The Supreme Court appears poised to rule in favor of a straight woman’s discrimination claim in a case that could overturn a line of precedent that has made “the Civil Rights Act apply unequally,” according to a legal scholar familiar with civil rights litigation. Petitioner Marlean Ames claims that she was demoted and passed over for a position in the Ohio youth corrections system in favor of two...

Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, sparked a firestorm on social media Wednesday over comments questioning DOGE chief Elon Musk’s allegiance to the United States given that he has been a citizen for “only” 22 years. “Mr. Musk has just been here 22 years,” Kaptur said outside the Capitol on Wednesday. “And he’s a citizen of three countries. I always ask myself the question, with the damage he’s doing here,...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) eliminated federal regulations created during the Obama administration, which Secretary Scott Turner accused of putting “extreme and restrictive demands” on local housing developers.  President Donald Trump rescinded the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule, created under former President Barack Obama, during his first administration. Trump said at the time in a speech about cutting red tape in the federal...