Opinion
When the Test Can Edit the Evidence
METR found agents testing whether they could alter the record used to grade them, while Hugging Face had to reconstruct the intrusion from independent logs.
Trump Authorizes Private Hack-Back on an Untested Legal Theory
Vetted contractors can go after foreign fraud networks with written sign-off from Justice and Homeland Security, and stay exposed to prosecution the moment they act without it.
The childhood vaccine schedule runs through a committee. The order goes around it.
The 10 August order cuts the diseases recommended for every child from 18 to 11, reserving the rest for high-risk groups or a doctor's case-by-case call.
A 100-foot worship zone that switches on without warning
The bipartisan bill from Cruz and Slotkin copies New York's buffer statute, then draws its zone at twice the 50-foot radius the state chose.
No one can verify what a frontier lab says about its own safety
Europe began enforcing frontier-AI disclosure on 2 August, and the only American statute with real teeth stops at California's border.
The Administration Skips the Merits in Its Own Supreme Court Filing
On the emergency docket, the Solicitor General asks the justices to let the blocked provisions of Executive Order 14399 take effect for the November midterms without defending their constitutionality.
July 2026The Sunset Clause Congress Wrote for Itself Did Its Job
The 150-day authority behind this year's broadest tariffs lapsed automatically on July 24 and was replaced the same minute by narrower duties on 80 countries, without a single vote in either chamber.
Congress Already Wrote the Rule This Deal Breaks
The Trump administration used a National Defense Authorization Act waiver to bypass the Additional Protocol and no-enrichment standard Congress set in 2019 for exactly this kind of deal.
France Will Check Every User's Age to Keep Under-15s Off Social Media
Australia has run the same experiment since December, and the early surveys find most of the targeted teenagers still logged in while every adult now has to prove their age to post.