The Department of Justice on Wednesday sued the Commonwealth of Virginia over its recently approved assault weapons ban, asserting that the Second Amendment barred such restrictions.
Virginia is one of a handful of states that have enacted such restrictions on the commonly owned semiautomatic rifles.
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Ohio legislative Republicans have not committed to an override of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto of a bill requiring voter ID for absentee ballots, but they did offer strong criticism of their fellow GOP members.
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Amid federal scrutiny and concerns about commercial driver’s licenses being in the hands of unqualified drivers, Ohio is cracking down on CDLs for those drivers not born in the United States. The CDLs of 1,200 foreign-born drivers will be downgraded to a Class D by the state for failing to adequately meet standards proving they are in the United States legally.
Ohio Department of Public Safety spokesman Bret Crow confirmed the downgrade to The Center Square last week. “Those receiving this notice who believe their documents do meet the updated federal standards may request a hearing with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to dispute the downgrade and/or submit additional documentation to BMV to prove their eligibility,” he said.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Monday that the state is suing TikTok, saying the social media platform broke state laws by ignoring them.
The first, Florida House Bill 3, or the Online Protections for Minors Act, limits social media access for minors.
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The Florida Supreme Court declined Wednesday to halt the use of a new congressional map that state Republicans passed earlier this year amid a mid-decade redistricting push.
Gov. Ron DeSantis had signed the map into law in May, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a Louisiana redistricting case that the state’s existing congressional map that includes an additional majority-black district violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
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A Florida hospital has cut sepsis-related deaths by half by utilizing advanced technology that continuously monitors patients to detect potential early warning signs, The Times reported on Tuesday.
Tampa General Hospital has saved almost 900 lives over four years after implementing the Palantir-developed Sepsis Hub system, The Times reported. The software tracks every patient’s vital signs of every patient around the clock and can notify a “rapid response team” of hospital employees to any slight changes that could indicate sepsis, according to the outlet.
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A Minnesota attorney said dozens of anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protesters will not face state charges for their disruption of a Minnesota church service earlier this year.
The 39 protesters are facing federal civil rights charges for disrupting the church service in St. Paul, Minnesota, in January. The charges came after a livestreamed video showed them interrupting services at Cities Church by chanting “ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good,” after the protesters learned that one of the church pastors was also an ICE official.
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The Ohio State University said Wednesday it has reached a $100 million settlement with all but one of the 280 former students who claimed a campus doctor sexually assaulted them decades ago.
The settlement marks a significant step toward ending the eight-year legal battle over allegations that the school had been aware of hundreds of claims that Dr. Richard Strauss, who committed suicide in 2005, sexually assaulted primarily male athletes in the mid-1970s to 1990s and did nothing.
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Florida on Monday became the first U.S. state to sue OpenAI over the alleged harms caused by the artificial intelligence firm, arguing it knowingly released an unsafe product and ignored warnings about its possible harms.
The lawsuit, filed by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, alleges that OpenAI permitted its flagship AI assistant ChatGPT to aid and abet mass shooters, encourage user suicides, damage users’ critical thinking skills, and addict minors, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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A Republican candidate for Georgia’s 11th congressional district who has recently painted himself as a “pro-Trump” conservative has advanced to a runoff election to become the party’s nominee.
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Federal agents arrested two U.S. citizens in Minnesota on charges of conspiring to defraud Medicaid of more than $21 million through a multi-year scheme involving false claims for autism-related services under the state’s Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) program.
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First-term Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) has filed paperwork to create a legal defense fund following an ethics complaint and allegations of sexual misconduct leveled by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL-13).
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A former Senior Executive Service-level official at the Central Intelligence Agency with Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance was charged with theft of public money after federal agents discovered approximately 303 one-kilogram gold bars valued at more than $40 million, roughly $2 million in U.S. currency, and about 35 luxury watches during a search of his Virginia home.
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As he seeks a comeback, former Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, spoke with CNN about what another term of his would look like, sparking chatter about his stance on Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Pennsylvania Democratic U.S. Sen. John Fetterman’s chief of staff resigned Wednesday and will have her final official day in the coming weeks, Axios reported.
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A Superior Court judge in Fulton County, Georgia, on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order that will allow a bipartisan observation of the state’s election-night operations center.
Georgia state GOP Sen. Greg Dolezal, who is running for lieutenant governor this year, filed a lawsuit seeking the court order.
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The 10th District Court of Appeals this week heard arguments regarding Ohio’s school voucher program, EdChoice, and will decide whether to uphold a judge’s ruling that the program is unconstitutional.
A decision from Common Pleas Court Judge Jaiza Page was appealed last July by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who has defended school choice.
