The Biden administration Friday filed an emergency application with the US Supreme Court to restore the broad availability of the abortion medication mifepristone while legal challenges regarding access to the drug are resolved. The administration asked the court to stay the entirety of Texas federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling from earlier this month that suspended [...]

The Department of Defense (DoD) Tuesday announced that it opened a criminal investigation into the apparent leak of classified documents online in recent weeks. The leaked documents include classified Ukrainian war plans and sensitive materials regarding US allies. Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Chris Meagher said, the DoD will “review and [...]

A group of 14 transgender and nonbinary state legislators Monday sent a letter to the Biden administration, criticizing Title IX policy changes the Department of Education (DOE) proposed last week. The new DOE changes regard the eligibility of transgender athletes on school sports teams. In the letter, the representatives from ten state legislatures said that [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Thursday opened a civil investigation into the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Dalaneo Martin by a US Park Police officer on March 18 in Washington, DC. The announcement comes two days after the US Park Police released police bodycam footage of the shooting. [...]

Two Connecticut veterans’ advocacy groups Monday filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Defense (DoD) in a federal court in Connecticut. The groups asked the court to compel the DoD to release records of toxic conditions at the Karshi-Khanabad (K2) air base in Uzbekistan. The Connecticut Veterans Legal Center and Stronghold Freedom Foundation filed [...]

The North Dakota House of Representatives Monday failed to override Governor Doug Burgum’s veto of Senate Bill 2231, which would restrict the treatment of transgender students in the state’s grade schools. The chamber needed a majority two-thirds vote in both chambers of the state legislature to override the veto of the bill. The House of [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday filed a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern Railway over the February 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. The DOJ claims that Norfolk Southern released harmful pollutants into the area surrounding the derailment site, potentially exposing nearby residents to significant health issues. In the lawsuit, filed in federal court [...]

US Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Mark Takano (D-CA) Tuesday urged Twitter CEO Elon Musk to address the rise in hate speech on the social media platform since he purchased it in October 2022. Schiff and Takano originally urged Musk to investigate the increased hate speech in December, at which point they reported a 61.3 [...]

US federal prosecutors Tuesday charged Samuel Bankman-Fried, former CEO and co-founder of crypto trading platform FTX, with bribing Chinese government officials in early 2021 as part of a superseding indictment. In the indictment, prosecutors accused Bankman-Fried of paying Chinese government officials $40 million to unfreeze cryptocurrency trading accounts on two of China’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. [...]

The US Department of State Friday imposed further sanctions against Myanmar, joining other nations in their efforts to condemn human rights violations and violence occurring in the country in the two years since the military coup. The sanctions apply to two individuals and six entities, according to a statement released by the US Department of [...]