The win: Gabon's High Communication Authority (HAC) announced on Saturday, in a televised statement, that it has lifted the nationwide ban on social media it imposed on February 17. Facebook, TikTok, ...
The win: In Knife Rights, Inc. v. Blanche, a unanimous Fifth Circuit panel (Judges Elrod, Willett, and Wilson) held that the Federal Switchblade Act's ban on making, shipping, or distributing switchbl...
Benjamin Heeter and Joseph Wurtenberg just wanted to buy body armor to protect themselves. Under New York's 2022 law, that made them criminals: buying a bulletproof vest without working in an "eligibl...
Mario Rosales and his girlfriend Gracie Lasyone were pulled over by two Alexandria, Louisiana, police officers, Samuel Terrell and Jim Lewis, on what their 2022 lawsuit calls a "fabricated traffic vio...
You can legally brew beer and make wine at home. Under an 1868 federal law, you can't distill spirits there. The law bans stills in "any dwelling house" or connected shed, yard or enclosure. Violators...
The Jones Act is a 1920 law that says anything shipped between two U.S. ports has to ride on an American-built, American-crewed ship. There are almost no such ships that can carry gas, so for decades ...
Edward Williams has two Pennsylvania DUI convictions from the early 2000s. The second one — a first-degree misdemeanor that could have carried up to five years — was enough for federal law to trea...
Missouri Judge Eric Eighmy didn't like that two kids refused to go home with their mother after a 2019 custody hearing in Taney County. So he took them down a courthouse hallway, threatened them with ...
New Jersey's School Ethics Commission just dismissed a nearly year-long complaint against Alloway Township board member Gail Nazarene — for asking her neighbors on Facebook what they thought about a...
In the span of seven days, five local governments in four states decided they're done with Flock Safety's license plate cameras. Henrico County, Virginia, announced Oct. 6 that it was ending its Flock...
Over four days, Ukrainian drones hit three Yandex data centers: Sasovo on Oct. 8, Kaluga on Oct. 9, and Vladimir on Oct. 11. Yandex confirmed the damage and shut Sasovo and Vladimir down completely. Y...
Friday night, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul opted the state into the federal Education Freedom Tax Credit — becoming only the second Democratic governor to do so voluntarily after Colorado's Jared Poli...
At 5 a.m. on Oct. 18, 2017, an FBI SWAT team broke down the front door of Trina Martin and Toi Cliatt's home outside Atlanta, set off a flashbang, dragged Cliatt out of a closet in handcuffs, and held...
A Tulsa County deputy saw a car with California plates, ran it through Flock, and pulled up a month of the driver's movements across several states, with no warrant and nothing more than the out-of-st...
Utah's SB 73 tried something no state had tried before: it told adult websites they were liable for any user "actually located" in Utah, even if that user was on a VPN or proxy showing them somewhere ...
In July 2021, Georgia's Governor's Drug Suppression Task Force flew three helicopters and a fixed-wing plane so low over a licensed, GPS-registered hemp farm in Dahlonega that it flattened two rows of...
Britain's Standards and Compliance Unit (StaCU) — the Home Office–linked body sold as a Prevent complaint desk — spent a year scanning X and Reddit for people who criticized the counter-terror p...
Treasury and the IRS issued proposed rules, plus temporary procedures, for the Education Freedom Tax Credit on Thursday. Eligible taxpayers can claim up to $1,700 a year — $3,400 for a married coupl...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used his State of the Force address at Quantico on Wednesday to brand critical U.S. media coverage of the Iran war as "a national betrayal" and "treason, actually." He c...
On September 28 Google took Brussels to Europe’s General Court over two Digital Markets Act orders that would force Alphabet to open Android to rival AI assistants and — more important — hand co...
On September 28 a federal jury in San Antonio found Bexar County liable for turning mass license-plate surveillance into a pipeline of pretextual traffic stops and warrantless searches. Alek Schott ...
Chester County, Pennsylvania, is sending public-health nurses door-to-door in Amish country — into private kitchens — with MMR syringes and a "boots on the ground" pitch. BBC reports Dale Weiser o...
