President Donald Trump announced a 10% global tariff after the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision Friday ruling against his tariff imposition under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977. Trump called the Supreme Court’s decision “deeply disappointing” and said he was “ashamed” of some Supreme Court justices. He said the 10% global tariff will [...]

The US Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision Friday on the legality of President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). In a 6-3 decision, the Court held that the IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs. The IEEPA was enacted in 1977 to address significant [...]

Four plaintiffs filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to block President Donald Trump’s planned 250-foot “Independence Arch” at Memorial Circle near Arlington National Cemetery. The plaintiffs, Vietnam War veterans Michael Lemmon, Shaun Byrnes and Jon Gundersen, and retired architectural historian Calder Loth, are represented by the [...]

West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey filed suit against Apple on Thursday, arguing that the company turned a blind eye to iCloud encryption methods that facilitate mass transmission of child pornography. The suit focuses on Apple iCloud and its use of end-to-end encryption, which makes digital files inaccessible to law enforcement. iCloud, which backs up and [...]

The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) and the UN Support Mission in Libya published a report on Tuesday detailing the systematic human rights violations and abuses suffered by migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Libya. The report detailed four human rights challenges that these individuals tend to face: (1) illegal and dangerous interceptions at sea, [...]

A US judge ruled Tuesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia, as the time period for his removal period has expired and further detention would violate due process. Judge Paul Xinis for the US District Court of Maryland found that the government has a limited time period to detain someone [...]

The trial for the father of the teenager accused of the 2024 shooting at Georgia’s Apalachee High School began Monday, as prosecutors argue the father is culpable for giving his son the gun despite having notice of his son’s previous threats. The father, Colin Gray, faces 29 counts, including two counts of second-degree murder, two [...]

A US judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration must reinstall a museum exhibit about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia. Judge Cynthia Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, found that Department of the Interior violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) by removing the slavery exhibit. The court [...]

A coalition of six conservation and education organizations sued the US Department of the Interior on Tuesday, challenging a policy that has led to the removal of exhibits about slavery, climate change, and Indigenous history from national parks across the country. Trump signed an executive order in March 2025 titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to [...]

A US federal district judge on Thursday ordered the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide immigrant detainees in Minnesota’s Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building access to attorneys immediately, before they are transferred out of state. US District Judge Nancy Brasel wrote that Whipple has “isolated” hundreds of detainees from their attorneys: Plaintiffs…have presented substantial, [...]