A federal judge in Boston ruled against the Trump administration’s request to lift a block on a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy that allows federal officials to deport migrants to countries other than their own. In a Wednesday order, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy said this third-country removal policy “is not fine, nor is...
The U.S. is imposing new sanctions on Iranian individuals, companies and ships accused of enabling the country’s illicit oil sales and ballistic missile programs as President Trump escalates pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program. The Treasury Department on Wednesday announced additional action targeting vessels in Iran’s “shadow fleet” that officials said have collectively transported...
The Energy Department on Wednesday announced it would dole out its largest-ever loan, lending $26.5 billion for electric power in Georgia and Alabama. The loan, to subsidiaries of the utility Southern Company, would fund new gas power and improvements for existing nuclear power plants and water power, as well as battery storage system and power...
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Wednesday questioned Dr. Casey Means, President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, on her previously recommending psilocybin use. During Means’s confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, Collins, holding a copy of the nominee’s 2024 book “Good Energy,” said she was “concerned” that Means encouraged...
A group of Republican attorneys general is asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to scrutinize a planned merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery, a deal that has come under fire in recent weeks over antitrust concerns and accusations from the right of what lawmakers argue is left-leaning bias at the streamer. Nebraska Attorney General...
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday defended heckling President Trump during his record-long State of the Union address, calling the action "unavoidable." "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents," Omar told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, referencing the deaths of...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday slammed President Trump’s State of the Union address as a speech “riddled with dirty rotten lies.” “The president's speech was riddled with dirty, rotten lies, including his unwillingness to confront the affordability crisis that Donald Trump has made worse throughout his entire time in office,” Jeffries said...
The federal judiciary on Tuesday requested to take control of courthouses for maintenance and management purposes, citing more than a decade of unresolved grievances at justice buildings across the country. Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr., director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, wrote in separate letters to Vice President Vance and bipartisan congressional...
The witness of a disputed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shooting in Texas last year died in a car crash in San Antonio on Saturday, according to multiple news reports. A lawyer for Ruben Ray Martinez, a U.S. citizen who was fatally shot in 2025, told The Associated Press that Joshua Orta died in a...
