This article reflects the court record as of September 13, 2026. In the space of eleven days this summer, three American courts confronted nearly the same legal question about three mothers who had killed their children. Each case was a homicide in which no one disputed who caused the deaths. Each turned entirely on whether severe mental illness excused it....
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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” letter. On Sept. 10, the AI company Anthropic published a 154-page threat intelligence report. Buried in it was an account of an Iran-linked account using the company’s Claude model to assemble what the report called “targeting books” on United States...
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 July 28 asking the United States government to help build the tools to slow them down. The signatures ran to the top of the industry: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki, Meta AI Chief Scientist Shengjia Zhao,...
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 in this article. We are stating that because this article argues other outlets should state theirs. Intro A rule due from the Food and Drug Administration in December would end most prescription drug advertising on American television. It would also...
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 and first Hmong American mayor. She had entered the race the previous August with no institutional backing, against an incumbent endorsed by both of Minnesota’s U.S. senators and the governor. She won by fewer than 1,900 votes in the final...
Ukraine’s Drones Reached the Arctic. The Harder Question Is What Kyiv Becomes When the War Ends
A Ukrainian drone started a fire at an industrial site in Novy Urengoy on Wednesday, in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district just south of the Arctic Circle. Regional governor Dmitry Artyukhov said air defenses repelled the attack and falling debris caused the blaze, and that there were no deaths or injuries. He did not identify the facility. Artem Zhoga, the Kremlin’s...
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 those things which is exactly where the cameras went. Second of two parts. Part One examined Dallas’s AI “blight score” program: 100 cameras on 50 sanitation trucks, more than 21,000 properties flagged in four months, and a pre-launch goal of...
Scored by a Garbage Truck: Inside Dallas’s AI “Blight” Surveillance Program
The city mounted 100 cameras on sanitation trucks, flagged 21,000 properties in four months, and set a target of 5,200 enforcement notices a year. Homeowners on fixed incomes are the ones holding the notices. Twice a month, a brush and bulky-waste truck rolls past a house in southern Dallas. It does not stop. Mounted on each side of the cab...
How Missouri Held a Primary on a Map That Was Never Law
Missouri voters cast primary ballots on August 4 in congressional districts drawn by House Bill 1. One month later, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously that HB 1 never took effect and has never been the law of the state. Both statements are accurate. Reconciling them is the whole of Missouri’s redistricting fight, and the answer is not that a...
German Industry’s Revenue Is Recovering. Its Job Cuts Are Accelerating.
Updated with data through September 7, 2026 For ten consecutive quarters, German industrial revenue contracted. That streak ended in the first quarter of 2026. In the second quarter, revenue grew 4.7 percent year-on-year to €556.4 billion the second straight quarter of growth, and by conventional reading, a recovery. Over the same twelve months, German industry cut about 144,000 jobs. That...