The Trump administration on Monday repealed a Biden-era memorandum aimed at preventing US weapons transfers to countries that use the weapons to violate both international and human rights laws. While the order has not yet been made public, US Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said in an official statement: President Trump’s decision to revoke this [...]

The US Department of Justice on Friday shut down its national database for reporting misconduct incidents of federal law enforcement officers. In an update on its website, the Department stated that user agencies can no longer add data to the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), giving no reason for the closure. The decision came [...]

A federal US judge on Friday denied a request from two labor unions that sought to block President Donald Trump’s administration from placing thousands of US Agency for International Development (USAID) employees on administrative leave and recalling many stationed abroad. Judge Carl Nichols of the US District Court for the District of Columbia acknowledged concerns [...]

US Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys have asked a federal court in Texas to end a temporary pause on a case accusing Elon Musk’s tech company SpaceX of discriminating against immigrant job applicants. The DOJ’s motion to end the preliminary injunction — a temporary court order preventing one party from taking further legal action until [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected the arguments of a group of Holocaust survivors demanding that Hungary pay reparations for confiscating their property during World War II. The court’s opinion in Republic of Hungary v. Simon was delivered by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who stated that foreign states are granted “presumptive immunity from suit [...]

Acting Solicitor General of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Sarah Harris sent a letter to President Pro Tempore of the Senate Charles Grassley on Thursday sharing the DOJ’s determination that removal restrictions for administrative law judges (ALJs) are unconstitutional and that the DOJ no longer intends to defend them in court. The DOJ justified [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Thursday that the Trump administration has removed half a million Haitians from temporary protected status (TPS), reversing a Biden administration move that had extended their TPS by 18 months. Secretary Kristi Noem stated that she was following the true purpose of the policy and that she and [...]

Ten New York corrections officers were charged Thursday in the 2024 death of inmate Robert Brooks at a state prison. Six of the officers, Anthony Farina, Nicholas Anzalone, David Kingsley, Christopher Walrath, Matthew Gallagher and one other officer, have been charged with second-degree murder; three others, Michael Mashaw, Michael Fisher and David Walters, face manslaughter [...]

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves Robles said Wednesday that migrants deported from the US could be held in Costa Rica for four to six weeks before being sent to their home countries. This comes after the Costa Rican government announced its intent to collaborate with the US in the repatriation of undocumented immigrants originally from [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sent California congressman Robert Garcia a letter Monday insinuating that Garcia’s comments about Elon Musk on CNN constituted a threat, and asking for clarification. Garcia said on the air in response to a question about how Democrats can stop Elon Musk, “What the American public wants is for us [...]