing a line in the laws of war the United States itself helped draw.