A court order that struck down regulations on firearm suppressors and certain guns took effect Thursday after the U.S. Justice Department did …
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit ove…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Human Rights Watch and three other advocacy groups sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to challenge its campaign ag…
Judge Vyacheslav Kirillov pauses while reading the court decision during a hearing on a lawsuit to bar the Yabloko party from the upcoming parliamentary elections, at the Russia's Supreme Court, in Moscow, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Police block the area at the Russia's Supreme Court after a hearing on a lawsuit to bar the Yabloko party from the upcoming parliamentary elections, in Moscow, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Yabloko party leader Nikolai Rybakov, right at the table, and his lawyers, left of him, attend a hearing on a lawsuit to bar the party from the upcoming parliamentary elections, at the Russia's Supreme Court, in Moscow, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
President Donald J. Trump, Plaintiff, got a welcome break this week in one of his battles with the media — but for the moment, only a temporary one.
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.
HOUSTON (AP) — A 2-year-old girl whose parents sued a Texas hospital to prevent it from testing if she was brain-dead after she drowned in a h…
Appeals court rules Trump must get approval from Congress on ballroom, ordering halt to construction
An appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump must seek approval from Congress to build his proposed White House ballroom, saying construction must stop. The U.S. Court of Appeals sided with historic preservationists who sued to stop construction. The court said it would stay its own ruling for two weeks to allow the administration to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.