The Evidence Record
- United States v. Trump et al., Order Granting Motion to Dismiss Superseding Indictment
Court Filing · 2024
Judge Aileen M. Cannon, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
The dismissal rested on the special counsel’s appointment, not a merits exoneration. The government dismissed its Trump appeal in November 2024 and the remaining appeal in…
- Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights (UNESCO, 1997)
Government Record · 1997
UNESCO General Conference
UNESCO's 1997 declaration calls the human genome the heritage of humanity in a symbolic sense and says the genome in its natural state shall not give…
- Universal Music Group and TikTok: New Global Licensing Agreement (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2026
Universal Music Group and TikTok
Universal and TikTok, May 2026: a new multi-year global agreement continuing the partnership.
- Universal Music Group and TikTok: New Licensing Agreement (2024)
Corporate Filing · 2024
Universal Music Group and TikTok
Universal and TikTok, May 2024: a new licensing deal returned Universal's music to TikTok.
- Universal Music Group: Artists at the 65th Grammy Awards (2023)
Corporate Filing · 2023
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group, February 2023: Sam Smith and Kim Petras won the Grammy for "Unholy."
- Universal Music Group: Major Shareholders (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2026
Universal Music Group N.V.
Universal Music Group's shareholder list (September 2026): Bolloré 18.4 percent, Vivendi 12.4 percent, Tencent 11.5 percent, BlackRock about 3 percent. UMG has been a separate public…
- Universal Music Group: Why We Must Call Time Out on TikTok (2024)
Corporate Filing · 2024
Universal Music Group
Universal Music Group's January 2024 open letter pulling its music from TikTok, accusing it of paying a fraction of what other platforms pay. UMG's side of…
- UNODC: Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2024, Special Points of Interest
Document · 2024
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UNODC's 2024 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, key points: the 25 percent rise in detected victims and the regional differences.
- UNODC: Global Trafficking Report, Detected Victims Up 25 Percent (2024)
Document · 2024
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UN Office on Drugs and Crime, December 2024: detected trafficking victims rose 25 percent from 2019 to 2022, and 38 percent of them were children. Detected…
- Unregulated Tech Mediation → Inevitable Online Deception → Societal Harm
Transcript · 2020
Tristan Harris
Harris’s prepared testimony discusses intermittent variable rewards, slot-machine comparisons, infinite scrolling, stopping cues, notification sounds, likes, filters, and moral outrage.
- Update on Review of Asset Management Products and Activities
Government Record · 2016
Financial Stability Oversight Council
Documents FSOC’s review of asset-management products and activities, including liquidity transformation in pooled vehicles. It is further evidence of regulatory examination, not a designation of BlackRock,…
- Update on Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Outbreaks — Worldwide, July 2019-February 2020
Government Record · 2020
CDC (MMWR)
MMWR update documenting 33 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks in the July 2019-February 2020 window, 31 of them type 2, linked to seeding from monovalent OPV2 campaigns…
- Uruguay Round Agreements Act (1994)
Government Record · 1994
U.S. Congress
The Uruguay Round Agreements Act (1994): Congress approved the trade agreements that created the World Trade Organization.
- USA FREEDOM Act of 2015, Public Law 114-23 (2015)
Government Record · 2015
U.S. Congress
U.S. Congress, June 2015: the USA FREEDOM Act, Public Law 114-23, changed the rules for collecting business records and other surveillance, after the court fights over…
- USA FREEDOM Act, Public Law 114-23
Government Record · 2015
United States Congress
The Act ended the prior bulk Section 215 mechanism by requiring a specific selection term and creating a new targeted call-detail-record process.
- USA Today, Arizona Republic and Center for Public Integrity: Copy, Paste, Legislate (2019)
News Report · 2019
USA Today, Arizona Republic, Center for Public Integrity (two-year investigation)
USA Today, the Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity, April 2019: found at least 10,000 state bills from 2010 to 2018 copied almost entirely…
- USDA Final Rule: Removal of Country of Origin Labeling for Beef and Pork (2016)
Government Record · 2016
Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA, March 2016: after the WTO rulings, Congress repealed mandatory country-of-origin labels for beef and pork, and USDA removed the requirement.
- USDA: Final School Lunch Nutrition Standards (2012)
Government Record · 2012
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
USDA, January 2012: the final school lunch rule. Because of Congress's Section 743, USDA dropped its tomato paste change and kept crediting paste as if it…
- USDA: Proposed School Lunch Nutrition Standards (2011)
Government Record · 2011
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service
USDA, January 2011: proposed counting tomato paste and puree in school lunches by actual volume served, which would have ended the extra credit given to pizza…
- USDA: SNAP Participation and Costs, 1969 to 2025
Government Record · 2026
USDA Food and Nutrition Service
USDA: average monthly food stamp (SNAP) participation went from 4.3 million in 1970 to 42.4 million in 2025.
- USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026: Rare Earths
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Geological Survey, 2026: China mined an estimated 270,000 of the world's 390,000 metric tons of rare earths in 2025, about 69 percent. Refining share is…
- USGS Minerals Yearbook 2020 to 2021: China
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Geological Survey: China produces about 90 percent of the world's refined rare earths and 99.9 percent of heavy rare earths.
- USGS: The 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence
Government Record · 2020
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS: the July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes, a magnitude 6.4 and a 7.1, were shallow strike-slip quakes near Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
- USITC: Economic Impact of Trade Agreements, 2016 Report
Government Record · 2016
U.S. International Trade Commission
U.S. International Trade Commission, 2016: research finds NAFTA greatly increased trade, slightly raised overall welfare, and had little to no effect on total U.S. employment, with…