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Immigrant rights groups sued the Trump administration on Saturday in hopes of stopping the transfer of immigrants from the U.S. to Guantanamo Bay, according to the suit filed by multiple legal advocacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union.The legal groups filed the lawsuit in Washington, D.C., federal court on behalf of 10 migrants who are in immigration custody in the U.S. and who they say are at “imminent risk” of being transferred to the American detention camp in Cuba without legal authority. The suit alleges the transfers are “arbitrary and capricious” and violate federal law and the U.S. Constitution, citing…

A Microsoft store in New York, US, on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.  Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesTens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon.”We’re investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,” Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in a post on X. “Additional details can be found under MO1020913 in the admin center.”The number of reports that services such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure were down spiked after 3:30 p.m.…

A public meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy descended into a spat.A visit that Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelenskyy hoped would secure US support in the face of Russia’s invasion, instead ended in a very public argument. The meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House was supposed to be about signing over rights to some of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals. Kyiv hoped that would keep US assistance coming, despite not containing any guarantees of security against Russian aggression. Instead, President Zelenskyy got a dressing down from Trump and his Vice President JD Vance, who accused the wartime…

(The Center Square) – A trial is underway in North Dakota in a lawsuit against Greenpeace over its support for protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline.Filed by Texas-based Energy Transfer, the lawsuit alleges Greenpeace in 2016 engaged in or supported unlawful behavior by protesters of the pipeline, while also spreading false claims about it. Greenpeace, according to Energy Transfer, spread falsehoods about the pipeline and conspired to escalate what were small, peaceful protests illegal activity that halted the project in 2016.Energy Transfer – which is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages – claims the alleged actions caused more…

(The Center Square) – Three new federally-funded charging stations were added to the commonwealth’s electric vehicle infrastructure – bringing the total to eight, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation recently announced. The new stations were built using funds from the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, or NEVI, program at the following locations: Flying J Travel Center in New Milford, Susquehanna CountyChambersburg Square shopping center in Franklin CountySheetz at Exit 44 along I-81 in Carlisle, Cumberland County. “Pennsylvania continues to move quickly to invest in critical EV infrastructure,” said PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll. “These federally funded chargers represent a core component in the future of EV transportation…

A dramatic spat between the US and Ukrainian leaders raises concerns about continued US aid for Ukraine’s war effort.Uncertain and wary, Ukrainians have voiced their concerns over the possibility of the United States withdrawing its support for the war-torn country following a dramatic shouting match at the Oval Office between the presidents of the US and Ukraine. A global audience watched in shock as a news conference on Friday between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump shattered already fragile US-Ukrainian relationships. The two leaders and US Vice President JD Vance clashed over differing visions on how to end the three-year-old conflict…

President Donald Trump’s plan to pull federal funding from institutions that provide gender-affirming care for transgender youth will remain blocked on a long-term basis under a federal judge’s ruling in Seattle late Friday.U.S. District Court Judge Lauren King previously granted a two-week restraining order after the Democratic attorneys general of Washington, Oregon and Minnesota sued the Trump administration — Colorado has since joined the case.King’s temporary order expired Friday, and she held arguments that day before issuing a preliminary injunction blocking most of Trump’s plan pending a final decision on the merits of the case. She rejected a portion of…

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on on the day he signs an executive order in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. Feb. 25, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersThe Trump administration continued to face setbacks in court this week over its efforts to drastically downsize the size of the government, while plaintiffs in some of the cases accused the government of trying to sidestep judicial orders.A federal judge in California found a U.S. Office of Personnel Management memo that directed the firing of thousands of probationary employees was unlawful and should be rescinded, while another in Washington, D.C. ordered the…

Signage outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Center for Weather and Climate Prediction headquarters in College Park, Maryland, US, on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. The conservative Project 2025 roadmap calls for slashing NOAA funding at a time when China is investing heavily in climate research. Photographer: Michael A. McCoy/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesMichael A. McCoy | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe federal weather and oceans agency touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways, so massive firings there will likely cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy, according to the people who ran it.The first round of firings…

An ugly and unprecedented confrontation in the Oval Office hammered home President Donald Trump’s hostility toward Ukraine and its president, along with his persistent affinity for Russia’s autocratic ruler.As television cameras rolled, Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance berated Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the democratically elected leader of a country that has been under attack by Russia since 2014, calling him “ungrateful,” “disrespectful,” and “gambling with millions of lives.”The lecture left no doubt that Trump sees Ukraine merely as one of the parties in a negotiation, and not as a democratic U.S. ally grappling with the invading force of a much larger,…