The US Department of Justice (DOJ) reported Thursday that the City of Trenton police force in New Jersey has systematically violated the constitutional rights of city residents. The DOJ found that Trenton police “engage in a pattern or practice of misconduct that deprives people of their rights under the Fourth Amendment,” including the use of [...]

The small town of McColl, South Carolina has been left without a police department following the resignation of its chief of police Bob Hale on Friday. Hale cited a “hostile work environment perpetuated by a specific Councilman” as his reason for resignation. Hale submitted his resignation on October 31st 2024 to the town council, with [...]

New York Judge Juan Merchan indefinitely postponed president-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money case Friday following a joint motion from prosecutors and Trump’s defense team. Sentencing was scheduled for November 26, after the US presidential election, but Trump’s victory has thrown the four criminal cases against him into uncharted territory. Merchan’s order also allowed [...]

US president-elect Donald Trump nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to head the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday, hours after controversial former congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew his nomination to the post. Bondi previously joined President Trump’s defense in his 2019 impeachment trial. Announcing his new pick, Trump touted Bondi as being “very tough [...]

Against the backdrop of abuse-of-power warnings from leading civil rights groups, the US House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill that, if enacted, would grant the Treasury Secretary the discretion to designate certain nonprofits as “terrorist supporting organizations” and thus strip their tax-exempt status. The so-called Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and a coalition of US states filed a motion on Wednesday seeking to compel Google to divest its Chrome web browser. The DOJ argued that Google’s control over Chrome has significantly bolstered its monopolistic position in the search-engine market. The department contended that forcing Google to divest Chrome is [...]

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, restricted the use of gendered bathrooms in the House to biological members of each sex on Wednesday. The measure has triggered anger among legislators and advocates and has once again brought the issues of transgender rights and their inclusion in society to the agenda of [...]

Tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy said Wednesday that their new government efficiency panel will identify “thousands” of regulations made by “unelected bureaucrats” for president-elect Donald Trump to eliminate. Trump appointed Musk and Ramaswamy to lead the newly-announced “Department of Government Efficiency” (ironically designated by the acronym DOGE, evoking Musk’s meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin) last [...]

The Los Angeles City Council voted to pass an ordinance Tuesday that bans the city’s resources from being used for federal immigration enforcement or by federal immigration agents. Council members unanimously voted to pass the ordinance. LA Mayor Karen Bass and City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto drafted the “sanctuary city” ordinance in early November after [...]

Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against multiple heavy-duty truck manufacturers. The lawsuit asserted that the manufacturers “conspired” to restrict the availability of diesel-powered semi-trucks in support of California’s Advanced Clean Fleets regulation, which mandates a transition to electric trucks by 2035. Hilgers stated that the “conspiracy” violated US antitrust laws by “unreasonably [...]