WASHINGTON — It was hard to miss President Trump’s very public spat with Pope Leo XIV this week. The split was the first time in modern memory that an American president has so openly badmouthed a sitting pontiff, or, for that matter, distributed an image depicting himself as Jesus Christ. Critics cried “blasphemy!” even as supporters continued…
WASHINGTON — Last September, the Department of Homeland Security started advising unaccompanied immigrant children that they could either self-deport or expect to face long-term detention. But a federal judge in Los Angeles on Mondayordered the government to stop using such “blatantly coercive” language, ruling that the new advisals, as they are known, violated a 40-year-old court order…
MEXICO CITY — The goal, say Mexican authorities, was to bring clarity to one of the nation’s most explosive questions: What happened to the more than 130,000 people officially listed as “disappeared”? Their faces are pasted on walls and lampposts across Mexico, and demonstrators regularly hoist banners demanding the return of loved ones whose names are memorialized…
When I was growing up, the Cuba I heard about in stories was akin to a floating haunted house. I spent much of my youth in Miami: an enclave for Cuban immigrants, many of whom arrived in the United States after 1959, when Fidel Castro and his army claimed victory over the U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio…
Victims of the January 2025 wildfires unhappy with how insurers have handled their claims have filed lawsuits, protested and complained to local and state officials. This week, they got support from an unexpected ally: President Trump. “It was brought to my attention that the Insurance Companies, in particular, State Farm, have been absolutely horrible to…
The federal agency that regulates derivatives markets is ready to put the hammer down on prediction markets. In his first public remarks since joining the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on March 2, David Miller, the agency’s new director of enforcement, made one thing clear: curbing insider trading on prediction markets is a top priority. “Unfortunately,…
The court has granted Anthropic’s request for a preliminary injunction, preventing the government from banning its products for federal use and from formally labeling it as a “supply chain risk,” at least for now. If you’ll recall, things turned sour between the company and the Trump administration when Anthropic refused to change the terms of…
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Monday ordered the government to return to the U.S. a California DACA recipient who was deported last month to Mexico. U.S. District Judge Dena Coggins in Sacramento gave the government seven days to return Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, 42, and restore her protections under the Obama-era program Deferred Action for…