DOGE member granted access
NEW YORK — A federal judge granted a member of the Department of Government Efficiency the ability to access the Bureau of Fiscal Services payment system, provided he undergoes hands-on training. Ryan...
View ArticleTeacher challenge to California ban on outing of trans students advances
SAN DIEGO (CN) — California’s Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education will stay on as two of multiple state agencies being sued over anti-discrimination policies that...
View ArticleProfessors sue Trump over DEI ultimatum
BOSTON — The American Association of University Professors and its Harvard University faculty chapter is suing the Trump administration for threatening to withhold $9 billion in federal funding unless...
View ArticleFired peace staffers sue DOGE
WASHINGTON — Former employees of the U.S. Institute of Peace are suing Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in federal court for shutting the organization down. The former employees...
View ArticleMenendez brothers granted resentencing hearing
LOS ANGELES (CN) — After more than 35 years in prison, Erik and Lyle Menendez will get a shot at freedom, after a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge decided Friday to allow a resentencing hearing to...
View ArticleGoogle employees claim they were unlawfully fired after Palestine demonstration
SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) — You might have seen this protest coming on a college campus, but maybe not on Google’s corporate campus. Former Google employees are suing the corporation after it fired over...
View ArticleDC Circuit freezes court order blocking CFPB terminations and requiring...
WASHINGTON (CN) — A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday night temporarily lifted provisions of a court order that prevented the Trump administration from terminating en masse employees at the Consumer...
View ArticleMigrant parole reversals stayed
BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal court grants Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan parolees’ emergency motion for a preliminary injunction and stay of a federal regulation that would have...
View ArticleAnti-trans wristbands
CONCORD, N.H. — Ruling that high school soccer games are limited public forums, a New Hampshire federal court ruled that a school may place reasonable restrictions on otherwise protected speech by...
View Article‘Make Indiana Healthy Again’ event brings out RFK Jr, Dr Oz
INDIANAPOLIS (CN) — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mehmet Oz — TV’s “Dr. Oz” — appeared along Indiana Governor Mike Braun on Tuesday to launch new state health...
View ArticleDow faces uphill battle to keep New Jersey water pollution case in federal court
PHILADELPHIA (CN) — Highlighting its role as a government contractor, the Dow Chemical Company argued at the Third Circuit Tuesday that it should not have to defend itself in state court against New...
View ArticleNAACP sues Trump administration over guidelines on race, DEI programs in schools
(CN) — The NAACP sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its demands that schools eliminate nearly all race-based considerations, arguing that the stark shift in Civil Rights Act interpretations is...
View ArticleUS jury convicts Gambian Jungler on torture-related charges over post-coup...
DENVER (CN) — A U.S. jury on Tuesday found a former Jungler guilty on six torture-related charges for acts carried out under The Gambia’s former president in 2006 following a failed coup. Following...
View ArticleIndependent regulators warn Supreme Court against Trump blitzkrieg on precedent
WASHINGTON (CN) — Regulators pushed the Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject a request to overturn 90 years of precedent via the emergency docket, arguing that President Donald Trump wants more...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists sue to block revival of aging Central California oil pipeline
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (CN) — Environmental advocates on Tuesday sued the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, over its approval of safety regulation waivers to restart...
View ArticleExiled Nicaraguan opposition leader sees dwindling options for democracy
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — A clandestine opposition movement remains active in Nicaragua, but options for restoring democracy in the Central American country are dwindling, former presidential challenger and...
View ArticleBorder businesses cry foul over dragnet-like money transfer rules
SAN DIEGO (CN) — Last month, the federal government issued a new rule mandating money service businesses in 30 different ZIP codes in the Southwest report all transactions over $200 to the federal...
View ArticleMan gets life in prison in killing of transgender model in the South Caucasus...
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — A man was convicted Wednesday of stabbing to death a transgender actor and model in her apartment in Georgia last year, a killing that shocked the South Caucasus nation and...
View ArticleWHO member countries agree on a draft ‘pandemic treaty’ to try to avoid...
LONDON (AP) — Five years after Covid-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World Health Organization’s member countries agreed on a draft “pandemic treaty”...
View ArticleGullah-Geechee slave descendants fight for referendum on island zoning changes
ATLANTA (CN) — Residents of what is believed to be the last intact community of descendants of enslaved West Africans took their fight against a county zoning rule change to the Georgia Supreme Court...
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