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Alligator Alcatraz’s operational status is disputed: court orders in August 2025 required closure and removal of detainees and equipment, but appellate rulings and the federal government shutdown have...
Australia has an operational national Digital ID system in 2025: government figures say about 15 million myIDs exist and 80 million verified transactions occurred between Dec 2024 and Oct 2025 . The D...
Australia’s Digital ID framework has moved from legislation to live use: the Digital ID Act 2024 commenced in December 2024 and the Australian Government Digital ID System (AGDIS, often described via ...
Australians cannot be compelled to use government-issued Digital ID for age assurance on social media or search engines — the government and explanatory materials explicitly state “no Australian will ...
Clawbacks—contractual or statutory requirements that employees repay compensation—are common in the private sector and in narrow government enforcement contexts, but there is no clear, published ICE-w...
By December 2025 Australia had launched a national Digital ID framework under the Digital ID Act 2024 and the Australian Government Digital ID System (AGDIS) had 15 million created Digital IDs and sup...
Clinton-era actions primarily increased how much of retirees’ Social Security benefits could be taxed and proposed using federal surpluses to shore up the Trust Funds, while Reagan’s 1983 reforms firs...
Candace Owens has publicly accused French President Emmanuel Macron and others of ordering and funding an assassination plot against her; Owens says U.S. agencies “confirmed receipt” of her report, bu...
The publicly available analyses converge on one clear finding: there is of the Secret Service cost for protecting individual former U.S. presidents; major reports instead provide aggregate figures for...
A U.S. citizen “cannot legally be deported” and has a right to return to the United States, but mistakes and wrongful removals have occurred and courts have sometimes ordered the government to bring p...
Australia’s Digital ID is already in use via the myID app and the Australian Government Digital ID System (AGDIS), and Australians register by proving identity with government documents, a live biomet...
As of December 2025, Australia’s national Digital ID (AGDIS/myID) is live for Commonwealth services and being adopted by some state and territory agencies, but private-sector participation is not yet ...
Yes — members of Congress can receive a federal salary while also being eligible for a congressional pension or other federal benefits, but eligibility, timing, and offsets vary by retirement system a...
US senators continue to receive pay during federal government shutdowns because their compensation is treated as under the Constitution, and it is paid from permanent appropriations that do not depend...
Medicaid operates as a joint federal–state program in which the federal government matches a large and variable share of state Medicaid spending, so shifts in state payments or enrollment rapidly chan...
As of the available reporting, Australia’s federal Digital ID system (the Australian Government Digital ID System, often accessed via myID/myGovID) is operational and has been opened for state and ter...
Available reporting shows a consistent link between repeated exposure to disturbing or misleading online content and worsened mental health outcomes for young people and content creators, with studies...
Major brands and platforms that publicly cut ties with Candace Owens in recent years include The Daily Wire (which ended its relationship with her in March 2024 amid internal conflict and disagreement...
Federal and local reporting shows at least one recent incident in Minneapolis in which federal authorities say an ICE officer was physically attacked during a traffic stop and fired a defensive shot, ...
18 U.S.C. § 3521 authorizes the Attorney General to relocate and otherwise protect witnesses or potential witnesses in federal or state proceedings when violence or related offenses are likely to be c...