Judge Myong J. Joun of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Wednesday granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The order blocks HUD’s plan to halt Private Enforcement Initiatives (PEI) under the Fair Housing Act, removing the department’s access to funding. In [...]

The US Justice Department on Thursday announced federal gun and drug charges brought against 81 alleged members of Puerto Rican gang “Los Baja Deo” following a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) investigation. Attorney General Todd Blanche stated that the DHS investigation led to the seizure of 21 firearms and uncovered “the distribution of at least [...]

Amnesty International on Wednesday condemned Kuwait’s new counter-terrorism law that may have grave repercussions for the freedoms of assembly and expression. Enacted against the backdrop of US-Israel attacks, Decree No. 47 of 2026 on Combating Terrorism Crimes was issued on March 15, 2026. The new law relies on a vaguely broad definition of terrorism, extends the [...]

US District Judge Indira Talwani on Wednesday canceled her earlier ruling granting a preliminary injunction to prevent the US Postal Service (USPS) from implementing President Trump’s mail-in voting executive order (EO) on or before this year’s midterm elections. This latest development in the tumultuous legal battle over the EO directly follows a request by the [...]

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Tuesday his government’s decision to impose retaliatory tariffs on an annual $20 billion in US goods, beginning on September 8. This move comes after the Trump administration imposed 50% tariffs over the weekend on Canadian goods, following the collapse of trade negotiations. The failure of last-ditch trade negotiations [...]

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday sanctioned three organizations and two individuals, accusing UK-based Palestine Action, the Italy-based Autistici Inventati, and the Masar Badil network of ties to “violent far-left extremism.” The designations were made under Executive Order 13224, the post-9/11 authority allowing the US to block the property of [...]

A divided panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver can face prosecution on two of three charges over a scrum with federal agents at Delaney Hall, rejecting her argument that the Speech or Debate Clause and separation-of-powers principles immunize her conduct during a legislative oversight [...]

Meta Platforms reached multibillion-dollar agreements with state authorities Wednesday that would place its treatment of young Facebook and Instagram users under judicially enforceable limits, resolving claims under state consumer-protection laws and federal child-privacy law. The principal agreement, reached with 47 states, the District of Columbia, and three US territories, provides for payments of up to [...]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday published a proposal for a $103, 265 fee on those filing a “cap-subject” petition for an H-1B visa. The new fee would apply to all H-1B petitions, regardless of if the worker is inside or outside of the US, except for those filed by universities, certain non-profits [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a district court injunction that had blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order overhauling mail-in voting, ruling in a per curiam opinion that the states that brought the challenge had not shown an injury concrete and imminent enough to make their claims justiciable before the November midterm election. In Trump v. [...]