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For the first time since Congress built it in 1996, the Justice Department has filed a case in a secretive court that can deport noncitizens on classified evidence they are never allowed to see, testing how much due process the Constitution demands.

With his emergency-powers tariffs voided by the Supreme Court in February, the president reached for Section 338, a dormant Depression-era discrimination statute, to put an additional 50 percent duty on Canadian autos, alcohol, and cheese, and the untested legal theory is already headed for court.

A federal judge granted final approval to the largest known U.S. copyright settlement, closing the question of how Anthropic acquired millions of books to train Claude while leaving unsettled the broader question of whether training on copyrighted work is fair use.

Andy Burnham took office today without a general election, the latest mid-term handover in a decade of churn and a decisive turn away from Keir Starmer's centrism.

The most disorienting thing about the day Andy Burnham walked into Downing Street is how little of it was written down anywhere.

How did the covert shaping of other nations' elections and governments become not an improvisation but a standing instrument of American statecraft, kept ready for use decade after decade?

Long before any government wrote it into law, the intuition was already there: that violence in war should be aimed at those who fight, not at those who do not.

The declassified record documents foreign influence operations in recent U.S. elections but no altered vote tally, a distinction that cuts against the president's 2020 claim and, applied evenly, against overreaching claims about Russia and 2016 alike.

The American socialist impulse is older than the industrial working class it is now associated with, older than the strikes and party conventions that would come to define it, and, crucially, older than Karl Marx…

The Espionage Act became law on June 15, 1917, just weeks after the United States entered World War I, and it passed at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, who had been pressing Congress for such authority since…