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- Denver International Airport: Information on Selected Financial Issues (AIMD-95-230)
Government Record · 1995
U.S. General Accounting Office
GAO's 1995 report: the $4.8 billion Denver airport opened February 28, 1995, after a 16-month delay. A $1.34 billion conceptual estimate became a $2.08 billion first…
- Department of Defense Releases Fiscal Year 2024 Military Intelligence Program Budget Topline
Government Record · 2024
Department of Defense
The 2024 military intelligence budget topline, $29.8 billion. With the national program, disclosed intelligence spending was about $106.3 billion; the details remain classified.
- Department of Justice Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics Involved in Performing Transgender Medical Procedures on Children (2025)
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Department of Justice
DOJ announced more than 20 subpoenas and described investigations including healthcare fraud and false statements. The release announces investigations, not adjudicated violations.
- Department of Labor: Registered Apprenticeship National Results, FY 2021
Government Record · 2021
U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
Department of Labor: 593,690 active registered apprentices at the end of 2021, up from 442,386 in 2008.
- Department of War: Directed Energy Bio-Effects Team and First HAVANA Act Payments (2026)
Government Record · 2026
Department of War
Department of War, July 2026: renamed its anomalous health team the "Directed Energy Bio-Effects Cross-Functional Team" and paid nearly $3 million in the first HAVANA Act…
- Department-Level Accounting Entries for FY 1999 (D-2000-179)
Government Record · 2000
DoD Office of Inspector General
The Pentagon Inspector General's audit behind the $2.3 trillion figure. Of $7.6 trillion in accounting entries, $2.3 trillion were unsupported or made to invalid accounts, and…
- Deputy Secretary of Defense Delivers Defense Industrial Base Report to President
Government Record · 2018
U.S. Department of Defense
The Defense Department's October 2018 announcement delivering its report to the President on weaknesses in America's manufacturing and defense industrial base.
- DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, 489 U.S. 189
Court Filing · 1989
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court held that the state had no constitutional duty to protect a child from abuse by a private person when the state had not…
- Designations
Government Record · 2026
Financial Stability Oversight Council
The opened designation history lists AIG, GE Capital, Prudential, and MetLife as prior nonbank designees; BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street do not appear.
- Despite record federal lobbying spending, the pharmaceutical and health product industry lost their biggest legislative bet in 2022 (2023)
Document · 2023
OpenSecrets
OpenSecrets' own accounting: the pharmaceutical and health products industry spent a record $372 million on federal lobbying in 2022 with 1,834 lobbyists — more than three…
- Devereaux v. Abbey, 263 F.3d 1070
Court Filing · 2001
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, recognized a clearly established right not to face criminal charges based on evidence the government deliberately fabricated.
- DHS Could Better Address Bias Risk and Enhance Privacy Protections for Technologies Used in Public, GAO-25-107302
Government Record · 2024
U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAO report (December 2024): CBP, ICE and the Secret Service all have agreements to query third-party license plate reader data, giving them a nationwide source of…
- Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980)
Court Filing · 1980
U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that a live, human-made microorganism can be patented.
- Did Nancy Pelosi Get Her Hair Done at a Salon Despite COVID-19 Restrictions?
News Report · 2020
Snopes
The report reproduces Pelosi’s office statement that she followed the rules as represented by the salon. It states that outdoor-only personal services followed on September 1;…
- Did the Federal Government Spend $21 Trillion That Wasn’t Authorized by Congress?
News Report · 2017
Michigan Public
Michigan Public's 2017 follow-up, quoting the Pentagon Inspector General that "unsupported" means the paperwork was inadequate, not proof the money was spent without authorization.
- Digital Euro: Report on the Preparation Phase Closing
Government Record · 2025
European Central Bank
The ECB's October 2025 closing report on the digital euro preparation phase discusses hypothetical holding limits of up to 3,000 euros per person. No official record…
- Directive 98/44/EC on Biotechnological Inventions, Articles 5-6
Government Record · 1998
European Parliament and Council
The EU biotech patent law says the human body and the simple discovery of its elements, including gene sequences, cannot be patented, and bans patents on…
- Disentangling the Effects of the 2018–2019 Tariffs on a Globally Connected U.S. Manufacturing Sector
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Aaron Flaaen; Justin Pierce
Federal Reserve economists, 2019: the 2018 tariffs helped protected industries a little, but higher input costs and foreign retaliation outweighed it, for a net 1.4 percent…
- DNI Releases Fiscal Year 2024 Budget Figure for the National Intelligence Program
Government Record · 2024
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
The 2024 national intelligence budget topline, $76.5 billion.
- DNI Releases Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Figure for the National Intelligence Program
Government Record · 2025
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
The Director of National Intelligence's release of the 2025 intelligence budget topline, $73.3 billion. Everything below the topline stays classified.
- Docket, L.W. v. Skrmetti, No. 3:23-cv-00376 (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
The federal docket records three civil investigative demands to VUMC as exhibits filed on June 1, 2023. It establishes that the demands entered the court record,…
- DoD Directive 2311.01: DoD Law of War Program (2020)
Government Record · 2020
U.S. Department of Defense
DoD Directive 2311.01 (2020): every weapon the Pentagon buys or modifies must get a law-of-war legal review.
- DoD Directive 3000.03E: Non-Lethal Weapons Policy
Government Record · 2013
U.S. Department of Defense
DoD Directive 3000.03E: nonlethal weapons need legal reviews and testing of their effects on people. It admits nonlethal weapons can still kill or permanently injure.
- DOD Financial Management: Actions Needed to Achieve a Clean Audit Opinion (GAO-26-109115)
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAO's 2026 testimony: the Pentagon has failed all eight full audits since 2018 and has been on GAO's High-Risk List for financial management since 1995.