Attorneys general from more than 20 states have filed a federal lawsuit challenging billions of dollars in cuts made by the Trump administration that would fund everything from crime prevention to food security. The lawsuit filed in Boston is asking a judge to limit the Trump administration from relying on a provision in the federal regulation to cut grants that don't align with its priorities. Since January, the lawsuit argues, the federal Department of Government Efficiency has used that provision to cancel thousands of grants previously awarded to states and grantees.

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Jaime Quintanilla, attorney for Salvador Enrique Anaya, a critic of President Nayib Bukele's government, speaks on his cell phone outside a police station after arriving to visit his client in San Salvador, Tuesday, June 10, 2025. Anaya was detained on June 7 for alleged money laundering and asset laundering. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

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The former president of the only financial institution to be criminally charged in connection with the federal bank bailout program in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis has reached a settlement with federal securities regulators in a related civil action.