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MARKETSEquities drift as traders assess Fed policy signals and bond yields•MARKETSCommodities mixed; energy sector watches global supply developments•MARKETSDollar index steady ahead of key economic data releases this week•TOP CASEDobbs v. Jackson reaffirmed states hold broad authority over reproductive law•TOP CASE303 Creative: SCOTUS rules free speech can limit public-accommodation mandates•TOP CASEBivens doctrine limits narrowed; federal officer civil suits face higher bar•USAFederal courts continue to grapple with scope of executive agency deference•USACivil asset forfeiture reform remains active issue in state legislatures nationwide•USABipartisan interest grows in modernizing the Freedom of Information Act process•WORLDInternational Criminal Court jurisdiction debates persist among member states•WORLDCross-border data privacy rules evolve as EU enforcement actions continue•WORLDTreaty arbitration cases rise as foreign investment disputes reach global tribunals•MARKETSEquities drift as traders assess Fed policy signals and bond yields•MARKETSCommodities mixed; energy sector watches global supply developments•MARKETSDollar index steady ahead of key economic data releases this week•TOP CASEDobbs v. Jackson reaffirmed states hold broad authority over reproductive law•TOP CASE303 Creative: SCOTUS rules free speech can limit public-accommodation mandates•TOP CASEBivens doctrine limits narrowed; federal officer civil suits face higher bar•USAFederal courts continue to grapple with scope of executive agency deference•USACivil asset forfeiture reform remains active issue in state legislatures nationwide•USABipartisan interest grows in modernizing the Freedom of Information Act process•WORLDInternational Criminal Court jurisdiction debates persist among member states•WORLDCross-border data privacy rules evolve as EU enforcement actions continue•WORLDTreaty arbitration cases rise as foreign investment disputes reach global tribunals•
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The Eternal Porch Light · Karachi, Pakistan

From Main Street to Karachi, the rule is the same — make a record. These days, letters postmarked Karachi sit in the town's welcome drawer, and The town ledger lists Karachi among friends.

In the town square burns a single brass lantern that has never gone out — not in flood, not in tornado, not in the year the power failed and the whole town took shifts with matches.

It burns for the trucker in Missouri, the daughter on the highway, the man in a far county jail counting days. As long as it burns, the town is saying the same thing to all of them: come home, we kept your seat.

Its keeper's oath, handed down for generations: 'The lamp stays on.'

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