A federal judge has sided with the Virginia NAACP in its lawsuit against a county school board’s reinstatement of Confederate military names to two schools, saying the decision discriminates against Black students. In an opinion filed Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Michael F. Urbanski said the school board in Shenandoah County violated Black students’ rights under the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause. The judge argued unlike a memorial with a Confederate figure's name, schools are places where children should have an “environment free of racial discrimination. In 2024, the school board reversed a 2020 decision to rename two schools. Board members moved to restore Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby-Lee Elementary.

A federal judge is concerned that the Trump administration has violated a court order by transferring several incarcerated transgender women to a segregated prison unit. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington, D.C., didn’t rule from the bench Wednesday on the inmates’ request to return them to general population at women’s prisons and block more transfers into the segregated unit. But the judge said it appears that the government has violated his previous order “on its face." Eight transgender women are currently segregated in the same unit at a prison in Texas. All are plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging an executive order that President Donald Trump signed last year.

President Donald Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, declaring that Canada has unfairly discriminated against American autos, alcohol and dairy products. The move, announced Monday, could unleash a new wave of economic chaos, with risks of higher inflation and further fraying of relations between two nations that had been closely woven together before Trump’s return to the White House.  The administration official previewing the action said that Canada was one of the only nations other than China that retaliated against Trump’s previous tariffs and must be held accountable.

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Alice Rufo, Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans, second left, Aurore Bergé, Minister Delegate for Equality between Women and Men and the Fight against Discrimination, third left, Emmanuel Gregoire Paris mayor, center, and Yonathan Arfi, President of CRIF (Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France), third right, attend the ceremony marking the 84th anniversary of the 1942 Vel d'Hiv police roundup, the largest roundup of Jews in France during World War II, and paying tribute to the Righteous Among the Nations of France in Paris, Sunday, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)