The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday that it is suing six states for failing to produce their statewide voter registration lists after they were requested. California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania were among the states targeted by the DOJ in identical lawsuits after they did not produce details pertaining [...]

In an executive order issued on Thursday, US President Donald Trump formalized a deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping to operate TikTok as a “newly established joint venture” in the United States.  ByteDance Ltd., TikTok’s parent company, and its affiliates will own less than 20 percent of the US-based entity. The joint venture will have [...]

Immigrant rights organization CASA and four Washington, DC residents filed a complaint against US President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday, claiming that multiple federal officials have engaged in illegal deportations of immigrants since August. The complaint comes after Trump declared a crime emergency in Washington, D.C., which placed local police under federal control and deployed [...]

The Slovak Parliament must reject constitutional amendments that would limit individuals’ ability to legally change their gender identity, resulting in substantial harm to the LGBTQ+ community, Amnesty International urged on Wednesday. Rado Sloboda, director of Amnesty International Slovakia, condemned the proposed amendments as “draconian,” stating: While the proposed changes specifically target the rights of LGBTI persons [...]

A sniper opened fire at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, Texas, Wednesday morning, killing one and injuring two others before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. According to Dallas police, the gunman, who had yet to be identified as of the time of writing, fired shots from an elevated position [...]

The man who was accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump in Florida last year, Ryan Routh, was convicted Tuesday on charges including attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate. Routh attempted to assassinate the president at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, in September 2024. US Secret Service Agent [...]

The US Department of Justice announced Tuesday that former speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives Glen Casada has been sentenced to 36 months of incarceration for honest services wire fraud, money laundering, and using a fictitious name to carry out a fraud, among other crimes. His former chief of staff, Cade Cothren, was also [...]

US District Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California on Monday granted a preliminary injunction and provisional class certification order requiring the Trump administration to restore more than $500 million in federal research funding to individual researchers at the University of California (UC) system schools. The court found the government’s “en masse” terminations, [...]

The Women’s Law Project (WLP) and Philadelphia law firm Berger Montague filed a complaint Tuesday with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, claiming UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is discriminating against individuals based on sex and disability by unlawfully denying gender-affirming care to patients under 19-years of age. The complaint, filed on behalf of affected minors, [...]

The US Department of State on Monday announced sanctions against individuals within the support network of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, expanding earlier measures to now target his wife and her company. The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in a press release said that wife Viviane de [...]