A federal grand jury in Utah indicted a man Wednesday on a federal hate crime charge for allegedly stabbing a Muslim employee at a mall in an attack prosecutors say was motivated by the victim’s religion. Peter Michael Larsen, 48, was charged under 18 USC § 249 with willfully causing bodily injury because of the [...]

Four human rights organizations filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration challenging US sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC), alleging that the measures unlawfully restrict their monitoring, legal, and advocacy work. Human Rights Watch, the American Friends Service Committee, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Open Society Institute filed the lawsuit in [...]

Five federal workers filed a proposed class-action lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration, alleging that a federal health insurance policy excluding gender-affirming care violates federal employment discrimination law. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, challenges an Office of Personnel Management (OPM) directive. The directive requires carriers in federal [...]

The Trump administration announced on Monday that it will pursue enforcement action against a Maryland school district, and potentially taking similar action against a Michigan district, over policies governing the disclosure of transgender students’ information to their parents. In commenting on this issue, US Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon said: “School districts [...]

The US Department of Justice on Monday opened a compliance review into Harvard University to determine whether financial aid programs funded by China-based sources actively discriminate against American students. The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division will examine whether Harvard violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits recipients of federal financial assistance [...]

The Wisconsin Elections Commission found probable cause that billionaire Elon Musk violated state election bribery law by offering $1 million payments to voters during the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to reports on Tuesday. The commission voted 5-1 in a closed session last Thursday to refer two confidential complaints against Musk to the Brown [...]

A US federal judge has quashed Department of Justice (DOJ) grand jury subpoenas targeting Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and other state and local officials. The court found that the DOJ used the subpoenas as part of an unconstitutional effort to pressure them into assisting federal immigration enforcement. In an order dated [...]