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As many as 100 Epstein victims will attend Washington rally Wednesday

Miami Herald – “As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker. Two lawmakers, Rep. …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Congress, Legal Research

The Anti-Trump Strategy That’s Actually Working

The Atlantic, no paywall – “…The first seven months of Trump’s Oval Office do-over have been, with occasional exception, a tale of ruthless domination. The Democratic opposition is feeble and fumbling, the federal bureaucracy traumatized and neutered. Corporate leaders come bearing gifts, the Republican Party has been scrubbed of dissent, and the street protests are …

Subjects: Legal Research

The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health – Part 2

Via LLRX – The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health – Part 2. This is a follow up to Sabrina I. Pacifici’s July 31, 2025 article, The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health. In just one more month this administration has ramped up its use of unsupportable …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine

Scientists breathe new life into climate website after shutdown under Trump

Guardian: “Earlier this summer, access to climate.gov – one of the most widely used portals of climate information on the internet – was thwarted by the Trump administration, and its production team was fired in the process.The website offered years’ worth of accessibly written material on climate science. The site is technically still online but …

Subjects: Climate Change, E-Government, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 30, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 30, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, E-Mail, Privacy

Association between COVID-19 vaccination and coronary heart disease

Association between COVID-19 vaccination and coronary heart disease [abstract only]: Based on 2023 National Health Interview Survey data. Frontiers Public Health. Sec. Infectious Diseases: Epidemiology and Prevention. Volume 13 – 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1641156. Background: Coronary heart disease (CHD) represents a critical cardiovascular ailment necessitating thorough investigation. This research endeavors to explore the potential link …

Subjects: Health Care, Medicine

How AI Is Changing Not ‘Killing’ College

Inside Higher Ed – “Key findings from Inside Higher Ed’s student survey on generative AI show that using the evolving technology hasn’t diminished the value of college in their view, but it could affect their critical thinking skills. Faculty and administrators’ opinions about generative artificial intelligence abound. But students—path breakers in their own right in …

Subjects: AI, Education, Knowledge Management

Reclaim the Records – Fax FOIA Requests for Veterans Administration Records

Reclaim The Records. “Today we’re simultaneously announcing a big new free database update, about 1.5 million new names and more basic biographical information about deceased American veterans from the 2020-2023 period! It’s the first public update to our big BIRLS database, a dataset that we originally released late last year, bringing the new grand total …

Subjects: E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content

The Register: “With AI’s rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much traffic do they account for? According to Cloudflare, a major content delivery network (CDN) force, 30% of global web traffic now comes from bots. …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Hundreds of new Lincoln images available online

“The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has added nearly 500 images to its online collection of high-resolution Lincoln pictures, including photos of Lincoln’s assassin, the nation grieving Lincoln’s death and the places he lived throughout his life. The ALPLM’s “Picturing Lincoln” collection now offers 1,485 photos, illustrations and cartoons related to America’s 16th president. …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents

If You Give an LLM a Legal Practice Guide

Doyle, Colin and Tucker, Aaron, If You Give an LLM a Legal Practice Guide (November 22, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5030676 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5030676 Large language models struggle to answer legal questions that require applying detailed, jurisdiction-specific legal rules. Lawyers also find these types of question difficult to answer. For help, lawyers turn to legal practice …

Subjects: AI, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines