Jada Chin

>> NEW with @MerylKornfield: The Trump administration is proposing NDAs for all federal workers. The rule, aimed at cracking down on leaks to media organizations, would expand nondisclosure agreements instituted at the Pentagon and other agencies. washingtonpost.com/business/2026/…

WhatsApp is able to access user’s encrypted messages, Texas said in a lawsuit that accuses Meta Platforms Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg of lying to the US Senate in 2018 about the company’s steps to make them inaccessible. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/met…

Opinion: The SECURE Data Act raises timely and practical questions around preemption, enforcement authority, and how a national standard could reshape the current patchwork of state laws. news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchange…

Opinion: Public sector labor unions are using increasingly negative public sentiment about AI to advance legislation to protect bargaining unit work and inhibit, if not prohibit, public agency adoption and implementation of AI technology and tools. news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchange…

Opinion: The shutdown of Spirit Airlines exposed a flaw in the government’s process of evaluating mergers that blocked the Spirit–JetBlue tie-up to preserve competition that, two years later, no longer exists. news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchange…

He knows how to pose when he's on the camera

Opinion: Arbitration promised a cure for frustrations often associated with the jury system, but in practice, its so-called defining virtues—informality and finality—have become its greatest weaknesses. news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchange…

Opinion: Gibson Dunn's Trey Cox writes that the old litigation playbook prized options above all else: keep every argument alive, take every deposition. But most cases turn on a narrow cluster of decisive facts that AI distills early. news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchange…

Opinion: Law students and early-career attorneys who want to become plaintiffs' lawyers must be proactive in learning about plaintiffs' firms, can skip the Big Law route, and should seek out opportunities to be on their feet in a courtroom. news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchange…

I’m so honored to have been part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for our coverage of DOGE and the transformation of the government. Delayed in posting this because I spent most of yesterday stunned by the news. Incredible, inspiring group of colleagues

Bloomberg News has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for “trAPPed,” a graphic novel depicting the psychological ordeal of a woman in India held under “digital arrest” for eight days, subjected to 24/7 surveillance in a widespread and ruinous scam. bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-… 🎨: Anand RK

The Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of DOGE and the federal workforce. It’s the second time The Post has won the prestigious award in five years. Read more about our winning coverage here: wapo.st/3OX3l5A

Breaking News: The Supreme Court on Monday restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation. The order signed by Justice Samuel Alito temporarily allows women seeking abortions to obtain the pill at pharmacies or through the mail, without an in-person visit to a doctor. Those rules had been in effect for several years until a federal appeals court imposed new restrictions last week. yahoo.com/news/articles/…

Writing by me (laid off). Photos by @vanhoutenphoto (laid off). Editing by @PeterFinnProP (laid off). Audio editing by @BishopSand (laid off). Design editing by @JoeMoore1984 (laid off). Additional support from @reemakkad (laid off) and @PaulSchemm (laid off).

Three months later, this is my last @washingtonpost story — delayed because nearly everyone involved in it was laid off. I am very grateful to newsroom friends who made sure it published anyway, and to brave Roman Mongold and his family for their time. wapo.st/4cNY7Cm

Opinion: The SEC and CFTC clarification of how to apply federal securities laws to crypto assets and transactions reflects a move toward a more structured regulatory framework. news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchange…

Elon Musk became visibly irritated on the witness stand Wednesday as an attorney for OpenAI questioned whether the billionaire backed off his financial commitment to the startup in its early years. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/mus…

Elon Musk has posted 850 times on race — touting whites’ role in eliminating slavery, rallying white people to stand up for their race, for example — over seven months. Two experts say his positions are “standard … white supremacy.” wapo.st/4mRC7d5

Take a look at this photo of the aftermath of this evening’s Metro bus fire in Washington DC’s Ninth Street tunnel: