Category: Americas
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American courts decide which unwritten rights the Constitution protects by asking whether they are “deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition”. That test decided the clean water case — and the level of generality at which a right is described often decides it first.
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The full Fifth Circuit has ruled that the Constitution guarantees no right to clean drinking water, or to truthful information from officials in a health crisis, dismissing a suit by Jackson, Mississippi residents over lead contamination.
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Trump told the RNC midterm convention in Dallas that the war with Iran will end immediately after the November elections. The prediction is one claim; the timing is another, and it implies something other than the military situation is setting the schedule.
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Diesel in Guatemala has gone from 25 quetzales a gallon in January to 46.39 — a record — and the energy ministry blames the Strait of Hormuz. Blockades shut 17 highways. Congress passed a price cap on Tuesday night, and nobody is paying it yet.
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Rye, New Hampshire passed one measure barring barn swallows from a town barn and another forbidding anyone to disturb them. The contradiction is only apparent — and it captures a real conflict about wildlife that is playing out in barns everywhere.
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John E. Sununu won the Republican Senate nomination in New Hampshire and Chris Pappas the Democratic one, setting up an open contest in November after Jeanne Shaheen declined a fourth term. Why a state of 1.5 million draws national attention.
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Marshals in Ohio say they have recovered nearly eighty missing children in the state’s largest such operation. Most missing children are not abducted by strangers — and understanding what the category actually contains explains both why the work matters and where it usually falls short.
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A study puts the cost of Chicago’s 2025 immigration raids at over $1.26 billion in lost retail, restaurant and sales-tax revenue. The mechanism was not removals but fear — including among citizens, who stayed home in numbers a city’s economy can measure.
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The World Court has heard arguments on whether an 1899 arbitration validly set the border between Guyana and Venezuela. Two-thirds of Guyana’s territory turns on the answer. Hearings ended in May and judgment is pending, with almost no coverage in between.
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Washington will ban imports of Canadian alcohol, dairy and motorcycles from 29 September, on top of existing 50 per cent tariffs. A ban is not a bigger tariff — it ends the trade, and the supplier relationships that replace it tend to outlast the measure.