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CNBC: “President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday issuing a single regulation framework for artificial intelligence, undermining the power of individual states. To win, United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation,” the order says. “But excessive State regulation thwarts this imperative.” The Trump administration, with the aid of AI …
The Hechinger Report – Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack. “Inauguration Day was a time of hope for the MAGA faithful who watched President Donald Trump take his second oath of office in the Capitol rotunda. But less than a mile away, …
Venezuela and U.S. Military Strikes: Considerations for Congress CRS Insight, IN12618, 12/01/2025. Referenced Legislation – H.Con.Res. 61; S.J.Res. 83; S.J.Res. 90 – “On November 29, 2025, President Trump announced the closure of Venezuelan airspace days after the State Department designated the Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Some experts …
Do you ever wonder what Congress is up to? Well, now a new Legislative Branch Data Map shows where you can find out info about things like staffing, legislation tracking, lobbying, financial and gift disclosures, and more – Legislative Branch Data Map, version 0.1This data map is a product of the Congressional Data Task Force …
USAFacts: “In 2024, Californians paid about $275.6 billion more to the federal government than they received. In FY 2024, the federal government collected around $5.07 trillion from states and their residents through taxes on individuals and businesses and redistributed about $4.87 trillion back to states and residents through programs like Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, food …
First Branch Forecast: “While legislative branch agencies belong to Congress, not all are entirely free of executive branch entanglements. The question of how Congress chooses, oversees, and removes legislative branch agency heads is integral to the independence of the legislative branch, especially with recent White House efforts to take over or place personnel inside the …
LLRX November 2025 Articles and Columns The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 5 – The fifth in a series of articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici documenting what government resources, data and datasets been taken offline, censored or otherwise altered to block access and significantly …
Center for Economic Policy Research: The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment, 2nd Edition 315 pages. See John Coates [Harvard Law School] chapter, The Rule of Law, begins on page 33 and includes an addendum on rule of law developments from April to September, starting at page 46. …At the President’s direction, …
52 things I learned in 2025 – – [a small selection from the list] In 2023, Nigeria had a million more births than the whole of Europe – Our World in Data, via Charles Onyango-Obbo] Childhood peanut allergies are falling dramatically, perhaps because advice to avoid peanuts was reversed. [Simar Bajaj] The serial killer epidemic …
The New Yorker: Elected officials from both parties are struggling to respond. In the Line of Fire [no paywall] “America is a violent country. Nowhere else that is remotely as rich tolerates so many murders or so many weapons. But, sometime during the tumultuous decade of the Trump era, it began to seem that simply …
Center for Presidential Transition Report: “Every presidential transition in modern history has been unique and 2024 was no exception. Although the transition of power from the outgoing Biden administration to the incoming Trump administration was peaceful, it was characterized by significant departures from established norms and set a precedent for future transitions to stray from …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 29, 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 …
