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The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, or FIRE, is out with a brief in President Donald Trump's lawsuit against Iowa-based pollster Ann Selzer, urging the court to dismiss the case as an attack on constitutional rights.

FIRE has previously attacked this case as a strategic lawsuit against public participation, or SLAPP, arguing that it has zero merit and is meant to chill negative coverage of Trump in the press.

by Sauro Scalella

The family of one of 231 people killed when a Dominican nightclub roof collapsed on concert-goers is seeking manslaughter charges against the establishment's owners, according to a legal filing Tuesday.

by Elodie MAZEIN

US aviation giant Boeing, fresh off a crippling labor dispute and quality control crisis, has now found itself drawn into the escalating trade conflict between Washington and Beijing.

by Juan Jose Rodriguez

US President Donald Trump's bid to take back control of the Panama Canal has put his counterpart Jose Raul Mulino in a difficult position and revived fears in the Central American country that US military bases will return.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) clashed with voters back home in a town hall meeting Tuesday. Among the questions from constituents was what he's doing for the Maryland father who the U.S. government admits was wrongfully deported to a prison in El Salvador.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said she was shocked to see Grassley be attacked by "his own people."

A US jury on Tuesday convicted a Gambian man for torturing opponents of the African country's former president by burning and beating them, including with molten plastic.

Michael Sang Correa, 46, served in an armed unit known as the "Junglers," which answered to The Gambia’s then-president, Yahya Jammeh.

President Donald Trump's Department of Health and Human Services slashed staffing at a key agency overseeing child care, sparking worries that an already strained system keeping American children safe could be further jeopardized, reported Semafor on Tuesday.

"The Administration of Children and Families — which funnels federal funds to state governments and community organizations for things like child care, early education, foster care, and child protection services — has lost an estimated 40 percent of its employees in the last four months, according to a tracker compiled by former staff and shared with Semafor," reported Eleanor Mueller. Specifically, the personnel at ACF "fell from about 2,400 in January to about 1,500 following this month’s latest most recent round of layoffs, per the informal tracker."

A judge ordered an "intense" two-week investigation into the Trump administration's refusal to try to return a Maryland father who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

The Justice Department clashed with U.S. District Court Judge Paula Xinis in a Tuesday hearing over what the U.S. government acknowledged was an accidental deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

CNN conservative Scott Jennings led a spirited defense of the Trump administration’s refusal to make any efforts to return the Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador– before bashing a Democratic effort to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia themselves.

Jennings, during a CNN panel discussion on Tuesday, insisted that Garcia received appropriate due process and that there was “no future where he, as an illegal immigrant with an existing deportation order, finishes out living a happy life in the United States.”

Laurence Tribe, constitutional law scholar and professor emeritus at Harvard University, thinks Americans understand the seriousness of President Donald Trump's administration defying an order from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Last week, the high court ruled 9-0 that the United States must "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Ábrego García, a Maryland apprentice who came to the United States as a teenager 15 years ago.

Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) became the latest Republican lawmaker to face furious questioning from his constituents over President Donald Trump's economic policies during a town hall held at the Calvary Church in Jupiter — and only inflamed their wrath as he tried to justify Trump's tariff regime.

"As a retiree, I just saw 20 percent of my net worth fall as a result of tariff-on, tariff-off, tariff-on, tariff off," said the man. "You know, stocks go up and down, that's fine, we deal with that, but these huge takes on things are driving all of us crazy. All of the experts are struggling with knowing where is this going? We know that tariffs generally bring more costs to us ... so please, can Congress do someting about the volatility?"

President Donald Trump revealed that Walt Nauta, a former co-defendant in a classified documents case, could run to be the next governor of Guam.

At an event with the Navy football team on Tuesday, Trump noted that Nauta and former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had been appointed to the Naval Academy's Board of Visitors.