A coalition of 49 Democratic lawmakers is raising the alarm over the growing crisis facing federally appointed defense attorneys, warning that delayed payments to private lawyers could ripple through the justice system. Senator Peter Welch of Vermont and Representative Suzanne Bonamici of Oregon led the push, sending a letter to Congressional appropriators urging full funding …

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The nation’s long-running debate over gender identity in public schools flared up again as the U.S. Justice Department launched a federal lawsuit against the Loudoun County School Board, accusing it of sidelining students’ constitutional rights in the name of policy. According to the department, the school district allowed a transgender student—born female—to use the boys’ …

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Alina Habba, once a courtroom defender of Donald Trump and later his hand-picked choice to run the federal prosecutor’s office in New Jersey, has bowed out after a federal appeals court declared her appointment improper. Her exit closes months of institutional limbo and sharp political friction—though she insists she’s not retreating. Habba announced her decision …

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The federal courthouse in Boston became the stage for a rare reversal, as a Tufts University doctoral student—swept into the storm of pro-Palestinian activism crackdowns—won back the bureaucratic lifeline she’d been denied for months. Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish PhD candidate and vocal campus advocate, walked out of court with something far more consequential than a …

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The fight over a small blue icon on a smartphone screen has erupted into a full-scale constitutional brawl. A popular tool that crowdsourced sightings of federal immigration agents—ICEBlock—vanished from Apple’s app shelves after pressure from the Trump administration. Now its creator is marching into federal court, alleging that a government determined to silence public oversight …

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In a twist worthy of tech folklore, a small Virginia startup has stepped forward to claim the feathers Elon Musk left behind. The company, calling itself Operation Bluebird, has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to scrub away the old Twitter trademarks — so it can resurrect them for its own platform, boldly titled …

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The marble halls in Washington vibrated with an unmistakable tension as the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc signaled its readiness to hand the presidency a towering new advantage—one that could redraw the architecture of American governance and place a 90-year-old precedent on the chopping block. For more than two hours, the justices wrestled with a dispute …

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