DOJ probes Chicago hiring practices after Mayor Brandon Johnson’s comments on Black officials

The U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into the city of Chicago after Mayor Brandon Johnson touted the number of Black officials in his administration while speaking at a church on Sunday. The DOJ announced the probe on Monday in a letter addressed to Johnson from the head of the department’s civil rights division, … Read more

Judge orders Trump administration to maintain ‘custody and control’ of any migrants deported to South Sudan 

A federal judge is probing whether the Trump administration deported migrants to South Sudan on Tuesday in violation of an earlier order barring deportations of migrants to countries other than their own without giving them sufficient chance to contest their removal. An order from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy late Tuesday directs the government to … Read more

Kristi Noem fumbles habeas corpus, denies DHS will host citizenship TV show

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem incorrectly responded to a lawmaker’s question on the definition of habeas corpus during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the Department of Homeland Security budget for the upcoming year on Tuesday. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., asked Noem, “What is habeas corpus?” The secretary responded, saying, “Habeas … Read more

Rap rivalries, sex performances and assault weapons come into focus at trial of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

A run-in with a rival record executive at Mel’s Drive-in, assault weapons with illegally defaced serial numbers and a sex performance at Trump International Hotel & Tower on Central Park West were some of the topics that jurors in Sean Combs’ criminal trial heard about Tuesday, as prosecutors tried to build their racketeering and sex … Read more

Trump urges House Republicans not to mess with Medicaid amid push to pass bill advancing his agenda: Sources

President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning turned up the heat on House Republican holdout votes endangering passage of the megabill aimed at advancing his legislative agenda, sources told ABC News. Trump spoke to the conference as more than a dozen Republicans seek additional changes to the legislation. Without changes, there is enough opposition to defeat … Read more