News for May 1, 2025

Texas lawmakers may need to act soon or 1.8 million children and pregnant women could lose their current Medicaid health plan and be moved to different insurers.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to let it end Temporary Protected Status for about 350,000 Venezuelans, which would clear the way for deportations and lost work permits.

Sean “Diddy” Combs rejected a plea deal in his New York sex trafficking and racketeering case as jury selection nears.

President Donald Trump is pushing a fast-moving deportation campaign that aims to remove immigrants with little time for lawyers, hearings, or court review.

Jussie Smollett and the city of Chicago have reached a settlement in the city’s lawsuit over his alleged fake hate crime report, six years after the case began.

A Trump-appointed federal judge blocked the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans accused of links to Tren de Aragua.

Jussie Smollett and the city of Chicago have reached a settlement in their civil court fight over the costs tied to his 2019 hate crime claim.

Trump is replacing national security adviser Mike Waltz with Marco Rubio after a Signal chat scandal, while the administration also pushed several major court fights on immigration and federal policy.

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to detain or deport certain Venezuelan migrants in southern Texas.

England’s soccer governing body will ban transgender women from women’s teams after a U.K. Supreme Court ruling changed how the law defines a woman for anti-discrimination purposes.

Migrants at a Texas detention center sent an SOS message as some Venezuelan detainees feared they could be deported to El Salvador under a wartime law, even after the Supreme Court temporarily stopped the removals.

A woman is suing American Airlines, saying the company let a man with prior sexual abuse allegations fly and then failed to protect or support her after she says he assaulted her on a flight.

A federal judge ruled that Apple broke an App Store reform order and said the case may be sent to federal prosecutors.

Testimony in the Tyre Nichols trial says former Memphis officer Demetrius Haley took a photo of Nichols after the beating and shared it multiple times.

Florida executed Army veteran Jeffrey Hutchinson for the 1998 killings of his girlfriend and her three children.

South Korea’s Supreme Court has overturned a ruling that cleared presidential frontrunner Lee Jae-myung, putting his run for office in doubt.

Los Angeles prosecutors have not yet filed charges against Jillian Shriner, while the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office says it is still waiting for more evidence from the Los Angeles Police Department.