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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Mihai Coca-Constantinescu, who holds an International and European Law LLB from the University of Groningen and an International Trade and Investment Law LLM from the University of Amsterdam, is a PhD candidate in Transboundary Legal Studies at the University of Groningen, based in the Netherlands, where he covers legal developments in Romania as a JURIST [...]

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James Comey, former FBI director, was charged on Monday with leaking national security information, and conspiring to leak such information, while directing the FBI in 2016. Comey was charged with violating the Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. § 793(d), which criminalizes improperly sharing any document that “relat to the national defense, or information relating to the national [...]

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The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed that the “Leave India Notice” issued to Bollywood actor Imran Khan by the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO), Mumbai, be kept in abeyance until November 2. A division bench adjourned the hearing after the Additional Solicitor General of India sought deferment and recorded that the notice dated October [...]

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