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FOX 24 US A U.S. district judge on Thursday blocked the crux of President Donald Trump’s March executive order, which ordered the creation of a federal citizen list and dictated to whom the Postal Service can send absentee ballots. Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee in Massachusetts, found that those components of the order exceed the president’s power and enjoined them for the plaintiff states. Those states are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Josh Shapiro in his…

FOX 24 US On Monday, the Trump administration scored a quiet win in court. It did so in complete control of the circumstances: it got to pick the judge. Its opponent wasn’t opposed. The result — encompassing the entire case — came in a matter of hours. It was the case of Texas v. DOJ, an obscure administrative lawsuit filed in the Wichita Falls Division of the Northern District of Texas. Ken Paxton, the scandal-ridden Texas attorney general who is running for Senate, sued to invalidate a Biden-era rule allowing immigration court judges to shelve deportation cases indefinitely without deciding them. Normally,…

FOX 24 US The Supreme Court’s right-wing majority ruled Thursday that courts cannot review non-constitutional challenges to the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status for refugees fleeing particularly dangerous countries. They did not reach a conclusion on whether the Court can review constitutional challenges but dismissed clear evidence of racial animus as a motivating factor, making it likely that they’d ultimately bar court review altogether. In effect, this means that thousands of Haitian and Syrian refugees can, and likely will, be sent back to places so dangerous that, in Haiti’s case, the State Department recommends leaving…

FOX 24 US President Donald Trump unexpectedly cancelled his own signing ceremony for the overwhelmingly bipartisan housing bill Wednesday morning due to his obsession with disenfranchising voters ahead of the midterms.  In a Truth Social post Wednesday morning Trump declared he would not be signing the bill into law until Congress passes “the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency.” He’s spoken in dire terms about the SAVE America Act before, but the “National Emergency” line set off alarm bells among voting rights advocates as Trump continues to threaten to take over elections.  Trump’s…

FOX 24 US Democratic incumbents, even powerful ones, continue to be an endangered species as anti-establishment fervor rips through the party.  In New York, that manifested as a historic night for Zohran Mamdani-backed Democratic socialists. In Maryland, it looked like the picking off of the old guard that broke with party orthodoxy on ICE and redistricting.  Tuesday’s primaries were also dotted with some semi-familiar faces, candidacies born of the Trump administration’s path of destruction.  1) Another Bad Day to be An Incumbent  Lefty challengers racked up major wins Tuesday night on both the state and national level.  In the biggest…

FOX 24 US Federal judges in Fort Worth handed down maximum sentences to eight people charged in connection with a July 2025 demonstration outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center that devolved into vandalism and the shooting of a police officer. Benjamin Song was sentenced to 100 years in prison and Maricela Rueda to 70. Savanna Batten, Elizabeth Soto, Meaghan Morris, Autumn Hill, and Zachary Evetts each received sentences of 50 years. Daniel Sanchez Estrada, who was not at the demonstration, was sentenced to 30 years on charges relating to concealing documents in the investigation. Judges in the Northern…

FOX 24 US New York’s 12th district, currently represented by the retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), features Democratic candidates in four different flavors.  The frontrunners in an obscenely crowded race are New York Assemblymember Micah Lasher, fellow state Assemblymember Alex Bores, JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg and lawyer and news commentator George Conway.  Lasher is the paid-his-dues Democrat, having worked for Nadler, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, all of whom support him. Bores has come to be defined by his skepticism toward unchecked AI, and his state regulatory legislation has turned his campaign into a bizarre…

FOX 24 US This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This month, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, unveiled a set of sweeping recommendations to rein in rampant data center development, urging Texas lawmakers to aggressively regulate the tech industry in a state that has a reputation for welcoming new development with open arms. At the same time, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, the Democratic leader of a state known for regulatory restrictions, has declined to say whether she will sign a first-of-its-kind bill passed by her state…

FOX 24 US “This story was originally published by ProPublica. After the Trump administration upended the world’s largest foreign aid provider last year, terminating thousands of programs and firing nearly all of its staff, its plan for the agency was clear: Eliminate it entirely. But because it is a congressionally created agency, President Donald Trump needed lawmakers’ permission to do so. So this year, Trump officials asked Congress for permission to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development and dramatically reduce federal spending on food, medicine and lifesaving work around the world.  Congress said no. Lawmakers, who hold the government’s…

FOX 24 US “I don’t agree with everything Ron Paul thinks,” Tucker Carlson said in an interview at the 2008 Republican National Convention. “I don’t agree with everything I think!” Over the past three decades, Carlson has been saying whatever he thinks, even the things he doesn’t think, also the stuff he apparently does think but doesn’t agree with, even though he thought of it himself. Somehow, this has placed him at the very top of the right-wing media heap. It’s a godforsaken story of constant evolution, always optimizing his positions to retain and grow his audience. His latest act…