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Slain CEO’s Uncle Has a Message for Luigi Mangione

Once guilt is established in a high-profile killing, the center of gravity shifts from proving what happened to deciding what it should mean; sentencing...
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DHS Defends ICE ‘Shock Gloves’ as Alternative to Deadly Force

When agencies call a pain-inducing device a de-escalation tool, they are making a specific bet: a short, controlled jolt of discomfort, delivered at close...
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Texas Court Strikes Down 92-Year-Old Federal Gun Rules

When Congress zeroed out the National Firearms Act’s tax on certain items but left the paperwork and penalties standing, it set up an inevitable...
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Record Murder Drop Stuns America

The United States just experienced the sharpest one-year decline in homicide on record, and the best evidence indicates the drop was broad-based, durable across...
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Former SPLC Executive Indicted in Explosive Federal Fraud Case

The central issue is not whether the Southern Poverty Law Center cultivated informants inside extremist organizations; it is whether prosecutors can prove that donor...
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Karoline Leavitt Announces Surprise Exit From White House

Personnel moves in the press secretary’s office are often overread as drama; in this case, the record supports a straightforward story of a high-profile...
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Catholic Governor Signs Abortion Up to Birth Bill After Meeting Pope

The real story in Massachusetts is not a sudden invention of abortion policy; it is the collapse of a narrow, exception-based late-pregnancy framework into...
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Airport Phone Search Could Redefine Your 4th Amendment Rights

American airports are not constitutional voids: the Fourth Amendment applies at ports of entry, but it applies through the border-search doctrine’s reasonableness lens, which...
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California Billionaire Tax Architect Wants to Take It Nationwide

The real fight over California’s billionaire tax is not whether the state can draw a line around extreme wealth; it is whether that line...
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Democrat Ousted After Nearly 30 Years

The central fact is not merely that Luke Bronin beat John Larson; it is that Connecticut Democrats used a multi-stage nominating process to end...

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