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Whistle-Blower Account Contradicts Government’s Claims on Guatemalan Children

16 septembre 2025 à 15:18
A report filed to Congress on Tuesday alleges the Trump administration concealed data showing that dozens of children it sought to deport faced serious harm back in Guatemala.

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A report filed by the Government Accountability Project, a whistle-blower protection group, said at least 30 of the 327 children the government cleared for imminent removal had “indicators of being a victim of child abuse, including death threats” in Guatemala, based on the government’s own findings.
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Young People Suing Trump Over Climate Have Their Day in Federal Court

15 septembre 2025 à 15:54
They claim Trump’s executive orders are unconstitutional. The government says their lawsuit should be thrown out. The two sides are set to clash this week in Montana.

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The Russell Smith Federal Courthouse in Missoula, Mont., where arguments will be made.

G.O.P. Plan on Pesticides Faces Revolt From MAHA Moms

15 septembre 2025 à 14:15
The provision in the government funding bill could shield pesticide companies from billions of dollars in lawsuits.

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The E.P.A. currently does not classify glyphosate, the active ingredient in certain formulations of Roundup, as a carcinogen, even though the W.H.O. found that the herbicide was “probably carcinogenic” in 2015.
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  • Inside a ‘Hell on Earth’ in Oklahoma
    The Greer Center was supposed to be a refuge for people with developmental disabilities. But accounts from inside the secretive facility paint a starkly different picture, depicting a place where helpless patients faced beatings, waterboarding and constant fear.
     

Inside a ‘Hell on Earth’ in Oklahoma

14 septembre 2025 à 05:00
The Greer Center was supposed to be a refuge for people with developmental disabilities. But accounts from inside the secretive facility paint a starkly different picture, depicting a place where helpless patients faced beatings, waterboarding and constant fear.

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The Robert M. Greer Center in Enid, Okla., previously managed by Liberty Healthcare, faced scrutiny for failing to protect its patients.

Unusual Climate Case Accusing Oil Giants of Racketeering Is Dismissed

12 septembre 2025 à 15:45
Citing laws more commonly used against organized crime, the lawsuit argued that fossil fuel companies were responsible for devastating hurricane damage in Puerto Rico.

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Damage from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017.

Homeless Funding Was Limited to Groups Aligned With Trump Policies, Suit Says

11 septembre 2025 à 21:22
The Trump administration had imposed conditions on grants awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development that critics viewed as overtly political.

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development headquarters in Washington.

Justice Dept. Reverses Course on Claims Guatemalan Children’s Parents Sought Their Return

10 septembre 2025 à 18:27
A government lawyer said there was no basis for claims made earlier to a judge about the children, who were nearly deported over Labor Day weekend.

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Senior Trump administration officials had echoed the claim by the Justice Department that the government was working to reunite families that had been torn apart, and acting on the wishes of the parents.

Supreme Court Rules for Transgender Boy in Bathroom Dispute

10 septembre 2025 à 16:17
The interim order came after a decision in June on medical care for transgender youths and as the justices prepare to hear arguments on transgender athletes.

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A 14-year-old student challenged South Carolina’s bathroom law, saying it violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause and Title IX.

Trump White House Exerts Enormous Influence Over FBI, Lawsuit Says

10 septembre 2025 à 13:19
A sprawling suit by three fired F.B.I. officials provides a disturbing account of efforts by top Trump aides to strip the bureau of its independence.

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A lawsuit filed by three former F.B.I. officials charges the bureau director Kash Patel dismissed them as part of “a campaign of retribution” for their “failure to demonstrate sufficient personal and political loyalty.”

How We Obtained 10,000 Police Disciplinary Records

9 septembre 2025 à 04:55
The New York Times and New York Focus gathered thousands of files from around half of New York State’s nearly 500 law enforcement agencies.

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The investigation has so far obtained records regarding 235 departments collectively containing over 8,000 sworn officers, according to state data.

Marilyn Monroe’s Los Angeles Home Is Saved From Demolition

7 septembre 2025 à 12:40
A judge denied a neighbor’s petition to raze the Spanish-style hacienda, which the City Council had declared a cultural landmark.

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The Spanish-style hacienda where the film star and popular culture icon Marilyn Monroe lived, in Los Angeles.

Settlement Talks Stall Between Harvard and the Trump Administration

6 septembre 2025 à 05:02
One major reason is said to be an emerging divide within the administration over whether the current framework is too favorable to Harvard.

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The Trump administration has opened more than a dozen federal investigations into Harvard over a variety of targets, from the university’s admissions policies to its patent paperwork.

Abrego Garcia Now Facing Shifting Threats of Deportation

5 septembre 2025 à 18:15
A court had ruled that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia could not be sent back to his homeland, but now the administration sees a loophole. On Friday, Mr. Abrego Garcia’s lawyers were told that he would be sent to the small African nation of Eswatini.

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Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore last month.

Kavanaugh Acknowledges ‘Difficult Job’ of His Lower-Court Colleagues

4 septembre 2025 à 17:39
Speaking at a judicial conference in Memphis, the justice expressed sympathy for the district-court judges whose rulings the Supreme Court has repeatedly paused.

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Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh called trial-court judges “the front lines of American justice” while addressing the annual Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference in Memphis on Thursday.

Justice Dept. Accuses California Utility of Starting Deadly Eaton Fire

4 septembre 2025 à 17:35
Federal prosecutors say the January blaze that swept through Altadena, as well as another fire in 2022, were sparked by faulty equipment.

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The Eaton fire killed 19 people when it swept through the community of Altadena near Los Angeles in January.