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The National Rifle Association is suing Virginia Democratic Gov. Abigail Spanberger for her signing of a measure to make illegal the buying, selling, importing, manufacturing and/or the transfer of assault weapons in the state.
The NRA filed lawsuits in both federal and state courts, arguing the law is unconstitutional.
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America First Legal is demanding information amid claims that Loudoun County Public Schools hid from parents key safety concerns about a student, who identifies as transgender, filming boys without their pants and underwear in high school bathrooms.
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Five South Carolina Republicans joined Democrats Tuesday to block a Trump-backed redistricting push that could have helped the GOP target the state’s lone Democratic-held House seat.
The state Senate voted 29-17 on a proposal to take up redistricting after the regular legislative session ends, falling two votes short of the two-thirds threshold needed to move forward. The vote came after President Donald Trump took to Truth Social, urging South Carolina Republicans to “GET IT DONE!” and said he would be “watching closely.”
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In the wake of the party’s failed Virginia redistricting gambit, Democrats and their allies in the media and academia have been floating radical proposals to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. In response to their defeat at the Virginia Supreme Court, the Democratic leaders have promised to remain defiant and have labeled the judicial decision “undemocratic” and discriminatory against minorities.
“Even after being aided and abetted by blatantly undemocratic court decisions, the failed GOP majority will not be able to gerrymander themselves back into power,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic Minority Leader, wrote in a letter to his caucus on Monday. “Republican extremists spent the last few days applauding their ongoing effort to rig the midterm elections based on two egregious judicial decisions dripping with far-right partisanship,” he also wrote. “We remain undeterred.”
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Republican Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday announced Ohio Department of Public Safety Director Andy Wilson is his pick to serve for the remaining six months of outgoing Attorney General Dave Yost’s term.
Last Thursday, Yost made his resignation official, effective June 7. He’ll leave his current post to work for Alliance Defending Freedom.
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The political champagne corks barely stopped popping at Democrat headquarters before the Virginia Supreme Court dropped a legal bunker buster right down the middle of their gerrymandering fantasy.
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The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled against the Democrats’ effort to redraw the state’s maps.
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost indicated Thursday that he will resign from office, telling families of fallen officers and other attendees at the annual peace officers memorial that “Today will be the last time I am here in this role.”
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One of Virginia’s top Democratic power brokers and longtime state senator denounced an FBI raid on her Portsmouth office and cannabis business as an attempt to intimidate critics of the Trump administration.
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The FBI on Wednesday raided the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore Louise Lucas in connection with a corruption probe that has ensnared the Democrat power broker and close ally of Gov. Abigail Spanberger, sources told Just the News.
Officials said FBI agents executed search warrants at multiple locations, including a state Senate office in Portsmouth, Va., and a cannabis business with ties to the state senator.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., on Monday signed into a law a new slate of congressional maps that is expected to add several Republican-leaning seats to the state’s congressional delegation.
“Signed, Sealed, and Delivered,” DeSantis posted on X, along with an image of the new slate of maps.
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Florida lawmakers on Wednesday approved a slate of congressional maps expected to bolster Republican chances in the midterms.
The map largely limits Democratic-leaning districts to Orlando and a series of urban areas on the southwest coast. It is expected to face legal challenges, according to Politico.
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The Virginia Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a motion from state Attorney General Jay Jones to lift a stay on the certification of the state’s redistricting referendum result.
The decision follows a Tazewell County Circuit court blocking certification while legal challenges to the referendum persist. The referendum faces multiple challenges and a separate court blocked a GOP-driven challenge earlier this week.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation officers reportedly raided over 20 childcare facilities in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
The raid is being reported by Fox News and CBS News, based on information from sources.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., on Monday unveiled a proposed slate of congressional district maps that would see the state net four-Republican leaning seats.
The map, first reported by Fox News, would limit Democratic seats to Orlando, and three isolated urban bubbles along the southeastern coast.
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The Supreme Court on Monday opted not to hear a gender secrecy case out of Florida, in which parents objected to a policy that kept their child’s school from informing them of a gender transition.
The case involves the School Board of Leon County, Florida, which in 2018 said that when students informed their school’s administration that they would assert a different gender identity, the school would treat students consistent with that gender identity. The plan said that school administrators revealing this to parents could be dangerous to the well-being of a student, CBS News reported.
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After voters in Virginia approved a mid-decade redistricting plan Tuesday that will give Democrats a big edge for U.S. House races, the battle has now shifted to the state’s highest court.
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A Virginia County Court on Wednesday barred certification of the state’s redistricting referendum, pending appeal, according to former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and state Rep. Wren Williams, R-Va.
The Tazewell County Circuit Court issued the injunction barring certification. The order will face certain appeal and likely head to the state Supreme Court, which is already expected to address a challenge to the referendum.
