Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan submitted a letter of resignation to Governor Tony Evers on Saturday following her conviction of obstructing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. In her letter, Dugan stated: As you know, I am the subject of unprecedented federal legal proceedings, which are far from concluded but which present immense and complex challenges [...]
US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the US would “run” Venezuela, following a strike on the country that led to the capture and transfer to the US of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores. Trump made the remarks during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. He [...]
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation launched a class-wide discrimination challenge on Thursday to a new Office of Personnel Management (OPM) policy that eliminates health-insurance coverage for most gender-affirming medical care in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) and Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) programs, alleging that the change violates Title VII’s ban on sex discrimination [...]
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday ruled that California’s restrictions on openly carrying firearms in the state’s more populous counties violate the Second Amendment. In Baird v. Bonta, a 2–1 panel affirmed in part and reversed in part the district court’s summary judgment for California Attorney General [...]
Danish renewable energy giant Orsted said on Thursday that it has launched legal action against US President Donald Trump’s administration over the suspension of its $5 billion Revolution Wind Project off the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut. The project was 87 percent complete at the time of suspension, and Orsted expected it to start [...]
The US on Wednesday announced sanctions against four companies operating in Venezuela’s oil sector, declaring four associated oil tankers as blocked property. In the statement released by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the US government alleges that some of these vessels are part of the “shadow fleet” serving Venezuelan President Nicolás [...]
US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is “removing” National Guard troops from Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland after a major Supreme Court setback that sharply narrowed his authority to federalize state guard units for domestic law-enforcement missions. The court’s decision casts the Chicago deployment as likely unlawful under the Posse Comitatus Act, and [...]
FBI Director Kash Patel announced Sunday that the agency will send a large number of investigators and resources to Minnesota to continue investigating a multi-million dollar fraud scheme that is said to have involved theft of federal food aid from children during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Patel, the investigation has so far …exposed sham [...]
US Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced on Thursday that it carried out strikes on “ISIS terrorists” in northwest Sokoto state, Nigeria. AFRICOM has yet to release further details about the strike, citing concerns of operational security. President Donald Trump posted about the Christmas Day strikes on his Truth Social page: Tonight, at my direction as Commander [...]
A US federal court on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of a Texas law that requires users to verify their age before downloading mobile apps and accessing paid content online. Judge Robert Pitman of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction blocking AG Paxton from [...]
