Law

Yes. On September 30, 2026, U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. in Oakland, California, blocked federal agencies from enforcing President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on certain new H-1B visas. Gilliam ruled that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the State Department failed to follow required notice-and-comment rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act before implementing … Read more

Yes. On September 30, 2026, the Metropolitan Police said it submitted files asking the CPS to consider manslaughter and other charges over the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire.

Yes. On September 24, 2026, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced a resolution with 26 articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. The articles allege abuses of power and other misconduct spanning immigration enforcement, military action, federal spending, tariffs, pardons, press access, and more. Introducing articles does … Read more

Yes. On September 25, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an unsigned stay in People Not Politicians v. Onder (No. 26A388) that, for a third time this month, blocked lower-court orders requiring Missouri to use its 2025 Republican-drawn U.S. House map in the November midterms. The justices left the 2022 map in place for the … Read more

Yes. On September 25, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court granted an emergency request that lets the Trump administration use an expanded version of the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database to help states check voter citizenship while challenges to the program continue. The unsigned majority opinion paused a lower-court injunction … Read more

In U.S. property law, real property is land and things permanently attached to it—such as buildings, trees, and mineral deposits—while personal property covers movable or intangible assets that are not classified as real property (for example furniture, vehicles, or a bank account). That distinction matters for how ownership is transferred and regulated: real property is … Read more

The Articles of Confederation (in force from March 1, 1781, until 1789) were the United States’ first constitution. They created a “league of friendship” among 13 sovereign states: each state had one vote in Congress, and powers not expressly delegated to the confederation stayed with the states. That central government could not tax and had … Read more

Corrections programs supervise and rehabilitate people through incarceration, probation, parole, and related treatment and education.

Yes. On September 23, 2026, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly heard arguments on President Donald Trump’s ban barring CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House grounds. Early in the teleconference hearing, Kelly cited D.C. Circuit precedent requiring notice before press credentials are revoked and said of that predeprivation process, “I think it is fair … Read more

Yes. On Sept. 21, 2026, the 8th Circuit backed Missouri’s Republican-drawn U.S. House map, pausing the order until Sept. 28 so the Supreme Court can act before the midterms.