UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed deep concern on Friday over the escalating hostilities in South Sudan since February, warning that the fighting could further worsen the country’s severe humanitarian crisis. In recent weeks, fighting between the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO), along [...]

A US federal appeals court on Friday rejected a request by President Donald Trump’s administration to restart a controversial deportation policy that would send migrants to countries where they have no prior ties, including countries like Libya and El Salvador. The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied the motion by the Department [...]

US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was previously removed to El Salvador in March in defiance of a federal court order, has been returned to the US and is now facing criminal charges. A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Tennessee indicted Abrego Garcia [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14230, which had targeted the law firm Perkins Coie LLP with sweeping federal penalties. In a 102-page opinion, Judge Beryl Howell condemned the order as a flagrant abuse of executive power and an unconstitutional [...]

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned on Friday that severe funding shortfalls are stripping away essential protections for the world’s most vulnerable refugees and leaving them increasingly exposed to abuse, poverty, forced returns to unsafe conditions, and the threat of embarking on dangerous journeys in search of safety. In the [...]

The DC federal court on Thursday blocked key parts of President Donald Trump’s sweeping March executive order that sought to impose new voting requirements nationwide and reshape federal election procedures. The challenge was brought by advocacy groups led by the League of United Latin American Citizens. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the president lacked the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday rejected a bid by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to strip deportation safeguards from roughly 350,000 Venezuelans who live and work in the US under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), according to the plaintiffs. The three-judge panel in San Francisco denied DHS’s request to [...]

A US federal judge on Thursday refused to block the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from denying funding to projects deemed to “promote gender ideology,” saying the agency has temporarily abandoned those prohibitions and is in the midst of re-evaluating them. In a 47-page ruling, Senior US District Judge William E. Smith denied a [...]

A US federal judge on Tuesday once again blocked enforcement of an Iowa law that required the removal of books describing sexual acts from public school libraries. US District Judge Stephen Locher issued the preliminary injunction after reconsidering the law, known as Senate File 496, under instructions from a federal appeals court that had vacated [...]

The Trump administration issued a new memorandum on Saturday directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek sanctions against attorneys and law firms that file what he characterized as “frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious” lawsuits against the federal government. The memo marks the latest move by the administration to scrutinize legal practitioners who challenge White House policies [...]