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Virginia voters narrowly approved a gerrymandered House map Tuesday — one expected to add four Democratic seats in the midterms.
The 2026 Virginia redistricting amendment passed with 51% of voters backing the “yes” campaign and 49% casting their ballot for “no” with 94% of votes counted, the Associated Press reported. As a result, the light blue state, where former Vice President Kamala Harris won less than 52% of the vote in 2024, will likely see 91% of its House seats drawn to favor Democrats.
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Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters said — prior to Virginians on Tuesday night voting in favor of a referendum to redraw the state’s congressional map to give Democrats 10 House members and leave Republicans with just one — that his group has a lawsuit in the legal pipeline to stop or reverse the effort.
“We already have a case that’s in the courts right now,” he said on Just the News, No Noise, prior to the vote tally in which the referendum passed 51.5% to 48.5%.
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The Texas State Board of Education on Thursday gave preliminary 9-1 approval to a pared-down mandatory literary works list for all public school students in grades K-12, including multiple Bible passages and stories presented as required reading.
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The Tennessee Legislature passed a bill targeting people or groups that hire protesters.
Senate President Randy McNally (R-Oak Ridge) and House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) signed off on the bill this week after both chambers passed Senate Bill (SB) 2222.
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Tennessee gender clinics may soon be required to offer detransition procedures for transgender people.
The State House passed House Bill (HB) 0754 this week, which mandates gender clinics that accept state funds to offer detransition procedures to patients.
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The state of Minnesota has sued the Trump administration, seeking information related to the deaths of protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good, both whom died during altercations with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during their deployment in Minneapolis.
Filed in the D.C. District Court, the suit names Attorney General Pam Bondi, former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, the DOJ, and DHS as defendants. The state argues that the administration has withheld the information it has due to orders from senior leadership and not due to any concerns about ongoing cases.
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President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order forming a national task force to combat public fraud and placed Vice President JD Vance in charge of the effort.
“If we found half the fraud in this country… we would have a balanced budget,” Trump insisted. He further joked that he expected Vance to take the role seriously and not merely accept a nominal post, pointing to his predecessor.
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The senior U.S. Justice Department official leading a campaign to force states to clean up their voter rolls said she personally witnessed either “incompetence” or “malfeasance” in Maricopa County during past elections where she served as an election lawyer.
Maricopa County, Arizona, home to the state’s largest city, Phoenix, was recently forced to turn over election records to the FBI pursuant to a grand jury subpoena.
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The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) issued a permit to Elon Musk’s xAI company this week to build a power plant in Southaven.
Southaven, about 15 minutes from Memphis, will help power the Colossus 2 data center, which helps operate Grok.
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Billionaire health care executive Rick Jackson on Monday filed a defamation lawsuit against Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, his Republican primary opponent in the state’s 2026 gubernatorial race.
The lawsuit alleges that Jones, who has President Donald Trump’s endorsement in the race, made three separate “defamatory” statements about Jackson on social media this past week. The complaint was filed in the Superior Court of Fulton County this morning, according to Jackson’s campaign.
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The young CEO of a purported autism center serving Minnesota’s Somali community pleaded guilty Monday to raking in over $6 million in a fraud scheme, according to KARE.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Abdinajib Hassan Yussuf, 27, in December 2025 with making fraudulent Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) claims to the Minnesota government. Yussuf and his team raked in more than $6 million through the fraudulent claims, according to a DOJ press release at the time.
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Attorney General Pam Bondi said Friday that federal agents arrested 25 people over an anti-ICE protest at a Minnesota church last month.
“Today, @thejusticedept unsealed an indictment charging 30 more people who took part in the attack on Cities Church in Minnesota,” Bondi posted on X.
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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is facing sharp criticism from within his own party over his defense of Haitian migrants in Springfield, as conservative activist and founder of the Ohio-based We the People Convention Tom Zawistowski accused him of siding with immigrants over Ohio citizens and backing what he called a failed immigration policy.
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Virginia Democrats on Friday passed a new congressional map through the commonwealth’s legislature to give their party four additional U.S. House seats amid a court battle with Republicans over the so-called redistricting plan.
The legislature passed the map, which Democrats are hoping to put before voters in a referendum in April, a day after a judge granted a temporary restraining order requested by the Republican National Committee and state GOP over the redistricting effort, The Associated Press reported.
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The Virginia legislature has advanced a new congressional map with a 10-1 Democratic edge to help the party in the midterm elections.
Both chambers of the legislature on Tuesday advanced the map, which changes the current 6-5 advantage that Democrats have for the commonwealth’s congressional seats, The Hill news outlet reported. Each chamber will now have to pass the other’s legislation, then the map will head to Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s (D) desk for signature. The new map gives Democrats a 10-1 advantage.
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