For years, the former Aeromarine landfill in Keyport, New Jersey sat quietly along the shoreline of Raritan Bay — deteriorating in plain sight while environmental violations accumulated and nearby residents grew increasingly alarmed. Now, a suspected cancer cluster has pushed the long-forgotten landfill into the center of a growing public accountability crisis. The renewed scrutiny...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — May 17, 2026 — Parents in the United States are facing a growing legal contradiction. Prosecutors are increasingly holding mothers and fathers criminally responsible for their children’s misconduct, while lawmakers continue to expand minors’ rights to obtain medical treatment without parental approval. Legal scholars say the two trends are moving in opposite...
The Viral Video That Exposed a Larger Policy Problem A viral video from Georgia has turned a local land dispute into a national debate over property rights and corporate subsidies. In the footage, a young woman describes how her mother’s home in Coweta County is being taken through eminent domain so that Georgia Power can...
New York is poised to become the second U.S. state, after California, to ban potassium bromate, red dye No. 3, and propylparaben from its food supply. The bill also closes a long-debated federal regulatory loophole — and could shape national manufacturing decisions well beyond the state line. On April 21, 2026, the New York State...
Aboriginal Title and the Public Markets: How British Columbia’s Land Tenure Crisis Reaches the Listed Mining and Oil & Gas Sector Part Two of a NexfinityNews series. An analysis of who actually owns British Columbia’s minerals and oil and gas, the publicly traded miners and drillers exposed to unresolved Aboriginal title, the securities disclosure obligations...
Federal agents detained 28 cruise ship crew members at the Port of San Diego in late April 2026 and arrested 23 the following day in what officials have since identified as part of Operation Tidal Wave, a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) enforcement push targeting child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Of those interviewed, 27 were found...
MADD Says the “Kill Switch” Is a Hoax. The Real Story Is Worse. The federal government doesn’t enforce drunk driving laws. So who actually flips the switch in your car — and who gets the data afterward? Mothers Against Drunk Driving sent supporters an email this week defending Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment...
Mamdani’s Wealth Gap Math Doesn’t Justify His Solutions The $200,000 number is real. It is also the wrong metric to build policy on — and the right ones point to problems City Hall and Albany have so far refused to confront. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Preliminary Racial Equity Plan, released in April, leans heavily on a...
Reform UK Wins 14 Councils as Labour Loses Half of Defended Seats in 2026 Local Elections Right-populist party led by Nigel Farage takes control across Labour heartlands; Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejects calls to resign as gilt markets weigh succession risk. Britain’s two largest political parties suffered historic setbacks in local elections held May 7,...
A federal antitrust victory in 2024 was hailed as a win for consumers. Two years later, Spirit Airlines is gone, 17,000 workers are out of jobs, and Washington is fighting over who broke the budget-airline business model. When Spirit Airlines shut down in the early-morning hours of May 2, 2026, it brought a 34-year-old budget...