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- Arcus Foundation Form 990, Tax Year 2023
Corporate Filing · 2023
Arcus Foundation
Arcus’s 2023 return records $100,000 to Campaign for Southern Equality for the Southern Trans Youth Emergency Project. Other selected entries are $765,087 to Borealis Philanthropy for…
- Are Flock and Palantir both owned by billionaire Peter Thiel?
News Report · 2026
Cassis Tingley / Gigafact
A Colorado Sun fact check: Peter Thiel co-founded Palantir but never sat on Flock's board and did not help start the company. Founders Fund, his firm,…
- Are We Overmedicating Children in Foster Care? (House Ways and Means Hearing, 2014)
Transcript · 2014
U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources
The 2014 House Ways and Means hearing on psychotropic drugs in foster care. Its background cites research that nearly one in four foster children used a…
- Argentina: Request for Stand-By Arrangement, Press Release and Staff Report (IMF Country Report No. 18/219)
Government Record · 2018
International Monetary Fund staff
The Argentina Stand-By Arrangement report identifies an IMF staff team; approval lines name Nigel Chalk and Daria Zakharova. No BlackRock authorship was found in the report.
- Army AR 15-6 Investigation: July 12, 2007 Baghdad Air Attack (2010)
Government Record · 2010
U.S. Army
U.S. Army investigation of the July 12, 2007 helicopter attack in Baghdad, released 2010: among its recommendations, condolence payments to families of two children wounded in…
- Army FY2027 Research Budget: Directed Energy Lines
Government Record · 2026
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Financial Management and Comptroller)
Army budget request for fiscal 2027: tens of millions a year for laser prototype work, with $94.8 million requested for directed energy in 2027.
- Army General Fund Adjustments Not Adequately Documented or Supported (DODIG-2016-113)
Government Record · 2016
DoD Office of Inspector General
The Pentagon Inspector General found the Army could not support $2.8 trillion in third-quarter and $6.5 trillion in year-end adjustments to its fiscal 2015 books. The…
- Army SAMS Monograph: Understanding and Communicating through Narratives (2012)
Government Record · 2012
Gittipong Paruchabutr
A 2012 Army School of Advanced Military Studies paper describing DARPA's October 2011 Narrative Networks solicitation: research on how stories shape memory, emotion and judgment. The…
- Army: DE M-SHORAD Laser Stryker Inducted Into Fort Sill Museum (2025)
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Army
U.S. Army, 2025: its first 50 kW laser on a Stryker vehicle (DE M-SHORAD) went to a museum after prototype testing that included 50 live-fire engagements…
- Assange v. USA: High Court Judgment [2024] EWHC 700 (Admin) (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
High Court of Justice of England and Wales, King’s Bench Division, Administrative Court
High Court of England and Wales, March 2024: put off a decision on Assange's renewed request to appeal his extradition on three grounds for 55 days,…
- Asset Management and Financial Stability
Government Record · 2013
Office of Financial Research
Directly contradicts the absolute assertion that regulators ignored asset-management risk. OFR analyzes potential vulnerabilities and transmission channels; it does not itself designate any Big Three firm…
- Association Between Automotive Assembly Plant Closures and Opioid Overdose Mortality in the United States: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2020
Atheendar S. Venkataramani; Elizabeth F. Bair; Rourke L. O’Brien; Alexander C. Tsai
JAMA Internal Medicine study: five years after an auto assembly plant closed, opioid overdose deaths in that county rose by 8.6 per 100,000, about 85 percent.…
- Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, 569 U.S. 576 (2013)
Court Filing · 2013
U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that a naturally occurring DNA segment cannot be patented just because it was isolated, but synthetic cDNA can be.
- Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti Announces Landmark Settlement with BlackRock, Inc. Regarding ESG Practices
Government Record · 2025
Tennessee Attorney General
Tennessee’s actual consumer-protection action was filed in December 2023 and resolved by settlement in January 2025, with dismissal without prejudice. It was not a 2020 multistate…
- Attorney General Memorandum Implementing NSPM-7 (December 4, 2025)
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General
Attorney General's memorandum directing federal prosecutors to carry out NSPM-7, including investigation of those who organize or financially sponsor political violence. It states that the July…
- Attorney General of Canada v. Canadian Civil Liberties Association et al., 2026 FCA 6, plain-language summary
Court Filing · 2026
Federal Court of Appeal of Canada
Canada's Federal Court of Appeal in January 2026 dismissed the government's appeals and confirmed that invoking the Emergencies Act against the 2022 convoy protests was unreasonable…
- Auken: Welcome to 2030, I Own Nothing (2016)
Document · 2016
Ida Auken
Ida Auken, World Economic Forum collection, November 2016: a first-person essay imagining a 2030 city where the narrator owns nothing and products are services. It is…
- Australia’s Defence Relations with the United States, Chapter 5: Dialogue with US on Missile Defence
Government Record · 2006
Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, Parliament of Australia
An Australian parliamentary committee report describing Pine Gap's role detecting ballistic missile launches for U.S. early-warning satellites.
- Authority to Require Supervision and Regulation of Certain Nonbank Financial Companies: Final Interpretive Guidance
Government Record · 2019
Financial Stability Oversight Council
The 2019 guidance prioritized an activities-based approach and contemplated entity-specific determinations only in rare instances. It does not designate any of the Big Three.
- Axon announces new fixed ALPR camera solutions and next-gen AI advancements
Document · 2025
Axon Enterprise
Axon's April 2025 announcement of new fixed plate-reader cameras, including Lightpost, which mounts on existing streetlights and connects to Axon's Fusus platform.
- Axon Announces TASER Drone Development to Address Mass Shootings
Document · 2022
Axon Enterprise / Rick Smith
Axon's June 2022 announcement, after Uvalde, that it was developing a Taser-armed drone. The release itself admits most of its AI Ethics Board advised against it.
- Axon Enterprise v. FTC (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
Supreme Court of the United States (Kagan, J., for a unanimous Court)
U.S. Supreme Court, April 2023, unanimous: people challenging the constitutional structure of the FTC or SEC can go straight to federal court. They do not have…
- B.K. v. Cox, No. 15-35964
Court Filing · 2016
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit held that social workers get absolute immunity only when acting like prosecutors in dependency court. Investigations and other actions get, at most, qualified…
- BakerHostetler: Court Holds IRS 501(c)(4) Political Activity Rule Unconstitutional (2025)
Document · 2025
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Cooper, J.); reported by BakerHostetler
BakerHostetler law firm, November 2025: reports that a federal court in Washington, D.C. held in September 2025 that the IRS's political-activity test for 501(c)(4) groups was…