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Many Asheville community members spoke at the meeting against both Flock and Axon contracts. Some also brought up frustration with the lack of public comment at the earlier meeting where the council voted on the 24-hour Real-Time…

The choice of character was a pointed reference to Thiel's well-documented fascination with Tolkien. Thiel co-founded data analytics company Palantir Technologies, whose name comes from the "palantíri," seeing stones in Tolkien's fictional…

UPI

Social media companies still face thousands of lawsuits in federal and state courts by individuals, school districts, municipalities and other government entities claiming they knowingly sought to addict children and caused a mental health…

Reuters

The Arkansas Legislative Council on Friday approved the rules for Medicaid’s coverage of doulas, part of a 2025 law requiring the program and private insurance to cover such services for Arkansans. The council’s rules subcommittee gave…

A federal judge in the Eastern District of Michigan on Friday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Washtenaw County’s “sanctuary policies” were illegal. In her opinion, Judge F. Kay Behm stated that “neither the federal government nor the…

California Attorney General Rob Bonta canceled a meeting with Paramount Skydance on Monday, saying the company demonstrated a “lack of good faith” in early settlement talks around its planned merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

CNBC

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the Justice Department’s request to erase Trump ally Steve Bannon’s criminal conviction for refusing to testify before the congressional committee that investigated a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the…

AP News

“Want a success story? In July, we recorded the 10,000th successful crossing on our I-90 Snoqualmie Pass wildlife overcrossing,” WSDOT shared in a social media post. “Between that overcrossing and our 11 undercrossings on Snoqualmie Pass,…

In the aftermath of Kirk’s killing, “we saw a coordinated effort to chill any speech critical of his legacy,” Viktoya Vilk, senior director for digital safety and free expression at PEN America, wrote in a statement to Mother Jones. More…

For nearly a month, the key force standing in the way of Trump’s border wall project in southeast Arizona has been a person sitting in a 200-year-old tree. More precisely, at every moment since late July, one person — although not always…

The Intercept

Many Inola residents said they were disillusioned with the Trump administration’s characterization of the smelter. It doesn’t match what the company behind the smelter put in its February application for an air quality permit from the…

A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in its legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued…

More than a hundred registered nurses in red union T-shirts blocked traffic and chanted outside Palantir’s former headquarters in Palo Alto on Thursday, calling on hospital executives and elected officials to cut ties with the artificial…

KQED

Agrivoltaics places panels above or among crops and grazing land rather than taking the field out of production. That distinction is the whole point of the program. New Jersey is dense and its farmland is under development pressure, so a…

In a six-page ruling signed by Chief Justice Natalie Hudson, the Supreme Court denied Lindell's attempt to broaden the scope of a recount beyond what the secretary of state’s office laid out. Lindell missed a Monday deadline to formally…

MPR News

But a staggering 44 states have argued that these platforms are, in fact, gambling and should be subjected to state gaming laws and taxes. “The substance of the sports event contracts offered on Kalshi’s (exchange) is sports gambling,…

CNN

“This partnership is about ensuring that Rapa Nui’s marine protected areas are not only designated, but also effectively managed and sustained for generations to come,” said Jose Luis Cabello, Senior Latin America Director, for Island…

The following essays, like the chapters in the book from which they are drawn, Fight Back: How States Can Counter Authoritarianism (New Press, forthcoming 2027), suggest why this situation is not irreversible. They demonstrate that state…

The moves come as some residents say they are reconsidering how much surveillance they want in daily life. “I feel like, as a society, it’s better if we’re just kind of, like, not constantly under surveillance. Like, we don’t need cameras…

Arizona's Family

Pro-democracy protesters showed up recently all over the country: Emeryville, CA; San Jose, CA; Delmar, NY; Freeport, ME; Superior, CO ; Richmond, VA; Portland, OR; Billerica, MA; Pasadena, CA; central NJ. Many of these are weekly protests.

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