The Supreme Court overturned federal fraud convictions of two aides to then-Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, ruling Thursday that their move to punish a local mayor by causing a traffic jam for his constituents wasn't fraud because they didn't earn any money or property from their actions.
Immigration-rights advocates expressed outrage Wednesday after a news report that a migrant being detained by ICE in California has died from COVID-19, saying they'd warned the agency to release more people to reduce the risks.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he never envisioned a salon owner being jailed for violating his stay-at-home orders amid coronavirus, as he lashed out Wednesday at a judge who put a mother behind bars for seven days for refusing to shutter her shop.
Shut out of the federal stimulus, illegal immigrants are turning to charity -- and California is leading a national charge of state and local governments, as well as nonprofit organizations, asking Americans to help by digging into their own stimulus checks to make tax-deductible donations.
A California judge shot down a request Tuesday to halt California Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to make stimulus payments to illegal immigrants to help them out during the coronavirus crisis.
Judicial Watch announced a lawsuit Tuesday aimed at stopping California's illegal immigrant stimulus program, saying Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to give out $75 million in taxpayers' money to help those in the country illegally survive the coronavirus crisis is illegal.
Border Patrol agents in Arizona have been inundated with drone drug drops over the last week, reporting three separate incidents -- and managing to capture the drones in two of them.
Gun sales posted their fifth strong month in a row in April, though they fell from the monthly record set in March, according to analysis of FBI background check numbers released Monday.
Congress may have been gone for six weeks, but that hasn't stopped the ideas from piling up in Washington -- hundreds of bills from lawmakers with suggestions for how to ease the crisis, stockpile for the future, or to punish China for fueling this one.
Top Democrats called Friday for coronavirus stimulus checks to go to illegal immigrants, but said at the very least their spouses or children who are in the country legally should be able to get checks.
A federal judge in Florida ordered ICE to find more soap for detainees at three holding facilities and to give each of them masks, replaced once a week, to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Fully reopening the economy now would cost more than 230,000 more lives -- but would save perhaps 18 million jobs that will be lost if the country remains shut down through June 30, according to new calculations from the Penn Wharton Budget Model.
The dogs that Transportation Security Administration agents use at some airports to screen passengers are cute -- and that's sometimes all they are, an audit of the canine program found.
The U.S. needs to triple its testing capacity, put more time between each phase of reopening, and get used to the idea of smartphone apps that track who has contacted whom, a Washington think tank says after studying coronavirus reopening efforts around the world.
A federal appeals court shot down a Kansas policy that required voters who registered under the federal Motor-Voter law to prove they were citizens before being allowed to vote, saying Wednesday that it shut tens of thousands of voters out of the process.
A Los Angeles-area lawyer bribed FBI and immigration agents to provide "protection" for him, with one scouring law enforcement databases to warn him of ongoing investigations, while the other cooked the books to help a client and a relative with immigration matters, according to a plea agreement filed in federal court this week.
President Trump suggested Tuesday that sanctuary cities may be excluded from an upcoming bill designed to pump money into states and localities whose budgets are busting because of the coronavirus outbreak.
The Trump administration notified Congress this week that it will try to refill the money it took from Pentagon accounts to use to build the border wall by cutting European defense assistance.
Rod Blagojevich congratulated President Trump on Tuesday for saving "millions of lives" with his leadership on the coronavirus outbreak, while urging Mr. Trump to keep an eye on officials he says are violating civil rights with heavy-handed social distancing edicts.
Democrats blasted President Trump's attempt to pause some immigration during the coronavirus crisis, saying Tuesday that the battle against COVID-19 is actually an opportunity to welcome migrants and show more leniency toward undocumented immigrants in particular.