Long before Concordia Parish, the machinery of legalized segregation was assembled in Louisiana.

The February 2026 decision in Learning Resources v. Trump held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act gives the president no power to tax imports, and by July the Treasury had refunded about $81 billion in collected duties.

Israel's security cabinet quietly approved 1.3 billion shekels to build 34 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the same week EU foreign ministers debated, but did not agree on, banning trade in settlement goods.

The World Health Organization says its modelling suggests the true scale of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Ebola outbreak is at least two to four times the roughly two thousand confirmed cases, as the United States began barring American citizens in the country from boarding flights home until they spend twenty-one days elsewhere.

The State Department has formally designated Youlin Chen wrongfully detained on an espionage charge his family calls baseless, and Beijing rejects the label.

The Court's decision overruling a 1935 precedent lets the president fire the leaders of roughly two dozen independent agencies, including the board that hears federal workers' firing appeals.

A coalition of twelve Democratic attorneys general asked a federal court to stop the roughly $110 billion combination of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery on antitrust grounds, weeks after the Justice Department approved the deal without conditions.

The Times has asked a federal court to block the grand jury subpoenas of its journalists, and the prosecutor who issued them would not tell senators whether the president personally directed them.

Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia activist held for 104 days in 2025, has filed a federal civil-rights suit accusing Trump administration officials and pro-Israel groups of a coordinated plan to surveil, detain, and deport pro-Palestinian activists.

Two pro-Palestinian advocacy groups asked a New York federal court to strike down the sanctions regime built on Executive Order 14203, arguing it criminalizes protected American speech and association.