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FILE – Supporters cheers the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) workers, as they carry their personal belongings after retrieving them from the USAID’s headquarters in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Appeals court clears way for DOGE to keep operating at USAID

March 28, 2025 at 5:38 p.m.

The lawsuit was among of the first filed against Musk himself. It argued that DOGE's actions were unconstitutional because he was wielding significant power without being elected or Senate approved.

FILE – A ghost gun that police seized from an organized shoplifting crime ring is on display during a news conference at the Queens District Attorney’s office in New York City, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Supreme Court upholds Biden rule requiring serial numbers and background checks for ghost guns

March 26, 2025 at 12:10 p.m.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a Biden administration regulation on the nearly impossible-to-trace weapons called ghost guns, clearing the way for continued serial numbers, background checks and age verification...

FILE – President Donald Trump speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Appeals court allows Trump administration to suspend approval of new refugees amid lawsuit

March 25, 2025 at 6:11 p.m.

The Trump administration can stop approving new refugees for entry into the U.S. but has to allow in people who were conditionally accepted.

FILE – A federal employee, who asked not to use their name for fears over losing their job, protests with a sign saying “Federal Employees Don’t Work for Kings” during the “No Kings Day” protest on Presidents Day , Feb. 17, 2025, near the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge’s order to rehire probationary federal workers

March 24, 2025 at 4:13 p.m.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to halt a ruling ordering the rehiring of thousands of federal workers let go in mass firings aimed at dramatically downsizing...

FILE – U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, stands for a portrait at E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, March 16, 2023. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via AP, File)

Appeals court panel appears divided on Trump’s deportation of immigrants under wartime law

March 24, 2025 at 3:21 p.m.

President Donald Trump on Monday questioned the impartiality of the federal judge who blocked his plans to deport Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, levelling his criticism only hours before his...

A mega-prison known as the Detention Center Against Terrorism (CECOT) is located in Tecoluca, El Salvador on March 5, 2023. (Salvador Melendez/AP)

Legal showdown as Justice Department resists judge’s demand for more details on deportation flights

March 19, 2025 at 11:31 a.m.

The Justice Department is resisting a federal judge’s demand for more information about flights that took deportees to to El Salvador.

People rally on 14th St NW in support of fired USAID workers during a protest, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, by the USAID headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Judge rules DOGE’s USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution

March 18, 2025 at 4:02 p.m.

The dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution, a federal judge ruled Tuesday as he indefinitely blocked...

President Donald Trump walks as he tours the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Monday, March 17, 2025. (Pool via AP)

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rejects President Donald Trump’s call for impeaching judge who ruled against his deportation plans

March 18, 2025 at 12:01 p.m.

In an extraordinary display of conflict between the executive and judiciary branches, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rejected calls for impeaching federal judges shortly after President Donald Trump demanded...

In this photo provided by El Salvador’s presidential press office, a prison guard transfers deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

Judge questions Trump administration on whether it ignored order to turn around deportation flights

March 17, 2025 at 7:09 p.m.

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed to halt deportations under a rarely-used 18th century wartime law invoked by President Donald Trump asked a federal judge Monday to force officials to explain...

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Appeals court lifts blocks on Donald Trump’s orders restricting diversity, equity and inclusion programs

March 14, 2025 at 7:51 p.m.

An appeals court on Friday lifted a block on executive orders seeking to end government support for diversity, equity and inclusion programs, handing the Trump administration a win after a...

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