Arcadia, California: The city’s mayor, Eileen Wang, agreed Monday to plead guilty to a federal felony charge for acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government, according to Department of Justice and FBI statements; she resigned her council seat and is scheduled to enter a formal plea in federal...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entered a partial shutdown early on May 12, 2026, after Congress and the President failed to enact appropriations for the current fiscal year. The lapse in funding affects major DHS components, including the U.S. Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency,...
Washington. On Monday, Virginia Democrats filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a Virginia Supreme Court decision that last week voided a voter-approved constitutional amendment to adopt a new congressional map; the state justices ruled 4-3 that the process violated state procedural rules after early...
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday issued an administrative order temporarily leaving access to the abortion pill mifepristone unchanged while the justices consider whether to permit restrictions imposed by a federal appeals court to take effect. Justice Samuel Alito's order prevents immediate enforcement of the appeals-court limitations and keeps...
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed 12 new denaturalization cases in federal courts within hours, signaling a major policy escalation away from the long-standing practice of reserving citizenship revocations for rare cases like war crimes or large-scale fraud. Officials say the move is part of a broader denaturalization initiative...
The Virginia Supreme Court has invalidated a redistricting referendum that had reshaped four of the state’s congressional districts to favor Democrats, handing Republicans a significant legal victory. In a ruling issued this week in Richmond, the court held that the referendum process used to adopt the new maps was constitutionally...
Austin, Texas. On May 11, 2026, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a 59-page state lawsuit against Netflix alleging the streaming service systematically tracked and logged users' viewing habits, device information, household network interactions and other behavioral data without proper consent, including data linked to children and children's profiles. This week...
Washington, United States – Speaking from the Oval Office on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump said the ceasefire between the United States and Iran is “on life support” after he formally rejected Tehran’s latest written peace proposal as a “piece of garbage” and “totally unacceptable.” Trump claimed Iranian negotiators had...
American singer-songwriter David Anthony Burke, known professionally as d4vd, has been charged in the United States with murder and sexual abuse in connection with the death of a 14-year-old girl. According to court filings made public this week, Burke’s lawyers have moved to unseal prosecution documents and evidentiary materials, arguing...
Miami: Two Miami-Dade Sheriff's deputies filed a defamation lawsuit on May 7 in federal court against Artists Equity, the production company owned by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, alleging that the Netflix film 'The Rip' used identifiable details from a 2016 drug investigation and harmed their personal and professional reputations. This...
