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The US is reviewing the records of more than 55 million US visa holders to assess if they have broken conditions for entry or stay in the country. People with US visas will be under “continuous vetting”, a state department spokesperson told the Associated Press news agency. Visas will be revoked if there are indications of “overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity, or providing support to a terrorist organisation”, an official said.President Donald Trump has made anti-immigration the cornerstone of his second administration, from mass deportations and full-on travel bans on countries…

Much ink has been spilled on Justice Neil Gorsuch’s ardent defense of the rights of American Indians. As legal scholar Ilya Somin noted in 2023, until then “Justice Gorsuch ha[d] never voted against Native American interests in a Supreme Court case.” Many commentators – those of a liberal bent in particular – have reacted with puzzlement to this aspect of Gorsuch’s jurisprudence. This confusion was perhaps put best (fairly or not) by Mark Joseph Stern, who asked “[h]ow did an archconservative justice on an archconservative bench become the best friend Native Americans have ever had at the Supreme Court?” In…

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Keao Caindec, the co-founder and CEO of Clarra, a case management platform. They discussed how law firms are leveraging case management, ways that it can help global enterprises track litigation, the benefits of using reporting and analytics to measure and forecast, and how artificial intelligence is affecting the way that firms and legal departments manage their dockets. Ari Kaplan: Tell us about your background and the genesis of Clarra. Keao Caindec: My background is in technology and a variety of [software as a service] cloud and hosting companies. My business partner—an attorney—and I met three…

The UAE weather this weekend is all about soaring temperatures, hazy skies and even a chance of rain but that doesn’t mean you have to sizzle tooThe UAE weather forecast shows another stretch of hot and hazy days, with strong winds and a chance of rain in some eastern and southern parts of the country, according to the National Center of Meteorology (NCM).Hot and hazy across Dubai and Abu Dhabi Dubai will see hazy sunshine today with highs of 41°C and a warm night dipping to 32°C. Abu Dhabi will be even hotter, reaching 42°C by day and cooling slightly…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration has refused to reveal how many workers have left federal health agencies amid a massive purge. Without official figures, ProPublica turned to a federal employee directory to quantify the impact. Several news outlets — including ProPublica — have used this directory to show who is entering and leaving the federal government, spot political appointments and identify members of the Department of Government Efficiency. According to multiple former and current employees and health agency documents, the…

An appeals court has thrown out a $500m (£372m) penalty that President Donald Trump was ordered to pay in a New York civil fraud trial last year. Judge Arthur Engoron had ordered Trump to pay the fee for massively inflating the value of the Trump Organization’s properties in order to secure favourable loans. In the lengthy ruling released on Thursday, judges on the New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division stated that while Trump was liable for the fraud, the fine of nearly half a billion dollars was excessive and probably violated constitutional protections against severe punishment. In the case Judge…

By a vote of 5-4, the Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to allow the National Institutes of Health, the largest public funding source for biomedical research in the world, to terminate $783 million in grants linked to DEI initiatives. In a brief unsigned order, the court granted a request from the Trump administration to pause a ruling by a federal judge in Massachusetts that required the federal government to continue making the payments. Also by a vote of 5-4, the court left in place a different portion of the judge’s ruling, which had thrown out internal NIH guidance documents describing…

Home Daily News Supreme Court approval rating reaches low… Judiciary Supreme Court approval rating reaches low point, while local courts get average grades By Debra Cassens Weiss August 8, 2025, 9:51 am CDT Neither the U.S. Supreme Court nor state and local courts are faring well in two recent polls. (Photo by Allison Robbert/The Washington Post) Neither the U.S. Supreme Court nor state and local courts are faring well in two recent polls. Record-low polling numbers for the Supreme Court are fueled by Democrats and political independents, while perceptions of state and local courts are worse among those with court…

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The analysis is an undercount — it doesn’t include the hundreds or even thousands of workers who have received layoff notices but remain on administrative leave.No health agency has been spared, with some important divisions losing more than 1 in 5 workers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in charge of public health, lost 15% of its staff; the National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, 16%; and the Food and Drug Administration, which ensures the safety of most of what goes into people’s bodies — from baby formula to cancer drugs to…