Intro Two Queens men have been charged after police say they were recorded climbing out of a manhole on Park Avenue in the early hours of Wednesday, Sept. 23 a few steps from a hotel used by visiting dignitaries during the United Nations General Assembly. Kevin Rodriguez, 26, of Flushing, and Samuel Reveron, 25, of...
Introduction The Department of Homeland Security said on Sept. 25, 2026, that it is “reducing your rent,” crediting immigration enforcement for falling rents in states that cooperate most with ICE. In a post on X, the agency said Texas accounted for about a quarter of ICE arrests in July and posted the country’s sharpest rent...
New York’s mobile sports betting tax is usually reported as a win for the state and its schools. Two numbers rarely appear alongside it: what bettors lost to produce that revenue, and whether schools actually receive more money because of it. The first can be calculated directly from the tax rate. For the widely cited...
For years, federal and state governments made jobs, military service, hospital work and school enrollment depend on vaccination. Those standards were never applied at the same strength to people entering between ports of entry, or to the jurisdictions that shelter them. Measles is now at a 35-year high, largely for reasons unrelated to the border....
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 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...