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- Airbnb: Jay Carney Joins as Global Head of Policy (2022)
Corporate Filing · 2022
Airbnb
Airbnb, July 2022: hired Jay Carney, former White House press secretary for President Obama and then a senior Amazon executive, as its global head of policy…
- Aircraft Accident Report: TWA Flight 514, Boeing 727-231, Berryville, Virginia (NTSB-AAR-75-16)
Government Record · 1975
National Transportation Safety Board
The NTSB report on TWA Flight 514, which crashed on the west slope of Mount Weather on December 1, 1974, killing all aboard. The board blamed…
- Alexander v. State, No. 1D12-2469
Court Filing · 2013
Florida District Court of Appeal, First District
The court reversed Alexander’s 2012 conviction and 20-year sentence only for erroneous self-defense instructions, while rejecting Stand Your Ground immunity. Her 2015 negotiated outcome was three…
- Alphabet: Letter to Chairman Jordan on Biden Administration Pressure (2025)
Corporate Filing · 2025
Daniel F. Donovan, counsel for Alphabet Inc.
Alphabet's counsel, September 2025: told the House Judiciary Committee that senior Biden officials pressed YouTube about content that did not break its rules, while saying the…
- Amended and Restated Investment Management Agreement, Maiden Lane II LLC
Government Record · 2010
Federal Reserve Bank of New York; BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.; Maiden Lane II LLC
Establishes BlackRock’s Maiden Lane II fee schedule, including a one-time fee, basis-point asset-management fee, and first-three-year minimums.
- Amended and Restated Investment Management Agreement, Maiden Lane III LLC
Government Record · 2010
Federal Reserve Bank of New York; BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.; Maiden Lane III LLC
Establishes BlackRock’s Maiden Lane III advisory and asset-management compensation, with different rates by asset type and annual minimums.
- Amended and Restated Investment Manager Agreement, Maiden Lane LLC
Government Record · 2010
Federal Reserve Bank of New York; BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.; Maiden Lane LLC
Names BlackRock Financial Management as investment manager for Maiden Lane, the Bear Stearns-related vehicle. The agreement concerns management and disposition for FRBNY, not acquisition for BlackRock’s…
- Amended Opinion and Order Regarding the Reasonableness of Fees Under 11 U.S.C. §943(b)(3), In re City of Detroit, Case No. 13-53846
Court Filing · 2015
U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Michigan
Identifies Merrill Lynch Capital Services and UBS AG as Detroit’s swap counterparties. It does not identify BlackRock, Vanguard, or State Street as the swap counterparties or…
- American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, Section 422 (Repatriation Tax Holiday)
Government Record · 2004
U.S. Congress
The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, Section 422: companies could bring overseas profits home at an effective federal tax rate of about 5.25 percent, sold…
- Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta (2021)
Court Filing · 2021
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Supreme Court, July 2021, 6 to 3: struck down California's rule forcing charities to hand their major donor lists to the state attorney general, as…
- An Evidence-Based Approach to Covid-19 Vaccination (Sounding Board) (2025)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025
Prasad V, Makary MA
The FDA leadership's 2025 framework piece arguing that new COVID-19 vaccine approvals should be limited to adults 65 and older and people at high risk unless…
- An Examination of Foster Care in the United States and the Use of Privatization
Government Record · 2017
U.S. Senate Finance Committee staff
The Senate Finance Committee staff report on privatized foster care, including foster parent recruitment and retention.
- Andrea Matwyshyn: The Internet of Bodies (2019)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Andrea M. Matwyshyn
The law review article that defined the Internet of Bodies: a network of human bodies whose integrity and functionality rely at least in part on the…
- Andrew was arrested. Why hasn’t anyone named in the Epstein files faced U.S. charges?
News Report · 2026
NPR
NPR, April 2026: no one named in the Epstein files had faced U.S. charges, while Andrew was arrested in the UK for suspected misconduct in public…
- Announcement from the New TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC
Document · 2026
TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC
TikTok's January 22, 2026 announcement that the U.S. joint venture now exists: Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX hold 15 percent each, ByteDance keeps 19.9 percent, and…
- Annual Report Fiscal Year 2020
Government Record · 2021
Government Pension Investment Fund, Japan
Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund annual report for fiscal 2020, which lists its external investment managers. The BlackRock entry is pending a page check; the report…
- Another challenge to vax-mandate carve-outs (Prescription Pulse) (2025)
News Report · 2025
Politico
The notable 2025 litigation was not in Texas: the Supreme Court ordered the Second Circuit to reconsider its decision upholding New York's repeal of religious exemptions…
- Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2018
José Azar; Martin C. Schmalz; Isabel Tecu
Published airline study reports a robust route-level association and a 3-7% average counterfactual fare effect; an instrumental-variable analysis gives larger estimates. It does not by itself…
- AP: Blue Objects Weren’t Spared From the Maui Fires (2023)
News Report · 2023
Associated Press
AP fact check, August 2023: photos show blue buildings destroyed and objects of many colors surviving in Lahaina. Experts quoted reject a color-selective weapon.
- Appropriations Act of 2012, Section 743: The So-Called ‘Pizza Is a Vegetable’ Rider (2011)
Government Record · 2011
Congress of the United States
Congress, November 2011: barred USDA from spending money on any school lunch rule that counts tomato paste by its actual volume. This blocked USDA's plan and…
- Apter v. HHS: Fifth Circuit Opinion (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, September 2023: in the doctors' ivermectin suit, it ruled they could pursue claims that FDA exceeded its authority and sent the…
- Apter v. HHS: Order of Dismissal (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Judge Jeffrey Brown, federal court in Texas, March 2024: dismissed all claims in the ivermectin case with prejudice under the settlement, each side paying its own…
- Apter v. HHS: Stipulation of Dismissal (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
Parties to Apter v. Department of Health and Human Services
Parties to Apter v. HHS, March 2024: FDA agreed to retire its consumer page "Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin" and delete certain social media posts,…
- Archives Talk: Dave Brubeck about Jazz and Diplomacy
Government Record · 2015
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: in 1956 the State Department, with Secretary John Foster Dulles's support, began sending top jazz musicians abroad, including Dave Brubeck, as…