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 [...]

A US federal judge issued an order on Friday to halt the sweeping employee firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), delivering an early blow to President Donald Trump’s rapid push to dismantle the agency. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued the order barring the CFPB from axing more employees, beyond those let [...]

US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials filed a motion on Friday to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams. This brings an abrupt end to a tense legal standoff that had stretched on for days. The DOJ contended that the dismissal was necessary because the prosecution presented a risk of interference with [...]

A US federal judge on Friday granted a temporary restraining order, halting the Trump administration’s attempt to sideline nearly 2,700 US Agency for International Development (USAID) employees by placing them on paid leave and recalling most of those stationed abroad. The ruling delivers a significant setback to the president’s push to curtail US foreign aid [...]

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced on Friday that the City and County of San Francisco are co-leading a lawsuit with Santa Clara County against the Trump administration’s latest directives targeting sanctuary jurisdictions, aiming to protect local control and public safety. The lawsuit challenges Executive Order 14159 and recent US Department of Justice (DOJ) [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday called on the authorities in Sierra Leone to release Hawa Hunt, a well-known Sierra Leonean-Canadian artist and reality television personality, who has been detained for more than a month on charges of insulting the president and First Lady. Hunt, 42, was arrested on December 22, while appearing as a contestant on [...]

A US federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked an attempt by President Donald Trump’s administration to freeze federal aid funding, finding that the administration’s directive was likely unconstitutional. The decision came after a federal judge in Washington, DC, blocked the same order in a separate lawsuit earlier this week. Judge John J. McConnell of the [...]

On Friday, the US Supreme Court announced that it would take up a groundbreaking case to determine whether Oklahoma may fund a proposed Catholic charter school. The decision could redefine the boundaries between church and state. If the court sides with Oklahoma, it would mark the first time the government can establish and directly fund religious [...]

The US Justice Department on Friday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, accusing Walgreens pharmacists of filling millions of prescriptions for controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose or valid authorization. The allegations, going back to August 2012, mark a significant claim against one of the nation’s [...]

A federal US appeals court on Friday held that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) violated US immigration law. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a district court’s decision to block the DACA program, finding it to be unlawfully created. The court emphasized that since Congress had deliberately excluded DACA [...]