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Rubio Is Pressing to Open Sanctions Investigation Into Harvard
Experts and former officials said it was unusual for a cabinet secretary to try to influence the Treasury Department’s sanctions process to target a domestic entity.
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Under Pressure From the White House, ICE Seeks New Ways to Ramp Up Arrests
Former officials said the Trump administration’s push for the agency to detain record numbers of undocumented immigrants increases the chances of mistakes.
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Party Politics Is Said to Have Played a Role in Kennedy’s Firing of Vaccine Advisers
The health secretary cited financial conflicts, but a White House official and someone familiar with his thinking said he was also concerned about ties to Democrats.
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Five Things to Consider When Designing an AI Governance Program
Although Artificial intelligence (“AI”) has been a matter of intense public interest for several years, few substantive laws regulate its use. Reasons for this include a lack of clarity about the scope of what needs to be regulated, as well as the fact that many of the harms that AI can potentially cause fall under…
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Proposed Moratorium on State AI Legislation: What Healthcare Organizations Should Know
Congress is weighing a sweeping proposal that could significantly reshape how artificial intelligence (AI) is regulated across the United States. At the end of May, the United States House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 215-214, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), a budget reconciliation bill with a provision imposing a 10-year moratorium…
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Trump’s New Cybersecurity Executive Order: What Contractors Need to Know
On June 6, 2025, the Trump Administration released a new Executive Order (“EO”) on cybersecurity, Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144. The Executive Order itself will not impose new obligations on agencies; instead, it strikes, amends, and updates certain provisions in prior Executive Orders…
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Artificial Intelligence or innocent ignorance? Hard lessons yield best practices
Artificial intelligence is a controversial but increasingly valuable arrow in the quiver of any litigator. While AI can provide great assistance to litigators in improving their efficiency, AI also raises ethical and professional concerns that continue to evolve. This article will briefly discuss some of the benefits of AI, the potential pitfalls surrounding the use…
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‘Take It Down Act’ Requires Online Platforms To Remove Unauthorized Intimate Images and Deepfakes When Notified
On May 19, 2025, President Trump signed into law the bipartisan “Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act“ (the “Take It Down Act“ or the “Act“). – In general, the Act prohibits any person from “knowingly publishing“ without consent intimate visual depictions of minors or non-consenting adults, or…
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Food and Beverage Litigation and Regulatory Update – June 2025
The Presidential Commission to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) has released its assessment identifying key drivers of childhood chronic disease, including poor diet and aggregation of environmental chemicals. The report said that ultra-processed foods (UPFs)—defined in the report as “packaged and ready-to-consume products that are formulated for shelf life and/or palatability but are typically high…
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At Least 10 Dead After Austria School Shooting, Police Say
The victims’ names and ages have not been released. The police said the gunman also died, in an apparent suicide. The attack in the city of Graz is among the worst school shootings in Europe in years.
