We filed our own comment with the USPTO regarding their attempt to weaken the important inter partes review (IPR) process that has been hugely helpful in getting rid of bad patents. Over at EFF, Joe Mullin wrote up an analysis of some of the comments to the USPTO, which we’re running here as well. A […]
ST. LOUIS - On Wednesday, December 17, 2025, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office issued charges against suspect Cortez Cooper, 45 years of age, of the 5400 block of College Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri, 63136, for Unlawful Possession of a Firearm and Tampering with Physical Evidence in Felony Prosecution. Cooper is being held on a $150,000 cash-only, no 10% bond. The probable cause statement reads: While investigating a homicide, detectives observed and seized multiple
The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards turned 82 on Thursday, and his bandmates took to social media to send him their best wishes.The band’s official Instagram account shared a carousel of photos…
The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a confidential draft agreement to more than a dozen states that would require election officials to remove any alleged ineligible voters identified during a federal review of their voter rolls. The agreement — called a memorandum of understanding, or MOU — would hand the federal government a major […]
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to loosen federal restrictions on marijuana, which Trump said reflected the drug’s potential medical benefits while discouraging recreational use. The order moves cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III on the Federal Drug Administration’s list of controlled substances. Schedule I, the most restrictive category under federal law, indicates […]
WASHINGTON — The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a prestigious cultural hub in the nation’s capital, will be renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday. The renaming comes after President Donald Trump named himself chair of the board in February in a major shake-up. He later fired […]
KISS recently received the Kennedy Center Honors at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., but it was without founding guitarist Ace Frehley, who passed away in October.Frehley knew the band had been chosen…
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On July 18, a mild, overcast night in Nairobi, Kenya, a team of President Donald Trump’s top foreign aid advisers ducked into a meeting room at the Tribe Hotel, their luxury accommodations in the city’s diplomatic quarter, for a private dinner. The visitors from Washington included […]
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