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FILE – The Theodore Roosevelt Building, location of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, is pictured, Feb. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Judge rules Trump administration illegally fired thousands of probationary workers

September 15, 2025 at 3:56 p.m.

The Trump administration’s central human resources office acted illegally when it directed the mass firings of probationary workers as part of President Trump’s efforts to downsize the federal workforce, a...

FILE – Immigrant rights supporters hold a rally in front of the federal courthouse in San Francisco, on Monday, March 24, 2025, ahead of a hearing for a lawsuit against the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Terry Chea, File)

Appeals court blocks Trump administration from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans

August 29, 2025 at 6:44 p.m.

A federal appeals court on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s plans to end protections for 600,000 people from Venezuela who have had permission to live and work in the United...

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, with Ecuador’s Minister of Interior John Reinberg, not shown, speaks during a press briefing at the Ecuadorian Presidential Palace, Thursday, July 31, 2025, in Quito, Ecuador. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Appeals court allows Trump to end temporary protections for migrants from Central America and Nepal

August 21, 2025 at 8:12 a.m.

A federal appeals court halted a lower court’s order that had kept in place temporary protections for migrants from Central America and Nepal.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sits on a horse as she speaks to the press upon arrival to the Campo De Mayo Military Base in Buenos Aires province, Argentina, Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Judge extends migrant status protections for 60,000 people from Central America and Nepal

July 31, 2025 at 8:05 p.m.

Temporary Protected Status designations for an estimated 7,000 from Nepal was scheduled to end Aug. 5. And protections allowing 51,000 Hondurans and nearly 3,000 Nicaraguans to reside and work lawfully...

FILE – A person carries a sign in support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) workers, as they carry their personal belongings after retrieving them from the USAID’s headquarters in Washington, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Appeals court keeps block on Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal workforce

May 31, 2025 at 8:45 a.m.

An appeals court on Friday refused to freeze a California-based judge’s order halting the Trump administration from downsizing the federal workforce, which means that the Department of Government Efficiency-led cuts...

FILE – A group of Florida International University students protest against cuts in federal funding and an agreement by campus police to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, on the FIU campus on a day of protests around the country in support of higher education, April 17, 2025, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Federal judge blocks immigration authorities from revoking international students’ legal status

May 22, 2025 at 2:15 p.m.

A judge in California blocked the Trump administration Thursday from terminating the legal status of international students nationwide while a court case challenging previous terminations is pending.

President Donald Trump speaks after David Perdue was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to China during a ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s massive downsizing of federal agencies

May 9, 2025 at 9:53 p.m.

Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco said President Donald Trump and his administration failed to get approval from Congress to initiate the cuts.

FILE – Students march at Arizona State University in protest of ASU’s chapter of College Republicans United-led event encouraging students to report “their criminal classmates to ICE for deportations”, Jan. 31, 2025, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

ICE is reversing termination of legal status for international students around US, lawyer says

April 25, 2025 at 1:02 p.m.

The federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students around the U.S. after many filed court challenges against the Trump administration crackdown, a government lawyer said...

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, April 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Judge bars Trump from denying federal funds to ‘sanctuary’ cities that limit immigration cooperation

April 24, 2025 at 7:17 p.m.

There is no strict definition for sanctuary policies or sanctuary cities, but the terms generally describe limited cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE enforces immigration laws nationwide but seeks...

FILE – Immigrants line up in the dining hall at a U.S. government holding center for migrant children, July 9, 2019, in Carrizo Springs, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Legal services for unaccompanied migrant children still uncertain after judge orders reinstatement

April 3, 2025 at 12:17 p.m.

Legal aid clinics that sued the Trump administration after it canceled legal services for migrant children alone in the country say they are still in limbo.

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