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"You are not personally liable for conducting these searches when done as part of your official duties and properly documented." That sentence, delivered by DHS office of the general counsel to officers investigating alleged noncitizen voting, is not reassurance. It is acknowledgment [1]. When institutional lawyers pre-emptively promise protection from state criminal liability, the promise itself is the tell. The whistleblower's lawyers read it plainly: the statement "suggests DHS is aware the...

The Chest The textile sits folded in a wooden chest at Vallegloria Monastery. Spello. A hill town in Umbria. No placard. No controlled environment. Centuries of storage, not display. Someone opens it and sees Egypt. The Attribution The piece may date from Fatimid Egypt, according to Finestresullarte.info. May. Not does. Not confirmed. The textile has been preserved for centuries at the monastery, per the same source. Fatimid Egypt ran from the 10th through 12th centuries. Cairo. Fustat. Textile...

Judge Susan Illston, late Friday, U.S. District Court: the number "appears as if pulled from thin air." [1] She means 50%. She means the plan to cut FEMA in half. She means top Department of Homeland Security officials told FEMA to submit it anyway, despite objections from the agency's own supervisors. [1] The number had no source. It nearly became policy. Illston ruled the plan unlawful. [1] The American Federation of Government Employees and other labor groups sued over the staffing plan. [1]...

Seven rules invalidated in one ruling. That is the count from Fulton Superior Judge Thomas Cox Jr., who declared the Georgia State Election Board's new election rules "illegal, unconstitutional and void" in October 2024. [1] The Board passed them in the months leading up to the November election. Judge Cox found the Board overstepped its authority and violated Georgia laws, the Georgia Constitution, and the U.S. Constitution. [1] The invalidated rules included measures expanding poll watcher...

The Gap Ireland's oldest evidence of human presence is dated to 10,500 years ago. Eight caves in south-west Ireland now contain rock art dated to at least 15,000 years ago, according to BBC. That is 5,000 years older. Nothing fills the space between. The previous floor was solid. No human artifacts, no remains, no settlement evidence older than 10,500 years, per BBC. The archaeological record began there and went forward. It did not go back. It goes back now. What the Caves Contain The art...