Federal liability protections currently prevent people suing COVID-19 vaccine makers, and instead require them to request compensation from a program that's covered only 39 COVID vaccine injury claims.
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The Department of Defense awarded contracts to Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. The last two are particularly concerning.
One former ICE detainee says he and a group of men were forced to kneel with their hands tied behind their backs and eat "like dogs."
The contrast between the two cases illustrates the haphazard impact of an arbitrary, constitutionally dubious gun law.
If Trump kills the deal over the team changing its name, he'd be doing the right thing but in perhaps the most corrupt possible way.
The state just cracked down on a form of state-sanctioned robbery, where governments seized and sold homes over minor tax delinquencies—and then pocketed the profits.
Norma Nazario blames her son's death on social media algorithms.
Whatever the merits of this particular defamation claim, the president has a long history of abusing the legal system to punish constitutionally protected speech.
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Nobody complained about the company, so federal bureaucrats launched their own crusade.
The Portuguese recognize that having children shouldn't relegate people to explicitly kid-friendly spaces.
From trade wars to visa restrictions, policies aimed at foreigners are backfiring on U.S. travelers—raising costs, shrinking freedoms, and souring global goodwill.
Supervillains used to be foreign enemies. Now the villain is a defense contractor who wants to start a regime change war.
AI cheating is often a crutch for students ill-equipped to attend a four-year university.
Yale’s Jacob Hacker and Sesame’s David Goldhill debate a government-run health insurance plan.
The success of "contingency management" belies the notion that addiction is an uncontrollable disease caused by a drug's impact on dopamine levels.
Immigrant detainees transferred thousands of miles from where they were first arrested face unique challenges in immigration court.
The ruling upholds protections afforded to officers of the "quasi legislative or quasi judicial agencies" created by Congress.
Recent protests at MLS matches and the ensuing bans for some fans have put the league in a delicate position, balancing tolerance and enforcement.
What is the relationship between Trump's tariffs and the rest of the economy?
The notion that NPR can somehow become unbiased is about as believable as the IRS sending you a fruit basket to commend you for filing your taxes.
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You have rights to your property, not to control others.
Collections represented a surge in imports trying to beat higher rates—with a slump to follow.
The alleged incident goes to the heart of the objections raised by critics who worry about Bove's respect for the rule of law.
One immigration judge referred to an ICE attorney as merely “Department” during a hearing.
The FDA blocked a similar successful treatment for mitochondrial disease a quarter of century ago.
Between 2006 and 2013, gun violence increased by 150 percent in the city when juvenile curfews were in effect.
The lawsuit says attorneys have been repeatedly turned away from the detention camp and had virtual meetings mysteriously canceled.
Partisan pundits are misreading statistical estimates and misrepresenting the science to suggest that Trump's Medicaid cuts will kill 100,000 people. That claim doesn’t survive scrutiny.
Government policy bears much of the blame for the use of high-fructose corn syrup, and Trump's policies will not change that.
This was not an attack on the free press.
A new lawsuit alleges that the city's Mandatory Housing Affordability program unconstitutionally penalizes property owners just for trying to build housing.
The president has spent six months promising to make everything more expensive, and polls show that Americans have noticed.
Brazil’s judiciary has abandoned neutrality, with sweeping crackdowns on speech and political rivals. A U.S. tariff response signals the crisis has gone international.
"We have no criticism of the U.S. government—on the contrary, we are truly thankful. However, we are deeply afraid of the possibility of being returned to Afghanistan."
The Senate just voted to cut off the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What comes next?
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Green energy is promising. But subsidies distort the tax code, misallocate capital, and favor companies already in the game.
Censorship tends to blow up in the faces of the censors.
Edinburgh was the Scottish economist's home and a place for anyone interested in a rich, varied, and liberal life.
The bill, which could pass the Senate on Wednesday, would trim 13 cents from every $100 of federal spending.
ICE wants to access confidential IRS data to locate tax-paying undocumented immigrants and boost detention numbers.
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