Hawaii flooding prompts evacuation orders for more than 4,000 people

Muddy floodwaters from severe rains inundated streets, swallowed vehicles and prompted evacuation orders for thousands of residents in towns north of Honolulu on Friday as officials warned of the possible failure of a 120-year-old dam. Honolulu officials told some 4,000 residents in an emergency message to leave the area downstream of the Wahiawa dam because … Read more

Costa Rica shutters its embassy in Cuba and orders diplomats to leave

Costa Rica on Wednesday closed its embassy in Havana and told Cuba’s communist government to pull its diplomats from San José.  “We have to clean out communists from the hemisphere,” Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared after the diplomatic rupture. The Cuban Embassy in the U.S. responded to the closure by alleging in a social … Read more

Immigration judge orders deportation of NYC Council employee after ICE arrest, city leaders push back

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An immigration judge has ordered the deportation of a former New York City Council employee federal officials said in January was an undocumented immigrant with a prior assault arrest. City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced the deportation ruling on Wednesday, condemning it as a “miscarriage of justice … Read more

Judge throws prosecutor out of court and orders leaders of NJ’s US Attorney’s office to testify

TRENTON, N.J. — Vexed by the Justice Department’s chaotic oversight of federal prosecutions in New Jersey, a judge on Monday threw a government attorney out of a hearing and ordered the three officials in charge of the state’s U.S. Attorney’s office to answer his questions under oath. U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi lit into … Read more

Judge orders Trump administration to restore Voice of America and bring back hundreds of staff

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to restore the Voice of America’s operations after large parts of the government-run broadcaster had effectively been shut down a year ago, putting hundreds of employees who have been on administrative leave back to work.  U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth gave the U.S. Agency … Read more

Internal Pentagon memo orders military commanders to remove Anthropic AI technology from key systems

The Defense Department has officially notified senior leadership figures throughout the U.S. military that they must remove Anthropic’s artificial intelligence products from their systems within 180 days, according to an internal memorandum obtained by CBS News. The memo was dated March 6, a day after the Pentagon formally designated Anthropic a supply chain risk. It … Read more

Justices Jackson and Kavanaugh spar over Supreme Court orders favoring Trump

WASHINGTON — Sharing a stage, Supreme Court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh sparred Monday over the many emergency orders the court has issued allowing President Donald Trump to move ahead with key parts of his agenda. The setting was extraordinary, a federal courtroom filled with legal luminaries, including the federal judge singled out … Read more

DOJ asks appeals court to restore Trump’s executive orders targeting law firms, just 4 days after moving to drop defense

The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal appeals court to overturn a lower court ruling that invalidated President Trump’s executive orders targeting four major law firms. The move marks an about-face for the government. On Monday, the Justice Department told a D.C.-based appellate court on Monday it intended to voluntarily drop its appeals of … Read more

Clinton-appointed judge orders government to begin refunding $130B in Trump tariffs after SCOTUS ruling

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to begin the drawn-out task of refunding billions of dollars to companies that paid tariffs the Supreme Court recently invalidated.  Judge Richard Eaton, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, laid out the estimated $130 billion refund process … Read more