US Democratic attorneys general in 23 states, as well as Washington DC, filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Health and Human Services and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the District Court of Rhode Island on Tuesday. They allege in the lawsuit that the department’s sudden rollback of $12 billion in public [...]

A union representing employees of 37 federal agencies and offices filed a lawsuit Monday against the Trump administration, seeking to stop an executive order released on March 27 that would revoke two-thirds of the federal workforce’s collective bargaining rights. The executive order added more than a dozen federal departments and agencies to the list of [...]

US Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday that federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Bondi described Mangione’s alleged act as a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination” and suggested the choice to pursue capital punishment appropriately aligns with the Trump administration’s hard-on-crime agenda. “After careful consideration, I [...]

The Georgia State Senate passed the Riley Gaines Act of 2025 on Monday, requiring the designation of “sex-specific athletic teams” and barring transgender women from competing in women’s sports and transgender men from competing in men’s sports unless the team’s designation is “coed.” The legislation also replaces the term “gender” with “sex,” and defines sex [...]

The chairmen of the American House Foreign Affairs Committee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) and Sen. James Risch (R-ID), condemned Monday the upcoming and past UN Human Rights Council (HRC) agenda items for “disproportionately” focusing on Israel’s alleged human rights violations in Golan Heights and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The letter [...]

US District Court Judge Susan Paradise Baxter ruled Monday that Pennsylvania must count undated or misdated mail-in ballots, finding that rejecting such ballots violate the First Amendment. Plaintiffs Bette Eakin, Ines Massella, Fetterman for PA, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee filed suit against Pennsylvania’s 67 county boards of elections [...]

Amnesty International on Monday condemned President Donald Trump’s executive order that significantly reduced funding for US-backed media outlets, including Radio Free Asia (RFA). The organization said that the reduced funding effectively amounted to a closure and the surrender of “a tried-and-tested tool of soft US power.” The statement highlighted RFA’s instrumental role in providing a [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday for a Wisconsin Catholic charity requesting a religious exemption from an unemployment insurance tax. Catholic Charities Bureau, the petitioners, argued that Wisconsin law disfavored Catholic Charities because the organization served and hired non-Catholics and did not proselytize, meaning that they did not engage in typical religious activities. Justice [...]

Hundreds of citizens gathered outside the Krome Detention Center in Miami on Saturday to protest overcrowding and reports of detainees lacking necessities. Protesters voiced opposition to President Trump’s aggressive deportation strategy and called out US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for its role in the crisis. Outrage intensified after reports revealed severe mistreatment of detainees [...]

A US federal court in Massachusetts ordered on Friday that Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk not be removed from the US until the court has had an opportunity to determine whether it has subject matter jurisdiction to hear the case. Judge Denise Casper noted precedents confirming that the court has the authority “to preserve [...]