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• Senator Jack Reed mengatakan dalam sidang bahwa menteri pertahanan gagal memberikan gambaran akurat kepada Trump tentang perang di Iran • US politics live – latest updates • Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email

• Ratusan orang berkumpul di Mahkamah Agung AS pada 29 April 2026 untuk mengikuti persidangan mengenai Temporary Protected Status (TPS) bagi warga Haiti dan Suriah, di mana para hakim agung meneliti otoritas Presiden Trump untuk mengakhiri program tersebut. • Para hakim tampak skeptis terhadap kekuasaan eksekutif yang luas untuk mencabut amnesti deportasi, menurut laporan dari persidangan tersebut. • Keputusan ini dapat berdampak pada ribuan orang yang menghadapi deportasi dan menguji batasan tindakan eksekutif imigrasi menjelang pemilihan paruh waktu (midterms).

• Anggota DPR dari Fraksi Demokrat mempertanyakan Menteri Pertahanan Pete Hegseth dengan nada skeptis untuk pertama kalinya sejak perang Iran dimulai, mendesak penjelasan mengenai strategi dan biaya dalam dengar pendapat pada 29 April. • Salah satu anggota Demokrat menuduh Hegseth bersikap partisan, mengutip kembali pernyataan-pernyataan sebelumnya di hadapannya dalam sebuah perdebatan sengit. • Konfrontasi tersebut menyoroti perpecahan partisan terkait kerugian ekonomi akibat perang dan kebijakan luar negeri Trump di tengah merosotnya tingkat kepuasan publik.

• Tiga terdakwa membantah merencanakan serangan pembakaran terhadap dua rumah dan satu mobil yang terhubung dengan perdana menteri di London tahun lalu • Serangkaian serangan pembakaran pada properti yang terkait dengan Keir Starmer didalangi oleh seorang kontak berbahasa Rusia yang menggunakan pseudonim “El Money”, menurut keterangan di pengadilan. • Roman Lavrynovych, 22, dan Petro Pochynok, 35, keduanya dari Ukraina, serta Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, warga negara Rumania, duduk tertunduk menghadap penerjemah saat Duncan Atkinson KC, jaksa penuntut, membuka persidangan atas serangan pembakaran pada Mei tahun lalu.

Case looks at whether Trump administration has authority to strip hundreds of thousands of immigrants of TPSThe supreme court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday over whether the Trump administration can strip the temporary protected status (TPS) of hundreds of thousands of Syrians and Haitians, under a program that has protected them from deportation due to safety concerns in their home countries.People with TPS are given the permission to live and work in the US because the government has deemed their home countries to be unsafe due to war, political instability or natural disasters. In the past year, the Trump administration has attempted to cut the program for various countries, opening the door to the removal of hundreds of thousands of protected immigrants in the US. Continue reading...

Home secretary is challenging high court decision that PA’s proscription interfered with freedom of speechThe ban on Palestine Action has created a “culture of fear” among those campaigning for Palestinian rights and judges were right to deem it unlawful, the court of appeal has heard.Shabana Mahmood is challenging the high court’s decision in February that Palestine Action’s proscription, the first of a direct action protest group, represented a “very significant interference” with the rights to freedom of speech and assembly. It also found that the ban, which remains in place pending the appeal, was a breach of the home secretary’s own policy on proscription. Continue reading...

Lawyer for DoJ argued actions taken in public while in possession of a smartphone afforded no expectation of privacyThe US supreme court is considering whether sprawling warrants for smartphone location data infringe on Americans’ privacy rights and violate the constitution.Justices heard opening arguments in Chatrie v United States on Monday that concerned law enforcement’s reliance on so-called “geofence warrants” in difficult cases. The case was originally brought by Okello Chatrie, whose phone location data helped police in Richmond, Virginia, track him down after he robbed a bank at gunpoint and escaped with $195,000 in 2019. Chatrie pleaded guilty to armed robbery and was sentenced to 12 years in prison, but his lawyers argue none of the evidence against him should have been admissible in court. Continue reading...