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Special visa program for Afghans faces ongoing challenges after US withdrawal: watchdog

The special visa program to get Afghan citizens who assisted the American military into the U.S. faces lingering challenges despite years of reviews and oversight, according to a report from the State Department Inspector General. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) report said there is a “significant and growing Afghan [Special Immigrant Visas] applicant backlog,”...

Texas law requiring age-verification measures for pornography sites unconstitutional, judge rules

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing a law requiring pornography sites to implement age-verification measures, after finding the law unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra found that the law, which was set to go into effect Friday, violates the First Amendment because it “substantially regulates protected speech, is severely underinclusive,...

Some students see danger in Youngkin’s policies on transgender students

FAIRFAX, Va. — When recent Fairfax High School graduate Beatrice Stotz considers Virginia’s new education policies on transgender students, she thinks about a friend of hers whose parents aren’t supportive of her gender identity. Among Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) recently finalized policies restricting the rights of transgender students is a prohibition on school districts...

Top Oversight Democrat urges Comer, Republicans to subpoena Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner

Rep. Jamie Raskin is asking Oversight Chair James Comer to subpoena Jared Kushner's investment firm over accusations of monetizing his influence as a former White House official.

Farmers, ranchers, landowners take aim at Biden admin for latest crackdown

A broad group of organizations representing millions of Americans and hundreds of businesses came out in opposition of the Biden administration's plan to expand wildlife protections.

More Migrant Families Crossed the U.S. Border in August Than Ever Before

Arrests at the border have reason for three straight months.

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—September 1

1998—By a vote of 7 to 4, the en banc D.C. Circuit rules (in Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Glickman) that an individual who...

Down with bipartisanship! &c.

On politics and policy; the degradation of San Francisco; Rudy Giuliani and MAGA; righteous typos; and more.

What Trump Gets Right about Trade

His tariff call may be ill-advised, but his nationalist instinct is sound.

The Maui-Disaster Narrative Is All Wrong

The tragedy appears to have been exacerbated by a remarkable combination of human errors, not climate change.

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