A government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the legal fight over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil to either New Jersey or Louisiana.

A federal judge has banned a Florida gun retailer from selling certain gun parts in New York that officials say can be used to assemble untraceable ghost guns and sold without background checks.

Michael Avenatti has wavered on whether he plans to take the witness stand in his own defense at a fraud trial in which he is accused of stealing $300,000 in book proceeds from porn actor Stormy Daniels.

ORLANDO, Fla. A coalition of states, cities and civil rights groups on Friday asked a federal judge to declare as unconstitutional President Donald Trump's order seeking to exclude people in the country illegally from being part of the process for redrawing congressional districts. The coalition, led by New York state, in court papers asked U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in New York to stop Trump's order from being implemented and declare that it violated the U.S. Constitution and laws governing the taking of the once-a-decade census. In the alternative, the coalition asked the judge to stop any action from being taken on the order until he can make a final ruling. Opponents say Trump's order is an effort to suppress the growing political power of Latinos in the U.S. and to discriminate against immigrant communities of color. The move to a three-judge panel would allow the case to take a more direct path to the U.S. Supreme Court.