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- ABC News: FBI Confirms Laptop at Hunter Biden Gun Trial (2024)
News Report · 2024
ABC News
ABC News, June 2024: at Hunter Biden's gun trial, prosecutors showed the laptop and FBI agent Erika Jensen testified it was confirmed to be his, backed…
- About Hepatitis B (Hepatitis B Basics) (2025)
Government Record · 2025
CDC, Division of Viral Hepatitis
Current CDC statement of transmission routes; CDC estimates ~640,000 adults in the U.S. have chronic hepatitis B and about 1 in 2 infected people do not…
- Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc., 2023 Form 10-K
Corporate Filing · 2024
Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc.
Acadia Healthcare's annual SEC filing. It says the company paid $400 million on January 19, 2024 to settle three New Mexico foster care cases, without admitting…
- Accelerating Technology Transfer and Commercialization of Federal Research (CDC Technology Transfer Plan, FY2011 accomplishments) (2012)
Government Record · 2012
CDC (document); hosted by NIST
CDC does hold patents and license them: the plan reports 87 patents filed and 60 issued in FY2011, and $1,127,457 in royalties collected by CDC's Technology…
- ACIP Recommends COVID-19 Vaccination Based on Individual Decision-Making (2025)
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HHS announced that the reconstituted ACIP unanimously voted to shift COVID-19 vaccination for everyone six months and older to individual decision-making rather than a routine recommendation.
- ACIP Recommends Individual-Based Decision-Making for Hepatitis B Vaccine for Infants Born to Women Who Test Negative for the Virus (2025)
Government Record · 2025
HHS Office of the Secretary
HHS announcement of the ACIP vote (8-3 on Dec 5, 2025); also records the Sept 19, 2025 ACIP vote recommending hepatitis B testing for all pregnant…
- ACLU SoCal: Opposing the LA Sheriff’s Jail Heat-Ray Device (2010)
Document · 2010
ACLU of Southern California
ACLU of Southern California, 2010: challenged the Los Angeles County Sheriff's plan to use a jail version of the heat-ray, noting the military version was sent…
- ACLU v. Clapper: Second Circuit Opinion (2015)
Court Filing · 2015
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Justia reproduction
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, May 2015: held that Section 215 of the Patriot Act did not authorize the NSA's bulk phone records…
- Activities of U.S. Multinational Enterprises, 2023
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2025: U.S. multinationals employed 29.9 million people in the U.S. and 14.0 million abroad in 2023.
- Address to the Nation on Testimony Before the Independent Counsel’s Grand Jury
Government Record · 1998
William J. Clinton
President Clinton's August 17, 1998 address after testifying to the grand jury about Monica Lewinsky.
- Adoption and Legal Guardianship Incentive Awards History
Government Record · 2026
Administration for Children and Families
The federal government's state-by-state table of adoption and guardianship incentive money paid from fiscal 1998 through fiscal 2024.
- Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, Public Law 105-89
Government Record · 1997
U.S. Congress
The 1997 law that created federal adoption incentive payments ($4,000 for each foster child adoption above a state's baseline, plus $2,000 for special-needs adoptions) and the…
- Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, Public Law 96-272
Government Record · 1980
U.S. Congress
The 1980 law that built the modern federal foster care funding system (Title IV-E). It required states to make "reasonable efforts" to prevent a child's removal…
- AFP: Blue Objects Were Not the Only Survivors of the Hawaii Fires (2023)
News Report · 2023
AFP Fact Check, with fire-protection and directed-energy expert comment
AFP fact check, 2023: objects of many colors survived and blue ones burned in the Hawaii fires.
- African American Children in Foster Care: Additional HHS Assistance Needed to Help States Reduce the Proportion in Care, GAO-07-816
Government Record · 2007
Government Accountability Office
GAO found African American children were under 15% of the U.S. child population but 34% of the children remaining in foster care at the end of…
- AFRL: High Power Electromagnetics and CHAMP (2016)
Government Record · 2016
Air Force Research Laboratory
Air Force Research Laboratory fact sheet: CHAMP, a missile-mounted high-power microwave weapon that knocks out electronics, was tested in a technology demonstration. No clear path to…
- AFRL: THOR Microwave Weapon Disables Drone Swarm (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Air Force Research Laboratory
Air Force Research Laboratory, May 2023: its THOR microwave weapon disabled a swarm of drones in a demonstration. The lab calls it an early demonstrator.
- Agency Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
Government Record · 2020
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Confirms BlackRock’s agency-CMBS operational role on behalf of the System Open Market Account and states that the contract terminated May 2, 2022. The linked agreement and…
- Agency MBS Investment Management Agreement (BlackRock)
Government Record · 2008
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory
The New York Fed's December 2008 agreement naming BlackRock an investment manager for the Fed's purchases of agency mortgage-backed securities. The recitals record a competitive selection;…
- Agenda 21 (UN, 1992)
Government Record · 1992
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
The UN's 1992 sustainable development action plan, which it said aimed at preparing the world for the challenges of the next century.
- Agreement Extending the Agreement relating to the Establishment of a Joint Defence Facility at Pine Gap (TIAS 12959)
Government Record · 1998
Governments of the United States and Australia
The 1998 U.S.-Australia agreement extending the original Pine Gap agreement signed in Canberra on December 9, 1966.
- Air Force: Airborne Laser Destroys Ballistic Missile in Test (2010)
Government Record · 2010
U.S. Air Force
U.S. Air Force, February 2010: the Airborne Laser, a megawatt laser in a 747, destroyed a ballistic missile in flight as a proof of concept.
- Air Force: Moody Airmen Test the Active Denial System (2007)
Government Record · 2007
Air Education and Training Command Public Affairs
U.S. Air Force, 2007: airmen at Moody Air Force Base tested the Active Denial System, a 95 GHz heat-pain beam. The Air Force says over 10,000…
- Air Force: Test Results Support Active Denial System as Nonlethal (2008)
Government Record · 2008
Air Force Materiel Command
Air Force Materiel Command, 2008: test results support the Active Denial System as nonlethal, repelling people with an intolerable heating sensation. Government-funded testing reviewing a government…