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[ad_1] Why Would Trump Agree to the Saudi Nuclear Deal? [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] For decades, U.S. support for Israel rested on one of Washington’s strongest bipartisan assumptions: that military assistance was strategically necessary and politically untouchable. But Gaza has weakened that consensus. Critics now see Israeli military aid as a misguided strategy and political target. The most visible shift has occurred inside the Democratic Party. A collapsing bipartisan consensus on Israel Driven by voter and demographic shifts, humanitarian concerns in Gaza, and the unwarranted conflict with Iran, more than 100 House Democrats recently supported an amendment seeking to block billions of dollars in Israel-related assistance, an extraordinary departure from previous voting patterns.…

[ad_1] Copyright lawyers got good news earlier this week, in the form of a settlement decision that could lead to even more lawsuits against AI companies. On Monday, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California approved a $1.5 billion settlement agreement between AI company Anthropic and a group of authors who accused it of using their books to train its large language models without their permission.  It’s one of the largest copyright settlements in history, according to the authors’ attorney, Justin Nelson, and could be precedent-setting for pending copyright suits against AI companies. …

[ad_1] In an interview on “The Corbett Report,” glyphosate expert Michael Antoniou, Ph.D., outlined what he sees as the biggest failures that have kept the “deceptively toxic” herbicide on the market despite a growing body of independent research linking it to serious health risks. Glyphosate has remained one of the world’s most widely used herbicides not because the science supports its safety, but because industry has shaped nearly every step of the regulatory process, molecular geneticist and toxicologist Michael Antoniou, Ph.D., said this week. In an interview on “The Corbett Report,” Antoniou outlined what he sees as the biggest failures that…

[ad_1] From yesterday’s Pennsylvania appellate decision in Adewale v. Adewale, decided by Judge Correale Stevens, joined by Judge Anne Lazarus and Jack Panella: Wife claims the trial court erred in determining that the parties’ marriage was void ab initio based on its finding that Wife was married to another individual at the time of the parties’ purported marriage. {Although we affirm the trial court’s order finding the parties’ marriage to be void, we refer to the parties as “Husband” and “Wife” for ease of review.} … The parties were married on April 21, 2011 in Lagos, Nigeria in a ceremony…

[ad_1] Last week, President Donald Trump said ABC and NBC should lose their broadcast licenses because they had dissed him by declining to air his speech about election security. On Wednesday, Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), suggested he is sympathetic to that view, saying ABC’s news-coverage decision will figure in the FCC’s ongoing review of the broadcast licenses held by Disney, which owns ABC and its TV stations in eight cities. Carr’s comments reinforce the point that his understanding of the “public interest” that broadcasters are legally obligated to serve is indistinguishable from Trump’s…

[ad_1] Some legal and political commentators claim that the Supreme Court has bent over backwards to appease or affirm the Trump Administration. In recent remarks before the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, as reported by Politico, Justice Elena Kagan rejected this common narrative. From Politico: “I don’t see this as a court that is just like, ‘We’re just going to rubber stamp what the current administration does.’ You know, quite the opposite,” Kagan said to a judicial conference here Thursday. “I think that that is a bad rap.” . . . Kagan, a liberal justice and Obama appointee, said the 6-3 decision scuttling Trump’s tariffs was…

[ad_1] NA Today, the Trump Administration announced massive new tariffs, supposedly authorized by Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974: The Trump administration on Thursday finalized new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners as it seeks to reconstitute sweeping duties struck down by the Supreme Court in February. The new duties, which range from 10 to 12.5 percent, follow a five-month investigation into trading partners’ efforts to root out products made with forced labor from their supply chains and are set to take effect just as a temporary global 10 percent tariff expires. Starting Friday, 17 trading…

[ad_1] As the war in Ukraine continues to reshape European security, tensions surrounding Iran and the Middle East intensify, and NATO members accelerate defence spending, the alliance is entering a more openly militarised phase. Behind the familiar language of deterrence, resilience and collective security lies a deeper question: how will this expanding confrontation be financed, and who stands to benefit from it? In this special broadcast, Kevork Almassian, host of Syriana Analysis, speaks with Mats Nilsson, senior analyst at Sweden’s Dissident Club, about the NATO summit in Ankara and the emerging financial architecture behind long-term rearmament. Their discussion examines the proposed Defense, Security and Resilience Bank, a…

[ad_1] In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimando, the Supreme Court overturned Chevron U.S.A. v. NRDC’s holding that federal courts should defer to reasonable agency interpretations of ambiguous statutory provisions. In Loper Bright, the Court concluded that Chevron deference was incompatible with the Administrative Procedure Act. As Chief Jsutice Roberts explained, Section 706 of the APA  provides “‘the reviewing court’—not the agency whose action it reviews—is to ‘decide all relevant questions of law’ and ‘interpret . . . statutory provisions.'” The Chevron opinion made no effort to reconcile its holding with the language of the APA. Indeed, the Chevron decision did not mention the APA at…