Orsted Sues Trump Administration in Fight to Restart Its Blocked Wind Farm

4 septembre 2025 à 12:08
The Danish company behind Revolution Wind, a $6 billion project off Rhode Island, said the federal government had unlawfully halted work on the wind farm.

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A tour of an Orsted-operated wind farm off the coast of Block Island, R.I., in 2022.

D.C. Sues Trump Administration Over Deployment of National Guard

4 septembre 2025 à 16:41
The city is challenging the federal government’s authority to send troops into the city for what the president has called a “public safety emergency.”

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National Guard members patrolling the National Mall in Washington, D.C., last month.

Vetements Takes Its Trademark Fight to U.S. Supreme Court

4 septembre 2025 à 10:42
Why does Veuve Clicquot get a U.S. trademark while Vetements — home of the packing-tape minidress, no less! — does not? Its lawyers are asking the Supreme Court.

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Travis Scott and Gigi Hadid walking the runway during the Vetements show at Paris Fashion Week last year.

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow His Sweeping Tariffs

3 septembre 2025 à 22:06
A federal appeals court had invalidated a centerpiece of President Trump’s economic strategy, finding that a 1977 law did not authorize the tariffs.

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The Port of Baltimore in June.

In Texas, a Senate Race Turns Brutal Before It’s Even Declared

3 septembre 2025 à 18:27
Attorney General Ken Paxton is waging “legal war” against Beto O’Rourke, a possible Democratic rival, threatening jail and an investigation that could bankrupt his organization.

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The clash between the politicians started last month as an offshoot of President Trump’s push to have Republicans redraw congressional lines in Texas.

N.Y. Attorney General Sues Far-Right Group VDARE for Misusing Funds

3 septembre 2025 à 12:35
The suit says the nonprofit’s leaders — who helped bring anti-immigrant ideas into the G.O.P. mainstream — used donor money to buy a castle-like home.

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Peter and Lydia Brimelow, leaders of the anti-immigration nonprofit VDARE, are being sued by Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, for allegedly misusing funds to purchase a medieval-style castle in West Virginia.

Years After Japan’s Nuclear Disaster, People With Cancer Seek Answers

3 septembre 2025 à 20:37
A survey has found hundreds of thyroid tumors, but Japanese officials say they are unrelated to the Fukushima meltdowns. Now they face a lawsuit.

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This woman was a middle schooler in 2011 when the Fukushima nuclear meltdown occurred, about 40 miles from her home. She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer a few years later.

Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights

1 septembre 2025 à 13:54
The president, who has targeted collective bargaining contracts for nearly one million government employees, has said their functions touch on national security.

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Edwin Osorio, president of Local 3369, the union representing the Social Security Administration, speaking at a news conference in New York last month.

Exxon and California Spar in Dueling Lawsuits Over Plastics

1 septembre 2025 à 11:39
The oil giant accused the state’s attorney general and four nonprofit groups of defamation after they sued over recycling claims.

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An Exxon Mobil’s chemical recycling unit in Baytown, Texas.

Judge Halts U.S. Effort to Deport Guatemalan Children as Planes Sit on Tarmac

1 septembre 2025 à 10:01
The temporary block ended another last-minute flurry of legal action over the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

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A relative of an unaccompanied minor deported from the United States reviewing a list of those deported outside La Aurora International Airport, in Guatemala City on Sunday.

Why Three Wealthy Bidders Are Fighting for What’s Left of Hudson’s Bay

30 août 2025 à 06:00
Months after the shutdown of the 355-year-old Hudson’s Bay Company, the legal action it created continues apace.

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Most landlords of Hudson’s Bay stores opposed Ruby Liu’s ambitious plan to revive the stores under her name.

Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs Invalidated by Appeals Court

29 août 2025 à 21:53
The decision is a big blow to President Trump’s trade policies, but the judges left the duties in place for now to allow time for a likely appeal to the Supreme Court.

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President Trump’s punishing slate of tariffs immediately drew legal challenges from small businesses and state governments.

Challenge Emerges to Trump-Appointed Prosecutor in Los Angeles

29 août 2025 à 15:38
The federal public defender's office challenged the legality of allowing the U.S. attorneys in Los Angeles and Las Vegas to continue in their jobs without congressional approval.

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A federal public defender’s office in California filed a legal challenge seeking to overturn the appointment of Bill Essayli, the acting U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.

Alabama Man Once Barred From Office Is Elected Mayor

29 août 2025 à 12:14
Patrick Braxton won the first mayoral election in a half century in the small town of Newbern, five years after its leaders put up roadblocks to his assuming office.

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Patrick Braxton defeated his opponent in a second run for mayor of Newbern, Alabama.

Appeals Court Declines to Block Trump From Freezing Foreign Aid

29 août 2025 à 00:43
The court voted not to revisit a fight over billions in frozen funds, but simultaneously revised an earlier order to give nonprofits that sued a narrow path forward in the case.

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The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seemed to render moot, for now, an emergency request the Trump administration had made with the Supreme Court.

Trump Moves to Strip More Federal Workers of Union Protections

29 août 2025 à 00:21
The pre-Labor Day order included NASA, the National Weather Service and the agency that oversees Voice of America.

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NASA was among the government agencies ordered to end all collective bargaining agreements.

Judge Rejects Saudis’ Attempt to Dismiss Lawsuit by 9/11 Families

28 août 2025 à 23:53
A pair of hijackers got settled in California with help from a man paid by the Saudi government. A federal judge found that might have been part of his official duties.

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A federal judge in New York denied a motion by Saudi Arabia to dismiss a lawsuit by families of 9/11 victims seeking to hold the Middle Eastern Kingdom responsible.
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