In a blunt ruling, the federal judge wrote that he would not thwart Republican lawmakers’ bid to pull Medicaid funds from organizations that perform abortions.
A lawsuit, brought by a group that operates 18 family planning clinics in Maine, was filed after Republicans moved to cut off the flow of Medicaid dollars to major abortion providers through legislation this summer.
The order expanded a previous one in April that barred the Trump administration from withholding federal funding to 16 cities and counties over their local laws.
Officials check the files of applicants at a passport facility in Herat, Afghanistan, in 2024. Individuals from Afghanistan are among those who won a visa lottery, but their visas were denied outright or remained in processing.
After a judge threatened to block an order federalizing Washington’s police, the Justice Department issued a new directive leaving the city’s police chief in charge, for now.
The chief will remain after a lawsuit challenged the Justice Department’s attempt to install a new leader as part of an effort to put the agency under federal control.
In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that foreign aid groups that sued to recover funds that President Trump froze cannot challenge the decision.
President Trump and his advisers have consistently claimed expansive authority to freeze federal dollars allocated for projects they have endeavored to snuff out.
Judge Rita F. Lin ordered the National Science Foundation to restore grants awarded to the university, which she said had been suspended in defiance of the court.
Judge Rita F. Lin wrote that the Trump administration had misleadingly framed its latest attempt to cancel National Science Foundation grants as suspensions.
An appeals court ruling means members of the Department of Government Efficiency can have access to personal information stored at several agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management.
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