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- CRS R44175: Navy Shipboard Lasers (2026)
Government Record · 2026
Ronald O’Rourke
Congressional Research Service, 2026: the Navy declared its LaWS laser on the USS Ponce "operational" in December 2014. Also covers the limits of shipboard lasers: range,…
- CRS R44974: Ethics Pledges and Other Executive Branch Appointee Restrictions
Government Record · 2025
Congressional Research Service
Congressional Research Service, updated April 2025: explains the back-and-forth of presidential ethics pledges limiting revolving-door moves, including President Trump revoking the Biden ethics pledge on January…
- CRS R46925: DoD Directed Energy Weapons, Background and Issues for Congress
Government Record · 2024
Jennifer DiMascio; Andrew Feickert; Ronald O’Rourke; Kelley M. Sayler
Congressional Research Service, 2024: DoD defines directed energy weapons as using concentrated electromagnetic energy to disable or destroy equipment, facilities or personnel. Reviews THOR, laser Strykers,…
- CRS R48365: Law Enforcement Use of Less-than-Lethal Weapons (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Jillian Long
Congressional Research Service, 2025: on police less-than-lethal weapons, including LRAD sound devices and their health concerns. Congress has never defined less-lethal weapons in law.
- CRS: Tax-Exempt Organizations Under IRC Section 501(c), Political Activity Restrictions
Government Record · 2025
Congressional Research Service
Congressional Research Service, updated January 2025: explains the political activity limits on nonprofits and that, since a 2020 IRS rule, 501(c)(4) groups do not report donor…
- Culley v. Marshall, 601 U.S. 377
Court Filing · 2024
Supreme Court of the United States
The Court ruled for the government on the requested separate preliminary hearing while requiring a timely forfeiture hearing.
- Current CDC Vaccine Price List (2026)
Government Record · 2026
CDC, Vaccines for Children Program
Documents the mechanism behind 'CDC buys vaccines': CDC negotiates federal contracts and publishes per-dose contract prices used by immunization programs receiving CDC cooperative-agreement funds (VFC, Section…
- Current CSR Record for 15 CSR 60-17.010 (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Missouri Secretary of State
The official current CSR record states that the emergency rule was terminated on May 16, 2023. It is not current law.
- Daily Wire v. Department of State: Consent Decree (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
Parties before Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Judge Jeremy Kernodle, federal court in Texas, April 2026: approved a consent decree barring the State Department from using electronic tools to knowingly suppress or downgrade…
- DARPA: Human Memory Prosthesis (RAM, 2018)
Government Record · 2018
DARPA
DARPA's Restoring Active Memory program, aimed at a fully implantable neural interface to help form and recall memories.
- DARPA: Implantable Neural Dust (2016)
Government Record · 2016
DARPA
DARPA's 2016 report on DARPA-funded UC Berkeley neural dust: millimeter-sized sensors, powered and read by ultrasound, implanted in the muscles and nerves of rats.
- DARPA: In Vivo Nanoplatforms
Government Record · 2016
DARPA
DARPA's program for nanoparticle-based platforms put into the body for continuous monitoring that can be read from outside.
- DARPA: Narrative Networks Program
Government Record · 2011
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARPA's own description of its Narrative Networks program, launched around 2011 to study how stories affect the brain, emotion and behavior, and to apply that in…
- DARPA: Nonsurgical Neural Interfaces (N3, 2018)
Government Record · 2018
DARPA
DARPA's 2018 announcement of N3, which seeks nonsurgical interfaces that can read from and write to the brain. DARPA's vision: a warfighter controlling things with his…
- DARPA: Self-Healing Body and Mind (ElectRx, 2015)
Government Record · 2015
DARPA
DARPA's ElectRx program to use the body's peripheral nervous system to monitor health and treat disease.
- Dayton Flock cameras reinstalled without city approval, police notified
News Report · 2026
KSTP
KSTP, October 2026: Dayton, Minnesota told Flock on September 18 that its program was on hold and no work orders should be done, but a camera…
- DCFS placed troubled teen girl with 24-year-old pimp as foster parent
News Report · 2023
CBS Chicago
CBS Chicago reported that Illinois DCFS approved Erick Johnson as a "fictive kin" caregiver for a 16-year-old girl. He did not go through standard foster parent…
- DEA: Final Adjusted Production Quotas for 2013
Government Record · 2013
Drug Enforcement Administration
DEA, August 2013: set the 2013 oxycodone production quota at 153,750,000 grams for sale. The peak of the quota increases.
- Decision in Joint Inquiry 853/2020/KR on the Commission’s Award of a Contract to BlackRock Investment Management
Government Record · 2020
European Ombudsman
The European Ombudsman's November 2020 decision on the Commission hiring BlackRock for an ESG banking study. Nine firms bid; BlackRock's bid was EUR 280,000 against an…
- Decision Memorandum: Adopting a Revised Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule (2026)
Government Record · 2026
Bhattacharya (NIH), Oz (CMS), Makary (FDA); assessment TAB 1 by Hoeg and Kulldorff; signed by Acting CDC Director Jim O'Neill
States 'the United States currently recommends more childhood vaccines than any peer nation, and more than twice as many vaccine doses as some European nations.' Category…
- Declaration Under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for Medical Countermeasures Against COVID-19, 85 FR 15198 (2020)
Government Record · 2020
Secretary of HHS (Alex M. Azar II)
Provides immunity 'against any claim of loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from the manufacture, distribution, administration, or use' of covered countermeasures…
- Demaree v. Pederson, 887 F.3d 870
Court Filing · 2018
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit held that only a reasonable fear of imminent physical injury or sexual abuse justifies removing a child without a court order.
- Denver International Airport and Roswell International Air Center Become Supernatural Sister Airports
Document · 2019
Denver International Airport
The Denver airport's 2019 release making Roswell its "sister airport" and leaning into the conspiracy theories as a publicity campaign.
- Denver International Airport Celebrates 25 Years of Success and Growth
Document · 2020
Denver International Airport
The airport's 2020 anniversary release naming the terminal's architects, C.W. Fentress and J.H. Bradburn, and describing the overnight move from Stapleton.