The Kennedy Center fully removed President Donald Trump’s name from its building on Saturday. Kennedy Center director Matt Floca told a judge in court documents Saturday that the name had been officially reverted. Crews finished the work in the early hours of Saturday, leaving tarps over scaffolding on the building. This development follows the May [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday gave approval to the merger of two Hollywood studio giants, Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. Their approval ends the DOJ’s legal analysis of the merger and paves the way for Paramount’s $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros., which, if finalized, would leave all of their assets [...]

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday ordered Trump officials to restore all signs and exhibits in US national parks that were changed as a part of the administration’s efforts to remove any material from the parks that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” President Donald Trump’s 2025 Executive Order (EO) mandating parks workers to [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday granted the Trump administration’s motion to stay a lower court injunction against its 10 percent global tariff, allowing the government to keep collecting the duties from three importers that had won relief while the appeal proceeds. The per curiam order keeps in place a [...]

Vance Boelter, who was accused of murdering Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, pleaded guilty to federal charges Thursday. The plea agreement spares Boelter the federal death penalty. Instead, he will serve two consecutive life terms plus 40 years in prison for the conviction, which also includes the attempted murder of State [...]

The US District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted a preliminary injunction against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, effectively blocking Paxton from pursuing a lawsuit against the Democratic Party’s fundraising platform, ActBlue. Federal Judge Richard Stearns chided Paxton for suing ActBlue in an effort to retaliate against the company for promoting and enabling contributions [...]

A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in California state court in San Francisco on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her 24-year-old daughter Alice to commit suicide. The mother, Kristie Carrier, claims that Alice spoke with ChatGPT repeatedly about her suicidal ideations, but that the system did not flag the conversations. She [...]

Azerbaijan is convicting exiled critics in absentia based on online activity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday, with sentences reaching up to 16 years in prison. HRW reviewed eight verdicts issued against Azerbaijani nationals living in Europe and the United States by the Baku Courts for Serious Crimes between July 2025 and March 2026. Prosecutors [...]

A new federal investigation has found that severe mismanagement at Camp East Montana immigration detention facility in El Paso, Texas, created unsafe living conditions that contributed to detainee suffering and deaths, while millions in taxpayer dollars were spent inefficiently. According to the report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO), an arm of Congress, officials [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday issued a formal legal opinion declaring the approach of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to enforcement of “disparate impact” liability to be unlawful. The theory of disparate impact liability originated in the 1971 Supreme Court decision in Griggs v. Duke Power Co., in which it was [...]