The law has only been used to prosecute people who obstruct reproductive health clinics because they are considered interstate commerce businesses.
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Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
14 Apr. 2026
In early February, Elora Mukherjee, who runs one of the country’s leading immigrants’-rights clinics, at Columbia Law School, told me about a client of hers who was detained in South Texas.
Throughout the 20th century, research institutes in Europe, Asia, and Africa have navigated regime change, sanctions, and armed conflict.
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Guy Vernet,
STAT,
9 Apr. 2026
Double quantum dot to the rescue Researchers at EPFL and other institutes in Europe teamed up to build a tiny detector that combines a semiconductor structure with a superconducting microwave cavity to form a resonant circuit capable of trapping microwave photons and measuring them.
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