A federal judge ruled against a Maine state lawmaker who was censured by the state House for a viral post drawing attention to a male-born high school athlete who won a girls' state track competition.
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of "X" marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.
The Trump administration announced it is moving forward with a new rule to reclassify some career civil servants as "at will" federal employees, a plan it says will make it easier to fire underperforming employees.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen said the Salvadoran government fabricated the situation that led to a photo of him and deported MS-13 gang suspect Kilmar Abrego Garcia sitting at a table with margarita glasses in front of them.
New York Attorney General Letitia James called the Trump administration's mortgage fraud allegations against her "baseless" and said they were part of a "revenge tour" by President Trump, whom she successfully prosecuted for civil fraud during his 2024 presidential campaign.
A divided federal appeals court panel on Friday temporarily halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt proceedings against the Trump administration over its deportation flights to El Salvador last month. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit indicated its order is intended to provide “sufficient opportunity” for the court to consider the government’s appeal...
Former Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) was projected to win a special election to become the next mayor of Oakland, according to Decision Desk HQ, in what became a closer-than-expected race amid growing voter dissatisfaction over the direction of the city. Lee won the nonpartisan ranked-choice election over a field of more than a half dozen candidates, with...
A federal judge ordered that Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained late last month, be transferred from a detention center in Louisiana to Vermont no later than at the start of next month. District Judge William Sessions ruled Friday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has until May 1 to move Ozturk,...
President Trump weighed in on the cost of eggs around the country, claiming Friday at the White House that the prices are “getting too low." Trump praised Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for doing a “great” job and then asserted that egg prices are “down 87 percent, but nobody talks about that.” “You can have all...
Probationary workers who were refired this month from the Commerce Department say their health insurance is being terminated earlier than they expected. The workers had expected their health insurance to run into May. Instead, they received notices this week that the department is backdating their termination to an earlier date, meaning the health insurance ran...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) asked the Supreme Court on Friday to immediately intervene to block the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants being held in Texas to El Salvador under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act. The ACLU’s emergency application says many migrants are already on buses, “presumably headed to the airport” to...
Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was completely in the dark about his family’s battle to secure his release and the intense political debate over his future when the Maryland Democrat met with the mistakenly deported man in El Salvador this week. “When I told him that his wife and family...
