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Meta’s Toughest Child-Safety Term, a One-Hour Daily Cap, Only Applies if TikTok and YouTube Settle Too

Meta agreed on Wednesday to pay states at least $12.19 billion over ten years…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 27

An empty hospital incubator lit warm amber, surrounded by cardiac monitors and IV pumps, a small knitted cap resting on the edge

Three States Have Issued Orders About Baby Gabriel. Only One of Them Can Be Obeyed.

A judge in Dallas spent Tuesday deciding who is allowed to hold a two-week-old…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 26

A stripped hospital bed and folded wheelchair in the empty medical wing of a state correctional facility, barred window light on the concrete floor

Illinois Refused Sean Grayson a Medical Release in July. He Died in Prison in August.

Sean Grayson, the former Sangamon County deputy who shot Sonya Massey in her own…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 26

A long row of shuttered visa interview windows in an empty consular waiting hall, chairs vacant and a discarded queue ticket on the floor

The State Department Paused Visa Appointments Worldwide Five Days After a Judge Voided Its Country List

On Friday a federal judge in Manhattan threw out the Trump administration’s ban on…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 26

A blue United States Postal Service collection mailbox with white ballot envelopes resting on top stands on the sidewalk in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington under a heavy overcast sky.

The Supreme Court Unblocked Trump’s Mail-Voting Order Without Ruling It Legal

The Supreme Court paused the injunction blocking Trump's mail-voting order 6-3, without deciding whether…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 24

A senator with curly greying hair sits alone on the raised dais of a Senate committee room above an empty witness table with a blank nameplate holder

Rand Paul, Not the Democrats, Is Why Trump Still Has No Confirmed ICE Director

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been the operational center of this administration’s signature domestic…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 24

Yellow sheriff's crime scene tape strung between wooden fence posts across a gravel lane in dense evergreen forest at dawn, with a patrol vehicle's emergency lights glowing in low fog further down the road

Washington County Deputies Found Their Quintuple Homicide Suspect Dead in Washington State

Five people and several domestic animals were found dead on a rural property west…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 23

An empty wood-panelled federal courtroom with unoccupied benches and jury box, a single shaft of afternoon sunlight crossing the floor

A $200 Tax Went to Zero in 2025. A Texas Judge Just Ended the 90-Year Gun Registry It Paid For.

Nobody in Congress voted to abolish the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. What…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 21

A New York State Police vehicle with flashing emergency lights parked at the base of the New York State Capitol's monumental east staircase at dusk, with two uniformed troopers standing near the entrance.

An FBI Source, Not Capitol Security, Stopped the Albany Bomb Plot

Federal prosecutors charged a 35-year-old Albany woman on Thursday with attempting to provide material…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 20

News camera operators set up on the steps of the Las Vegas Regional Justice Center in early morning light with palm trees and the city skyline behind

The Case Against Duane Davis Is Built Almost Entirely Out of Duane Davis

For twenty-seven years the killing of Tupac Shakur sat unsolved in Las Vegas, and…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 19

Disney Sued Brendan Carr’s FCC Instead of Settling With Trump Again

Disney and ABC went to federal court in Washington on Tuesday to stop the…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 18

Michael Caruso in a dark suit and red tie standing between shelves of court file boxes and legal ledgers in a county courthouse records room

Mike Caruso Was Arrested a Year to the Day After DeSantis Made Him Palm Beach County’s Court Clerk

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Tuesday morning that Michael Allen Caruso, the man…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 18

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A formal stone courthouse corridor with shafts of afternoon light across the floor and an empty wooden bench along the wall

California’s Slayer Statute Is Why Nick Reiner Cannot Touch $1.5 Million Before His Trial

Sunlit empty wooden benches in a federal courthouse gallery with a smartphone glowing face up in the foreground

Meta’s Child-Safety Trial Opens in Oakland With Damages Nearly the Size of the Company

Rows of empty seats inside a small school bus parked in an asphalt lot, low sun cutting through dusty windows

Tennessee Required Three Checks on the Bus Where Winter Jones Died

Overturned white touring coach lying on its side in a grassy ditch beside a straight motorway at dawn, with a yellow mobile crane and emergency crews in high-visibility jackets working alongside

Hungary’s Deadliest Crash Since 2003 Hit a Polish Pilgrim Coach Carrying Two Drivers

A blue and gold Michigan State Police cruiser with a red roof beacon parked across a rural two lane road at sunset, yellow police tape strung across the foreground, a cut hay field and treeline behind it.

Five Killed Across Three Missaukee County Scenes Before the Suspect Was Found Dead

Late afternoon light falling across an empty courtroom, with a sealed multi-page document lying on a vacant counsel table

A Nevada Judge Threw Out the Fake Electors Case Because the Defendants Never Hid What They Did

Morning light falls across the terrazzo floor of an empty federal courthouse corridor lined with arched windows, a single closed banker's box of documents sitting on a wooden bench

The Justice Department Just Charged the Woman Who Spent Her Career Tracking Hate Groups

Rob Reiner in a dark flat cap and navy blazer seated among an audience with news cameras behind him

Nick Reiner’s Indictment Adds Lying in Wait, and Erases the Hearing That Would Have Tested It

Yellow police tape across a suburban street with two marked police SUVs and a white investigation van parked outside single-story houses

A Licensed Daycare in Hopkins Was Also Someone’s Home, and Three People Died Inside It

A pole-mounted automated license plate reader camera with a small solar panel overlooking a quiet suburban street at dusk, a car's tail lights streaking past parked cars and houses

119,000 Cameras Are Reading American License Plates, and Cities Are Only Now Doing the Math

Two National Guard soldiers in camouflage standing beside a tactical vehicle on a Washington DC sidewalk while commuters walk past without looking, US Capitol dome in the background

Trump’s D.C. Crime Emergency Turns One, and the Bill Now Runs to Inauguration Day 2029

A president in a navy suit and red tie seated at a desk in the Oval Office, holding open a leather folder with a signed document toward a crowd of press photographers

A Judge Blocked This Exact Childhood Vaccine Cut in March, and Trump Signed It Anyway

Bashar al-Assad in a dark suit at the left of an empty Syrian courtroom, a vacant metal defendant cage standing behind him

Assad Was Sentenced to Death in Absentia, and Atef Najib Was the Only One in the Cage

A man in a navy suit and red tie raises his right hand and rests his left hand on a Bible during an Oval Office swearing-in, facing another man who reads the oath from a card

Todd Blanche Is Attorney General, and Trump’s Immunity Memo Outlived the Confirmation Fight

A four-story 1928 buff brick county courthouse with terracotta trim and a carved central entrance, set on a green lawn below pine-covered mountain slopes

Tyler Boebert Was Charged 30 Months After the Tip That Started the Case

NYPD Harbor Unit and US Coast Guard boats sweep searchlights across dark choppy water near the illuminated Statue of Liberty at night, with an overturned white powerboat hull partially submerged in the foreground

Liberty Island Boat Capsizing Kills a Woman and an Infant as the Coast Guard Probes an Illegal Charter

Close-up of a black body-worn camera clipped to a dark navy tactical vest, red recording light on, in a dim institutional corridor

ICE Spent $30.9 Million on Body Cameras and Kept the Release Button for Itself

Tower cranes and steel framing rise over the cleared East Wing site beside the intact White House residence, behind green construction fencing

Appeals Court Blocks Trump’s $400 Million Ballroom, but the East Wing Is Already Gone