A federal judge in Rhode Island is making national headlines after he halted President Donald Trump's federal funding freeze.

Now McConnell, sitting since 2019 as chief judge of the U.S. District Court, is at the center of a high-stakes legal battle between Democratic states and President Donald Trump’s administration over a ...

In one clandestine recording, the suburban mayor joked of hanging Black people. He called them “spooks.” In another conversation, he casually tossed off the n-word while holding forth at a busy diner, ...

Senior Judge John R. Turner on Wednesday dismissed the 2021 indictment charging Johnson with violating her oath of office, ...

U.S. District Court Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. said at least some aspects of the governmentwide funding freeze ordered by a since-retracted Office of Management and Budget (OMB) memo ...

U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island on Friday granted the request for a temporary restraining order sought by the Democrat-led states, which had argued that the actions from ...

Rhode Island U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell issued the order Friday afternoon, granting 23 Democratic states’ request for a temporary restraining order. The request was filed earlier ...

and Defendants shall not impede the States’ access to such awards and obligations," Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. wrote in the order. The judge also ruled that the White House's withdrawal ...

A two-time Democratic gubernatorial nominee, John Jay Hooker, was battling terminal cancer and believed the state Constitution guaranteed him that right.

U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell Jr. rejected U.S. Department of Justice arguments that the need for such an order was moot because the Office of Management and Budget rescinded the memo ...