A US federal judge on Tuesday ruled that President Trump’s firing of two members of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is unlawful, and ordered their reinstatement. The NCUA is an independent agency that regulates credit unions and administers the national insurance fund for credit unions. President Trump fired two Democratic board members, Todd Harper [...]
The US withdrew from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Tuesday on the basis that “continued involvement” is not part of the nation’s interest. The press statement released by the Department of State claimed the decision was a response to UNESCO’s stance on Palestinian statehood in particular. The department stated: UNESCO works [...]
A US federal court on Monday upheld the dismissal of claims brought by US service members and civilians against three major global banks accused of indirectly funding terrorist attacks in Afghanistan. The US Court of Appeals Second Circuit dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that the plaintiffs failed to “plausibly allege that Defendants are liable [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) exposed alleged “degrading and dehumanizing” treatment of detainees in three Florida immigration detention facilities Monday, claiming detainees have suffered “dangerously substandard medical care, overcrowding, abusive treatment, and restrictions on access to legal and psychosocial support.” The report, titled “You Feel Like Your Life Is Over,” profiled six detainees held in Krome [...]
US House of Representatives on Thursday voted in favor of House Resolution 4 (HR4), which will retract approximately $9 billion in funds that had already been allocated for the next two fiscal years. The cuts are to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), along with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), international peacekeeping [...]
Puerto Rico’s LGBTQ+ Federation on Thursday denounced a recently passed law that prohibits the use of puberty blockers, hormone treatment, and gender-affirming surgeries for anybody under the age of 21. The law, called the Law for the Protection of the Health and Wellbeing of Minors in Puerto Rico, imposes a sentence of up to 15 [...]
A US federal judge in California certified a class action lawsuit against the AI company Anthropic on Thursday. The lawsuit concerns millions of copyrighted books that were allegedly pirated to train Anthropic’s Claude AI platform, setting the stage for what may become one of the largest copyright infringement cases in US history. Senior District Judge [...]
US citizen and Army veteran George Retes on Wednesday spoke out after being arrested during an immigration raid at his workplace on a California cannabis farm, stating that he was detained for three days without explanation. Retes shared in a video press conference organized by the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union that he works [...]
US President Donald Trump vowed Friday to sue The Wall Street Journal over a report claiming he wrote a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein, adding to his legal battles against major news organizations as his administration faces backlash for closing the Epstein case despite transparency promises. The report, published Thursday, claimed Trump had written [...]
Twenty US states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday with the aim of blocking the cut of funding to a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) pre-disaster mitigation program. The lawsuit specifically seeks to preserve the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, a multi-billion-dollar initiative created in 2018 that funds infrastructure projects to protect [...]
