Four restaurants in the United States are currently serving salmon that was never caught, never farmed, and never alive as a fish. It is grown from Pacific coho cells in steel vessels in San Francisco, harvested, and combined with plant-based ingredients into something that looks and cuts like a fillet. Eight states have made selling it a crime. In the...
September 18, 2026
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Lab-Grown Salmon Is on American Menus. Almost Nothing Requires the Menu to Say So.
Four restaurants in the United States are currently serving salmon that was never caught, never farmed, and never alive as...
Same Law, Three Answers: Who Decides Whether Mental Illness Excuses a Homicide
This article reflects the court record as of September 13, 2026. In the space of eleven days this summer, three...
Part II: A Waiver Washington Can Grant, in a Market Washington Does Not Control
Second in a two-part series. Part I examined the antitrust exemption bill filed five days before the “Pacing the Frontier”...
The Safety Letter Got the Headlines. The Bill Filed Five Days Earlier Is the Story.
More than a thousand employees of the companies building the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence signed a public statement on...
The FDA’s Drug-Ad Rule Would Cost Television Billions. The Coverage Hasn’t Mentioned It.
Editor’s note disclosure: NexfinityNews accepts no pharmaceutical advertising and has no financial interest in the outcome of the rulemaking described...
St. Paul Capped Rents. Construction Collapsed. Homeowners Got the Bill.
Introduction In January 2026, Kaohly Vang Her was sworn in as mayor of St. Paul — the city’s first woman...
Ukraine’s Drones Reached the Arctic. The Harder Question Is What Kyiv Becomes When the War Ends
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The Fine Print: How Texas Cities Learned to Tax Without Voting
Property tax growth is capped. Ticket quotas are a crime. Red light cameras are banned. Code enforcement is none of...