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The court's 125 member states vote in New York on removing chief prosecutor Karim Khan over sexual-misconduct findings, an unprecedented step colliding with a U.S. campaign to disable the court and the still-unenforced warrant for Netanyahu.

Brussels hit Google with its first fine under the Digital Markets Act for rigging search results and locking down its app store, and the real story is the new machinery behind the penalty, not the penalty itself.

As pandemic-era protections end and involuntary collections loom, a record share of borrowers has fallen into default, and a rule finalized this month will cut off federal loans for college programs whose graduates earn too little.

Indiana approved a first-of-its-kind subsidiary that generates power exclusively for data centers and ring-fences household bills from their costs, but it did so by exempting itself from the rate-case and permitting review that normally guards the public.

A judge told the government that subpoenaing journalists is a last resort, not a first move, and rather than be overruled the Justice Department backed down, the second such climbdown in a month.

A House committee has advanced a bill to extend a moratorium on new fishing-gear rules to 2035, while NOAA separately withdraws and moves to weaken a vessel-speed rule, as fewer than 380 of the whales remain.

A Native-Hawaiian-led fishing area on Kauaʻi holds more and healthier fish inside its boundaries than outside, and a long argument about how to govern a shared resource explains why, and why it is not settled yet.

For most of the twentieth century, the death of a democracy had a recognizable face: tanks in the streets, a general on the radio announcing that the constitution was suspended, the elected leader in exile or worse.

The founding document of children's online protection in the English-speaking world is the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, known as COPPA.

The First Amendment is short, and the sentence that matters here is shorter still: Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble.