California became the first state in the US Wednesday to define and ban ultraprocessed foods (UPFs) from meals served to schoolchildren. The law, AB 1264, follows an executive order signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom earlier this year to crack down on UPFs. Under the new legislation, California will phase out the most concerning UPFs [...]

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday halted the execution of a man who would have been the first person in the United States put to death over a shaken baby syndrome diagnosis. Robert Leslie Roberson III was scheduled to be executed on Oct. 16 for the 2002 death of his 2-year-old daughter Nikki. [...]

Nonprofit organization Democracy Forward sued the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and FBI on Monday after the agency failed to release key video recordings in an alleged bribery scheme case involving former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) director Tom Homan. Homan, currently Trump’s White House “Border Czar,” became the subject of a federal bribery investigation [...]

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 [...]

The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed suit against the Trump administration on Monday seeking to enjoin the deployment of National Guard troops. “These advances in President Trump’s long-declared ‘War’ on Chicago and Illinois are unlawful and dangerous,” the complaint asserts. The suit comes after Secretary of Defense (“Secretary of War”) Pete [...]

A federal judge in Oregon on Saturday ordered a temporary restraining order preventing the deployment of the National Guard to Portland by the Trump administration. Karin J. Immergut, the US District Judge on the case, noted that the matter between the State of Oregon and the President of the United States involves “the intersection of [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Wolford v. Lopez, a constitutional challenge to Hawaii’s 2023 law restricting where individuals with concealed carry permits may bring firearms. The case, which the justices added to their docket following their annual “long conference,” could have sweeping implications for gun rights and state-level firearm regulations nationwide. [...]

The New York Attorney General and a coalition of 20 Democratic states sued the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday for withholding federally funded services from domestic violence survivors who cannot verify their immigration status. After receiving an initial email on August 18, the plaintiff states alleged that on September 15 they received another email [...]

US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday stating that the US will consider any attack on Qatar an attack on the United States and will employ any necessary diplomatic, economic, or military efforts to protect the nation. US Executive Order No. 14361 expands the nations’ longtime mutually-beneficial relationship. That relationship formally began [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to decide whether President Donald Trump may fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, freezing the termination order until January 2026 oral arguments. Trump fired Cook in late August alleging that she falsified her mortgage statements. In a letter to Cook posted to Truth Social, Trump said: The Federal [...]