Matthew Cavedon When Patrick Scullark was arrested, he was not wearing his fanny pack. He had taken it off and handed it to a friend before being handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car. But police nevertheless conducted a thorough search of the bag without a warrant. Scullark argued that the warrantless search violated his Fourth Amendment ...
Jeffrey A. Singer According to news reports, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may release new US dietary guidelines before the end of the month. HHS and the US Department of Agriculture have collaborated on issuing US dietary guidelines since 1980. That year, they used a “food wheel” as a tool to help the public understand and ...
Chris Edwards In the October 23 Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan discusses core features of American government and ponders how President Trump fits in. She focuses on the Founders and the constitutional balance they created between the federal legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The republic they devised produced not efficiency but equilibrium. It established not only a system but a ...
Patrick G. Eddington For the second time in as many years, the Cato Institute has sued the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for internal records regarding the Bureau’s use (or misuse) of Section 702 surveillance powers of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). First, some background. This particular surveillance power, the legalized version of ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who arrived in Israel shortly after Vice President JD Vance left for Washington, railed against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) amid the U.S.-brokered ceasefire. ‘UNRWA’s not going to play any role in it,’ Rubio said when asked about whether the controversial agency would assist in ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is remaining quiet on the New York City mayoral race, despite his self-imposed deadline of weighing in before early voting fast approaches on Saturday morning. The top House Democrat was asked multiple times about Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani, and whether he will endorse him, during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on ...
The State Department has spent nearly $100 million less on travel this year than last amid a wider effort to trim budgets, according to documents exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital. From January to September 2024, the Biden administration State Department spent $306 million on foreign and domestic travel. At the same point this year, the department under President Donald ...
Colleen Hroncich A third-generation teacher, Julie Christensen left the classroom in 2010 when her son, who was neurodivergent, needed more support. She began homeschooling while doing education-related writing. It gave her a whole new perspective on education. “In my professional life, I was going around the country and looking at really good schools with a lot of different models,” she ...
A federal judge struck down a Biden-era rule that expanded federal anti-discrimination measures to transgender healthcare, writing that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ‘exceeded its authority by implementing regulations redefining sex discrimination and prohibiting gender identity discrimination.’ The ruling from Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi came after ...
Hawley and Blumenthal’s AI Bill Is a Brazen Executive Power Grab That Puts National Security at Risk
Juan Londoño On September 29, Senators Josh Hawley (R‑MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D‑CT) introduced a bill to create a risk evaluation program within the Department of Energy (DOE). The bill would charge the DOE with conducting various assessments and tests on “advanced” artificial intelligence (AI) systems, with a special emphasis on the potential of regulating hypothetical artificial superintelligence systems. In their press ...