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President Donald Trump on Monday filed a notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice of his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The case, filed in January, alleged that the IRS and Treasury failed to safeguard Trump’s confidential tax information [...]

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Oklahoma District Judge Natalie Mai on Thursday ordered former death row inmate Richard Glossip to be released from prison while awaiting a retrial, after 29 years behind bars. During these 29 years, Glossip famously faced several execution dates and ate his “last meal” three times. Mai set the bail at $500,000, with release contingent upon [...]

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has accused Yale School of Medicine of illegal discrimination on racial lines during its admissions process. The DOJ specifically claimed that “Black and Hispanic applicants were admitted with consistently lower academic qualifications than their White and Asian counterparts.” Harmeet K. Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, wrote [...]

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US District Judge Richard Leon on Wednesday temporarily blocked US sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, finding that they were based solely on her encouraging the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate and prosecute Israeli officials. Judge Leon made preliminary findings that President Donald Trump’s administration likely violated [...]

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The US Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the abortion drug mifepristone to remain available by mail and through telehealth nationwide, staying a Fifth Circuit order that had reinstated an in-person dispensing requirement while Louisiana’s challenge to the drug’s regulation proceeds in the lower courts. The brief, unsigned order in Danco Laboratories, LLC v. Louisiana and [...]

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Amnesty International on Tuesday released a research briefing asserting that the US government is violating international human rights law by approving lithium mining projects across Nevada without securing the approval of impacted Indigenous peoples. The research briefing focuses on three Nevada lithium mining projects: The Thacker Pass Lithium Mine, the Nevada North Lithium Project, and [...]

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The US Court of International Trade ruled against the Trump administration’s sweeping 10 percent global tariff in a 2-1 decision on Thursday. The majority stated that the tariffs are “invalid” and “unauthorized by law,” calling for the administration to halt collecting tariffs from the plaintiffs and refund prior payments. The court’s decision applied to three [...]

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The Supreme Court of Virginia on Friday struck down a voter-approved constitutional amendment authorizing partisan gerrymandering of the state’s congressional districts, ruling 4-3 that the legislature violated procedural requirements when proposing the change. In a majority opinion authored by Justice D. Arthur Kelsey, the court noted that the General Assembly’s October 31, 2025 vote to [...]

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The Trump administration has built a network of third-country transfer agreements with more than 30 governments and used them to remove over 17,400 people, in some cases in defiance of federal court orders and after individuals had won their release through habeas corpus, according to data released Tuesday by Human Rights First and Refugees International. [...]

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis unveiled on Monday a new congressional map that would carve out four additional Republican-friendly seats in the state—a move made significantly easier by a Supreme Court ruling just days earlier that gutted the primary legal tool minority voters have used for four decades to challenge discriminatory maps. The GOP-heavy proposal, which [...]

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