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According to the CBC, ICE agents will not be permitted to carry weapons or make arrests. Instead, they will work with Canadian authorities on joint investigations involving narcotics, weapons smuggling and human trafficking.

A lawsuit filed by the Los Angeles Press Club and other plaintiffs last year claimed “DHS agents have engaged in a pattern, policy, and practice of unnecessarily and indiscriminately assaulting, teargassing, pepper-spraying, and shooting protesters exercising their rights to assemble and to voice their disagreement with DHS, reporters covering these events, and legal observers seeking to document DHS’s conduct.”

In March, researchers at Tufts University announced that they’ve halted releasing statistics from the go-to source of school-level data on student voter registration and turnout — the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement. And the key source of student information needed to produce NSLVE reports, the National Student Clearinghouse, pulled out of working on the study going forward, after a more than decade-long partnership.

The massive 20-point victory by Chris Taylor, a former Democratic state legislator and appellate judge in Madison, expands the progressive majority on the court from 4-to-3 to 5-to-2. That extends a remarkable winning streak for Democratic-backed judicial candidates, who’ve now won five of the last six Supreme Court races in the swing state. It’s a stunning turnaround from a decade ago, when a conservative majority dominated the court and upheld much of then-Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) right-wing agenda, such as his efforts to crush unions, make it harder to vote, and gerrymander in the GOP’s favor.

Fuller won the election to replace her on Tuesday, according to CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. He is a Trump-endorsed candidate who won against Democrat Shawn Harris, and whose victory keeps the strongly conservative district in Republican hands.

A US soldier’s wife who was detained by immigration agents at the military base where he is stationed - just days after their wedding - has been released.

The settlement fund covers eligible plaintiffs who paid Deere’s authorized dealers for repairs to large agricultural equipment during a period that began in January 2018, according to a document filed on Monday, April 6, in federal court in Chicago.

Gates is one of several people who have agreed to be interviewed by the Oversight panel about their dealings with Epstein, the notorious sex offender who killed himself in a New York jail in August 2019.

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested more than 800 people following tips shared by federal airport security officials from the start of Donald Trump’s second presidency through February 2026, according to internal agency data reviewed by Reuters – a figure far above what was previously publicly known.

The satellite firm Planet Labs told customers, including major news outlets, that it was acting on the Trump administration’s request as it announced it was implementing “an indefinite withhold of imagery” in Iran and across the Middle Eastern countries where the widening conflict started by the US and Israel is unfolding.

The White House is proposing to cut more than 9,400 workers and just over $1.5 billion from the ​60,000-employee Transportation Security Administration that handles airport security operations, according to budget ‌documents.

Across the country, Republican-led state legislatures are passing a slate of laws that effectively shield oil and gas companies from legal claims that they are responsible for the destruction and mounting toll caused by climate change. Fifteen laws have either been passed or are currently being debated in 11 states. Together, they threaten to remove long-standing tools for the public to hold corporations accountable.

The foundation’s financials, due May 15, should include the charity’s accounting for the $10 million it received from a state Medicaid settlement, most of which wound up in a political committee intent on defeating the recreational marijuana ballot amendment during the 2024 election — a priority for the governor.

Around the country, optional Medicaid services — such as doula support, home health care, and dental work — are at risk of losing funding as states brace for federal Medicaid cuts to hit their bottom lines. Already, lawmakers in Idaho are considering their own reductions to Medicaid to balance the state’s budget. Missouri officials proposed cutting tens of millions of dollars in services for people with disabilities.

A federal judge on Saturday halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions aren’t considering race in admissions.

The bill (HB 399) has been criticized by Miami Beach officials because it allows the development to move forward without being cleared by the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board. The Miami Beach Commission had urged DeSantis to veto the bill.

Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales has been accused of pressuring yet another staffer for nude photos.

For five months, the young father waited for his three-year-old daughter’s release from federal custody after she crossed the US-Mexico border with her mother, hoping through delays for their safe reunion.

The US Supreme Court has paved the way for Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction to be thrown out, sending the case back to a lower court where it is likely to be dismissed.

A federal judge on Friday reaffirmed his decision to block subpoenas from the Justice Department to the Federal Reserve on the grounds that the probe appears to be driven by a political vendetta, setting the stage for an appeal by the Trump administration.

