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U.S. and Iran in Indirect Talks To Extend Ceasefire Source link
Q: How real is birth tourism? A: The government doesn’t provide estimates of the extent of so-called birth tourism — pregnant women coming to the U.S. on tourism visas in order to obtain birthright U.S. citizenship for their newborn child. One outside group has estimated it may be more than 20,000 births per year. Some argue it’s not common enough to justify upending longstanding birthright citizenship policies. FULL ANSWER As the reader who asked us about this noted, birth tourism was cited by the solicitor general in Supreme Court arguments on April 1 as a reason why birthright citizenship ought to…
Blockade Is Breaking Iran…and European Elites Are Angry Source link
The epithet “anti-vaxxer” is common in our time for anyone who resists mandates or resents the enormous legal privileges, protections, patents, and subsidies the industry receives today. It also pertains to those who attempt to bring attention to vaccine injury and death, a sensitive and even suppressed subject for an industry that relies on a utilitarian measure to demonstrate its social value. The label does not always or often make sense. The dominant theme of the movement now – and this has always been true – is to reject intervention and instead regard this industry as any other in a…
Neither the president’s threats nor his promises nor his deals can be taken at face value. Source link
Five years ago, police in San Jose, California, began using automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) to record information about vehicles traveling through the city. The initial experiment involved four Flock Safety cameras at a single intersection. Today the San Jose Police Department (SJPD) has access to data captured by a network of 474 ALPR cameras that blanket the city, recording residents as they go about their daily lives. More than 1,000 SJPD employees are authorized to search that information, which does not require a warrant, probable cause, or even individualized suspicion of involvement in criminal activity. Because San Jose shares…
A New York federal jury found that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly selling tickets to live events after attorneys general in 38 states and Washington, DC sued Live Nation for suppressing competition and jacking up fees. The verdict followed a lengthy trial featuring testimony from top music and entertainment executives. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Live Nation said Wednesday it would appeal “any unfavorable rulings” on pending motions, adding that the jury’s decision “is not the last word on this matter.” The Justice Department and 39 state attorneys general sued…
Eric Swalwell was Nancy Pelosi’s made man, the golden child of San Francisco’s rotten machine politics. Source link
No, your lettuce isn’t vaccinating you against polio. Social media users recently recirculated a 2024 clip of Tennessee lawmakers debating a bill to regulate foods containing “edible” vaccines. These posts’ claims and the legislation’s premise might lead you to think you can get your vaccine in an apple slice or tomato wedge — but that’s not happening. Over the last 30 years, scientists have experimented with ways to harness plant biology to create medications, or even deliver vaccines to animals and humans — but the science has moved away from “edible vaccines,” and they are certainly not available in the…
On April 27th, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Chatrie v. United States, on the Fourth Amendment implications of geofencing. I have already posted the amicus brief I wrote for the Court in the case, and I am writing a series of posts in anticipation of the argument. This is the second post in the series. In this second post, I want to focus on how the Court hasn’t handed down a case on the Fourth Amendment and new technology in a long time, and that it is now doing so in what amounts to an advisory opinion. …