The Trump administration has removed a longstanding directive from the civil rights era that explicitly prohibited federal contractors from allowing segregated facilities, the latest move […]
Category: Politics
Trump Administration Sees Bias in a Judge and Tries to Push Her Off a Case
The Trump administration filed a motion on Friday seeking to disqualify Judge Beryl A. Howell from presiding over a lawsuit brought by the law firm […]
Trump Announces New F-47 Jet: What to Know About Boeing Stealth Fighter
Since the late 1950s, most of America’s warplanes have been given names that indicate a threat, like the F-4 Phantom and the A-6 Intruder, or […]
Trump Threatens to Jail Tesla Vandals in El Salvador Prisons
President Trump escalated his threats against people who vandalize Tesla cars, musing in a social media post on Friday that those convicted of damaging or […]
Bruce M. Selya Dead: Federal Judge Known for Polysyllabic Prose Dies at 90
Bruce M. Selya, a federal judge who issued more than 1,800 opinions and was celebrated (and occasionally chided) for a sesquipedalian writing style — that […]
The Alien Enemies Act, Used by Trump to Deport Venezuelans, Has Long Been Contentious
The centuries-old wartime law invoked by President Trump to summarily deport Venezuelans accused of gang membership was contentious from the moment it was passed and […]
Texas Measles Outbreak May Continue for a Year, Officials Say
As containment efforts falter, the measles outbreak in West Texas is likely to persist for a year, perhaps even setting back the country’s hard-fought victory […]
Trump Attacks Reporting on Musk War Plans Meeting
President Trump claimed on Friday that a report in The New York Times, which detailed plans for Elon Musk to receive a briefing at the […]
Trump Fires Nearly the Entire Civil Rights Branch of D.H.S.
The Trump administration fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security on Friday, gutting a government office responsible for conducting […]
ICE Tells a Cornell Student Activist to Turn Himself In
The Trump administration moved early Friday to detain an international student at Cornell University who has led protests on its Ithaca, N.Y., campus, in what […]