Laurie Pohutsky, a Democratic state representative for Michigan, announced that she sterilized herself to avoid pregnancy during Donald Trump's second term as president.
The Department of Justice announced that it instructed authorities in the Dominican Republic to seize a plane belonging to the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on behalf of the U.S.
Washington’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, Chris Reykdal, announced that he is working with the state's attorney general to combat President Donald Trump's order prohibiting transgender individuals from participating in women's sports.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is appealing an order issued by a federal judge in Seattle blocking President Donald Trump’s order against birthright citizenship.
Ippei Mizuhara, former interpreter for Shohei Ohtani, received a 57-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to stealing nearly $17 million from Ohtani’s bank account to cover gambling losses and buy rare baseball cards. He was also ordered to pay over $18 million in restitution.
A federal judge temporarily halted a plan by the Trump administration encouraging federal employees to resign voluntarily before a Thursday midnight deadline. The effort aimed to reduce the federal workforce by offering employees pay through September if they resigned. More than 40,000 workers had accepted the offer before the deadline was paused.
Unions representing federal workers filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to block the sudden closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cut USAID’s workforce from over 10,000 to fewer than 300 and placed thousands of employees on administrative leave. This move disrupted foreign aid programs and sparked concerns about U.S. national security.
President Trump’s recent executive actions face growing resistance in federal courts, as judges block several of his key policies. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle recently struck down Trump’s order to limit birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” and affirming it as a protected right under the 14th Amendment. In Boston, Judge George O’Toole paused Trump’s federal worker resignation program, awaiting further arguments.
