The Trump administration on Sunday appealed for the third time to the US Supreme Court, asking the justices to approve the president’s plan for mail-in ballots under the United States Postal Service (USPS) “Ballot Mail for Federal Elections” rule. In the emergency application, Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to allow USPS to [...]

In a letter to Postmaster General David Steiner, the seven Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) demanded Friday that the US Postal Service (USPS) halt implementation of new mail-ballot procedures required by President Donald Trump’s executive order. The senators also want answers about the legal authority for those new procedures [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a historic preservation group that sought to indefinitely halt the construction of a ballroom at the White House. In a 5-4 vote, the court held that the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) lacked standing to challenge the ballroom, without ruling on its legality. Under [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday struck down a ban on immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries. Judge Jeannette Vargas wrote that the order, from Secretary of State Marco Rubio, was “patently unlawful” and exceeded his power under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), [...]

Luigi Mangione on Friday pleaded guilty to the two remaining charges against him in the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. The charges of interstate stalking resulting in death and stalking through use of interstate facilities resulting in death, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, [...]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday announced plans to spend up to $20 million to equip officers with gloves that force “compliance” by delivering a painful electrical shock, according to a published contract. The manufacturer, Compliant Technologies, calls them “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices.” GLOVE (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter) is often known as [...]

Three environmental advocacy groups, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit against the New York State Department of Health (DOH) on Thursday, accusing the DOH of failing to protect tenants, especially children, from lead poisoning due to inadequate enforcement of the state’s Proactive Lead Inspection Law (PLIL), which took effect in November 2025. The suit focuses [...]

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced economic sanctions against six “entities” (businesses and individuals) that it accuses of supporting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The companies are based in China, Russia, India and Iran. The IRGC is Iran’s military and one of the most powerful forces [...]

President Trump has asked the US Supreme Court to allow the administration to implement an executive order issued by him in March. On Saturday, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled in favor of 23 states that sought to block the executive order which was entitled, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the First District on Friday denied the Trump administration’s appeal of a US District Court ruling that blocked the president’s proclamation of a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas. The three-judge panel found that the administration was unlikely to succeed on appeal. H-1B visas are employer-sponsored non-immigrant visas issued [...]