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 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...
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...
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...
On September 8, Canada begins collecting tariffs of 15, 25 and 50 percent on more than 700 categories of American goods, matching the 50 percent duties Washington imposed on roughly $27.6 billion in Canadian products on August 22. Prime Minister Mark Carney described the American action in the language of armed conflict. “You’re at war...
The Florida Department of Transportation revoked every permit it had issued for automated license plate readers in state highway rights-of-way on Monday, August 31, giving law enforcement agencies 30 days to take the equipment down and warning that the department will remove whatever remains after September 30. The one-page memorandum, signed by FDOT chief operating...
A manhole cover weighs a couple hundred pounds, sits in a public street, and in most American cities is locked to nothing. Lifting one is the entire physical barrier between the sidewalk and the cables running beneath it. People have been lifting them. Groups were filmed climbing into and out of New York sewers on...