The Trump administration filed suit on Thursday against the city of Boston, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and the Boston Police Department, challenging an ordinance that restricts cooperation by the local police force with federal immigration officials. The Trump administration’s complaint centers around the doctrine of preemption, which holds that federal law may displace state law if [...]

South Korea’s foreign ministry announced Friday that it is sending personnel to a US Hyundai-LG battery plant where more than 300 Korean citizens were detained in an immigration raid the previous day, according to local media. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lee Jae-woong said South Korea voiced concerns to the US embassy in Seoul and called on US [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled Thursday that the migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” may remain open while the case challenging it moves through federal appeal. The order removes a preliminary injunction issued in August by the US District Court for the Southern District of [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld an Illinois law that bans the carrying of firearms on public transit, effectively overturning a lower court decision that found the ban unconstitutional under the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. The Illinois law prohibits the carrying of firearms in a variety of [...]

A US federal court ruled Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s administration’s cancellation of $2.2 billion worth of grants intended for Harvard University was unlawful. Harvard University has been targeted by a slew of executive actions from President Trump and his administration over the last six months, including funding freezes, investigations, and threats to the [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to deport Venezuelan nationals and enjoined Trump from deporting two Venezuelans under the AEA. According to the court, the AEA is “applicable only in the event of a declared war, an [...]

Florida’s surgeon general announced Wednesday that the state plans to eliminate all vaccine mandates Speaking at a press conference, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo described vaccine mandates as “drip with disdain and slavery,” and said: The Florida Department of Health some rules that promulgated that include a handful—maybe a half a dozen vaccines that are [...]

US Representative Thomas Massie (R-Ky) filed a discharge petition on Tuesday to compel the House of Representatives to vote on the release of documents relating to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. This came on the same day as a meeting of the House Oversight Committee with six survivors of Epstein’s abuse. Resolution H.Res.581, the Epstein Files [...]

The US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Tuesday, in its ongoing antitrust battle, that Google is barred from entering exclusionary contracts relating to generative AI or preloading Google Search on applications. The court found that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android devices, which are part of the Google [...]

A US federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump violated the law by deploying military forces to conduct crowd control and arrests in Los Angeles, marking a significant legal rebuke of the administration’s domestic use of armed forces. In June, the president deployed military personnel to Los Angeles in a bid to quell protests [...]