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- Human Genome Project (NHGRI)
Government Record · 2003
National Human Genome Research Institute
The National Human Genome Research Institute's history of the Human Genome Project, launched in October 1990 and completed in April 2003.
- I Don’t Know Why I’m Here: Civil Asset Forfeiture in Cook County
Document · 2023
Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Court watchers observed more than 230 Cook County civil forfeiture cases from March through August 2022. The report's summary says 67 percent of property owners had…
- IARC: Monographs Volume 112 Questions and Answers on Glyphosate (2015)
Government Record · 2015
International Agency for Research on Cancer
International Agency for Research on Cancer, March 2015: classified glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, as 'probably carcinogenic to humans' (Group 2A), citing limited human evidence…
- IC Experts Panel: Anomalous Health Incidents Executive Summary (2022)
Government Record · 2022
Intelligence Community Experts Panel
Intelligence Community Experts Panel, February 2022: pulsed electromagnetic energy, especially radio frequency, "plausibly explains" the core symptoms. It did not look at who did it.
- ICJ: South Africa v. Israel Additional Measures Order (March 2024)
Court Filing · 2024
International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice, March 28, 2024: ordered additional provisional measures requiring unhindered, large-scale delivery of basic services and humanitarian aid, including food, water, fuel and…
- ICJ: South Africa v. Israel Case Record and Status (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice case page, current as of September 2026: lists written filing deadlines and Colombia's withdrawal of its intervention on September 22, 2026. No…
- ICJ: South Africa v. Israel Provisional Measures Order (January 2024)
Court Filing · 2024
International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice, January 26, 2024: in South Africa v. Israel, found at least some rights South Africa claimed under the Genocide Convention plausible and…
- ICJ: South Africa v. Israel Rafah Order (May 2024)
Court Filing · 2024
International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice, May 24, 2024: ordered Israel to halt its Rafah offensive insofar as it may inflict conditions that could destroy the Palestinian group,…
- ID2020 Alliance Launches Digital ID Program with Bangladesh and Gavi (2019)
Document · 2019
ID2020 Alliance
ID2020's own release on using vaccination and birth registration to give newborns a persistent, portable, biometrically linked digital identity. Partners listed include Accenture, Gavi, Microsoft and…
- Illinois Attorney General Opinion No. 25-001: Felony Forfeiture of Pension Benefits
Government Record · 2025
Kwame Raoul, Illinois Attorney General
The official opinion concludes that Madigan’s qualifying convictions require pension forfeiture.
- Illinois Controlled Substances Act, 720 ILCS 570/402
Government Record · 2026
Illinois General Assembly
Residual possession outside specified amounts can be a Class 4 felony, but “one pill” is not automatically Class 4: substance, amount, and subsection matter. Section 402(d),…
- Illinois Executive Order 2020-10 (COVID-19 Executive Order No. 8)
Government Record · 2020
Governor JB Pritzker
The order excluded salons and barber shops from essential healthcare operations and required nonessential businesses to cease activities except minimum basic operations. A separate stay-home provision…
- Illinois Executive Order 2020-18
Government Record · 2020
Governor of Illinois
The statewide closure framework was opened, but no official City of Chicago record establishing Lightfoot’s haircut was found. The order alone cannot verify the personal-conduct allegation.
- Illinois Seizure and Awarded Assets Annual Report Summary 2024
Government Record · 2024
Illinois State Police
The 2024 Illinois State Police report shows the Cook County drug-forfeiture split still in use: 65 percent to the seizing agency, 25 percent to the Cook…
- IMF: Press Call on the 2019 China Article IV Report
Document · 2019
James Daniel, IMF Asia and Pacific Department; IMF Communications
IMF press call, August 2019: IMF staff said China's currency in 2018 was broadly in line with fundamentals, a different view from Treasury's.
- Impact of the resumption of proactive recommendation of HPV vaccination on HPV vaccination rates in Japan (VENUS study) (2025)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025
Sazawa M, et al. (BMJ Public Health 2025;3:e000982)
States why the suspension ended: the MHLW Advisory Committee 'confirmed that there were no particular concerns regarding the safety of the vaccines' and that efficacy outweighed…
- Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2015
Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Brendan Price
Acemoglu, Autor, Dorn, Hanson and Price: rising Chinese import competition cost 2.0 to 2.4 million U.S. jobs from 1999 to 2011.
- Important Update to Gender-Affirming Pediatric Care Services (2025)
Document · 2025
UChicago Medicine
UChicago Medicine announced immediate discontinuation of all gender-affirming pediatric care. It cited federal actions placing its ability to care for Medicare and Medicaid patients at risk.
- Improving Family Foster Care: Findings from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2005
Peter J. Pecora et al.
The Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study of young adults who were in foster care in Oregon and Washington from 1988 to 1998. Among alumni 25 and…
- In Peace and Harmony with Nature (Denver International Airport)
Document · 2026
Denver International Airport
The Denver airport's description of Tanguma's second mural, which it explains as extinction followed by restoration of nature.
- In re Administrative Subpoena 25-1431-032 to Rhode Island Hospital, No. 1:26-mc-0007-MSM-AEM (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island
The court quashed the Rhode Island Hospital subpoena, finding no congressionally authorized purpose, an improper purpose, and a conflict with children’s informational-privacy rights. It also enjoined…
- In re City of Detroit: Court Filing Confirming the July 18, 2013 Bankruptcy Petition
Court Filing · 2016
City of Detroit; U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Michigan
Detroit bankruptcy court filing confirming the city filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy on July 18, 2013, the largest city bankruptcy in U.S. history.
- In re International Business Machines Corp. (2d Cir. 1982)
Court Filing · 1982
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Federal appeals court, 1982: quotes the Justice Department's January 1982 statement that the IBM case was 'without merit' and Assistant Attorney General William Baxter's reasons for…
- In re Subpoena No. 25-1431-014, No. 25-39 (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
Judge Mark A. Kearney, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
The court struck three CHOP-related requests for child-identifying, treatment, and disclosure records as beyond congressional authorization and alternatively found privacy interests outweighed DOJ’s need. It did…