A US federal court ruled Monday that US President Donald Trump’s cancellation of clean energy grants to 16 Democratic-led states was illegal. In October 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that it would cancel over $7.5 billion in clean energy project grants that funded 223 projects across the country. The agency claimed that the [...]

Minnesota and Illinois filed separate federal lawsuits Monday challenging the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement operations, alleging constitutional violations and claiming federal agents have terrorized communities across both states. Minnesota’s lawsuit, filed jointly with the municipalities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, targets “Operation Metro Surge,” which has deployed thousands of Department of Homeland Security agents [...]

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Sunday condemned the arson attack on the building of the Beth Israel Congregation and Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, Mississippi’s largest synagogue. The suspect, Stephen Spencer Pittman, 19, allegedly set the synagogue on fire early Saturday. The ADL’s South Central Regional Office issued the statement saying it was “horrified” [...]

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a series of defiant statements as tensions between Tehran and Washington intensify over the former’s crackdown on nationwide protests. On December 28, amid inflation and a currency collapse, protests erupted in Tehran before spreading across the country. A violent crackdown ensued, resulting in hundreds of deaths, according [...]

President Trump issued an executive order Saturday to block judicial processes from being instituted against Venezuelan oil funds held in the US, on the basis that it would “materially harm the national security and foreign policy of the United States.” The order states that any judicial proceedings against funds from “the sale of natural resources” [...]

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced Sunday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has served the central bank with grand jury subpoenas. The documents, delivered on Friday, are related to Powell’s testimony to the Senate Banking Committee regarding renovations to Fed buildings. President Donald Trump has threatened litigation against Powell over the planned renovations. [...]

A federal district court in New York issued a two-week temporary restraining order (TRO) on Friday, blocking a plan by President Donald Trump’s administration to withhold family assistance funds from five states. On Tuesday, the administration said that it would suspend payments to California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York under three federal social programs because [...]

A US Customs and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a Minneapolis woman on Wednesday during continuing agency operations in the city. The next day, CNN reported that Minnesota officials told the news outlet that “the feds have blocked them from investigating the fatal ICE shooting” of Renee Nicole Good, 37-year-old mother and [...]

The US State Department on Wednesday announced that it will halt all assistance programs that benefit the Somali Federal Government after a report that a US-funded World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse was demolished and its contents seized by Somali officials. The online post said that President Donald Trump has a “zero-tolerance policy for waste, theft, [...]

Google and Character.AI, an artificial intelligence (AI) firm, agreed Wednesday to settle a lawsuit linked to a teen’s suicide in 2024, a landmark settlement for AI-related harm cases. The US District Court for the Middle District of Florida dismissed the lawsuit following the agreement  between the plaintiff and defendants. The parties have 90 days to [...]