A grand jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday indicted 10 current and former Mexican officials for importing large amounts of drugs into the United States, along with related offenses. The officials include the current governor of Sinaloa state, Rubén Rocha Moya, as well as a Sinaloa [...]

A US soldier pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of using classified intelligence on the raid and capture of Venezuelan President Nicolàs Maduro to win $400,000 on prediction market betting site Polymarket. Gannon Ken Van Dyke is a 38-year-old US Special Forces soldier who was involved in the planning and execution of Maduro’s capture. [...]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Louisiana’s congressional map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, while overhauling the legal framework courts have used for four decades to evaluate minority voting rights claims under the Voting Rights Act. The 6-3 decision, written by Justice Samuel Alito, will make it significantly harder for plaintiffs to challenge redistricting [...]

Human Rights Watch warned Monday that the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup risks unfolding against a backdrop of abusive immigration enforcement, threats to media freedom, and discrimination, releasing a 79-page reporter’s guide documenting human rights conditions across all three host countries ahead of the tournament’s June 11 opening. The guide, titled “Reporter’s Guide for the [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday reversed a district court ruling that had blocked Texas’s 2025 congressional map as a likely racial gerrymander, allowing the Republican-drawn districts to stand for the 2026 midterm elections. The unsigned one-paragraph order cited the Court’s own 2025 decision in Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens as controlling, [...]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday that it will resume the federal use of capital punishment, and that it is seeking death sentences against 44 defendants. The DOJ also said that it will use firing squads, electrocution, or nitrogen asphyxiation if the drug used in lethal injection is unavailable. The announcement follows the [...]

US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on Friday announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is closing its criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, referring the matter to the Federal Reserve’s Inspector General. The DOJ criminal probe focused on whether or not Powell made false statements to Congress about cost [...]

The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it will audit the DOJ’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA). According to the announcement, the OIG audit will examine DOJ’s “processes for identifying, redacting, and releasing records in its possession as required by the Act,” [...]

The Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Administration announced Thursday that FDA-approved marijuana products and medical marijuana products covered by a qualifying state-issued license have been moved to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, a significant loosening of federal restrictions on the drug for medical use. The order, issued by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, [...]

Voting rights advocates on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in an attempt to block the government from collecting and centralizing voter registration data. Tuesday’s complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, names voting advocacy group Common Cause and four individual voters under the [...]