The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday declined to reconsider a decision pausing restrictions on the Justice Department’s communications with election officials, leaving the stay in place during ongoing ballot processing and counting. The court’s denial of full-court rehearing followed an 11-judge en banc panel’s 6-5 decision earlier Tuesday to reinstate [...]

New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday announced that State Police will now investigate sexual assault reports at Cornell University, under a new agreement with the school. Hochul said all reports that campus police would typically handle will go straight to the State Police for criminal investigation unless the person reporting asks otherwise. “hen someone [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday sued Alaska election officials in the US District Court for the District of Alaska, asking the court to block certification of November’s US Senate election results if incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses and voter confusion involving a similarly named candidate may have affected the outcome. The [...]

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday directed the New York Police Department to conduct a comprehensive review of its use-of-force policies and practices for the first time in a decade. He announced a package of reforms aimed at strengthening civilian oversight, including new procedures to prevent officers from retiring before facing disciplinary proceedings. [...]

The family of Renee Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother of three who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in January, filed two federal civil lawsuits Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Minnesota. The lawsuits were filed nearly nine months after her death. The first complaint [...]

The trial of Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 67-year-old Haitian American pastor, began Monday in the US District Court in Miami. Sanon is accused of helping orchestrate the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. The trial is opening more than five years after Moïes was shot dead at his private residence near Port-au-Prince. Sanon faces eight [...]

US Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh on Tuesday denied Missouri’s emergency request to use a redrawn congressional map for November’s midterm elections, leaving in place a Missouri Supreme Court ruling that bars the new districts from taking effect until voters weigh in. Kavanaugh issued the order in Hoskins v. von Glahn, without referring the matter to [...]

The UN reported Thursday that the World Food Program (WFP) and its humanitarian partners had delivered food and essential supplies to more than 600,000 people in Gaza this month. However, agencies such as the WFP warn that severe hunger continues to worsen across the territory despite the ongoing relief efforts. The UN and its partners [...]

The US National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) announced on Monday that it has joined the legal team representing the family of Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Black man whose body was found last month on a Mississippi barrier island where he was on a Fourth of July outing with some friends. The [...]

The Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday  released a mid-year crime trends report which illustrated that homicides in large US cities fell by 18 percent in the first half of 2026 compared to the same period last year, effectively putting the country on track for its lowest annual homicide rate in over a century. [...]