Intro On Sept. 16, the Federal Open Market Committee raised its policy rate a quarter point. The decision, approved unanimously 12-0, brought the target range to 3.75%–4% and marked the first hike since July 2023. Updated projections showed a strong majority of officials expect another increase before year-end. Two weeks earlier, that outcome was not the...
Intro A defense contractor’s former CEO is in federal prison for illegal campaign contributions to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). A new investigation now says the FBI later wanted to go much further. ProPublica reported Tuesday that FBI agents sought in 2024 to open a broad pay-to-play inquiry examining dealings between Collins and a major donor,...
The McKenna West case took four courts in three states to reach an unfinished answer, and every party in it was American. The fastest-growing part of the market she entered is not American at all and the legal machinery that eventually resolved her case stops at the border. The Growth Isn’t Mostly American Gestational surrogacy...
A California couple is seeking at least $100,000 in damages from the woman who carried their son, on the theory that she breached their contract by declining to end the pregnancy. The clause they are suing over is one courts have long said cannot be enforced against a pregnant woman. What remains enforceable is the...
Four major indicators moved in a favorable direction this year. Each arrived with a documented explanation from the agency that produced it. Almost none of them led a newscast. Intro The Atlantic hurricane season passed its climatological peak this month without producing a single hurricane. Five tropical storms have formed Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...