Former National Security Adviser John R. Bolton has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland on charges accusing him of unlawfully sharing and storing classified national defense information. The indictment claims Bolton used personal email accounts to send top secret material to family members and kept sensitive government... Read More »
President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of former Representative George Santos, releasing the New York Republican three months after he began serving time for federal fraud and identity theft convictions. The announcement, made on Friday on Trump’s Truth Social account, brought an abrupt end to Santos’s seven-year term... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Infowars founder and media personality Alex Jones, who sought to overturn a $1.4 billion defamation judgment over his claim that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. The Court’s order, issued on October 14, 2025, came without written... Read More »
A lawsuit filed by federal employee unions to stop the Trump administration from using a government shutdown to fire thousands of workers has escalated into an emergency legal battle after the White House confirmed that layoffs have begun. The American Federation of Government Employees, two of its California locals, and... Read More »
A former Wyoming library director who opposed efforts to restrict access to books with sexual and LGBTQ+ themes will receive $700,000 in a settlement with county officials, ending a two-year legal dispute over her firing. Terri Lesley led the Campbell County Public Library System in Gillette until 2023, when she... Read More »
A federal judge in Rhode Island has barred the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Housing and Urban Development from enforcing new federal grant conditions that restrict funding for programs connected to diversity, equity, inclusion, gender identity, or abortion-related services. In a decision issued on October 10, 2025,... Read More »
A federal grand jury in Virginia has indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on bank fraud and false statement charges linked to a 2020 real estate purchase, a case she and her attorneys claim was advanced under political pressure from the White House. The indictment, filed October 9 in... Read More »
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has overturned a Department of Health and Human Services policy that placed new limits on federally funded teen pregnancy prevention programs, finding that the agency acted unlawfully. In a 65-page decision issued on October 7, U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled that HHS... Read More »
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in Chiles v. Salazar, a case testing whether Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors violates the First Amendment. The law bars licensed therapists from attempting to change a young person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, and the justices are weighing whether that restriction... Read More »
A coalition of labor unions, employers, and faith-based organizations filed a federal lawsuit on Friday challenging President Donald Trump’s order imposing a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications. The plaintiffs argue that the administration exceeded its authority under federal law and disrupted a program created by Congress to attract... Read More »
Two public school teachers have filed a lawsuit against the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) and its former president, Sean M. Spiller, alleging that the union improperly funneled millions of dollars in mandatory membership dues into political groups that backed Spiller’s unsuccessful run for governor. The complaint, filed September 30... Read More »
An Alabama construction worker who says he was twice detained by immigration agents despite being a U.S. citizen has filed a federal class-action lawsuit challenging workplace raids that he and his attorneys argue unlawfully target Latino workers in the state’s construction industry. The complaint, filed in the Southern District of... Read More »
Amazon reached a record $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission on September 25, ending a case over its Prime subscription practices only days after a jury trial began in Seattle. The agreement includes $1 billion in civil penalties and $1.5 billion in consumer refunds, marking the largest rule-violation... Read More »
A California man who spent 38 years in prison for crimes he did not commit has reached a $25 million settlement with Inglewood and Los Angeles County, which his attorneys say is the largest wrongful conviction settlement in the state’s history. Maurice Hastings, now 72, was convicted in 1988 of... Read More »
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is facing a federal lawsuit from one of its professors, who claims the school has imposed policies that infringe on the First Amendment right of free speech by curbing academic freedom and classroom discussion. Tim Bakken, a civilian law professor in West Point’s... Read More »
