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Ukraine’s President Volodomir Zelenskyy said the country is willing to pay $50 billion to buy more air defenses and military help from the USA, rather than receiving it as aid.…
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Violating traditional independence of the Department of Justice, Donald Trump ordered it to investigate his former aides Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor and recommend “appropriate remedial or preventative actions to…
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Northwestern University received more than 100 stop-work orders within a week for federal projects, amid word from news media that $790 million in federal funding was about to be frozen…
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A split panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals halted a ruling by federal District Court Judge James Bredar, thereby preventing reinstatement of about 25,000 mass-fired probationary federal employees…
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A broad range of the topmost officials at the Internal Revenue Service resigned in protest against an agreement for the agency to share confidential sensitive taxpayer data with Immigration and…
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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts signed an order to pause a Court of Appeals ruling that would have reinstated independent agency board members Cathy Harris of the Merit Systems…
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Donald Trump signed an executive order against major Houston-based law firm Susman Godfrey, restricting its access to federal buildings, threatening cancellation of federal contract and suspending its lawyers’ security clearances.…
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Although Donald Trump has not been bothered by falling stock markets, Treasury yields began moving at a worrying pace toward failure, indicating the USA’s entire role in the global financial…
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News broke that on 31 March 2025, warrantless Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surrounded a car, smashed a window to get in and took Elsy Noemi Berrios while her daughter…
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Heads of two Northwestern University law clinics filed a lawsuit against the House Education and the Workforce Committee, as well as their own university, to protect records from being passed…
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The Social Security Administration backed off from its DOGE-driven plan to cut back telephone services after widespread loud outcry against it. SSA had announced that as of 31 March 2025…
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Tariffs between the USA and China escalated during the day. Last week Donald Trump raised 20% tariffs to 54% against China, to which China responded with 34% tariffs. Trump raised…
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Federal District Court judges in New York and Texas issued temporary restraining orders to prohibit the government from expelling the handful of Venezuelan men at the core of legal efforts…
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Sunil Kumar, President of Tufts University, released the following declaration “in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztürk v. Hyde in U.S. District Court…
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Rolla, Missouri, ousted three prominently anti-LGBTQ+ City Council members who were up for re-election. Voters replaced them with three candidates backed by local LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations. Policy stances of the…
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Federal District Court Judge Trevor McFadden ordered access to Presidential and White House events as well as Air Force One restored for the Associated Press. The White House blocked access…
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Donald Trump terminated the temporary protected status of immigrants who entered the USA legally via the CBP One app. He said if they do not leave immediately, he will have…
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The Supreme Court overrode federal District Court Judge William Alsup’s order which would have reinstated mass-fired federal probationary workers at six agencies. In response to an emergency appeal by the…
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A mother and three children snatched by Immigration and Customs Enforcement without a warrant in Sackets Harbor, New York on 27 March 2025 were released a few days after nearly…
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The Supreme Court vacated temporary restraining orders by federal District Court Judge James Boasberg, which expanded the class of people expelled to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act 15…
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The National Park Service restored a web page about the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman after outrage erupted over edits that “whitewashed” the page. The page had been edited to…
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National Weather Service no longer offers its products such as weather warnings in languages other than English. The contract between NWS and artificial intelligence company Lilt has ended. Lilt began…
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The North Carolina state Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court’s ruling that gave about 65,000 voters 15 days to “cure” their ballots from November 2024 to avoid having them…
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Both houses of the Maryland legislature passed a bill to constrain operations by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the state. It now goes to Governor Wes Moore for signature.…
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For Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, the Internal Revenue Service agreed to provide confidential sensitive taxpayer data to the Department of Homeland Security for use by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.…
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USA stock markets mostly fell again, still responding to Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. The markets closed for the day: Dow Jones Industrial Average down 349.26 points (0.9%) to 37,965.60 S&P…
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The American Library Association and American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees jointly filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump’s executive order gutting the Institute of Museum and Library Services.…
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Shortly before a Court of Appeals declined to stay District Court Judge Paula Xinis’ order to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador before midnight, the government turned to the…
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UK government lost in its effort to keep secret a battle to force Apple to provide back door access to its Advanced Data Protection. The contest of wills between the…
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The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the government’s request to stay a District Court order that Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be returned to the USA from the CECOT prison…
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The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, voted 7-4 to set aside a ruling by one of its three-judge panels. The court reinstated, for the second time, Gwynne…
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By midday Greenwich Mean Time, global stock markets were all in trouble thanks to Donald Trump’s tariffs. ?? Hong Kong -13.6% ?? Taiwan -9.6% ?? Japan -9.5% ?? Italy -8.4%…
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Investigation by the weekly television show 60 Minutes found that of the 238 Venezuelan men Donald Trump sent to CECOT prison in El Salvador without due process, claiming they were…
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Federal District Court Judge Paula Xinis re-ordered Donald Trump’s regime to retrieve wrongly expelled Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador by 7 April 2025 at 23:59. Xinis said, “As defendants…
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The State Department revoked “temporary protected status” visas for everyone from South Sudan in the USA, cancelled all visa appointments and blocked entry for anyone from South Sudan. Deputy Secretary…
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The government asked the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to suspend an order by federal District Court Judge Paula Xinis to retrieve wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador…
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New Civil Liberties Alliance, a conservative legal group, filed a lawsuit challenging the legality of Donald Trump’s latest tariffs. NCLA asserts the tariffs improperly use emergency executive powers to take…
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National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health lost 850 of its 1000 employees to mass firings throughout the Department of Health and Human Services, obliterating federal protection of safety in…
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A team of three rescue and recovery workers from the U.S. Agency for International Development were fired the day after they arrived in Myanmar to perform relief work after a…
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Erez Reuveni, the Department of Justice attorney who admitted in court that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to CECOT prison in El Salvador by mistake, was put on administrative leave.…
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Travis County District Court Judge Catherine Mauzy awarded $6.6 million to four former senior aides of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for being fired after reporting him to the FBI.…
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A jury ordered oil giant Chevron to pay $744.6 million to remediate its damage to coastal wetlands in southeast Louisiana. Chevron plans to appeal. This case is the first to…
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USA stock markets fell again, still responding to Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. The markets closed on for the day: Dow Jones Industrial Average down 2,231.07 points (5.5%) to 38,314.86 S&P…
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Federal District Court Judge Charlotte Sweeney ordered Elizabeth School District to restore to school library shelves 19 banned books. This is the second time Sweeney has issued this order. On…
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Federal District Court Judge Paula Xinis ruled that no later than 7 April 2025 at 23:59, the government must retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the CECOT prison in El Salvador,…
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The Department of Homeland Security sent email to many Ukrainians who are in the USA with temporary protected status, called parole, saying their parole was revoked and they must leave…
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The North Carolina state Court of Appeals allowed 15 days for more than 60,000 voters to “cure” their November 2024 ballots for a Supreme Court election in order to keep…
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China announced that as of 10 April 2025, it will impose a tariff of 34% on all goods coming to it from the USA, matching the USA’s newest tariff on…
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Federal grants and contracts totaling $510 million to Brown University are to be cut off, ostensibly due to an ongoing investigation into allegations of antisemitism on campus. Brown is the…
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The Constitutional Court of South Korea in a unanimous decision removed Yoon Suk Yeol from the Presidency just four months after he attempted to seize full control by declaring martial…
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