National FBI: New iPhone Evidence Shows Pensacola Shooter Had Ties To Al-Qaida Justice Department officials say Apple hampered their investigation by refusing to unlock the gunman's iPhones. The case is part of a longstanding debate over national security interests and privacy. Hannah Allam
Politics Federal Judge Blocks Trump Move To Fast-Track Deportations On Friday, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said that the move appeared to have violated federal law. She stated that the administration did not follow the correct decision-making procedures. Kat Lonsdorf
National ACLU: Administration Is Still Separating Migrant Families Despite Court Order To Stop A year after a federal judge ordered an end to family separations, the ACLU says the practice continues. The government says it is allowed to consider a parent's health or criminal history. Richard Gonzales
National New Alabama Law Permits Church To Hire Its Own Police Force A mega-church says it needs its own police for security. Critics say the law will grant state authority to church officials and is unconstitutional, violating the separation of church and state. Richard Gonzales
National Pregnant, Locked Up, And Alone Natalie Lynch spent the last two weeks of her pregnancy in a prison cell, mostly alone. As female incarceration rates rise, some states are banning solitary confinement of pregnant women. Sarah McCammon
National A Dad Wins Fight To Increase Parental Leave For Men At JPMorgan Chase Derek Rotondo filed a class-action complaint against his employer for offering more paid parental leave to women than to men. On Thursday, the bank announced it settled the case. Yuki Noguchi
Politics Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration Policy Of Sending Asylum-Seekers To Mexico The administration had planned to expand the program of requiring asylum-seekers to return to Mexico as they await court hearings in the U.S. Now it has to first defend the policy in court. Richard Gonzales
National Facebook Bans White Nationalism And Separatism Content From Its Platforms The company says such content is linked to white supremacy and organized hate groups. Users who search for terms related to white supremacy will be directed to an anti-hate site. Sasha Ingber
National Facebook Allowed Employers To Exclude Women From Job Ads, ACLU Says The complaint, filed Tuesday, says 10 businesses prevented women from receiving employment opportunities on the website. It also accused Facebook of excluding women in its own company. Sasha Ingber
Employer wouldn't cover their transgender son's surgery. Now ACLU is suing Paxton Enstad is 17 years old and loves to swim. He has many passions – art, baking, gingerbread sculpting – but he always loved to swim. “When I was... Kate OConnell
