Editor’s note: Joel Zivot, an anesthesiologist and medical ethicist, has served as a medical expert for Christa Pike’s legal team, including providing expert testimony in her challenge to Tennessee’s execution protocol before the Sept. 30 execution attempt. After Tennessee failed to execute Christa Pike on Sept. 30, the Tennessee Department of Correction issued a statement saying [...]
In a filing before the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) stated that FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel will not serve as poll monitors during the 2026 midterm elections. Eric Neff, acting chief of the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division [...]
US civil rights organizations filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration’s “Unlawful Voter Initiative,” days ahead of midterm elections. The plaintiff organizations, which include the ACLU Voting Rights Project, OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates, and Common Cause, filed the suit in the US District Court for the Northern District of [...]
The United States Justice Department on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the Anne Arundel County Board of Education alleging that the Maryland county’s school district’s policy on gender identity and expression violates federal law. Specifically, the department claims that the school district’s policy perpetuates “secretly gender transitioning” students without parental consent [...]
A satellite’s planned maneuver can be both a warning to avoid and a signal to exploit. When a spacecraft operator provides the space safety service with the predicted ephemeris, covariance, and maneuver information, the information allows the space safety service to determine whether the maneuver will solve one conjunction problem by creating another. But that [...]
On the morning of Nov. 2, 2025, in Zeytoon Park, in Ahvaz, southwestern Iran, a municipal operation to remove a small food stall brought the authority of the state into direct contact with the material conditions of a family’s existence. The stall was more than a structure occupying municipal land. For years, it had helped [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) concluded Wednesday that Rio de Janeiro police obstructed their body cameras during a 2025 raid that killed 122 people, and that none of the footage it reviewed shows the killings. The year-long investigation found that police breached orders from Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court and their own protocols during Operation Containment, carried out October 28, 2025, in the [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied an emergency application to reinstate a 2024 federal regulation that allowed immigration judges to temporarily pause deportation proceedings through a practice known as administrative closure. In a one-sentence unsigned order in City of Baltimore v. Texas with no noted dissents, the Court left in place a June 22 [...]
The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Tuesday that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases reached record highs in 2025—another portent of global warming, which increases the frequency of extreme weather events and associated risks to societies and economies. WMO deputy secretary-general Ko Barrett stated: “The past 11 years have [...]
Editor’s note: This piece is satire, written in the form of an amicus brief. The New York Times reported on October 28 that officials with Mary Peltola’s campaign worked with other operatives to recruit Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. to the race; the campaign denies it, and Sullivan denies running on its behalf. This piece addresses [...]
