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Ars Technica: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced plans to buy nationwide access to a network of license plate readers, saying it will award contracts to one or more vendors that can offer “near real time” information from cameras across the US. The proposed contract is for the FBI Directorate of Intelligence. “To evaluate and …
NBER – Labor Market Impacts of ICE Activity in Trump 2.0. Elizabeth Cox & Chloe N. East. Working Paper 35129. DOI 10.3386/w35129. Issue Date, April 2026. We provide the first causal, national empirical analysis of the labor market impacts of heightened immigration enforcement during the second Trump administration. Enforcement increased everywhere, but, we take advantage of the …
NiemanLab: “If you’re trying to get a handle on evidence from academic research about the state of local news, it’s hard to know where to start. The research is scattered — across disciplines from political science to economics to computer science; across universities; across paywalled journals. To some extent, it’s part of the academic job …
Politico: “The Health and Human Services Department is moving hundreds of senior career staff to a new civil service classification that will make it easier to fire them. President Donald Trump tinkered with the idea late in his first term and the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, recommended the reclassification of career staff with …
404 Media: “The FBI is seeking up to $36 million for nationwide access to automated license plate reader (ALPRs) data, which could let it query vehicle movements across the U.S. and its territories through a commercial database. 404 Media reports: “The FBI has a crucial need for accessible LPRs to provide a diverse and reliable …
“The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has launched the WIPO Lex Trade Secrets Case Law Collection, a new online resource designed to improve access to judicial decisions relating to trade secret protection across jurisdictions. In an increasingly interconnected and innovation-driven global economy, effective intellectual property (IP) protection plays a vital role in promoting economic growth, …
The New York Times: “The Trump administration announced on Monday the creation of a $1.8 billion fund to compensate those who claim they were targeted by the Biden Justice Department and Democrats, forging a pipeline to funnel taxpayer money to President Trump’s allies. The highly unusual “anti-weaponization” fund — denounced by critics as a political …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “It’s been nearly a year since Elon Musk left the federal government, and while there have been a few recent revelations, there is still plenty about how the U.S. DOGE Service operated and what its members did in government that remains shrouded in mystery. For months, the Government Accountability Office has …
Brookings: Editor’s note: The key findings presented in this article were produced using a new interactive tool that generates estimates of the number of children likely affected by parental detention. These figures are estimates and should be interpreted accordingly. To learn more about the methodology and explore the tool yourself, click here. The Trump administration …
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The New York Times Gift Article – “All Those A.I. Note Takers? They’re Making Lawyers Very Nervous. A trendy productivity hack, A.I. note takers are capturing every joke and offhand comment in many meetings. They could also potentially waive attorney-client privilege… A.I.-generated transcripts, which some video call apps allow users to turn on by default, …
Seth Chandler: “Anthropic just rolled out Claude for Legal, and even if you’re buried taking, grading or just having recurrent nightmares about exams, this post deserves ten minutes. At least three things matter for the academy: a law-student plugin with a summa cum laude portfolio of skills; a free CourtListener connector that does traditional legal …
