A coalition of Democratic-led states has taken the Trump administration to court, accusing federal health officials of attaching unlawful strings to massive public funding programs in a move they say targets transgender Americans. Twelve states filed a lawsuit in federal court in Rhode Island, arguing that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) …

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A federal courtroom in Boston turned into a reckoning over paperwork, power, and a young life interrupted, after a college student was deported to Honduras even though a judge had ordered that she remain in the United States. At the center of the case is Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old Babson College student who …

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The U.S. Supreme Court appeared poised to side with states seeking to bar transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams, as conservative justices pressed arguments that framed the issue as one of fairness, safety, and legislative authority rather than individual accommodation. The debate unfolded during marathon hearings over laws enacted in Idaho …

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The U.S. government has put its enforcement plans on hold for now, agreeing not to push hospitals or clinics out of Medicare or Medicaid over gender-affirming care for minors while a major court challenge moves forward. According to a recent court filing, the Department of Health and Human Services will refrain from issuing exclusion notices …

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Nicolás Maduro’s first steps into a Manhattan courtroom were less about handcuffs and charges than about a far larger question: how far can the United States go when it drags a foreign leader before its judges? Standing before the court, Maduro rejected the accusations of narco-terrorism and cocaine trafficking and doubled down on a claim …

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Elon Musk has won the right to take his fight with OpenAI to a jury, after a U.S. judge ruled that his claims over the company’s shift toward a for-profit model raise factual disputes too serious to dismiss. At a hearing in Oakland, a federal judge said the record contains substantial evidence suggesting OpenAI’s leadership …

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