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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S.

The Trump administration bragged about reductions in legal immigration from majority-Muslim countries in a post on social media on Tuesday, touting its discriminatory and white supremacist policies as it moves to increase immigration from white population…

We speak with Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil about his new memoir, No Land to Stand On: Notes from Detention.

The 18th-century notion of the panopticon — a circular prison design with a guard station in the middle, allowing a single officer to enforce discipline by keeping watch over all the prisoners — has become real in the 21st century through AI-driven survei…

A new report details the widespread damage to civilian infrastructure in Iran amid the U.S.

The Trump administration’s abduction and deportation machine is multifaceted.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that several tech firm executives had signed an accord agreeing to self-regulate their artificial intelligence (AI) ventures amid growing concerns about the technology’s rapid expansion.

The more the American public sees of President Donald Trump’s hardline, anti-immigrant policies in action — the deaths, military-style invasions of neighborhoods, and mass detention and deportations — the more his approval on the issue drops.

A new report suggests that the Trump administration is planning to drastically ramp up recruitment efforts at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), expanding the federal agency that has been widely criticized for its violent tactics in carrying out P…

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During an interview on CNBC on Tuesday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) attempted to persuade viewers to vote for Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections, suggesting that Americans want a repeat of the last two years, despite polling…

The Palestinian death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza has surpassed 74,000, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) has dismissed popular concerns among the American public over Big Tech’s hastened buildout of data centers across the U.S. as nothing more than propaganda pushed by the Chinese government.

The Trump administration Monday finalized the rollback of a major fuel economy standard for cars and trucks, a move critics say will cause more climate-warming pollution, human health problems and higher fuel costs for consumers.

During a Fox Business interview on Tuesday morning, Education Secretary Linda McMahon promoted the use of artificial intelligence in schools, citing a controversial online charter school that has been criticized for utilizing inaccurate and confusing AI-g…

Without Amy Miller, some elderly and disabled people wouldn’t be able to vote.

More than 100 Israeli settlers in the illegally occupied West Bank rioted in the early hours of Tuesday morning to prevent the return of a Palestinian family that was driven from its home in the village of Jalud.

An NFL official reportedly threatened to remove Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair from his game earlier this month unless he removed his memorial for an 8-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israel in Gaza.

In late April 2025, after 41-year-old farmer Oussama Farhat was discharged from the hospital, two pieces of shrapnel still lodged in his body, he hurried to check on an injured red fox.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is recusing himself from a climate crisis-related case before the court this year, reversing his previous announcement that he would remain on the case despite his personal financial interests in its outcome.

For the past two months, hundreds of Haitians in Springfield have been targeted by immigration authorities and forced to wear ankle monitors, as the Trump administration metes out collective punishment to appeal to its far right base.

“It is so much money,” Jacqueline Wheelock said to me about the monthly payment amount she will soon be forced to pay for her student loans.

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino is being excoriated for being out of touch after posting a video of himself in a tuxedo partying and spraying a bottle of champagne — amid an affordability crisis that the Trump administration has worsened in…

The tech behemoth and chipmaker Nvidia on Monday announced the largest-ever stock buyback increase in US corporate history as its profits continue to explode due to massive spending on artificial intelligence data centers, which have drawn increasingly in…

The eviction of 87-year-old María del Carmen Abascal Martín in Madrid, after an investment fund bought her apartment building and more than tripled her rent, has become a symbol of Spain’s rising cost of living and sparked nationwide protests against corp…

President Donald Trump is facing fierce criticism over taxpayer-funded TV ads featuring wording from his campaign speeches that aired just five weeks before the midterm elections.

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Twenty-seven mathematicians who have received the most prestigious prize in mathematics — the Fields Medal — recently signed a declaration on artificial intelligence (AI) that highlights the disconnect between mathematicians and AI companies.

These Texas advocates call themselves “lionesses” for a reason: They say backing down is not in their nature.

A rare nor’easter storm system that ripped through the East Coast of the United States this weekend was made many times more likely to happen by the effects of the climate crisis.

The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for election officials to resume using a federal immigration status verification system to check voter rolls for potential noncitizens — a significant victory for President Donald Trump’s administration, but one th…

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The ophthalmologist said he was going to touch my eyeball, then tilted my exam chair back in the darkness.

Two years after the water came, Jen and RJ Garbowicz still own a piece of St.

Ever since Donald Trump returned to office, the LGBTQIA community’s human rights have been disregarded and we’ve had little protection against incursions from the government.

As abolitionists across the United States push for decarceration, a backlash has emerged in the form of new prison construction, demonstrating the resiliency of mass incarceration.

After Missouri voters added abortion protections to the state constitution in 2024, Kelly McCoomb decided to keep her yard sign supporting the measure in the basement of her suburban St.

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Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, in the south Hebron hills, are facing repeated water cuts after Israeli settlers damaged infrastructure supplying water to families in the area.

Echoing activists across the country, the global human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on the United States government to abolish Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The National Iranian American Council (NIAC) has filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ongoing war on Iran.

This week a judge dismissed all the charges brought against a group of Stanford students for occupying the university president’s office in June 2024 to protest Stanford’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Over 100 protesters were arrested near the United Nations in New York on Thursday ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the General Assembly.

A House Democrat has filed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, calling him the “most impeachable president” in U.S. history and accusing him of high crimes and misdemeanors ranging from his war on Iran to his schemes to enrich himself…

An estimate from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on the number of noncitizen residents registered to vote in Nevada has dropped from an initial claim of nearly 16,000, down to 185, and eventually to zero, just weeks after President Donald Trump…

Involuntary psychiatric treatment is a cornerstone of Donald Trump’s mental health policy, and liberal governors like Gavin Newsom, Kathy Hochul, and Wes Moore have also increasingly embraced coercive approaches to mental health care.

New polling finds that Americans approve of socialism more than ever, surpassing the 40 percent threshold for the first time in a Gallup survey as left-wing ideas and politicians surge in popularity.