Non-profit organization Liberty Justice Center, on behalf of US food importer Gellert Global Group, initiated a lawsuit on Tuesday against US President Donald Trump’s administration’s latest tariffs on imports from Canada. The lawsuit argues the duties represent another attempt to use a Depression-era trade statute, Section 338, to exceed his power as president and claim [...]

The US District Court for the Northern District of Missouri on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) against xAI and MZX Tech. Judge Debra Brown said that the Clean Air Act (CAA) gives the administrator of the EPA the [...]

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday announced that state prosecutors have obtained an arrest warrant for former Cuban president Raúl Castro. Castro is charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with a 1996 shootdown of two civilian planes flying over international waters.   In a statement, Uthmeier said: Raúl Castro ordered the [...]

The US Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would revisit the issue of race as a factor in school admissions, often called affirmative action, three years after striking down affirmative action in higher education admissions. This time, the Court will hear a challenge to the admissions policies at a competitive “magnet” middle school in [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear challenges to former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s withdrawal from plea agreements that would have spared three men accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks from the death penalty. The justices denied petitions from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Mustafa al Hawsawi, and a separate petition from [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Department of Justice v. McNutt, a challenge to federal restrictions on home distilling that tests the scope of the constitutional authority of Congress to protect tax revenue. The case asks whether prohibiting the production of distilled spirits in homes and adjoining sheds or yards is a [...]

US President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled the livestream of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan’s firing-squad execution after bipartisan backlash. Trump stated on Truth Social that he still thought streaming the execution “might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists and SCUM like Hasan.” The families of [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case that asks whether federal judges must adhere to commentary on criminal sentencing guidelines created under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. The case implicates questions over the ongoing clash between judicial and administrative interpretative authority, as the court will likely weigh on the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court’s preliminary injunction against Florida’s law restricting minors’ access to social media, holding that the law is likely constitutional under the First Amendment. Writing for a unanimous panel, Judge Kevin Newsom concluded that Florida House Bill 3 (HB3) implicated the social [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday stated that Iran’s execution of five individuals in one week was based on unfair trials, and called on the international community to respond. Between September 30 and October 5, Iran executed five men—Majid Nikandish, Ali Hemmati Sistanian, Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi, Alireza Raisi and Alireza Sepahi—convicted in connection with anti-government protests, prompting [...]