In a mother lode opinion coming after years of litigation, the Ninth Circuit denied Idaho's bid to cloak its new court filings in darkness and gave powerful backing to the free discussion of government affairs. read more
A federal appeals court panel rejected the Trump administration's bid to lift a ban on using a federal immigration database to check the accuracy of citizenship records on states' voter rolls.
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The UN General Assembly backed a resolution promoting the Equal Earth map projection, with 164 countries voting in favour. The map gives a more accurate representation of the relative sizes of continents, making Africa and South America appear larger than on the Mercator projection. The US opposed the resolution, while France said it would abandon the Mercator map in favour of Equal Earth.
Dozens of civil rights and advocacy groups are urging Congress to scrap a defense bill provision that would deepen U.S.-Israeli military technology ties, according to a letter seen by Reuters, at a time of growing U.S. skepticism toward the longtime ally. read more
@#5
On the other hand, if you look towards China ...
How China Became the World's Leader on Renewable Energy (2024)
e360.yale.edu
... China has achieved stunning growth in its installed renewable capacity over the last two decades, far outpacing the rest of the world. But to end its continued dependence on fossil fuels, it must now move ahead with planned reforms to its national electricity system. ...
@#4 ... Very soon all will know who caused this whole Iran war thing. ...
My guess is that we already have a pretty good idea of that, sans some details around the edges.
For example ...
Who Advised Trump to Go to War With Iran? (June 2026)
factually.co
... President Trump's push to attack Iran was not the product of a single consigliere but of a small "war cabinet" of allies, foreign leaders and hawkish officials whose advice, presentations and pressure helped tip the scales -- notably Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, national security aides including John Bolton-era allies, military leaders such as Gen. Dan Caine, and political supporters like Senator Lindsey Graham and other hawks who both urged action and reassured the president [1][2][3][4]. ...
Wow, can you say, run-on sentence? I knew you could ...
Maybe not "the" Supreme Court, but "a" Supreme Court.
Greenhouse CEO's double-voting convicted overturned by NH Supreme Court (April 2026)
www.conwaydailysun.com
... The New Hampshire Supreme Court on April 9 overturned businessman Richard Rosen's illegal voting conviction, ruling the trial court judge was wrong to suppress evidence that another man confessed to casting the illegal vote.
Rosen, 87, was found guilty of a class B felony in May 2024 for allegedly voting in the 2016 general election in both New Hampshire and Massachusetts. But the Supreme Court ruled Grafton Superior Court Judge Lawrence MacLeod erred by not allowing jurors to know that Rosen's Massachusetts groundskeeper, Billy Botelho, confessed to investigators that he had voted in Rosen's name.
"Botelho's statements either impliedly or expressly constitute confessions to voting in the defendant's name during the November 2016 election " the same election for which the defendant was charged with double voting," Associate Justice Patrick Donovan wrote in the unanimous decision.
Rosen is the CEO of the commercial greenhouse North Country Growers in Berlin. The company has suspended its operations pending new financing for the business. Employee payroll at the end of March could not be made and workers were sent home, according to The Berlin Sun.
Rosen has homes in Holderness and Belmont, Massachusetts, and there were absentee ballots cast in his name in both communities for the 2016 election. But when New Hampshire investigators talked to Botelho he told them he sent an absentee ballot in Rosen's name for the 2016 election, as he had a number of times over the years.
"Botelho again admitted to voting in the defendant's name three, maybe four times.' He stated that he first voted in the defendant's name in the 1970s and had most recently done so in the 2020 election," Donovan wrote. ...
There seems to be an election involved. So... crazy stuff and also (but not excluding from the crazy stuff) Pres Trump's apparent eye on that oil ...
What to know about the UK.-controlled Falkland Islands after Argentina's president stakes claim
www.msn.com
... In a prime-time rallying call to the nation, President Javier Milei has resurrected Argentina's long-standing claim to the nearby U.K.-held Falkland Islands and in the process conjured up memories of the bitter war the two countries fought 44 years ago.
With an election in Argentina scheduled for October 2027, Milei did what many Argentine leaders have done over the years -- bang the drum in support of his country's claim to what Argentines call the Malvinas.
In his speech Thursday, Milei welcomed a seeming change of tone from the U.S. and vowed to introduce measures to block plans to drill for oil near the small British overseas territory of about 3,500 people, which lies around 300 miles east of the southeast coast of Argentina.
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Without threatening a military incursion, he insisted the "winds of change" were with Argentina. ...
@#4 ... The United States saw something far more political in the effort. ...
Yeah.
As I noted in #5, it is no surprise that the Trump admin labels this as political.
But, that also begs the question... why?
Does the Trump admin have no justification for their actions o n this topic?
Or is the Trump admin just sorry to have to admit that Africa is that large?
FBI releases files on Trump apartments' race discrimination probe in '70s (2017)
www.politico.com