China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) signed the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area Upgrade Protocol, or CAFTA 3.0, in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, marking the latest step in regional economic integration. The protocol, signed by Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and ASEAN economic ministers, updates a framework that first entered into force [...]

Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian-born US permanent resident and activist, appeared Monday in the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit seeking to affirm a lower court’s ruling that blocked his deportation and authorized his release from detention. His legal team from the American Civil Liberty Union (ACLU) argues that the United States Department of [...]

A judge in Illinois prohibited civil arrests of court attendees absent a judicial warrant or judicial order on Tuesday. Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans of the Circuit Court of Cook County issued a General Administrative Order that bars civil arrests unrelated to court business for individuals traveling to, present in, or leaving court proceedings in [...]

The United Nations on Thursday urged restraint following a series of US air and naval strikes in the southern Caribbean that have heightened tensions with Venezuela. During a Security Council meeting, Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča stated that the UN cannot independently confirm US claims that the strikes targeted drug-trafficking vessels. He added that the events [...]

A coalition of labor unions, nonprofit organizations and solar companies filed suit Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), challenging the agency’s termination of the $7 billion Solar for All program. The suit claims that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin exceeded statutory authority when he withdrew program funding in August. Plaintiffs argued that Congress only permitted [...]

A coalition of more than 25 US cities and counties filed suit Monday to challenge new conditions on federal emergency management grants, alleging that the Trump administration has unlawfully threatened $350 million in congressionally approved FEMA and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funds. Plaintiffs filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of [...]

The Des Moines School Board, the largest school district in Iowa, placed its superintendent on unpaid administrative leave on Monday after the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners revoked his administrator license, claiming he “no longer possesses legal presence in the United States.” Superintendent Ian Roberts was arrested Friday by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [...]

US District Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California on Monday granted a preliminary injunction and provisional class certification order requiring the Trump administration to restore more than $500 million in federal research funding to individual researchers at the University of California (UC) system schools. The court found the government’s “en masse” terminations, [...]

The US Department of State on Monday announced sanctions against individuals within the support network of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, expanding earlier measures to now target his wife and her company. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in a press release said that wife Viviane de [...]

United Nations human rights experts said Tuesday that a US strike on a vessel alleged to be operated by “narco-terrorists” violated the right to life. The statement follows the deadly incident in which two civilian boats were attacked on the high seas. The experts said the vessel strikes were conducted without sufficient evidence that loss [...]