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117 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 21, 2026.

  1. Politics

    NYU Langone Will Pay $8.5 Million and UPMC $950,000 to Settle a Justice Department Probe Into How They Billed for Transgender Care for Minors, and Both Agreed to Stop Providing It

    The deals resolve allegations that providers used false diagnosis codes to bill insurers and federal programs. NYU had already shut its youth program in February. Mount Sinai, Texas Children's, Cleveland Clinic and Connecticut Children's have signed similar agreements, and DOJ says investigations into other hospitals 'are ongoing.'

    3 min read

  2. Politics

    The Justice Department Declared the 1968 Ban on Selling Handguns to 18-, 19- and 20-Year-Olds Unconstitutional and Said It Will No Longer Prosecute Dealers Who Break It

    The Office of Legal Counsel opinion by T. Elliot Gaiser says the law fails the Supreme Court's 2022 history-and-tradition test because Founding-era militia statutes required 18-year-olds to show up with their own guns. It binds no court, but it tells every federal prosecutor to stand down. Everytown called it a 'dangerous dereliction of duty.'

    4 min read

  12. Politics

    A Court Created in 1996 Had Never Heard a Case

    Nazira Haji Zada, 47, whose son and son-in-law were convicted in an ISIS-inspired Election Day 2024 plot, left voluntarily rather than fight charges built on classified evidence she was not allowed to see.

    3 min read

  27. Politics

    A Judge Refused to Throw Out the SPLC's Fraud Indictment

    The Southern Poverty Law Center argued it was being prosecuted in retaliation for naming hate groups. U.S. District Judge Emily Marks ruled it offered no evidence of prosecutorial animus, and the 11-count case moves toward trial.

    3 min read

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