The ouster of Trayon White is the first time the council has expelled a member. His trial is set for January 2026. WASHINGTON—The local council in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 4 unanimously expelled member Trayon White following bribery allegations. This is the first time the 13-member D.C. Council has expelled a member. Expulsion requires all
The suit comes the same day as a nationwide protest action against DOGE’s planned overhaul of the federal government. WASHINGTON—A coalition of labor unions filed suit against the U.S. Department of Labor and its acting secretary Vince Micone on Feb. 5, in an effort to keep the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the
A flurry of legal challenges to their detention by the U.S. could come as more illegal immigrants are detained at Guantanamo, Cuba, experts warn.
‘These events took place in 2023—not 1943,’ the judge wrote (@thislouis / X) A federal judge rejected Cooper Union’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Jewish students that alleged the New York college violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by failing to protect them from anti-Semitic attacks. Judge John Cronan also admonished
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was a little-noticed federal agency until it suddenly became the object of a fierce political battle over the limits of presidential power and the accountability of government bureaucracies. When the Trump administration closed the agency’s offices on Feb. 3 and later placed most employees on administrative leave, USAID
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced she will direct the DOJ to pursue the death penalty at the state level against the death row inmates whose sentences Biden commuted.
Raw transcript released as part of FCC investigation into ‘news distortion’ The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) on Wednesday released the unedited transcript of the now-infamous 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which aired on CBS in October 2024. The network provided the transcript as part of the FCC’s investigation into whether CBS violated its “news distortion”