AI-powered license-plate cameras can record where Americans drive and place those movements in databases searchable by law-enforcement agencies across the country, often without a warrant. Flock says local agencies control their own information, but extensive data-sharing networks are turning neighborhood cameras into a national surveillance system descended from the powers Washington built after September 11.

Southern Baptist baptisms rose for the fifth consecutive year, reaching 263,075 in 2025—but the real surprise is who is entering the water. More than half were adults, with those over 30 forming the largest group, while the report also points to a notable number of younger men embracing the faith. In an increasingly secular country, Christianity is not merely being inherited by children; adults are choosing it for themselves.

Germany’s AfD won 44 percent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, crushing the establishment Christian Democrats despite years of surveillance, stigmatization and comparisons to Nazism. The result suggests that voters concerned about mass immigration and national identity no longer fear the labels used to silence the Right—and that Germany’s political firewall is collapsing.

The American Bar Association could lose its 74-year monopoly over law-school accreditation after federal investigators found it enforced racial-diversity requirements it knew were constitutionally suspect—even after the Supreme Court outlawed race-based admissions. The case asks whether one activist organization should continue controlling which law degrees count in America.