Asked Claude, Codex, and Grok the same question: three reasons libertarianism is winning now, and three ways to keep winning. They didn't match word-for-word, but they landed on the same map. Why it's...
Naperville Officer Oscar Maldonado turned Illinois' Flock license-plate grid into a personal tracker. Internal records show he searched Patrick Dowhen's vehicle about 150 times over three months in 20...
Early Thursday (~1:30 AM ET), U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly issued a 14-day temporary restraining order telling the White House to immediately restore hard-pass credentials for CNN, Politico, and ...
Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his first UN General Assembly speech to announce a National Centre for Information Defence. Remit: detect, attribute, and disrupt "information attacks," including AI d...
A viral X post is circulating that Florida “approved the ABOLITION of statewide PROPERTY TAXES.” That headline skips the hard part. In the June 2026 special session the Legislature passed HJR 1-F ...
Before the Iran war began on February 28, about 125 large commercial vessels a day moved through the Strait of Hormuz — roughly a fifth of the world's oil and LNG. On Monday, trackable commodity tra...
Saturday morning, Secret Service confiscated the White House press passes of reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico and turned them away at the gate. Friday night, President Trump had announced the ...
Peer review isn’t enough anymore. After scientists clear NIH’s scientific process, a computational keyword scanner can still flag, kill, delay, or rewrite the grant. Seventeen researchers filed a ...
Ursula von der Leyen unveiled the EU KIDS Act in Strasbourg on Thursday. Under 13: no social media or video-sharing accounts. Ages 13–14: only parent-supervised "mini accounts" with hard limits. Aut...
Late Tuesday the House passed H.Con.Res. 93, 220–204, directing the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran unless Congress authorizes the war. Seven Republicans crossed ove...
Former Stars and Stripes publisher Max D. Lederer Jr. told reporters in Tokyo on Monday that the Pentagon's real reason for firing him, editor Erik Slavin, and reporter Lara Korte was critical coverag...
Ralph Benko at the Washington Examiner picks up what Rand Paul said after touring Fort Knox: the affordability fight is not mainly corporate greed, deregulation, or drill-baby-drill. It is the money. ...
Big Brother Watch FOI'd UK police forces. Between 2021 and 2025 they arrested at least 62,199 people for communications offences — roughly 34 arrests every single day. About 18,500 were charged. 12,...
Language tucked into the Senate's 2027 defense bill would let the Pentagon hire outside cybersecurity firms to penetrate computer networks the military chooses. Contractors would work under US Cyber C...
Concord, New Hampshire put private surveillance devices in public-housing apartments. The Concord Housing and Redevelopment Authority bought them from a company called Mînut. They record movement and...
Your deposit is not spare inventory for the Commission. In Paris on Friday, Ursula von der Leyen told French business leaders that Europe has about €10 trillion in household bank deposits "sitting o...
California did not just pass a privacy rule. It wrote AB 2624 — critics call it the Stop Nick Shirley Act — then Gov. Newsom signed it. The law expands Safe at Home to immigration-support nonprofi...
Flock was never the whole story. Sen. Josh Hawley just widened his AI surveillance investigation beyond Flock Safety to Motorola Solutions, Verkada, and Axon Enterprise. Same demand: how these private...
As of September 1, Barnet Hill Academy in London left the private sector and became a voluntary-aided school — almost entirely on the public payroll. The uniform policy stayed. Girls in Year 3 (age ...
Flock Safety now runs something like 120,000 automated license plate readers across American towns, feeding roughly 20 billion plate scans a month into a searchable database. Nobody voted for that. It...
VulnCheck bought an $88 "Deep Orange" router on Amazon from a New York seller. White-label ZBT hardware out of Shenzhen. Firmware from 2019. Two factory implants sitting in it. Not a later hack. Built...
Portugal's president signed Law 58/2026, the so-called "burqa law." It bans clothing "intended to conceal or obstruct the display of the face" in public. It takes effect September 23. Fines run €150...