Idaho lawmakers call the faith-healing exemption a traditional Idaho value. Territorial law in 1887 criminalized withholding medical care from a child, no religious excuse. The exemption appeared in 1971, inside a routine code rewrite, with no record of who wrote it. oturu.online
Washington waived tariffs on 300,000 tons of imported beef to lower grocery prices. That is about 2% of what Americans eat, too little to move the shelf price. It still took 10% off one Cheyenne rancher's herd overnight, before any beef arrived. oturu.online
HHS published a report tying support for trans people to authoritarianism. No peer review, no journal, 1,208 online respondents, correlations released but not the numbers. Its targets are the pediatric and psychiatric boards that write the standard of care. oturu.online
A year of rule changes, not votes. Contractor minimum wage cut $17.75 to $13.30. Overtime stripped from 4.3M workers. OSHA inspections down a fifth. Then DHS pulled union financial records under a "domestic terrorism" inquiry. oturu.online
Stars and Stripes ran a story on conditions and mental health crises aboard the USS Lincoln. The Pentagon moved to fire the reporter and the editor. A judge let it proceed: they spoke as employees, not citizens. So the press question never gets asked. oturu.online
A billionaire on Trump's Board of Peace priced Gaza's ruins at $115B of value waiting to be 'unlocked and financed.' He also gave $1.5M to AIPAC's super PAC — timed to the days it spent against the members of Congress voting to cut arms aid. oturu.online
Palantir built ICE an app that assembles dossiers and returns a confidence score on whether it has the right person. A 2002 law requires a published privacy assessment first. DHS skipped it — and linked to a 2019 doc about a different system instead. oturu.online
A federal rule now says: if one ballot's barcode fails to scan, the whole mailing gets rejected. Maricopa County mails 2 million at a time. Postal officials said out loud this would hurt voters, proposed a fix, and it shipped anyway. oturu.online
Ken Paxton told the feds he owns seven homes and earns nothing from any of them. Six were listed for rent. One goes for $1,200 a night. He also left $1.3M in mortgages off the form. The rule is clear. Nobody checks it. oturu.online
A woman drowned in her trailer when Helene took it. Families rent that same lot today. FEMA's buyout program treats a mobile home as personal property, and only the landowner can apply. The residents have no standing to ask. oturu.online
An ICE agent fired through a closed door into a home with children inside. Video proved the agents' story false. Prosecutors readied the George Floyd civil rights charge. Main Justice blocked it. oturu.online
70,000 detained immigrants asked a judge if they're held lawfully. Minnesota answers in 12 days. Mississippi: 92. Louisiana gives the government 60 days on a 3-day statute. Some are deported first. oturu.online
Candidates get the cheapest TV ad rate for 60 days before an election. FCC staff extended it to party committees. The Supreme Court kept it, on procedure, the day the window opened. oturu.online
Colorado knew a best-selling marijuana sleep pill was damaging livers in March 2022. It warned the public in June 2023. The regulator sits in the revenue dept; makers pick their own test samples. oturu.online
Nine states rejected Alpha School's AI charter, Texas too. So it applied to the comptroller: 4 paperwork checks, no outcomes review. Founders gave $1.5M to Abbott, $300K to two comptrollers. oturu.online
Missouri's top court froze the GOP's mid-decade map. Not on fairness: 300,000 voters petitioned for a referendum, and the constitution allows one on 'any act.' The law never took effect. oturu.online
Federal prisons sold an unapproved nicotine pouch to 153,000 inmates via a company formed a week after the bureau sought vendors. No bid, no contract, 30% markup paid by families. oturu.online