FBI Director Kash Patel announced Sunday that the agency will send a large number of investigators and resources to Minnesota to continue investigating a multi-million dollar fraud scheme that stole federal food aid from children during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Patel, the investigation has so far revealed: …exposed sham vendors, shell companies, and large-scale [...]

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced on Thursday that it carried out strikes on “ISIS terrorists” in northwest Sokoto state, Nigeria. AFRICOM has yet to release further details about the strike, citing concerns of operational security. President Donald Trump posted about the Christmas Day strikes on his Truth Social page: Tonight, at my direction as Commander [...]

A US federal court on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that requires users to verify their age before downloading mobile apps and accessing paid content online. Judge Robert Pitman of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction blocking AG Paxton from [...]

A transgender employee at the US National Security Agency (NSA) sued the Trump administration on Monday, alleging discrimination on the basis of gender identity. Sarah O’Neill, a data scientist at the agency, filed a complaint in the District Court for the District of Maryland against William Hartman, acting director of the NSA. The complaint asserts [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago. In an unsigned order, the court rejected the administration’s petition to overturn a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) issued in October by Judge April Perry of the Northern District of Illinois. Perry wrote that there is “no [...]

A US federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to provide due process to Venezuelan migrants who have been removed from the US and flown to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador. Judge James Boasberg of the District Court for the District of Columbia concluded that President Donald Trump’s administration’s deportation of [...]

The US Department of State revoked visas for senior Honduran electoral officials on Friday, tying the sanctions-like immigration action to allegations that the officials impeded Honduras’ post-election vote count and thereby “undermin democracy in Honduras,” according to the Department’s public statement. In a warning that framed the dispute as a regional security issue, the Department [...]

A federal jury on Thursday found Wisconsin circuit court judge Hannah Dugan guilty of felony obstruction charges stemming from her supposed interference in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) courthouse arrest of an undocumented immigrant. The immigrant, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz had appeared in her courtroom on state charges when ICE agents arrived to arrest him. After [...]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to accelerate the reclassification of marijuana, a move that would ease decades-old restrictions that have classified the drug alongside heroin as having no accepted medical value. The US Controlled Substances Act ranks drugs along a five-tier spectrum based on their potential for abuse and recognized medical value. [...]

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 [...]