Trump has paralyzed agency guarding worker rights, labor experts say

President Trump’s firing of a member at the National Labor Relations Board leaves the federal agency unable to perform its duties protecting the rights of U.S. workers and monitoring union elections, according to labor experts.  The agency is now down to two members, one below the minimum required to fully function, labor attorneys said, even

Federal employees union files lawsuits over CFPB shutdown, DOGE access

Washington — A union representing employees across dozens of federal agencies filed two lawsuits on Sunday against the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with one seeking to block the apparent shutdown of the agency and another aimed at stopping Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing employee records and information.  

Third federal judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order

Washington — A federal judge in New Hampshire on Monday blocked President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, becoming the third judge to do so amid more than half a dozen legal challenges to the president’s directive. U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante said at the end of a brief hearing that he would

Court blocks administration from deporting 3 Venezuelan immigrants to Gitmo

Albuquerque, N.M. — A federal court on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as part of the president’s immigration crackdown. In a legal filing earlier in the day, lawyers for the men said the detainees “fit the profile of those