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In my financial services career, I have learned one rule that never bends: You pay claims to the beneficiaries named in the document, not to whoever...
A federal judge in San Jose spent 90 pages this week explaining what the Founders covered in 10 words: "Congress shall make no law... abridging...
Carlos Felipe Jaramillo Grajales spent more than two decades in Duval County, Florida, under a stolen identity, and on Aug. 12 a federal judge finally...
On August 21, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit threw out a 10-year-old lawsuit against James O'Keefe and Project Veritas,...
How do you know a charity is legit? Follow the money. A new report does just that, and the findings are disturbing.
On Wednesday, a judge in Annapolis handed Maryland Democrats a rare loss in a year when they usually get whatever they draw up. Democrats already hold...
The U.S. Forest Service filed a proposed rule today to erase a 25-year-old federal restriction covering nearly 45 million acres of national forest....
Last week outside a Massachusetts courthouse, roughly 400 people, most of them women dressed in pink, rallied in support of a mother on trial for...
Opening statements began this week in a federal courtroom in Oakland, California, and the accusation on the table is blunt. A lawyer for four state...
South Carolina lets anyone 65 or older mail in a ballot for any reason at all. Everyone younger needed an excuse: a disability, a job that keeps you...
In the 1990 movie "Kindergarten Cop," it is a five-year-old boy, not Arnold Schwarzenegger, who blurts out the actual biology lesson: "Boys have a...
I’ve spent years as a court-designated expert witness, and courtrooms teach you fast: Nobody wins on a hunch. You win on paper, records, timestamps,...
Arizona teachers' unions just learned what every coach already knows: if you can’t put points on the board, the season ends early. Last week,...
David Morens spent nearly two decades as Anthony Fauci's most trusted adviser at NIAID. Last Tuesday, in a federal courtroom in Greenbelt,...
Free speech protects ABC's right to run an all-left-wing panel every weekday morning. It does not entitle ABC to call that panel a news program when...
The Department of Homeland Security put out another "worst of the worst" release over the weekend of August 17. ICE agents picked up illegal...
Con artists are con artists everywhere. What is different is your state's response.
Securing 60 feet of federal dirt with the same trespassing law that protects Fort Bliss is not martial law.
This week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did something Washington rarely manages: it drew a line and held it. The agency finalized a...
I’ve spent a career drafting language that has to mean exactly one thing under stress: contracts, offering memoranda, expert reports, the kind of...
I’ve spent 30 years drafting disclosure language for private placement memoranda. A disclosure has one job: warn the reader before he relies on...
A marriage fraud ring shows where immigration enforcement still has teeth, now the courts have taken birthright citizenship off the table.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation had 14 confidential sources feeding it dirt on former President Joe Biden’s family. Instead of running the leads...
I have spent over three decades in wealth management and testifying as an expert witness on fiduciary duty, which boils down to one idea: when you are...
My oldest son is a West Point graduate training to fly Black Hawks. My youngest brother spent his career as a Green Beret Weapons Sergeant. Between...
Frank Kendall ran the Air Force under former President Joe Biden. Last week, the Pentagon yanked his security clearance, accusing him of telling a...
Jason Arday's resignation is not a personal tragedy. It is an indictment of an industry, in academia and in publishing, that stopped checking IDs...
On Aug. 7, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a rule that never should have needed writing down: If you cannot read an English highway...
A Portland, Oregon, nonprofit organization called the Avenue Foundation gives $1,000 grants, marketing consulting, and coaching sessions to small...
Mullin closed the statutory-review door on temporary protected status, but that was only the beginning.
I ran hurdles for a state championship team in high school, then again in college, and four years of 110-meter races teach you one thing: a clock does...
I’ve spent 30 years advising clients on risk they can quantify: interest rate risk, market risk, counterparty risk. None of that prepared me for the...
A federal judge in Rhode Island handed property owners a rare and useful win last week, and the reasoning behind it deserves more attention than the...
On July 10, the committee that actually runs University of California admissions did something worth a double-take. It didn't reinstate the SAT....
I spend my career tracing where judgment-debtor money sits and whether a court order actually gets collected. So, when Justice Sonia Sotomayor refused...
Twenty-four state attorneys general and two governors filed suit against FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security last month, and the complaint...
Twenty-one state attorneys general just sued the federal government over food stamps. Not to feed more hungry American citizens. To keep benefits...
Congress spent 90 years regulating suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns through a tax. Not a ban. A tax: pay $200, submit...
Curtis Squire kept a handgun in his New Orleans home. Police found it while executing a search warrant tied to a shooting he wasn’t charged with. He...
I have spent more than a decade as a designated expert witness on fiduciary duty, testifying in federal and state courts about what happens when the...
Customs and Border Protection personnel searched more than 55,000 phones, laptops, and tablets at the border last year, a number that has climbed...
A degree does not, on its own, confer common sense or merit.
A public pension trustee who strikes the diversity and climate language from an investment policy statement this summer is not doing housekeeping. He...
While the Trump administration spends 2026 tearing down federal diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, the Massachusetts legislature is building a...
The Fifth Amendment promises “just compensation” when the government takes your land. On June 29, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether a...
Every parent should worry that Washington seemingly cannot tell the difference between trading and obvious sports gambling.
I have spent three decades pricing risk for a living. Before I sign off on any credit strategy, I ask one question: what happens when the other side...
Corey Durell Ruiz died on a public street in Madison, Wisconsin, on July 22 with a fixed-blade knife in his hand and roughly 40 prior convictions on...
Two federal agencies looked at the same Jamaican flight attendant and reached opposite conclusions. Both were right. That is the story here, and...
The Supreme Court just teed up something it hasn't done since 2018: a second look at a case it already declined to hear. The justices distributed...