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September 27, 2026 3:47 PM
The Justice Department announced a new $25 million grant opportunity for local law enforcement under the ANGEL banner, explicitly tied to deaths attributed to undocumente…
September 27, 2026 3:27 PM
A federal judge ordered the administration to stop implementing parts of a White House election order in plaintiff states, calling the challenged provisions unlawful for …
September 27, 2026 3:07 PM
A fresh Supreme Court emergency docket entry shows the government in another immigration detention fight, with a bond-hearing dispute now moving at top speed.
September 27, 2026 2:27 PM
The Supreme Court let the Trump administration use Social Security data to help states identify possible noncitizens on voter rolls, handing the White House another win i…
September 27, 2026 1:47 PM
Customs and Border Protection scheduled emergency maintenance for its ACE production system late Saturday into Sunday, a move that can ripple through trade, cargo process…
September 27, 2026 1:27 PM
The administration said it plans to remove 760,000 Affordable Care Act enrollees over fraud concerns, a move that promises a huge fight over whether the government is cle…
September 27, 2026 1:07 PM
The FBI disclosed a compromise involving its fbijobs.gov portal, saying there may have been an impact to employee personally identifiable information. That is not a small…
September 27, 2026 12:47 PM
The Justice Department filed a request to intervene in a case brought by X Corp. and Elon Musk in Europe, effectively inserting the U.S. government into Musk’s legal figh…
September 27, 2026 12:27 PM
The president’s new H-1B order sharpened the administration’s attack on employers and outsourcing firms, directing agencies to review labor data and pursue potential viol…
September 27, 2026 12:07 PM
A second federal judge struck down New York’s climate superfund law, handing the state and climate advocates another major loss and giving the federal government a clean …
September 27, 2026 11:07 AM
A fresh court filing says $7.6 billion in clean-energy grants were killed because the recipient states backed Democrats, turning a months-long denial into a formal admiss…
September 27, 2026 10:47 AM
The Supreme Court issued a posture order on Friday that signals it is likely to reverse a lower-court ruling blocking federal immigration-status information sharing. The …
September 27, 2026 9:07 AM
The Justice Department filed suit against Minnesota, St. Paul, and Minneapolis over a firearm purchase waiting period, turning a routine state gun rule into the latest fe…
September 27, 2026 8:47 AM
A federal appeals panel sided with a Trump-backed Missouri congressional map, keeping the map fight alive and pointing the dispute toward the Supreme Court.
September 27, 2026 8:27 AM
The SEC on September 26 announced a roundtable on private-markets valuation, putting a spotlight on a fast-growing corner of finance that still runs on more opacity than …
September 27, 2026 8:07 AM
The White House issued a proclamation restricting H-1B entry unless petitions are paired with a $100,000 payment, a move that escalates the administration’s attack on the…
September 27, 2026 7:47 AM
CNN, MS NOW, and Politico sued the Trump administration after being barred from White House grounds, calling the move a content-based punishment and a First Amendment vio…
September 27, 2026 7:27 AM
The Court put a hold on lower-court orders that had forced Missouri to keep the fight over its new congressional map alive. That is a huge procedural win for the map’s de…
September 27, 2026 7:07 AM
The department put out a celebratory readout after a Michigan federal court decision in the BP climate case, but the underlying litigation has become a reminder that the …
September 27, 2026 6:27 AM
New York and allied states filed a new lawsuit over the administration’s decision to pay energy companies to walk away from offshore wind projects. The case turns a clima…