Law Offices of Young & Nichols

10/29/2025

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel's military to carry out "forceful strikes" in the Gaza Strip, threatening the ceasefire brokered by President Trump.

10/29/2025

Some states are passing new laws requiring artificial intelligence to be clearly labeled, especially in regulated industries or on high-stakes documents such as police reports. The labels are crucial for people who'd rather not use AI at all.

10/29/2025

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis pressed U.S. Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino over recent incidents in which agents have deployed tear gas in Chicago neighborhoods.

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

Israel has strengthened its security with a series of sweeping military victories in the past two years. It has also become far more isolated internationally, with no clear path ahead.

10/29/2025

A month-long shutdown has obscured policymakers’ vision of the economy, forcing them to rely on patchy data as Trump continues his attacks on the central bank.

10/10/2025

Employees at Social Security field offices say the government shutdown has left them unable to carry out an important service: help recipients with benefit verification letters.

10/10/2025

Ukraine’s drone units “have pioneered one of the most consequential innovations in modern warfare,” the former U.S. Navy pilot Ken Harbaugh writes. In June, Harbaugh embedded with Ukraine’s 34th Coastal Defense Brigade to see firsthand how it is remaking drone warfare.
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Nobody uses their real name on the team, the unit commander, “Adama,” explained to Harbaugh.

“I fly the su***de drones,” Adama continued. These drones are Ukraine’s answer to Russia’s first-person-view drones, and are key to Ukraine’s defensive strategy. “Ukrainians manufacture them, for only a few hundred bucks each, in warehouses and home garages throughout the country,” Harbaugh writes. Conservative estimates suggest that Ukraine will produce more than 4 million this year. They will be equipped with FPV cameras and warheads, to be flown over no-man’s-land into Russian-occupied territory.

At the link, Harbaugh travels on a combat mission with the 34th, and explains how this new frontier in the war with Russia presents a “new approach to killing.”

🎨: Grace Russell

10/10/2025

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

Read more (published June): https://propub.li/3WvjUWh

10/10/2025

07/31/2025

Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine’s new prime minister, has joined the very small ranks of women to lead former Soviet states—virtually all of whom receive the same kind of disparagement from men, Anna Nemtsova writes. https://theatln.tc/Sbxmw4w3

Svyrydenko’s appointment was part of a larger government reshuffle by Zelensky. “In her new role, Svyrydenko will be tasked with rehabilitating the economy, boosting the domestic production of weapons, and strengthening Ukraine’s armed forces, in part by securing financing from allies and the International Monetary Fund,” Nemtsova explains. “Nevertheless, and despite her strong résumé, Svyrydenko will have to contend with broad reservations in Ukraine about female leadership.”

Some Ukrainian and Western observers have suggested that Svyrydenko isn’t up to the task, in part because they characterize her as a mere “loyalist” to President Volodymyr Zelensky. But the new prime minister is also facing overtly sexist criticism, Nemtsova writes. “Svyrydenko is exactly the girl who all of you, dear students, are familiar with from school: She always sits at the front desk” and “carefully writes down the teacher’s notes,” Oleh Posternak, a Ukrainian political strategist, wrote in a Facebook post that a national media site republished.

Meanwhile, “for those who fear that Svyrydenko will be no more than a Zelensky loyalist, she is already facing her first test,” Nemtsova continues. This week, Zelensky tightened the administration’s control over two independent agencies tasked with fighting government corruption, a move which has been described by some as a step toward authoritarianism. “Two days after Zelensky reined in the government watchdogs, Svyrydenko met with G7 ambassadors in Kyiv to discuss anti-corruption policy—a subtle acknowledgment, perhaps, that the president had gone too far,” Nemtsova writes. “But not everyone is convinced that Svyrydenko will be able to stand up to Zelensky.”

📸: Xavier Popy / REA / Redux

07/31/2025

New research confirms what election experts have said all along: Noncitizen voting occasionally happens, but in minuscule numbers, and not in any coordinated way.