Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block watchdog access to DOGE documents
The Justice Department’s latest emergency appeal to the high court concerns whether DOGE is a federal agency that is subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
Associated Press
Articles
Power leagues look to bind schools to rules of $2.8B NCAA settlement, source says
The document would bind institutions to enforcement policies even if their state laws are contradictory and would require schools to waive their right to pursue legal challenges against the new enforcement entity, the College Sports Commission.
Revival of an old program delegates Trump immigration enforcement to local police
Under the program, local police officers can interrogate immigrants in their custody and detain them for potential deportation.
President Trump signs Take It Down Act, addressing nonconsensual deepfakes. What is it?
The legislation enacts stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called “revenge porn,” as well as deepfakes created by artificial intelligence.
Cassie’s mother says Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs demanded $20K because her daughter was seeing someone else
Regina Ventura said she felt “physically sick” when her daughter sent her an email in late 2011 to say Combs threatened to release two explicit videos of her and send someone to hurt her.
Supreme Court allows Trump to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans who risk deportation
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation.
Democratic Rep. McIver charged with assault after skirmish at ICE center, New Jersey prosecutor says
Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver is being charged with assault after a skirmish with federal officers outside an immigration detention center.
Trump order targets barcodes on ballots. They’ve long been a source of misinformation
President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to overhaul how U.S. elections are run includes a somewhat obscure reference to the way votes are counted.
The US is reinstating records for international students. For some, it’s too late
After the government terminated his legal status in the U.S., one student abruptly lost his laboratory job in Houston and, fearing detention, he returned to his home country in south Asia on a one-way ticket.
Asylum-seekers still arrive at the US border, but what will happen to them?
What asylum-seekers at the U.S. border now find, according to lawyers, activists and immigrants, is a murky, ever-changing situation with few obvious rules, where people can be deported to countries they know nothing about after fleeting conversations with immigration officials while others languish in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.
US wants to withhold details in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. Judge will hear arguments
A federal judge in Maryland will hear arguments Friday over whether the Trump administration can invoke the state secrets privilege to withhold information about bringing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States.
A pregnant Cuban emigre worries about her baby’s citizenship as Supreme Court weighs a Trump order
The 35-year-old woman lives in Kentucky, which is not among the 22 states that sued to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order that would deny citizenship to children who are born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily.
Trump’s Middle East visit comes as his family deepens its business, crypto ties in the region
The presidential visit to the region, as his children work the same part of the world for the family’s moneymaking opportunities, puts a spotlight on Trump’s willingness to embrace foreign dealmaking while in the White House
As ‘junk fee’ rule kicks in, Ticketmaster begins displaying ticket prices more clearly
The rule requires ticket sellers, hotels, vacation rental platforms and others to disclose processing fees, cleaning fees and other charges up front.
UPDATE: Cassie takes the stand in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial
Combs’ former girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, is expected to take the stand Tuesday after prosecutors on Monday showed jurors video of the performer beating her in a hotel in 2016.
White South Africans brought to US as refugees
Refugee groups have questioned why the white South Africans are being prioritized.
Trump signs executive order setting 30-day deadline for drugmakers to lower prescription drug costs
The order calls on the health department to broker new price tags for drugs. If a deal is not reached, a new rule will kick in that will tie the price of what the U.S. pays for medications to lower prices paid by other countries.
Non-scholarship athletes argue proposal to fix roster-limit rule in lawsuit does not go far enough
Proposed roster caps have prevented U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken from approving a $2.78 billion settlement, which is designed to allow schools to pay players directly beginning later this year.
Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a Republican who became a liberal darling, dies at 85
Souter died Thursday at his home in New Hampshire, the court said in a statement Friday.
Jury selection for sex trafficking trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is pushed to next week
Judge Arun Subramanian granted a request by defense lawyers to delay until Monday the final step in the jury selection process, expected to last less than an hour.