Supreme Court limits review of factual disputes in immigration cases
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The Supreme Court ruled against a Georgia man who has spent decades in the US and faces deportation after checking the wrong box on a driver's license application.
The ruling made it more difficult for non-citizens who are in removal proceedings to get a federal court to review factual determinations that were made by an immigration court concerning relief from deportation.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the decision for 5-4 court interpreting the law at issue even more strictly than the federal government.
A federal judge said Tuesday that the Trump administration must keep funds flowing to the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, rebuffing its latest gambit to shut down the regulatory agency that has long been a target of conservatives.
A National Guard deployment in New Orleans authorized by President Donald Trump will begin Tuesday as part of a heavy security presence for New Year’s celebrations a year after an attack on revelers on Bourbon Street killed 14 people, officials said Monday.
Roughly two dozen ISIS operatives have been killed or captured in Syria by US and partner forces since US airstrikes earlier this month, which were carried out in response to the killing of two American service members.
Ahead of a detention hearing Tuesday for the man accused of placing two pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee buildings in 2021, defense attorneys argue their client should be released from jail while awaiting trial, in part because the bombs never detonated.
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration will feature Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the two most prominent leaders of the Democratic Party’s progressive movement.
Another year of action and uncertainty in America’s abortion care system is coming to a close, after states that weighed in on abortion rights in the 2024 election continue to grapple with the impact of those votes.
The 34-year-old democratic socialist has just a few weeks before the start of state and city budget season begins at the end of January. His top policy ideas include freezing increases on rent-stabilized apartments, making public buses free to ride, and opening city-controlled supermarkets.
The Kennedy Center has been hit with a string of abrupt cancelations in the wake of its board of trustees’ adding President Donald Trump’s name to the landmark performing arts institution.
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security say they are “surging” to investigate fraud in Minnesota, including at child care centers, in the latest show of federal force in the state — home to the country’s largest Somali population.
The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country.
The US military conducted a strike against an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing two people, according to US Southern Command.
President Donald Trump’s Monday meeting in Florida at Mar-a-Lago with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu generated plenty of warm words — but no clear progress in their peace plan for Gaza.
Rosario Olmos spent this Christmas without one of her greatest gifts. Her 19-year-old daughter, Camila Mendoza Olmos, had gone missing the day before just outside San Antonio, Texas.