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The outcome of a trial over Missouri's abortion regulations could ripple far beyond the state, potentially creating new availability for women in the Midwest and South who can't access abortion close to home. As a judge weighs the constitutionality of a litany of state restrictions on abortion, the stakes are clear for Missouri women: The decision could hamper access for nearly everyone in the state - or greatly broaden it in ways not seen in decades.

Donald Trump has said it would be a complete mess if the US supreme court were to strike down his global trade tariffs. In a lengthy post on social media, the US president said WE'RE SCREWED if the supreme court rules against the tariffs, before the decision, which could come as soon as Wednesday. It is a crucial legal test of his controversial economic strategy and his power.

The Trump administration secretly reimposed a policy limiting Congress members' access to immigration detention facilities a day after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis, attorneys for several congressional Democrats said Monday in asking a federal judge to intervene. Three Democratic members of Congress from Minnesota were blocked from visiting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Minneapolis on Saturday, three days after an ICE officer shot and killed U.S. citizen Renee Good in the city.

Rollins asked Walz and Frey to provide the USDA with justification for all federal spending from 20 January 2025 to the present within 30 days. She is also requiring that all federal payments to the state moving forward require the same justification. We're communicating with state partners to understand the impacts of such a blanket cut to funding meant for residents most in need, Brian Feintech, a spokesperson for the city of Minneapolis, told the Guardian in a written statement in response to Rollins' letter.

Your decision to withdraw at the last moment-explicitly in response to the Center's recent renaming, which honors President Trump's extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure-is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,

As the first anniversary of congestion pricing approaches on Jan. 5, a federal judge has delayed a ruling on the controversial toll program until next month. The judge set oral arguments for Jan. 28 in the legal battle over the tolls into Manhattan south of 61st Street, according to an article in Bloomberg. The lawsuit centers around the MTA suing President Donald Trump's administration because it is seeking to end the toll program in the city.

Legal row over Lord Waterford's right to shoot, hunt and fish could open up new front in planning wars

Massachusetts will no longer require prospective foster parents to affirm the sexual orientation and gender identity of the children they foster, following legal challenges and criticism from religious groups. The change comes after the conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a federal lawsuit in September on behalf of two Massachusetts families, who claimed the requirement conflicted with their religious beliefs, according to a Fox News report.

Reddit has launched a challenge in Australia's highest court against the nation's landmark social media ban for children. The online forum is among 10 social media platforms which must bar Australians aged under 16 from having accounts, under a new law which began on Wednesday. The ban, which is being watched closely around the world, was justified by campaigners and the government as necessary to protect children from harmful content and algorithms.

A federal judge has ordered the National Guard to leave Los Angeles and return to Gov. Gavin Newsom's control in a stern rebuke of the Trump administration 's contention that it can leave troops in the city indefinitely. The order handed down today goes into effect at noon on Monday. "It is profoundly un-American to suggest that people peacefully exercising their fundamental right to protest constitute a risk justifying the federalization of military forces," U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer wrote in the opinion.

Under a joint proposal with seven Republican-led states that challenged the program, the department would not enroll any new borrowers in the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan, deny any pending applications and place borrowers currently in the plan into legally compliant repayment plans. The program, introduced in 2023 under then-President Joe Biden's administration, was hit with legal challenges from several GOP-led states, including Missouri, and has been blocked by the courts.

Lawmakers passed the All-Electric Buildings Act, which requires most new buildings to have only electric appliances, in 2023 as a step toward reducing pollution from the state's largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and advancing New York's legally mandated emissions targets. It was set to take effect in January. Delaying the law's implementation past then would cause the state "irreparable harm," lawyers argued in an Oct. 1 brief. They'd spent two years successfully defending the law against industry opponents.

Any and all Documents, Proclamations, Executive Orders, Memorandums, or Contracts, signed by Order of the now infamous and unauthorized AUTOPEN,' within the Administration of Joseph R. Biden Jr., are hereby null, void, and of no further force or effect, the president wrote. Trump included in his post anyone who received a pardon from Biden, which would include his son Hunter Biden.

