Two unions representing US government workers filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging President Trump’s efforts to reclassify up to 50,000 federal workers, making it easier to fire them. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), both federated unions under the AFL-CIO, represent more than 2 [...]

US President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing the secretary of Defense and secretary of Homeland Security to expand the Migrant Operations Center at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay to full capacity. Trump ordered the expansion of the center to “provide additional detention space for high-priority criminal aliens unlawfully present in the United [...]

The Oklahoma State Board of Education on Tuesday to approved a new administrative rule proposed by State Superintendent Ryan Walters that would require parents to disclose their children’s immigration status when enrolling them in school. The rule states that when parents or legal guardians enroll their children in school, they must “provide proof of United States citizenship at the time [...]

The administration of US President Donald Trump on Wednesday rescinded a directive to freeze funding across federal agencies just one day after announcing the sweeping measure, which had left agencies and beneficiaries scrambling to determine its impact. However, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted that only the memo instating the freeze was being rescinded, [...]

Mississippi state and the US federal government have neglected to protect Black women from cervical cancer deaths in the rural Mississippi Delta region, the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI)  and Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday. The report states that “there are persistent and glaring racial [...]

US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday directing federal agencies to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth under age 19 and block federal funding for such treatments. The order requires federal health programs to exclude coverage for gender-affirming surgeries and hormone treatments for minors beginning in 2026. Key provisions [...]

A US federal district judge granted an administrative stay in a case challenging the Trump administration’s planned freeze of federal aid on Tuesday, pausing the plan for a week and setting a hearing for further arguments next Monday morning. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo directing federal agencies to temporarily pause [...]

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Lambda Legal filed a lawsuit against US President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he signed an executive order to ban transgender people serving in the US Armed Forces. The executive order, “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness,” states: “Consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false [...]

Five Quaker groups filed a lawsuit Monday to stop immigration agents from conducting raids on houses of worship. The complaint alleges that the new US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy that allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to conduct searches and arrests at schools and religious institutions violates the First Amendment to the [...]

Acting Attorney General  James McHenry fired several Department of Justice (DOJ) employees Monday for having played a “significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” according to the memo obtained by CNN. The memo sent to the employees gave them formal notice of their immediate removal from their position at the DOJ, and from the federal service, [...]