Tracking Trends, Breaking News
Washington — Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is filing a civil lawsuit against Maine’s Department of Education for “discriminating against women by failing to protect women in women’s sports” in what she alleged is a violation of Title IX. “The Department of Justice will not sit by when women are
Read More
Washington — The Associated Press said its reporters were prevented from attending an Oval Office event with President Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele even though a federal judge had ordered the White House to restore the news outlet’s access as of Monday. An AP spokesperson said in a statement that its “journalists were blocked
Read More
Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday said she will prevent the Trump administration from enforcing portions of an executive order that targets the law firm Susman Godfrey, finding that the directive likely retaliates against the firm and its clients for their exercise of constitutionally protected speech. U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan granted the firm’s
Read More
Greenbelt, Maryland — A federal judge on Tuesday admonished the Department of Justice for not complying with her order to facilitate the release of a Maryland man who the Trump administration admitted had been mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador, and ordered expedited discovery in the case. “We have to give process to
Read More
Trump golf course plot not guilty plea Trump golf course assassination plot suspect pleads not guilty 04:12 A man accused of trying to assassinate President Trump at his Florida golf club last September can hire an expert to examine the rifle recovered from the scene, but only to determine its operability, a federal judge said
Read More
In private conversations weeks ago, senior advisers close to President Trump warned that some tariff proposals could have devastating effects on global financial markets and send the U.S. economy spiraling. The White House has taken pains to say administration officials are unified on the tariff effort announced on April 2, which the White House dubbed
Read More
Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian man involved in protests at Columbia University, was taken into custody by federal agents Monday when he arrived at a citizenship interview in Vermont, his attorneys said in court filings. Mahdawi’s detention comes as the Trump administration fights to deport fellow Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil. Mahdawi’s legal team told CBS News
Read More
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele says he won’t return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States, after Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters it’s “up to El Salvador” whether the man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison returns to the U.S. Bukele and Bondi made the comments in the Oval Office alongside President Trump,
Read More
Vance drops Ohio State’s championship trophy Watch: Vance drops Ohio State football’s national championship trophy during White House visit 00:55 Vice President JD Vance dropped Ohio State University‘s national football championship trophy during a celebration at the White House on Monday. Vance — an Ohio State alumnus — tried to lift up the trophy, but
Read More
Washington — A federal judge in Vermont considered Monday whether to release a Tufts University Ph.D. student as she challenges her detention as a violation of her free speech rights. Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at the Massachusetts university, was detained by immigration authorities last month outside of her apartment because her student visa
Read More