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A federal judge dismissed the Trump administration's lawsuit challenging Los Angeles' sanctuary city ordinance, ruling it governs only city personnel and resources, not the federal government.
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Signed in November 2019, the bipartisan PACT Act made malicious animal cruelty and 'crush videos' a federal felony punishable by up to seven years in prison.
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Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed HB19/SB160 barring people convicted of abusing a dating partner from owning guns, closing Virginia's 'boyfriend loophole' effective July 1, 2026.
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Sean Penn has written and will direct an untitled Warner Bros. film about a real U.S. Capitol Police officer who defended the building on January 6, with Bradley Cooper in talks to star.
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DHS dropped its plan for a 10,000-bed ICE detention megacenter in Social Circle, Georgia after months of pushback from residents, local leaders, and Sen. Raphael Warnock.
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Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz quashed DOJ grand-jury subpoenas targeting Gov. Tim Walz and other Minnesota officials, calling them extraordinarily broad.
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DHS abandoned its plan to convert a Social Circle, Georgia warehouse into a 10,000-bed ICE detention facility after months of pressure from Sen. Raphael Warnock, Sen. Jon Ossoff, local leaders, and residents.
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NAMI Minnesota's helpline saw calls roughly double during the Twin Cities ICE crackdown known as Operation Metro Surge, putting hard numbers to the mental-health toll on immigrant communities.
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Ahead of Juneteenth, Gov. Andy Beshear posthumously pardoned 43 Kentuckians once jailed under an 1835 law for helping enslaved people escape to freedom.
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New Mexico's SunZia Wind Project has come online as the largest wind farm in the United States, generating enough clean power for roughly one million homes.
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Warner Bros. says Sean Penn will direct a film, from his own script, about a D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who responded to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, with Bradley Cooper in talks to star.
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A THE CITY/Documented review of 430 documented ICE street arrests across the NY metro area found more than 93% targeted Latinos - who make up only about 66% of the region's undocumented population.
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