The Trump administration has abandoned its goal to reform the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, dropping a legal fight over the changes this week. The Education Department wanted to place limits on who could qualify for PSLF, which gives student loan forgiveness to people in government and nonprofit jobs after 10 years of payments. It…
The Trump administration has abandoned its goal to reform the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, dropping a legal fight over the changes this week. The Education Department wanted to place limits on who could qualify for PSLF, which gives student loan forgiveness to people in government and nonprofit jobs after 10 years of payments. It…
A federal judge in California blocked most Department of Homeland Security (DHS) field operations focused on voter fraud in a Wednesday court ruling. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, appointed under former President Biden, barred the DHS from conducting “elections-related field operations and field interviews” in nine states — California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York,…
A federal judge in California blocked most Department of Homeland Security (DHS) field operations focused on voter fraud in a Wednesday court ruling. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, appointed under former President Biden, barred the DHS from conducting “elections-related field operations and field interviews” in nine states — California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York,…
Democratic leaders and election groups filed a lawsuit against President Trump and the Justice Department (DOJ) on Tuesday, seeking to block federal officials from pressuring states to remove voters from their rolls ahead of the November midterm elections. The 44-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accuses the DOJ…
Democratic leaders and election groups filed a lawsuit against President Trump and the Justice Department (DOJ) on Tuesday, seeking to block federal officials from pressuring states to remove voters from their rolls ahead of the November midterm elections. The 44-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accuses the DOJ…
Lawyers who represented Olympic canoeist David Hearn in a now-defunct criminal case alleging he vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are urging the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) internal watchdog to reconsider a probe into how the indictment and prosecution were handled. A letter sent Wednesday from Hearn’s legal team to Inspector General Don Berthiaume said…
Lawyers who represented Olympic canoeist David Hearn in a now-defunct criminal case alleging he vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are urging the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) internal watchdog to reconsider a probe into how the indictment and prosecution were handled. A letter sent Wednesday from Hearn’s legal team to Inspector General Don Berthiaume said…
Two longtime associates of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are being sued over allegations that they helped facilitate and conceal his sex trafficking operation, including the abuse of young women and girls at a remote New Mexico ranch. The New Mexico attorney general’s office announced the lawsuit Tuesday against Epstein’s personal attorney Darren Indyke and…
Two longtime associates of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are being sued over allegations that they helped facilitate and conceal his sex trafficking operation, including the abuse of young women and girls at a remote New Mexico ranch. The New Mexico attorney general’s office announced the lawsuit Tuesday against Epstein’s personal attorney Darren Indyke and…
A judge in New Mexico ordered the technology giant Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for misleading users about its privacy and content policies. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez (D) announced the judge’s order Wednesday, calling it “one of the single largest — if not the largest —…
A judge in New Mexico ordered the technology giant Meta to pay $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for misleading users about its privacy and content policies. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez (D) announced the judge’s order Wednesday, calling it “one of the single largest — if not the largest —…
The Supreme Court refused the Trump administration’s bid to stop providing transgender inmates hormone treatments and certain surgeries on Wednesday, declining to lift a lower judge’s block over the dissents of two conservative justices. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy would taper treatments for inmates currently receiving them, and officials would also need to stop providing…
The Supreme Court refused the Trump administration’s bid to stop providing transgender inmates hormone treatments and certain surgeries on Wednesday, declining to lift a lower judge’s block over the dissents of two conservative justices. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy would taper treatments for inmates currently receiving them, and officials would also need to stop providing…
Justice Elena Kagan offered a pointed critique Tuesday of recent Supreme Court decisions that opened the door for more political spending and weakened key voting rights protections, suggesting those rulings by her conservative colleagues have driven the country further apart. Kagan, one of three liberal justices on the high court, said during remarks at the…
Justice Elena Kagan offered a pointed critique Tuesday of recent Supreme Court decisions that opened the door for more political spending and weakened key voting rights protections, suggesting those rulings by her conservative colleagues have driven the country further apart. Kagan, one of three liberal justices on the high court, said during remarks at the…
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes shot down the Justice Department’s (DOJ) demand to not participate in a key hearing on Monday on the future of East Potomac Park, which President Trump wants to turn into a championship-style golf course. The Trump administration has alleged that Reyes is biased after she yelled at a government attorney…
U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes shot down the Justice Department’s (DOJ) demand to not participate in a key hearing on Monday on the future of East Potomac Park, which President Trump wants to turn into a championship-style golf course. The Trump administration has alleged that Reyes is biased after she yelled at a government attorney…
A Minnesota teen who was arrested after being accused of planning a terror attack on the Mall of America in Minneapolis must remain in jail, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Dulce Foster said Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud,18, won’t be released because he’s a risk to the community and a flight risk, the Associated…
A Minnesota teen who was arrested after being accused of planning a terror attack on the Mall of America in Minneapolis must remain in jail, a federal judge ruled Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Dulce Foster said Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud,18, won’t be released because he’s a risk to the community and a flight risk, the Associated…
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