The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.

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WIPO’s new Guide to the Copyright and Related Rights Treaties Administered by WIPO (2nd ed.) contains some complicated messages on the use of open general exceptions, like fair use and fair dealing. O...

On 9 July 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation was denied permanent observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Native leaders say a Congressional proposal to increase credit hour requirements and reduce the maximum amounts of Pell Grants could disproportionately affect Native students

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After more than three years of intensive negotiations, WHO Member States took a major step forward in efforts to make the world safer from pandemics, by forging a draft agreement for consideration at ...

The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.

KEI will host an informal roundtable on the WIPO broadcast treaty text that will be discussed at the WIPO SCCR 46 meeting from April 7 to April 11, 2025. The meeting documents are available from WIPO ...

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The aging owners of James Monroe’s Loudoun County estate have turned down offers from developers of more than $55 million because they want the state to have it as a park.

Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices ref...

Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — an...

The demands on the Social Security Administration are extraordinarily high. Yet Congress has cut SSA’s core operating budget by 17 percent since 2010.

Arlington Public Schools leaders are trying to ensure families continue to feel safe following immigration enforcement changes under President Donald Trump. The school system has rolled out additional...

USAID has become a testing ground for dismantling government agencies, agency employees tell Vox.

Watch the Trump administration play DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.

We've often featured the work of the Public Domain Review here on Open Culture, and also various searchable copyright-free image databases that have arisen over the years.

The copyrights of thousands of 20th-century films, books, compositions and sound recordings expire on Jan. 1, making them free for anyone to share and adapt. Here are some of the highlights.