The US Supreme Court on Monday removed a New York trial court order to redraw a congressional district, which would have bolstered minority-resident voting power before midterm elections in November. The court’s brief order was accompanied by a concurring opinion from Justice Samuel Alito as well as a dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by [...]

A US federal judge on Monday granted President Donald Trump’s motion to prohibit public release of prosecutorial findings in a dropped case against the president that involved classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. The court ruled that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s continued work on the case functionally breached previous court orders, federal discovery rules, grand jury [...]

Nicaragua ended visa-free travel for Cuban citizens on Sunday, cutting off a pathway for Cubans seeking to enter the US. The order requires Cuban citizens to now carry more than an ordinary passport to travel in Nicaragua. The move is a shift away from Nicaragua’s “visa-free” policy for Cuban citizens, implemented in 2021 to promote [...]

A Minneapolis Hilton Hotel has denied service to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents in protest of immigration enforcement activity in the city, an online post revealed Monday. DHS posted an email exchange between agents and the hotel, in which a hotel manager cancelled a DHS reservation after discovering ties between agents and their “immigration [...]

US President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will appoint a special envoy for Greenland, prompting responses from Denmark and Greenland leaders, expressing worry over potential US expansionist aims and threats to territorial integrity. The move is unusual, as Greenland is not an independent country but an autonomous territory of Denmark. Trump made the unexpected [...]

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday her intention to approve the state legislature’s Medical Aid in Dying Act (MADA), which will allow terminally ill patients to request a medically assisted death. Hochul praised the bill as an advancement of individual liberties and recalled her own experience with her mother, stating: New York has long [...]

A US federal appellate court on Tuesday upheld a 2019 law that requires certain corporations to disclose ownership information to the Treasury Department, reversing a lower court opinion that found the law unconstitutional. “We believe that, by effectively prohibiting anonymous business dealings, the facially regulates economic activities having a substantial aggregate impact on interstate commerce,” [...]

Fifteen states, the governor of Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against executive agencies on Tuesday for blocking funds allocated for electric vehicle (EV) charging station programs. The suit claims that President Donald Trump’s administration has unconstitutionally withheld funding for two electric vehicle programs: the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program [...]

Eleven individuals, deported from the US to Ghana last month, filed a lawsuit against the Ghana government, alleging that they were illegally held in a military detention camp. The legal action reflects the chaotic fallout following the deportations, which have resulted in deportees being scattered and “dumped” into neighboring African countries. The deportees are of [...]

The US Supreme Court announced Monday that it will rule on the firing of a federal agency head and consider whether to overturn a 90-year-old case that prevents the president from firing Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioners without establishing “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” The case involves President Donald Trump’s removal of [...]