Has AI Broken Brook’s Law?
In 2007, just before Apple unveiled the iPhone, Google announced something that sounded almost reckless. It called the contest the Android Developer Challenge, and it dangled a prize pool of $10 million for the best applications written for a phone that did not yet exist, a phone scheduled to launch in 2008. I was running […]
Supreme Court Upholds Transgender Athlete Ban
The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Republicans and advocates for women’s sports a major legal victory, ruling that states may bar transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s sports without violating the Constitution or federal civil rights law. In a pair of closely watched cases—West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox—the Court upheld […]
Supreme Court Strikes Down Executive Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down an executive order on Tuesday that sought to end birthright citizenship, affirming that the Constitution guarantees citizenship to nearly everyone born on U.S. soil. The landmark 6-3 ruling blocks denial of citizenship to children of illegal immigrants and some temporary visitors, with dissents from Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, and […]
Report: Mexican Officials Feeding Information To The Trump Administration
WASHINGTON — A growing number of politicians from Mexico’s ruling Morena party are reportedly offering to cooperate with U.S. investigators as the Trump administration expands its corruption and cartel probes into current and former Mexican officials. According to The New York Times, at least a dozen elected officials — including governors and members of Congress […]
Conservative Newspaper Criticizes Trump Sons’ Kazakhstan Mining Venture
The New York Post editorial board delivered a sharp rebuke Monday to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump over their financial ties to a U.S.-backed tungsten mining project in Kazakhstan, arguing the arrangement raises many of the same ethical questions Republicans spent years asking about the Biden family. The Murdoch-owned newspaper compared the business venture […]
Union Official Apologizes After Suggesting Platner Critics Would Be ‘First Up Against The Wall’
The communications director for Maine’s largest labor federation is facing criticism after suggesting that Democrats unwilling to support the party’s United States Senate nominee would be “first up against the wall when the revolution comes.” Andy O’Brien, communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO, made the remark on social media while responding to an opinion piece […]
Morning Brief: Redistricting Bid Collapses, DOJ Joins Reparations Fight, SCOTUS Rejects Appeal
Good morning. Colorado’s Supreme Court has dealt a major blow to efforts to redraw one of the nation’s key battleground maps, the Justice Department is joining a high-profile legal challenge to a race-based reparations program in Illinois, and the United States Supreme Court has declined to hear President Donald Trump’s appeal in the E. Jean […]
Poll Finds Few Democrats Call America The ‘Greatest’ Country Ahead Of 250th Anniversary
A new Economist/YouGov survey found sharp partisan divides over American pride as the country approaches its 250th anniversary. According to the poll, only 8% of Democrats said the United States is the “greatest” country in the world, compared with 52% of Republicans who gave that answer. Overall, Americans were more positive than negative about the […]
Pro-Lifers Demand Trump FDA Head Be Fired For Protecting Abortion Pills
A leading pro-life organization is demanding the United States commissioner of food and drugs be fired for protecting the manufacture and shipment of abortion pills. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America reports in a statement it “is calling for the immediate removal of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary following The Wall Street Journal’s report of the commissioner’s […]