Today marks the beginning of our legal challenge to one of the most extreme attacks on civil liberties in recent British history a measure condemned across the political spectrum as an affront to our democracy and an unjustifiable drain on counterterror resources that should be focused on actual threats to the public, Ammori said at the beginning of the hearing.

That 2015 hunt was found constitutional under the rational basis test, and this hunt is significantly more conservative than that hunt in 2015, both in the number of bears that could be harvested, as well as the timing, when it's a little less likely for more female bears to be killed.

However, in its ruling, ACP has refused planning permission on three grounds and two of the reasons for refusal relate to the light-bellied Brent goose, a winter migrant from high-Arctic Canada. Most fly here between October and April. ACP has issued a refusal as the scheme would materially contravene a number of policies in the Dublin City Development Plan for the protection of European sites from a conservation point of view.

Founded in 1994 and housed at the US Department of Treasury, the CDFI Fund, with modest federal allocations ($324 million in fiscal year 2025, the fund's highest core funding ever), has helped spur a network of community lending institutions. Not long ago, due to their ability to support businesses during the pandemic in low-income communities, CDFIs had garnered record support, including $12 billion in one-time funding to support lending by CDFIs and other banks and credit unions owned by and operating in communities of color.

The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, which became law on July 4, 2025, instituted a new fee system for people in the immigration system, including asylum seekers. The legislation requires that they pay a $100 filing fee and an Annual Asylum Fee (AAF) of $100 for each year their application is pending. The new law bars asylum seekers from obtaining fee waivers.

A state court in Nashville on Monday heard a legal challenge by some Democratic elected officials to Donald Trump's deployment of the national guard into the streets of Memphis, notable in part because of who has not raised an objection: the city of Memphis itself. Shelby county mayor Lee Harris led the lawsuit, along with state representatives Gabby Salinas and GA Hardaway, both Memphis Democrats. Other state and local leaders joined the suit, including one Memphis city council member.

The court heard that health director-general Dr David Rosengren had consulted with executives of the state's hospitals and health services at 10am on 28 January, the same time that Nicholls held a press conference announcing the ban and a subsequent review. In a statement to parliament on Tuesday, just hours after the verdict, Nicholls issued a "written ministerial direction" to reinstate the ban until the review had been completed, saying the court ruling had focused on the improper process behind the ban's enactment, not whether it was appropriate. 'I am satisfied it is appropriate and in the public interest that I issue a written ministerial direction,' he said, according to The Guardian. The new directive's provisions are believed to match those announced in January.

The department will publish a rule tomorrow in the Federal Register that would allow the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, to disqualify government and nonprofit employers that do not align the Trump administration's agenda from participating in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. While no specific organizations have yet been named publicly as ineligible for PSLF under the rule, LGBTQ+ organizations operating as 501(c)(3) nonprofits are likely to be targeted.

The Council for Opportunity in Education, which advocates for TRIO programs such as Upward Bound, said about 100 grants were rejected or canceled last month after the Education Department delayed funding for thousands of grants that were slated to begin Sept. 1. Another 23 programs lost funding earlier in the year. Those terminations deprived more than 43,600 students of services such as tutoring and financial aid help.

The administration set a Monday deadline to remove the references or risk losing millions of dollars of federal funding. Almost all of the states that are complying have Republican-controlled state legislatures and most have Republican governors. Sixteen other states and Washington DC have sued over the administration's demand, claiming that it tramples on the authority of Congress, which created the $75m sex education program, the Personal Responsibility Education Program (Prep).

if the suspension is the price she has to pay to "protect my most intimate medical information" then she is "happy to pay".

A Supreme Court judge has reserved his decision on a legal challenge against Queensland's refusal to provide trans youth healthcare. Supreme Court Justice Peter Callaghan reserved his judgement in the case brought by the mother of a trans teen who was denied puberty blockers as a result of the government's decision. The Australian state chose to restrict puberty blocker prescriptions for trans youth in January as part of a review into the hormone suppressants.

We're a nation of laws and accountability - not a nation that turns a blind eye to abuse of power. Donald Trump, himself a convicted felon who pardoned felons convicted of assaulting federal law enforcement officers, is misleading the public with his false narrative that America, and especially California, is some lawless wasteland. But California is proving him wrong - in the courts and on the facts,