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- NRDC v. EPA (9th Cir. 2022)
Court Filing · 2022
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Federal appeals court, June 2022: ruled that EPA's finding that glyphosate is not likely to cause cancer was not supported by substantial evidence, and vacated that…
- NSA History: The Gulf of Tonkin Mystery, Skunks, Bogies, Silent Hounds and the Flying Fish (2001)
Government Record · 2001
Robert J. Hanyok, National Security Agency; Naval History and Heritage Command reproduction
NSA historian Robert Hanyok, 2001: concluded that no attack happened on the night of August 4, 1964 in the Gulf of Tonkin. He also found the…
- NSBA: Letter to President Biden on Threats to School Officials (2021)
Document · 2021
National School Boards Association
National School Boards Association, September 2021: a letter to President Biden asking for federal help and investigations, saying some threats against school officials could equal domestic…
- NSPD-51/HSPD-20: National Continuity Policy
Government Record · 2007
President George W. Bush
President George W. Bush's 2007 directive setting national continuity-of-government policy and creating a National Continuity Coordinator in the White House.
- NSPM-7: Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence (90 FR 47225)
Government Record · 2025
The White House
National Security Presidential Memorandum of September 25, 2025. It cites over $2 billion in property damage from riots and directs Joint Terrorism Task Forces, Treasury and…
- NYTD Outcomes Data Snapshot: National, FFY2020-2024
Government Record · 2024
U.S. Children's Bureau
The federal survey of former foster youth: at age 21, 16% reported homelessness and 10% reported incarceration in the survey period.
- Obama White House: Turnaround Arts Partnership with the Kennedy Center (2016)
Government Record · 2016
Obama White House / President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Obama White House, 2016: Turnaround Arts, an arts-in-schools program started in 2011, was created by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and moved…
- OCHA: Gaza Humanitarian Situation Report (October 2026)
Document · 2026
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UN OCHA, October 2026: records 32 killed in Gaza from October 13 to 19, 2026, and 1,522 deaths and 5,421 injuries since the ceasefire, including 67…
- OCHA: Gaza Reported Impact Snapshot (October 2026)
Document · 2026
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
UN OCHA, October 2026: reports 74,392 Palestinian deaths and 175,440 injuries in Gaza as of October 7, 2026. Of 74,237 identified dead, 21,976 were children and…
- ODNI: Declassified Assessment on COVID-19 Origins (2021)
Government Record · 2021
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, August 2021: intelligence agencies were split. Four agencies and the NIC leaned natural origin with low confidence, one leaned…
- ODNI: Updated Assessment of Anomalous Health Incidents (December 2024)
Government Record · 2025
Office of the Director of National Intelligence / National Intelligence Council
ODNI, December 2024 update: most agencies still say "very unlikely," but one now sees roughly even odds a foreign weapon hit a small number of victims,…
- ODNI: Updated Assessment of Anomalous Health Incidents (March 2023)
Government Record · 2023
Office of the Director of National Intelligence / National Intelligence Council
ODNI, March 2023: most intelligence agencies judged it "very unlikely" a foreign adversary caused the Havana Syndrome cases. The intelligence agencies grading their own investigation.
- ODNI: Wuhan Institute of Virology and COVID-19 Origins (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Office of the Director of National Intelligence, June 2023: the Energy Department and FBI judge a lab-related incident most likely, for different reasons, while all agencies…
- Office of National Continuity Programs (FEMA)
Government Record · 2026
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA's page for its Office of National Continuity Programs, which lists the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center as part of keeping the government running in a…
- Ogrosky Memorandum: DOJ Prosecution Review of Purdue Frederick (2006)
Government Record · 2006
Kirk Ogrosky, U.S. Department of Justice
The 2006 Justice Department prosecution memo on Purdue: it traces OxyContin's "delayed absorption … is believed to reduce the abuse liability" label language to Purdue correspondence…
- OncoMouse (Smithsonian)
Document · 1988
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian's record of the OncoMouse, the genetically engineered mouse patented in April 1988 (U.S. Patent 4,736,866).
- OPA Closed Case Summary 2020OPA-0354: Evacuation of the East Precinct
Government Record · 2021
Seattle Office of Police Accountability
Seattle Office of Police Accountability findings on the June 8, 2020 decision to evacuate the East Precinct, which opened the way for the CHAZ/CHOP occupation. OPA…
- Open Payments Program Summary (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS's program summary for Open Payments: $13.18 billion in published industry payments across 16.16 million records, including $3.33 billion in general payments to 651,977 physicians, with…
- OpenSecrets: Dark Money Topped $1 Billion in 2020 (2021)
Document · 2021
OpenSecrets (Center for Responsive Politics)
OpenSecrets, March 2021: more than $1 billion in 'dark money' from groups that hide their donors was spent in the 2020 federal elections, a record. About…
- Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Estimates, Volume 1, Part 1
Government Record · 2025
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
The Pentagon's 2026 budget justification, which funds Raven Rock Mountain Complex as "a critical alternate command site" keeping essential command functions and the National Military Command…
- Operation Tinseltown: How the CIA Manipulates Hollywood
News Report · 2016
Nicholas Schou; The Atlantic
The Atlantic, 2016: in 1996 the CIA assigned veteran officer Chase Brandon to work directly with Hollywood studios to improve the agency's image.
- Order on Defendants’ Motions to Dismiss, Document 113
Court Filing · 2025
Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle
Counts I-XVII and XXI survived; Counts XVIII-XX were dismissed. The court found claims plausible at Rule 12(b)(6), which is not a merits finding of collusion, deception,…
- Oregon HB 2002, Enrolled (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Oregon Legislative Assembly
HB 2002 added health-insurance protections for medically necessary gender-affirming treatment and expressly did not change the age at which minors may consent. Oregon’s insurance page says…
- Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 109, ORS 109.640 (1971)
Government Record · 1971
Oregon Legislative Assembly
ORS 109.640 allows a minor aged 15 or older to consent to specified medical care without parental consent. Its history begins with 1971 chapter 381 section…