As Department of Justice officials are working to acquire sensitive voter registration data from states and have recently disclosed a plan to share it with the Department of Homeland Security, a key privacy officer in DOJ’s division tasked with enforcing civil and voting rights laws has resigned.

Editor’s note: The rest of the article is mostly bullshit. Do better NPR. I’m trying to keep the Epstein files in the news.

In February, the Trump administration waived over two dozen environmental laws to clear the way for a 150-mile-long border barrier through West Texas, including Big Bend National Park and the adjoining state park, a rugged and scenic stretch with unscalable canyons along the Rio Grande.

The city of Houston must pay $10 million to $12 million in additional raises to its firefighters after an arbitrator ruled in the union’s favor in a contract dispute, Controller Chris Hollins said Wednesday.

At a private event at the White House earlier this week - which was caught on camera - Trump said that military spending should be a national priority going forward.

The Trump administration ​sued Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois on Thursday, to stop what it called their unlawful efforts to ‌regulate prediction markets because they may violate state gambling laws.

“You know, we’re not supposed to be seduced that way, right? But I am. When someone’s nice to me, I love that person. Even if they’re bad people,”

President Donald Trump must still face civil lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for his role in the lead up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a long-running litigation from Democratic House members and Capitol Police officers.

Pam Bondi is out of her job as US attorney general in the Trump administration, reports the BBC’s US news partner CBS.

The Costa Rican government has agreed to receive up to 25 deported migrants a week from the United States, the latest deal in the Trump administration’s unprecedented efforts to deport scores of people to “third countries”.

But the new law’s once-chief supporter now has some misgivings about it.

One environmental group director described the move as “a costly bureaucratic reshuffle” that will put more power in the hands of corporations and states to log, mine and drill public lands.

The Trump administration official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution was an unnamed author of key industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist.

A US judge has temporarily halted President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom construction project, ruling that proper procedures were not followed before the project began.

Countering that argument, the ACLU’s Wang will tell the Supreme Court that the men who wrote the 14th Amendment deliberately chose to confer automatic citizenship on the child, not the parent.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered ​President Donald Trump’s administration ‌to reverse the termination of the legal status of ​thousands of migrants ​who had been allowed to ⁠temporarily live in the ​United States by using ​an appointment app utilized by Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration.

The cases included an investigation into a Virginia nursing home with a recent record of patient abuse; probes of fraud involving several New Jersey labor unions, including one opened after a top official of a national union was accused of embezzlement; and an investigation into a cryptocurrency company suspected of cheating investors.

“The tech companies – man oh man, do they have far too much influence on our political culture,” Frame reflected. “They think they are the only industry in town, and sadly some people seem to believe that.”

Federal immigration agents will be stationed at Marine Corps graduation events this week, the service has announced, raising fears that undocumented relatives celebrating their loved ones’ achievements will be seized and deported.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Christian counselor over Colorado in her challenge to the state’s ban on so-called conversion therapy for minors.

The Trump administration on Monday announced plans to open 401(k) retirement plans to investments like crypto and private equity that are subject to far fewer safeguards than publicly traded assets like stocks and bonds. Critics warn the move threatens the retirement savings of millions of Americans while delivering a massive windfall for crypto and private equity moguls. The stakes are enormous: If Americans collectively shifted just 1 percent of their 401(k) assets into crypto and private equity, those industries would be flooded with more than $100 billion in new capital.

Eric Trump on Monday shared the first rendered images of a planned Donald Trump presidential library and museum, to be constructed in Miami, Florida.

“Now the military is building a big complex under the ballroom, which has come out recently because of a stupid lawsuit that was filed. But ​the military is building a massive complex under the ballroom, and that’s ​under construction,” Trump said.

U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman expressed concerns at a hearing in Washington that the Defense Department’s revised restrictions for journalists covering the seat of U.S. military power went even further than earlier rules he had blocked.

U.S. Army officials have ordered an investigation into the activities of two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters that flew over Saturday’s “No Kings” protest in downtown Nashville, then engaged in low-altitude maneuvers near the home of Kid Rock just north of the city.

The move came after Trump rejected bipartisan congressional efforts to fund the TSA while negotiations continue with Democrats, who have refused to approve more funding without restraints on Trump’s immigration enforcement and mass deportation operations. The order left other DHS employees unpaid.

