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Police officers in Polk County, Georgia, shot and killed a small pet donkey on Sunday. Now the animal’s distraught owner…

“What information are you driving around?” asks a pictorial warning widely shared by U.S. police departments. The advisory, which describes…

The California Energy Commission (CEC) unanimously approved new tire-efficiency rules that are expected to ban about 70 percent of the replacement…

8/30/1967: Justice Thurgood Marshall takes the oath. Justice Thurgood MarshallThe post Today in Supreme Court History: August 30, 1967 appeared…

Some short excerpts from the >35K-word decision by Judge Noël Wise (N.D. Cal.) in Stanford Daily Pub. Corp. v. Rubio:…

It may sound Farfetch’d, but lawmakers are advancing a bill that would stop minors from nicknaming their Pokémon online—in violation…

Like many others in the Washington, D.C., or New York metro areas, my experience of 9/11 was horrifying and yet…

The CIA has been using artificial intelligence to write “open source intelligence” analyses, which are being distributed to local police…

Yesterday, a divided Ninth Circuit handed down Richards v. Newsom, rejecting a facial challenge to a California law, California Penal…

Are AI companies acquiring books, scanning them for training data, and destroying the physical copies? Yes, but the reality is…

Towards the beginning of the 1974 movie Blazing Saddles, Sheriff Bart, confronted by hostile but not especially bright townspeople, takes…

Some excerpts from the opinion yesterday by Judge Thomas Thrash (N.D. Ga.) in Winer v. Mohammad:This action arises out of…