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Judge Dismisses Trump Administration Lawsuit Against Illinois Sanctuary Measures

Par :Mitch Smith
The Justice Department had sued the leaders of Illinois, Chicago and Cook County over policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration officials.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, center, has defended the city’s immigration policies.
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Fired FEMA Official Files Suit, Saying Board to Hear Worker Disputes Is Paralyzed

Par :Eileen Sullivan
Fired employees have struggled to get a judge to hear their cases because Congress set up a separate system to referee such employment disputes.

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The headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in Washington.
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Supreme Court, for Now, Pauses Lower Court Decision Limiting Voting Rights Act

Par :Abbie VanSickle
The justices paused a lower court order pending a decision on whether the Supreme Court will take up the case, a major challenge to the Voting Rights Act.

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Voters filling in their ballots at voting booths in Bismarck, N.D., in 2022. If the justices agree to hear the North Dakota matter, it will be the second major voting rights case in the upcoming term, which begins in October.
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Columbia and Penn Made Trump Deals. More Universities Could Be Next.

Par :Alan Blinder
Trump officials hope deals with two Ivy League schools create a template that others, including Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Cornell and Northwestern, will follow.

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The University of Pennsylvania reached an agreement with the Trump administration in which, among other things, it agreed to comply with White House demands on the issue of transgender athletes in women’s sports.
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Appeals Court Blocks California’s Background Checks for Ammunition Buyers

Par :Jesus Jiménez
The law violates the Second Amendment, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in a 2-1 decision.

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California voters approved a ballot initiative in 2019 to require background checks for ammunition buyers.
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Venezuelan Migrant Takes First Step Toward Suing the U.S. Over Detention in El Salvador

Par :Jazmine Ulloa
Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel, who was held in a prison in El Salvador, filed a claim Thursday against Homeland Security, accusing it of wrongful detention.

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Neiyerver Adrián Leon Rengel was held for four months at the Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT, in El Salvador.
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Macrons Sue Candace Owens, Accusing Her of Defamation

Par :Ephrat Livni
The suit seeks damages after the podcaster claimed Brigitte Macron is a man. The French president and his wife said the statement caused “pain to us and our families.”

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President Emmanuel Macron of France and his wife, Brigitte Macron, have sued Candace Owens, a right-wing podcaster.
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In Seeking Epstein Details, Justice Dept.’s Todd Blanche Occupies Unusual Role

Par :Alan Feuer
Legal experts said the involvement of Todd Blanche, President Trump’s former lawyer who is now a top official at the Justice Department, was rife with potential pitfalls and complexities.

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Todd Blanche, the president’s former lawyer and now the deputy attorney general, with Donald J. Trump during his criminal trial in Manhattan in 2024.
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Does the World Court’s Sweeping Climate Opinion Matter? Five Takeaways.

Par :Somini Sengupta
While the court doesn’t have enforcement mechanisms, it has a prominent voice, and its legal arguments could reverberate.

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Judge Yuji Iwasawa, president of the International Court of Justice, read out the court’s climate opinion on Wednesday in The Hague.
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Most Planned Parenthood Clinics Are Ineligible for Medicaid Money After Court Ruling

Par :Katie Benner
A judge issued a preliminary injunction that allowed only some of the group’s health centers to receive payments for services like birth control and checkups.

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Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration over its recently enacted domestic policy law.
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U.S.-Based Orange Juice Importer Sues Over Trump’s 50% Tariff on Brazilian Goods

Par :Alicia Chen
Orange juice prices in the U.S. are already high. The suit argues that the tariff would lead to retail price hikes of up to 25 percent.

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Brazil, the world’s largest exporter of orange juice, supplies most of the fresh juice sold in the United States.
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States Sue Over Unauthorized Immigrants’ Access to Federal Programs

Par :Madeleine Ngo
The suit comes after several federal agencies said they would no longer allow unauthorized immigrants to benefit from more than a dozen health and education programs.

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The lawsuit is led by New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, who was joined by 20 other attorneys general.
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Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building.

Par :Vivian Wang and Andrea Verdelli
Defying demolition orders, a Chinese man turned his home into a rickety 11-story tower. Now tourists are coming.

Chen Tianming’s house, which evokes a Dr. Seuss drawing, has drawn gawkers to his rural corner of Guizhou Province, in southwestern China.
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Fired D.E.I. Administrator Rachel Dawson Sues the University of Michigan

Par :Vimal Patel
In her lawsuit, Rachel Dawson denies making antisemitic remarks and accuses the school of racial bias in its investigation and decision-making.

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The University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor was the scene of strife over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in 2024.
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Lauren Southern, Former Right-Wing Commentator, Says Andrew Tate Assaulted Her

Par :Isabella Kwai
Ms. Southern’s account of a 2018 encounter, made in a self-published memoir, adds to the allegations against Mr. Tate, the online influencer. “She is lying through her teeth,” Mr. Tate’s lawyer said.

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Lauren Southern during a rally in 2017.
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20 States Sue Trump Administration Over Ending FEMA Funding for Disaster Mitigation

Par :Maxine Joselow
FEMA announced in April that it was ending the funding to eliminate “waste, fraud and abuse.” The program saved taxpayers more than $150 billion over 20 years, the plaintiffs said.

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Route 22 in North Plainfield, N.J., on Tuesday, after rains inundated the region. New Jersey is one of 20 states suing the federal government for ending a disaster mitigation program.
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Dismissals at Justice Dept. Would Bypass Civil Service and Whistle-Blower Laws

Par :Devlin Barrett
In court filings and dismissal letters, the Justice Department’s political leadership claims sweeping authority to fire career law enforcement officials without cause.

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Justice Department veterans see an overarching pattern in the dismissals — a quickening effort by the Trump administration to ignore and eventually demolish longstanding civil service legal precedents meant to keep politics out of law enforcement work.
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24 States Sue Trump Over $6.8 Billion Withheld From Education

Par :Sarah Mervosh
Providers say after-school programs and other services for the coming school year are threatened without the federal money, which was abruptly withheld.

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About 1.4 million children nationwide attend after-school programs that rely on federal support.
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S.E.C. Accuses Prominent Georgia Republican of Running Ponzi Scheme

Par :Isabella Kwai
Edwin Brant Frost IV, a well-known Republican, is accused of defrauding 300 investors of $140 million, and using some funds for political donations. He said he took “full responsibility.”

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Edwin Brant Frost IV, in a promo video released by First Liberty Building and Loan.
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order in Class-Action Challenge

Par :Zach Montague and Pat Grossmith
The federal judge reignited the legal standoff over President Trump’s efforts to deny citizenship to children born to undocumented parents.

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The federal courthouse in Concord, N.H. Judge Joseph N. Laplante allowed the case to proceed as a class action.
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Supreme Court Won’t Revive Aggressive Florida Immigration Law

Par :Adam Liptak
The law, enacted this year, made it a crime for unauthorized migrants to enter the state. Challengers say immigration is a federal matter.

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At least six other states have similar laws. Every court to consider them has blocked them, relying on a 2012 Supreme Court decision endorsing broad federal power over immigration.
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Von der Leyen Faces No-Confidence Vote in Far-Right Challenge

Par :Jeanna Smialek
Ahead of the vote on Thursday, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the commission, appeared before the European Parliament to defend herself against complaints about transparency.

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Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission’s president, speaking before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Monday.
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