Law

WASHINGTON — The American Academy of Pediatrics and a half dozen other major medical groups sued Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday for making “unilateral, unscientific changes to federal vaccine policy” that they contend are an “assault” on... Read More

WASHINGTON — A coalition of Second Amendment advocates is suing to invalidate gun ownership restrictions that were revised by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act President Donald Trump signed July 4. The bill removes many of the National Firearms Act... Read More

BOSTON — A trial over the Trump administration’s attempts to deport international students and scholars involved in pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses began on Monday with the plaintiffs arguing the efforts threaten to upend free speech rights enshrined in the... Read More

WASHINGTON — A new FBI report on the 2019 jailhouse death of financier and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has reignited a feud between President Donald Trump and his former billionaire ally Elon Musk. The FBI concluded that Epstein committed... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to determine whether New Jersey Transit is immune from liability as a state agency. The public transit agency was sued by two men who were hit and injured by commuter buses in separate... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department this week appealed a court judgment that blocked sanctions against the law firm of Perkins Coie in what appears to be a resumption of President Donald Trump's reprisals against lawyers who oppose his policies. The... Read More

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has rolled back a 54-year-old landmark environmental protection law to aid in faster housing and infrastructure development.  Announced on Monday, the new law reverses the California Environmental Quality Act. Newsom said in a... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation has selected the site of its new headquarters and the big news is, it’s literally just down the street from its current building. On Tuesday, the agency and the General Services Administration announced... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is being accused of a security breach that allowed a notorious Mexican drug gang to track down and to kill FBI informants. An auditor’s report released last week says the Sinaloa drug cartel hired a... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday threw out appellate rulings in favor of transgender people in four states following the justices' recent decision upholding a Tennessee ban on certain medical treatment for transgender youths. But the justices took no action in cases... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday limited the authority of lower courts to issue nationwide injunctions that block controversial executive orders from the president. The immediate issue was an executive order from President Donald Trump that ended birthright citizenship,... Read More

WASHINGTON — The State Department is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the location, recovery, and return of Mahmood Shah Habibi, an American businessman kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2022. Information on Habibi is scarce.... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol police and members of Congress are the latest to get hit with a wave of doxing in which anonymous perpetrators send pizzas to their homes under an assumed name. Doxing refers to gathering personal information about... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court held Wednesday that the D.C. Circuit is the proper venue for challenges to “nationally applicable” actions by the Environmental Protection Agency, dealing a blow to a group of small refiners seeking waivers to the nation’s... Read More

WASHINGTON — The American Bar Association is suing the Trump administration over the president's recent executive orders retaliating against law firms that opposed his policies. The lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., says Trump's orders that... Read More

WASHINGTON — Attorneys general nationwide announced their approval Monday of a $7.4 billion settlement with pharmaceutical manufacturer Purdue Pharma over what they say was the company's inappropriate marketing of opioids. The powerful painkillers have been blamed for thousands of deaths... Read More

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. — The man suspected of carrying out the shooting spree Saturday morning that left one Minnesota lawmaker dead and another gravely wounded has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree... Read More

WASHINGTON — Two police officers who tried to hold back rioters during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection in Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking a court order requiring that a plaque be hung in the Capitol honoring police who... Read More

WASHINGTON — Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, before being cuffed and ultimately forced to the ground as he tried to speak on the immigration raids... Read More

ORLANDO, Fla. — Five leaders of the Proud Boys are suing the U.S. government over what they describe as politically motivated prosecutions for their participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. Each of them was convicted on... Read More

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another 2,000 National Guard troops along with 700 Marines are headed to Los Angeles on orders from President Donald Trump, escalating a military presence local officials and Gov. Gavin Newsom don’t want and the police chief says creates logistical challenges... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a religious charitable foundation can opt out of paying taxes for unemployment compensation in a decision that threatens to revamp part of the federal-state insurance program. Unemployment compensation provides financial benefits to... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a veteran’s lawsuit against defense contractor Fluor Corp., over injuries he sustained in a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan. As recounted in his petition to the high court, former U.S.... Read More

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Defense Department information technology expert made his first appearance in federal court Friday after being arrested this week on charges of violating the Espionage Act. Nathan Vilas Laatsch is accused of trying to pass top secret... Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday told the American Bar Association that the president’s judicial nominees will no longer sit for interviews with nor respond to questionnaires from the organization. For years, the bar association, which describes... Read More

WASHINGTON — A nearly unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of environmental review required under the National Environmental Policy Act, holding the act does not require agencies to consider certain upstream or downstream impacts of the projects. At... Read More

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Court of International Trade, a federal court that deals exclusively with trade issues, ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority last month when he imposed tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner.... Read More

WASHINGTON — The FBI announced this week that it is revisiting unsolved high-profile crimes in the nation’s capital that the agency’s new leaders say potentially carry much larger political implications. They include the 2022 leak of the draft of the... Read More

WASHINGTON — One of Ed Martin’s last acts as he left his job this week as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia was to acknowledge to his staff that he is under investigation for ethics violations. Martin was... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced the selection Thursday of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro to become the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia after his previous nominee failed to win Senate support. Pirro, 73, is a former... Read More