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ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found apparent errors and omissions in an August federal financial disclosure filed by Texas Attorney General and U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton.
Incomplete asset, income, and debt records force voters and ethics officials to spend more time and money reconstructing Paxton’s finances and evaluating possible conflicts.
NPR reported that the Trump administration is opening new immigration-court locations to speed deportation proceedings, while advocates describe the sites as hidden tribunals.
An immigrant who cannot reliably locate a hearing, reach counsel, or document the proceeding may lose a case before any appeal can meaningfully test what occurred.
Anthropic is reportedly close to giving Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs leading IPO roles and may file paperwork soon for a public listing valued at as much as $2 trillion.
A listing of that scale would test whether Anthropic’s external trustees can enforce its safety purpose when shareholders, executives, and bankers have strong incentives to pursue growth.
Following a fatal A66 crash and escalating violence in Middlesbrough, residents told the BBC they feared calling police as Chief Constable Victoria Fuller sought more resources and a larger force.
When frightened residents stop reporting danger, police lose evidence needed to identify patterns, dispatch help, investigate offenses, and measure whether public safety is improving.
Provisional results from Guinea-Bissau’s August 30 referendum show 70 percent approval for a constitution expanding presidential power before elections scheduled for December.
The changes reduce parliament from 102 to 65 seats and impose a five-year residency rule on presidential candidates, altering representation and eligibility before the next election.
Tesla launched its control-free Cybercab service in Austin on September 4 while NHTSA opened an Audit Query into whether the vehicle complies with federal safety standards.
Passengers are entering a commercial service before regulators have settled whether its steering-wheel-free and pedal-free vehicles satisfy the rules governing public-road deployment.
Colorado officials received reports in March 2022 of liver damage linked to Sima Sciences’ 1906 Midnight Drops but did not issue a health warning until June 2023.
During the warning gap, consumers could keep buying the sleep aid without seeing the evidence regulators possessed, while retailers lacked a clear instruction to stop sales.
Uber shut down its services in Nigeria and Uganda on September 2 after same-day notice, with drivers and riders reporting that the app stopped during active trips.
Drivers lost immediate access to work while riders faced interrupted trips, and both groups may need platform-held payment, safety, tax, rating, and complaint records.
The Trump administration proposed revoking federal tax-exempt status from private schools and colleges that provide targeted student assistance based on race.
An uncertain threat to tax exemption could make colleges close, narrow, or rename aid and counseling programs before courts determine what federal law permits.
Rescuers in Nepal pulled two workers alive from a flooded hydropower tunnel on Friday, nine days after the August 26 floods near the Nepal-China border.
Families need one durable record that distinguishes people still missing, survivors found alive, unidentified remains, confirmed deaths, and burial locations.
The UN General Assembly is voting Friday on a Togo-sponsored resolution, backed by the African Union’s other 54 states, to phase out the Mercator world map.
A successful nonbinding resolution could change classroom curricula and everyday technology that have long made Africa appear far smaller relative to northern territories.
ProPublica found that federal courts in parts of Mississippi and Louisiana typically took about three months or more to resolve immigrants’ habeas petitions challenging ICE detention.
Detainees can remain in prisonlike facilities or be deported before a judge rules, making delayed judicial review materially less capable of restoring their freedom.