The US District Court for the District of Columbia temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Wednesday from accessing sensitive data and systems within the Department of Labor until Friday. The order follows the lawsuit filed by a coalition of federal unions seeking to prevent the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data [...]

The US Department of Justice sued the state of Illinois, Governor J.B. Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and other state officials Thursday over state laws that limit local law enforcement from aiding federal immigration authorities. The suit claimed that the state’s Way Forward Act and TRUST Act, Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance, and Cook County’s “Policy [...]

US District Court Judge George O’Toole Jr. issued an order Thursday afternoon blocking a buyout ultimatum issued by President Trump to employees of federal agencies shortly before that night’s deadline to accept the offer. The order stays a deadline set by President Trump for federal employees to decide whether to accept a “deferred resignation” offer [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) charged Thursday that the US government’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people’s rights by failing to obtain free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) in accordance with international law. The 133-page report determined that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) permitted the lithium [...]

Former chair of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Gwynne Wilcox filed a lawsuit Wednesday, accusing President Donald Trump of breaking the law when he fired her last week. Wilcox claims the firing violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which only permits the removal of board members for “neglect of duty or malfeasance in [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland granted a preliminary injunction at a hearing on Wednesday against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end all birthright citizenship. The plaintiffs, CASA, Inc., Asylum Advocacy Project, and five pregnant mothers under pseudonyms, filed the lawsuit against Trump, among other government officials, [...]

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at keeping transgender women out of women’s sports by rescinding all funds from educational programs that allow transgender women to compete in women’s categories or to use women’s changing rooms. Trump stated that the goal of this executive order is to “protect opportunities for women and [...]

Minh Quang Pham, an accused member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was sentenced Tuesday to 44 years in prison for plotting a terrorist attack at London’s Heathrow Airport in 2011. The sentence was handed down by Judge Richard Berman of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. According to [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to hold Meta, parent company of Facebook, liable for its alleged role in helping radicalize Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof. The court upheld a lower district court’s decision after a woman, identified only as M.P., filed a complaint asserting that [...]

Doctors for America, a non-profit medical advocacy organization in the US, has sued the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), alleging that the removal of public health information considered to be a part [...]