The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to remove a lower court’s block on its decision to remove temporary legal protections for more than 300,000 Venezuelan nationals. U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the Supreme Court in a brief on May 1 that a federal judge in California had overstepped his authority. “The
One second past midnight on May 2, the United States ended a trading policy it says has been exploited by China to flood the U.S. market with cheap goods and smuggle illicit drugs into the country. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April to end the de minimis exemption for goods imported from
The deal will create an investment fund governed by Washington and Kyiv that will oversee all new natural resource projects in Ukraine. A new resource development deal between the United States and Ukraine will allow both countries to jointly invest in natural resource projects for decades to come. Officials from the U.S. Treasury Department said
More school boards are expected to oppose Washington state’s ‘gender inclusive’ mandates, which leverage state funding. Washington state’s education department is under investigation for allegedly violating privacy regulations, parents’ rights, and Title IX laws established to protect women’s equality in scholastic sports, federal officials announced this week. A Title IX special investigations team comprising Department of
The U.S. Treasury froze assets of a major Mexican cartel fuel-theft ring, sanctioning three brothers and two trucking firms tied to fentanyl trafficking. The Treasury Department on May 1 announced U.S. sanctions on three Mexican nationals and two Mexico-based transport companies that investigators say allegedly fed the fentanyl pipeline of Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación
The judge, who barred deportations of accused Venezuelan gang members in his district, appears to be the first to rule on the order’s merits. A federal judge on Thursday ruled that President Donald Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected Venezuelan gang members is unlawful and barred the government from deporting
The announcement ended speculation about Waltz’s future in the White House. President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that he was naming White House national security advisor Mike Waltz to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, coming after reports indicating that Waltz would be leaving his advisory position. In a Truth Social post on