News for January 21, 2026

A New York judge ruled that the state’s only GOP-held congressional district was drawn unconstitutionally and ordered the New York Independent Redistricting Commission to make a new map.

ICE has adopted a memo that lets officers enter homes with only an administrative warrant in some cases, raising new legal questions and criticism.

The Washington Post is asking a court to force federal authorities to return a reporter’s seized devices after an FBI search tied to a classified-documents investigation.

The Justice Department said members of DOGE working with the Social Security Administration may have misused Social Security data and shared it in ways that broke agency rules.