On Friday night, Federal District Judge Haywood Gilliam ruled against the administration in what is likely to be the first of many court decisions on the legality of President Trump's plans to reallocate federal defense and and drug interdiction funds to build his...

Thanks to commenter James Pollock for highlighting this, and adding: "To be fair to our robed brethren, NOBODY is as funny as they think they are"—though, as the Utah Supreme Court opinion suggests, judges are likelier than the rest of us to draw laughter even for...

On Friday, the United States Army asked Twitter users how the service impacted their lives, likely as part of a Memorial Day campaign. The sad responses are a poignant and timely reminder of the toll of war. Appropriate for the holiday, but probably not what the Army...

The charges also involved some nonpolitical bad conduct in a dispute with court personnel (omitted from the excerpts below), and also out-of-court public advocacy for and against political candidates, which are also forbidden by Utah judicial ethics rules. Judge Kwan...

"Too Much Screen Time Damages the Brain," says Psychology Today. "A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley," announces The New York Times. "Finally, we're all wising up about the dangers of screen time for kids," adds the Los Angeles...

Powerful forces in North Dakota have once again targeted the state's popular food freedom law, but it appears the laws' supporters have successfully beaten back these attacks from state lawmakers and regulators. The 2017 law, found here, "allows direct sales of many...

Denver voters shocked the world this month by narrowly passing a ballot initiative decriminalizing psilocybin mushrooms by a single percentage point. Kevin Matthews, an Army veteran who says the psychedelic effects of psilocybin mushrooms helped cure his depression,...

Baltimore's city computers are still down. They've been down since May 7, when the city learned that the ransomware known as RobbinHood had infected many of its computer systems and encrypted their files. To restore the data, the city was given four days to pay three...

The Trump administration is sending more troops and weapons to the Middle East amidst rising tensions with Iran. "We are going to be sending a relatively small number of troops, mostly protective," President Donald Trump said to reporters at the White House, according...

They're at it again. On Thursday the California Assembly passed a bill that would require customers to request a paper receipt before they can be given one. "Most of us don't need a physical receipt for every transaction. It doesn't make sense to kill so many trees...