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Appeals court pauses orders limiting federal agents’ use of tear gas at protests near Portland ICE building

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An appeals court paused a pair of lower court rulings in Oregon that restricted federal agents’ use of tear gas and other crowd-control munitions during protests outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted the … Read more

Nicolás Maduro and his wife back in federal court for first time since arraignment

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Ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are scheduled to appear in a Manhattan federal courtroom Thursday, where their lawyers are expected to argue that their drug trafficking indictment should be thrown out because the U.S. government is blocking their ability to pay for their defense. Last month, Maduro and his wife … Read more

Justice Department tells judge it incorrectly used ICE memo to justify immigration court arrests

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The Justice Department this week conceded to a federal judge in New York it had been incorrectly citing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo to partially justify arrests at immigration courthouses, calling the oversight a “material mistaken statement of fact.” Justice Department lawyers disclosed in a letter on Tuesday that a May 2025 ICE memo … Read more

US appeals court sides with Trump administration on detaining immigrants without bond

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The U.S. can continue to detain immigrants without bond, an appeals court ruled on Wednesday, handing a victory to the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. The opinion from a panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis overturned a lower court ruling that required that a native of Mexico arrested for lacking … Read more

Nicolás Maduro heads back to a US court, fighting charges as Venezuela moves on without him

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NEW YORK — Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro returns to a New York courtroom Thursday as he seeks to have his drug trafficking indictment thrown out over a geopolitical dispute over legal fees. Maduro’s lawyer contends that the U.S. is violating the deposed leader’s constitutional rights by blocking Venezuelan government funds from being used to … Read more

FEMA will resume major grant program after yearlong hiatus, following a court order

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The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday opened applications for a major resilience grant program that the agency canceled last year, less than three weeks after a federal judge ordered FEMA to make the funding available. FEMA will make $1 billion available for the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, which helps states, local governments, … Read more