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For roughly two decades before World War II, the American motion picture business ran as a closed loop controlled by a handful of firms.

When the Second World War in Europe ended, the victorious Allies had to decide how to deal with the surviving leaders of the Nazi regime.

A U.S. citizen has spent nearly two years in a Chinese jail on an espionage charge his family and the U.S. government both call baseless (The Guardian), and the case fits a pattern that reaches well past one man or one…

The February 2026 decision in Learning Resources v. Trump held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act gives the president no power to tax imports, and by July the Treasury had refunded about $81 billion in collected duties.

Israel's security cabinet quietly approved 1.3 billion shekels to build 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the same week EU foreign ministers debated, but did not agree on, banning trade in settlement goods.

The World Health Organization says its modelling suggests the true scale of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak is at least two to four times the roughly two thousand confirmed cases, as the United States began barring American citizens in the country from boarding flights home until they spend twenty-one days elsewhere.

The State Department has formally designated Youlin Chen wrongfully detained on an espionage charge his family calls baseless, and Beijing rejects the label.

Two pro-Palestinian advocacy groups asked a New York federal court to strike down the sanctions regime built on Executive Order 14203, arguing it criminalizes protected American speech and association.

A divided three-judge Fifth Circuit panel lifted more than sixty years of federal court supervision of the Concordia Parish schools after the Justice Department reversed its longstanding position and joined the school board in a stipulated dismissal, so no court ever decided whether the district had eliminated the vestiges of segregation.

The House voted 308-117 to end the twice-yearly clock change and keep the country on daylight saving time year-round, but the bill faces a divided Senate and a real scientific dispute over whether permanent daylight time or permanent standard time is the healthier choice.