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Why Is the Weaponization Report So … Normal?
The Justice Department report’s measured tone masks a deeper effort to legitimize targeting career officials. -
DHS’s Flawed Defense of Home Invasion Based on Administrative Warrants
Defending ICE home invasions without judicial warrants, DHS relies in significant part on a 1960 Supreme Court case. Does that hold up? -
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For the first time, there may be evidence that President Zelensky personally profited from corruption. -
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AI dominance will require more than faster models—it will require breakthroughs in understanding, testing, and securing frontier AI. -
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An extraordinary constitutional claim from OLC threatens decades of practice—and now faces the courts. -
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