(Headline USA) The Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on how deeply it should intervene in a power struggle between Democrats and Republicans over who should control the state House of Representatives.
Democratic representatives have stayed away from the state capitol since the 2025 legislative session opened Jan. 14 in...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Justice Department has dropped its charges against the medical doctor who exposed Texas Children’s Hospital for conducting secret sex changes on children.
U.S. Attorney John Pearson filed a motion to dismiss the indictment against Dr. Eithan Haim on Friday, putting an end to the Biden administration’s politically...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) While hundreds of Jan. 6 protestors were pardoned by newly inaugurated President Donald Trump, a tiki torch marcher from the infamous 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally was just sentenced to a shocking five years imprisonment.
The defendant, Augustus Sol Invictus (who was born Austin Mitchell...
(Headline USA) A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington, D.C., without the court's approval after President Donald Trump commuted the right-wing group leader's 18-year prison sentence.
Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for helping orchestrate the brouhaha at the U.S. Capitol four years...
(Headline USA) In the first legal setback of what is likely to be a familiar pattern echoing that of President Donald Trump's first administration, a federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first hearing of a multi-state effort...
(Headline USA) The Justice Department released a memo to its entire workforce directing federal prosecutors to investigate any state or local officials who stand in the way of beefed-up enforcement of immigration laws under the Trump administration.
The memo, which was written by acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove and...
(Headline USA) Attorneys general from 22 states sued Tuesday to block President Donald Trump's move to end a century-old immigration practice known as "birthright citizenship" guaranteeing that U.S.-born children are citizens regardless of their parents’ status.
Trump's roughly 700-word executive order, issued late Monday, amounts to a fulfillment of something he's talked about during...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The new U.S. Attorney for DC, Edward Martin, has dropped the remaining outstanding cases against Jan. 6 defendants—including a possible federal provocateur, John Emanuel Banuelos, who fired two shots into the air during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill uprising.
Banuelos was identified immediately after Jan. 6,...
(Headline USA) The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said Friday it will again consider whether voters should have to write the accurate date on return envelopes used to send their completed mail-in ballots to be counted.
The requirement in state law has generated more than a half-dozen court cases in the past...
(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) BlackRock, Inc. has settled a dispute with Tennessee over its ESG practices, which the state said misled consumers.
Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti filed a consumer protection lawsuit against the investment firm in December 2023.
The state accused BlackRock of failing to tell investors how much environmental, social,...
(Headline USA) A Florida jury on Friday found that CNN defamed a U.S. Navy veteran in a 2021 story about people paid to rescue endangered Afghans following the Taliban takeover of that country.
The rare ruling against a media outlet in a defamation case reflected the egregious circumstances of the case. Libel...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A mentally ill black U.S. Marine who allegedly plotted a mass shooting against “privileged white people” has pled guilty to transmitting a threat in interstate commerce, the Justice Department announced Monday.
Joshua Cobb, 24, of Trenton, New Jersey, was arrested last year for a post he made in December...