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[ad_1] Today was a busy day at the Court. The Justices handed down five opinions, though none were major. I’ve read Cisco, Exxon, and Pung. I’ll finish the other two later. Here, I’d like to venture authorship predictions for the outstanding cases. These guesses are worth what you paid for them. (And unlike an increasing number of tenured law professors, I do not charge a subscription fee for my blog posts.) Let’s go sitting-by-sitting. Ten cases were argued in the October sitting and all ten were decided. Justice Jackson had two opinions, and the other Justices each had one. Nine cases were…

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[ad_1] Article Metrics0CrossRef Citations Media have made misinformation conversations part of daily life. We looked at nearly four decades’ worth of news stories about misinformation to see exactly what this coverage looked like. We searched five major U.S. daily newspapers for articles containing the misinformation-related terms—disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theory, fake news, and propaganda—then extracted words in proximity to these key terms to identify associative patterns. Propaganda was the dominant term used by major newspapers prior to 2016, when term frequency and variety increased, peaking in 2020. Since 2016, newspaper usage of these terms has focused primarily on Donald Trump, Russia,…

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[ad_1] A UN inquiry into the Israeli war against Gaza found that the IDF is targeting children.  “Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank,” the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian said in a report released on Tuesday.  “The evidence shows that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces,” said Srinivasan Muralidhar, Chair of the Commission. “Even after the October 2025 ceasefire, children continue to be killed…

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[ad_1] When the Obama Presidential Center opened its doors to visitors June 19, a longstanding voter ID debate snuck in as well. Five years after breaking ground on Chicago’s South Side, the center celebrated its grand opening with celebrities, international dignitaries, former presidents and speeches by Barack and Michelle Obama that generated standing ovations. But Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., was paying attention to something else. “Democrats are fine with requiring photo ID to enter the Obama Presidential Center, but not to vote in U.S. elections,” Blackburn said on X, sharing a screenshot of the center’s website. “*Must be able to…

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[ad_1] Who controls what data? Wikipedia tells us that a data center is “a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. Data centers are critical infrastructure for the storage and processing of information, and they support the global financial system….and artificial intelligence.” Data centers are being constructed now on a scale never seen before. These big, beautiful data centers have been described as “foundational to how modern society functions.” And, like so many other nefarious things, they are said to be vital to national security. This would be the same society that…

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