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 [...]

US President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US military carried out another targeted strike on a Venezuelan boat allegedly transporting drugs, killing three men aboard. The action comes two weeks after an initial strike on a Venezuelan speedboat allegedly engaged in drug-trafficking activity. Trump defended the strikes as a step necessary to curb narcotics [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled Thursday that the migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” may remain open while the case challenging it moves through federal appeal. The order removes a preliminary injunction issued in August by the US District Court for the Southern District of [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) exposed alleged “degrading and dehumanizing” treatment of detainees in three Florida immigration detention facilities Monday, claiming detainees have suffered “dangerously substandard medical care, overcrowding, abusive treatment, and restrictions on access to legal and psychosocial support.” The report, titled “You Feel Like Your Life Is Over,” profiled six detainees held in Krome [...]

Planned Parenthood on Monday sued over a provision in Congress’ recently passed spending bill that denies Medicaid reimbursement funding to the organization and its affiliates for one year, potentially limiting services for millions. The organization warned of steep consequences if the provision is enforced, claiming: he Defund Provision will devastate Planned Parenthood Members, their patients, [...]

The US Supreme Court granted an emergency application Monday to stay a federal court’s preliminary injunction on migrant deportations, empowering the Trump administration to remove individuals with little notice. The ruling removes an April 18 order from the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts that sought to block the Department of Homeland Security [...]

US President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that American planes targeted and bombed three Iranian nuclear sites, declaring that “now is the time for peace.” Warplanes struck nuclear sites at Fordow, Nantaz, and Esfahan, with a “full payload” of bombs dropped at the primary target in Fordow. Trump said that the planes then evacuated Iranian [...]