After reviewing these sources and additional reporting, we found that Trump has authorized the highest number of strikes and targeted the most countries compared with other 21st century presidents

On Saturday millions of people around the country took part in more than 3,000 No Kings protests opposing the presidency of Donald Trump, whose approval ratings have plummeted to 36 percent, a record low since his return to the White House.

Republican Party delegates on Sunday attempted to undo an earlier vote to strip absent incumbent officials of the Republican brand as critics including the governor called it unenforceable.

It marks the third such settlement by a major bank, after JP Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank agreed to pay out $290m and $75m respectively.

In an op-ed published today, California congressman Ro Khanna said, “The Epstein class thinks it runs America. Today, No Kings protesters send their response.”

A class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse accuses Donald Trump’s administration and Google of failing to protect their identities and exposing them to “renewed trauma” and harassment.

n the 2024 election, nearly one in three Americans voted using mail-in or absentee ballots, accounting for some 48 million votes. And despite persistent rhetoric against it, even President Donald Trump votes by mail. Nevertheless, Trump further admonished mail voting while pushing the SAVE America Act, which could radically change how people vote ahead of the midterms. “Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating,” he said to press in Memphis, Tenn., Monday. “I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all.”

House Republicans are rejecting a Senate-passed bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, a revolt that risks delaying a resolution to the funding impasse now in its 42nd day that has created long lines at many of the nation’s airports.

The Trump administration appears to have allocated some $149 million to dozens of law enforcement agencies across Florida for participating in immigration enforcement partnerships to round up undocumented immigrants across the state, according to a leaked financial ledger.

Iran-linked hackers successfully broke into FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email, the Department of Justice confirmed to Reuters on Friday.

During the Trump decade, CPAC had been a showcase for the MAGA faithful, and Trump and his family were its biggest stars. Trump himself first appeared at the event in 2011 when he was toying with a presidential run. He hasn’t missed the event in a decade. “Nobody can deny that [CPAC] is the center of political gravity,” CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp told me in 2022.

The US Senate has voted to end a partial 40-day government shutdown, approving funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - but with immigration enforcement excluded.

Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant told House lawmakers they were never interviewed in the federal investigations into the late sex offender or the their work for him, according to videos of their depositions with the House Oversight Committee.

Airport security video shows another way federal agents are taking immigrants to detention centers — in some cases they’re using commercial flights, with escorts dressed like any other passenger.

Florida’s public universities will no longer allow a standalone introductory sociology course to count toward general-education requirements after state leaders on Thursday approved a sweeping, systemwide ban that reflects years of Republican criticism of the discipline.

Senators voted by 53 to 47 against invoking cloture, a formal mechanism to overcome the Senate’s filibuster and force a vote on the legislation, which would mandate voter ID.

Lawyers for ICE provided false information to justify arresting and detaining thousands of people who had attended immigration courts, according to newly filed court documents.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) will introduce a bill Wednesday that aims to put a national moratorium on data center construction “until legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence.” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the coming weeks.

Millions of people are expected to protest against the Trump administration at more than 3,000 No Kings events in cities and small towns across the country on Saturday. Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, one of the groups coordinating No Kings, said he expected it to be “the biggest protest in American history”.

Under legislation the progressive duo filed Thursday, named the Home Team Act, teams looking to move would need to give their home cities one year to purchase the franchise at a “fair price” or face financial penalties and lawsuits by state and local governments.

One of the most outspoken members of the US Republican Party over the Epstein files has told the BBC he is “not satisfied until the survivors are satisfied”.

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed three bills ​on Wednesday aimed at limiting ‌state officials’ participation in federal immigration enforcement.

A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry also sells that data, including bulk cell phone location data, to police departments and federal government agencies in ways that can reveal intimate details about Americans without a warrant.

Democrats are projected to win a special election for a Florida legislative district that includes Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, marking another upset in the president’s backyard.

In 2024, the Biden administration revised labeling rules, with the new requirements going into effect earlier this year. The updated labels will include the language: “Born. Raised. Harvested. Processed.”

During a conversation with conservative lawyer Mike Davis on his ‘War Room’ program, Bannon asked, ‘We can use what’s happening with these ICE [officers] helping out at the airports, we can use this as a test run, as a test case to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterm elections, sir?’

A California sheriff running for governor has seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials, saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy.

Minnesota officials are asking a federal judge to force the Trump administration to share evidence it collected after the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, as well as the shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, during the administration’s immigration enforcement operation.