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A US federal court ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration’s third-country deportation policy is unlawful because it fails to provide migrants a chance to object or raise safety concerns.  The case, before the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, came out of a class action lawsuit brought by eight migrants who were [...]

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US Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday announced that the Trump administration will temporarily halt some Medicaid funding to Minnesota due to alleged misuse of public funds. During a conference with Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Mehmet Oz, Vance said that “there are way too many Americans who are being defrauded by very bad actors [...]

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A coalition of 14 state attorneys general and Pennsylvania’s governor jointly filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal childhood immunization schedule. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, names Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and acting Centers [...]

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FedEx filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday to recover a full refund of tariffs FedEx payed to comply with the president’s several executive orders imposing high tariffs on imports in 2025. FedEx filed their suit in the US Court for International Trade. The company seeks “a full refund from Defendants of all [...]

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A US federal court in Utah on Monday rejected a Republican challenge to enjoin use of the state’s new congressional map, holding that the challenge was unlikely to succeed and it was too close to the 2026 midterm elections to change the map. The new map, called Map 1, approved in December 2025, places a [...]

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A US federal judge on Monday granted President Donald Trump’s motion to prohibit public release of prosecutorial findings in a dropped case against the president that involved classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. The court ruled that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s continued work on the case functionally breached previous court orders, federal discovery rules, grand jury [...]

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The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit yesterday ordered the National Park Service (NPS) to stop renovations to a contested educational exhibit about slavery in Philadelphia. The NPS was ordered to maintain the status quo and preserve the displays that have not yet been returned, pending the outcome of an expected appeal by the [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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