9 h. ago Wisconsin judge accused of helping immigrant set to present her case as trial winds down

A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant evade federal authorities is set to present her case as her trial on obstruction and concealment charges winds down

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15 h. ago China sues after Missouri seeks to collect on $25 billion court judgement, prosecutor says

Missouri’s top prosecutor says China is suing after the state pressed federal officials for help collecting on a roughly $25 billion court judgment related to the COVID-19 pandemic

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16 h. ago Ghislaine Maxwell in ‘new evidence’ freedom bid days before Epstein files emerge

Jeffrey Epstein's former girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell asked a federal judge on Wednesday to set aside her sex trafficking conviction

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16 h. ago Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration policies limiting lawmakers' access to ICE facilities

A federal judge in the nation’s capital has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing policies limiting members of Congress’ access to immigration detention facilities

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34 h. ago Trump’s $400M White House ballroom construction expected to continue during court battle over president’s pet project

A federal judge signaled that he was leaning toward denying a request to temporarily halt work on the controversial ballroom

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44 h. ago Officers say at trial of Milwaukee judge her actions made their job more dangerous

Prosecutors are trying to paint a Milwaukee judge as rudely approaching federal officers and making it more dangerous for them to do their jobs when she helped an immigrant escape arrest

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49 h. ago Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is matter of national security

Court filing was response to lawsuit asking judge to halt project until it goes through independent reviews and wins approval from CongressUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s administration argued Monday in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for reasons of national security.The filing came in response to a lawsuit filed three days earlier by the National Trust for Historic Preservation asking a federal judge to halt the ballroom project until it goes through multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Vanderbilt's Langston Patterson among 5 seeking injunction to play 2026 season

Five college football players at power-conference schools asked a federal judge on Monday for a preliminary injunction to play a fifth year next season

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69 h. ago US green card holder sues ICE over claims of ‘violent assault’

Hilda Ramirez Sanan and her two US citizen children were ‘illegally and forcefully detained’, the lawsuit allegesA US immigrant with legal status and her two American children have filed a lawsuit against ICE, after they were hospitalized following a “violent” and “unlawful” detention in Massachusetts.Hilda Ramirez Sanan, a green card holder who has lived in the United States for more than 20 years, and her two US citizen children were “illegally and forcefully detained”, the lawsuit alleges. Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Trial begins for Wisconsin judge accused of helping immigrant evade federal authorities

Trial is underway in Wisconsin for a judge accused of helping an immigrant evade federal authorities

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3 d. ago US immigration crackdown forces teens to caretake after parents are detained

As federal agents target families, teens are left to care for siblings – from accessing bank accounts to medical recordsVilma Cruz, a mother of two, had just arrived at her newly leased Louisiana home when federal agents surrounded her vehicle in the driveway. She had just enough time to call her oldest son before they smashed the passenger window and detained her.The 38-year-old Honduran house painter was swept up in an immigration crackdown that has largely targeted Kenner, a New Orleans suburb with a large Hispanic population, where some parents at risk of deportation had rushed to arrange emergency custody plans for their children in case they were arrested. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Justice Department faces hurdle in seeking case against Comey as judge finds constitutional problems

A federal judge says the Justice Department violated the constitutional rights of a close friend of James Comey and must return to him computer files that prosecutors had hoped to use for a potential criminal case against the former FBI director

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6 d. ago Federal judge blocks ICE from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia again after his release

Abrego Garcia was swarmed by supporters chanting ‘We are all Kilmar!’

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6 d. ago Court blocks the release of hundreds of immigrants arrested in a Chicago

A federal appeals court has blocked the immediate release of hundreds of immigrants detained during a Chicago-area immigration crackdown

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6 d. ago Immigration crackdown leaves teens to care for siblings after parents get detained

An immigration crackdown in Louisiana has forced some teenagers to grow up fast after their parents were arrested by federal agents

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6 d. ago Federal judge orders FEMA to restore billions in canceled disaster mitigation funding

A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the Trump administration to restore billions in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding

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6 d. ago Kilmar Ábrego García released from ICE custody in fight over Trump immigration

Ábrego plans return to Maryland as DHS pledges to appeal judge’s decision, calling ruling ‘naked judicial activism’Kilmar Ábrego García has been freed from an immigration detention facility in Pennsylvania after a federal judge in Maryland ordered his release on Thursday.Ábrego was released shortly before 5pm ET, his attorney told the Associated Press. He plans to return to Maryland, where he has lived for many years with his US citizen wife and child after first entering the country illegally as a teenager. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ICE issues deportation order for Belarusian woman extradited by FBI

Yana Leonova faces multiple charges including fraud and conspiracy for smuggling US aviation parts to RussiaAn ongoing FBI investigation into a Belarusian woman accused of smuggling US aviation parts and electronics to Russia is teetering on the brink of collapse after being caught in what one judge called a “Kafkaesque” case brought on by the Trump administration’s attempts to deport her before she faces trial.Federal prosecutors had worked for over a year to secure the extradition of Yana Leonova, who faces multiple charges including fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering. But their efforts unraveled when immigration officials abruptly issued an order to detain and deport her soon after she was flown into the US last month, a move that plunged the case into legal chaos. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Judge orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be immediately released from immigration detention

A federal judge in Maryland has ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from immigration detention while his legal challenge against his deportation moves forward

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7 d. ago US citizen arrested by ICE in Minneapolis because he ‘looks Somali,’ city officials say

A 20-year-old American man who is a naturalized citizen originally from Somalia was forcibly arrested and detained by masked immigration officers

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