Three New York City homeowners are suing the Mamdani administration over the rollout of the pied-á-terre tax on multi-million dollar second homes. Per a Department of Finance requirement, the Mamdani administration sent letters to all addresses that could potentially be a pied-á-terre based on property value and internal records in late July. Residents have until
DURHAM, N.C. — The Justice Department on Thursday accused Duke University’s law school of unlawfully considering race in admissions in the latest Trump administration action against higher education institutions. In a findings letter to the school, the department said that while administrators paid lip service to being race-neutral in admissions, they used other factors as
WASHINGTON — A federal judge decried efforts to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as he reluctantly dismissed the seditious conspiracy case against members of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group at the Trump administration’s request. The move Tuesday closes the book on the Jan. 6 cases that were
A new report from the Wall Street Journal, published Saturday night, brings to light several possible errors by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department during its search for Nancy Guthrie, which has seen little progress since it began in February. The WSJ, citing personal files and interviews with current and former federal officers and individuals close
Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s administration have withdrawn subpoenas seeking to compel testimony from New York Times reporters who wrote about safety concerns related to the new Air Force One plane. The move came as a federal judge questioned why Trump officials were seeking the records of three journalists and their families. The newspaper had
WASHINGTON– The Trump administration first filed a petition with a secretive, dormant court created 30 years ago to consider government requests to deport so-called “alien terrorists” from the United States. The Foreign Terrorist Removal Court was established in 1996, but had never received a petition until last Wednesday, when the Justice Department filed a request
