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- New York Senate Bill S4571: Police Sound Cannon Ban (2023)
Government Record · 2023
New York State Senate
New York Senate Bill S4571 (2023): would have barred police from using sound cannons for crowd dispersal. A bill, not law.
- New York Times DealBook: A Legal Bane of Wall Street Switches Sides (2013)
News Report · 2013
New York Times DealBook (Protess, B.)
New York Times, July 2013: Robert Khuzami, the SEC's former enforcement director, joined the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, at a reported salary of more than…
- News Corporation 2025 Definitive Proxy Statement
Corporate Filing · 2025
News Corporation
News Corp voting control resides in Class B, not the larger Class A float. A September 2025 8-K states Murdoch-related interests are limited to 44% of…
- NewsGuard: Misinformation Monitor Naming Natural News (2020)
News Report · 2020
Gabby Deutch, NewsGuard
NewsGuard, April 2020: names NaturalNews.com and Mike Adams, calls the site a hoax site, and reports 3.9 million visitors in March 2020. NewsGuard's own publication, not…
- NewsGuard: NewsGuard and Free Speech (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2026
NewsGuard
NewsGuard: responds to a Senate subcommittee letter, says it is a private company with zero U.S. government funding and that its ratings add speech rather than…
- NewsGuard: Website Rating Process and Criteria (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2026
NewsGuard
NewsGuard: describes how its analysts rate sites against nine criteria and says publishers are asked to comment before a rating is published. The company's own description…
- Newsweek: Acosta Pressed on Alleged Epstein Intelligence Links (2025)
News Report · 2025
Newsweek
Newsweek, October 2025: in House testimony, Acosta denied saying Epstein belonged to intelligence and said he had no knowledge of any intelligence tie. His own denial.
- Newsweek: FDA Settles Ivermectin Social Media Lawsuit (2024)
News Report · 2024
Newsweek; FDA statement reproduced
Newsweek, March 2024: reprints FDA's statement that it settled rather than keep litigating old posts, admits no wrongdoing, and still holds that trial data do not…
- NIH: Havana Syndrome Studies Find Severe Symptoms, No MRI-Detectable Injury (2024)
Government Record · 2024
National Institutes of Health
NIH, March 2024: its studies found severe, disabling symptoms but no MRI-visible brain injury. The lead researcher said that does not rule out an injury at…
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949): first edition record
Document · 1949
Brown University Library
Brown University Library record of the first edition of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (Secker & Warburg, London, June 1949).
- NIST NCSTAR 1: Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers
Government Record
National Institute of Standards and Technology Document Date: September 1, 2005
The final report of the federal investigation into the collapse of World Trade Center 1 and 2, published September 2005. States NIST’s conclusions on the collapse…
- NIST Technical Note 2205: Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Hazard Mitigation (2022)
Government Record · 2022
Alexander Maranghides, Eric Link, Shonali Nazare, Steven Hawks, Jim McDougald, Stephen Quarles, Daniel Gorham
NIST, 2022: a method for judging which homes survive wildfires, based on embers, radiant heat, spacing and hardening of structures.
- Nixon: Address on New Economic Policy, Gold Suspension (1971)
Government Record · 1971
President Richard M. Nixon
President Nixon, August 15, 1971: announced he had directed the Treasury to temporarily suspend converting dollars into gold or other reserve assets.
- Nondiscrimination in Health and Health Education Programs or Activities—2020 Final Rule
Government Record · 2020
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The 2020 rule removed the 2016 rule’s express gender-identity and sex-stereotyping language. It was effective August 18, 2020, and was followed by further rulemaking and litigation.
- Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities—2016 Final Rule
Government Record · 2016
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The 2016 Section 1557 rule expressly included gender identity and sex stereotyping within sex discrimination. It was effective July 18, 2016, but was later revised and…
- Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities—2024 Final Rule
Government Record · 2024
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The 2024 rule restored express gender-identity coverage and addressed categorical coverage exclusions for gender-transition or gender-affirming services. It was issued with a July 5, 2024 effective…
- Notice of Vacatur Regarding Certain Provisions of the 2024 Section 1557 Rule (2026)
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
HHS reports that Tennessee v. Kennedy’s October 22, 2025 order vacated the 2024 rule’s provisions to the extent they expanded Title IX sex discrimination to gender…
- Notre Denver (Denver International Airport)
Document · 2026
Denver International Airport
The Denver airport's page on Terry Allen's two bronze gargoyles sitting in suitcases in baggage claim.
- NoVo Foundation Form 990, Tax Year 2023
Corporate Filing · 2023
NoVo Foundation
NoVo’s 2023 return records $250,000 in general support to Hudson Valley LGBTQ Community Center. It also records $150,000 to Southwest Indigenous Women’s Coalition for a Two-Spirit…
- NPR: Facebook and Twitter Limit the New York Post Story (2020)
News Report · 2020
Shannon Bond, NPR
NPR, October 14, 2020: Facebook cut the New York Post story's reach while awaiting fact checks, and Twitter blocked links and images under its hacked-materials and…
- NPR: Judge Rules Meta Did Not Illegally Maintain a Monopoly (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
NPR (Allyn, B.)
NPR, November 2025: after a trial, Judge James Boasberg ruled the FTC had not proven Meta holds a monopoly in social media, years after the FTC…
- NPR: Putin Grants Snowden Russian Citizenship (2022)
News Report · 2022
National Public Radio
NPR, September 2022: Russian President Vladimir Putin granted Edward Snowden Russian citizenship by decree. The decree itself was not opened, so this is a news report…
- NPR: UN Official Calls Manning Treatment Cruel and Inhuman (2012)
News Report · 2012
National Public Radio
NPR, March 2012: reports that UN official Juan Mendez told the Guardian that Manning's 11 months in solitary confinement was at minimum cruel, inhuman and degrading…
- NPR: YouTube, Apple and Facebook Ban Infowars (2018)
News Report · 2018
NPR
NPR, August 2018: reports YouTube, Apple and Facebook banned Infowars, quoting YouTube's rule that repeated violations of hate speech and harassment policies end accounts, plus Apple…