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[ad_1] The White House Task Force on the 2026 FIFA World Cup deployed $625 million in security funding and $500 million in counter-drone technology. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] News Desk, The Cradle. Following strike on desalination plant. Iran responded to overnight US strikes on civilian infrastructure by striking targets in Jordan, Bahrain, and Kuwait as part of Operation Nasr 2. Around 10,000 people in Iran’s Hormozgan province are without drinking water following US strikes on a desalination plant in the coastal village of Bunji, Tasnim News Agency reported on 18 July. The CEO of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company stated that the attack “completely disrupted the supply of drinking water to 20 villages with a population of about 10,000 people.” “These villages are facing a water shortage crisis,” the…

[ad_1] We bring you this series on popular constitutionalism-local, organic farm-to-table making of legal meaning-as a thought experiment. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] On Friday, in a decision written by a Joe Biden nominee, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled that New Jersey’s ban on semi-automatic rifles that legislators describe as “assault firearms” violates the Second Amendment. The appeals court reached the same conclusion regarding New Jersey’s ban on “large capacity magazines” (LCMs), currently defined as those capable of holding more than 10 rounds. The 5th Circuit’s decision in Association of New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs v. Platkin addresses three consolidated challenges to these laws. Two years ago in the same case, U.S. District Judge Peter Sheridan…

[ad_1] Austin Sarat ScheerPost It looks like President Trump’s tirade about alleged vulnerabilities in the nation’s electoral system and the problem of non-citizen voting is a prelude to the chaos that will come in the run-up to, and after, the November elections. Among his outlandish claims was that election interference by China has done “Great damage… to our country. Our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen, and the trust of the American people was lost.”  And the president announced, “This cannot be allowed to continue.” As many commentators noted, the president’s White House address laid out the administration’s…

[ad_1] Yemen’s Houthis announced Monday the immediate launch of a “maritime embargo” against Saudi Arabia. The Houthis cited “the targeting of Sana’a International Airport” and Saudi Arabia’s “siege…for nearly twelve years.” It was not immediately clear how the Houthis planned to enforce its embargo or how narrowly Saudi assets would be targeted. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Saudi Arabia currently exports energy westward to the Red Sea ports of Yanbu and Jeddah, which the Houthis may seek to disrupt. NBC News reports that “the full closure of the Bab el-Mandeb strait would reduce global oil…

[ad_1] “I want to stop American aid,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on June 30. “It’s like welfare; I don’t want it.” Usually, Netanyahu gets anything he demands from Uncle Sugar. But on July 15, the US House of Representatives voted, 314-104 against even partially granting his wish. Every Republican except Thomas Massie of Kentucky, and more than half of Democrats, voted down an amendment that would have removed $3.3 billion in “Foreign Military Financing” aid from the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act. What’s up with that? Was Netanyahu perhaps a wee bit disingenuous…

[ad_1] One other establishment-vs.-progressives race to keep an eye on. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Last week, in Rutledge v. Walgreen Co., the Second Circuit revived failure-to-warn claims under state law relating to maternal use of Tylenol during pregnancy and its alleged links to autism in children. The district court had rejected the plaintiffs’ expert testimony in a careful, extensive Rule 702 opinion, and the Second Circuit reversed that ruling. I am hardly an expert on the underlying subject matter in general, or how it was presented to the district court in particular, and have no desire to become one, so I can’t claim to know whether the district court was correct as an…

[ad_1] Gabriel Accascina says that the international body, in setting up the IAEA in 1957, has addressed the supply side of a dangerous industry before and in the case of fast of fast-growing AI it can do it again. Annalena Baerbock, president of the 80th session of the GeneralAssembly, addresseing the opening session of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva on July 6. (UN Photo/Irina Popa) By Gabriel AccascinaPassBlue The Geneva Digital Week earlier this month featured the release of the United Nations’ new Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence first global scientific assessment of AI. The…