Court ruling expands federal voter citizenship checks

The brief

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to use expanded immigration and Social Security records for voter-citizenship checks, reversing a lower-court obstacle.

A federal appeals court upheld Anthropic’s designation as a Defense Department supply-chain and security risk, an unusual use of a label associated with foreign adversaries.

Ukraine and Russia are attacking one another’s ports as the war disrupts grain exports from countries supplying more than a quarter of the world’s wheat.

Blackstone executive Joseph Baratta is preparing to leave as succession questions around CEO Stephen Schwarzman remain in focus, adding to the firm’s leadership changes.

Anonymous AI-detection accusations removed Thélison Aurelien’s novel from France’s top literary prize, while New Jersey’s lieutenant governor resigned after an ethics investigation.

The episode’s clearest tension is institutional uncertainty: courts, publishers, investors and public officials are all deciding how much authority to trust.