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Minnesota is doing what the feds won't: holding ICE accountable
Christian Castro faces assault and false reporting charges in the shooting of Julio César Sosa-Celis.
A Kentucky primary has become a MAGA reality show from hell
Laura Loomer, Kyle Rittenhouse, and online provocateurs turned Trump’s war on Rep. Massie into a political circus.
GOP push for $1 billion to fund Trump's ballroom hits roadblock
“I think the timing and the optics are really bad,” admitted one Republican senator.
Suing his own IRS? Creating a $1.8 billion slush fund? What the hell is Trump trying to pull?
Whatever it is, it's staggeringly corrupt, and possibly very dangerous.
Interior Secretary claims ignorance of Trump's July 4 “vanity projects”
Doug Burgum told Congress he didn't know who was making his department's decisions on plans for the country's 250th anniversary.
Should Trump get $10 billion in apology money? Mike Johnson hasn't thought about it.
The House Speaker may or may not look into this "congressional oversight" thing.
Report: Trump's Golden Dome would cost $1.2 trillion
A Congressional Budget Office report deemed the missile defense scheme both wildly expensive and ineffective.
In approving Alabama gerrymander, the Roberts Court shows its naked political bias
The justices tossed precedents to allow Republicans to dismantle yet another majority-Black district.
Black lung surges in coal country as Trump slow-walks protections
The administration says it's pro-coal, but miners are increasingly stricken with this brutal disease.
Polymarket's hot new bet: Hantavirus
Users have wagered nearly $3 million on the odds of a hantavirus pandemic.
Polymarket's hot new bet: Hantavirus
How controlled burns can help save taxpayers billions
New research shows every $1 the US Forest Service spent to minimize wildfire risk prevented nearly $4 in damages.
"It's Life Alert or rent": Montana trailer park tenants are on rent strike
Mobile home rents are soaring nationwide as private equity firms snap up trailer parks.
ICE keeps detaining the same US citizen again, and again, and again. He’s fighting back.
“I only wish to live my life in peace,” Leonardo Garcia Venegas said in a declaration.
After SCOTUS destroyed the Voting Rights Act, southern states rush to pass Jim Crow voting maps
“We’re seeing the greatest purge of Black power since the era of Reconstruction.”...
They came for mifepristone. The abortion rights movement is ready.
As the abortion pill heads back to the Supreme Court, advocates have a back-up that's effective and safe: misoprostol alone.
Exclusive: The only woman on death row in Mississippi alleges new civil rights violations in confinement
“This is the worst treatment I have seen by far” of anyone on death row, said the Rev. Jeff Hood of Lisa Jo Chamberlin’s conditions. “By far the worst, not just in Mississippi” but throughout the United States.
Republicans claim widespread food stamp fraud. What's missing? Evidence.
Reviving the “Welfare Queen” stereotype doesn’t make it any more true.
Report Education Departments Office for Civil Rights is Flunking
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Are anti-trans ballot initiatives being used as Republican “ballot candy”?
At least one candidate has admitted his statewide referendum targeting trans kids is intended to drive GOP voter turnout.
Supreme Court reinstates access to abortion pills—for now
Justice Samuel Alito, author of the Dobbs decision, tells the Fifth Circuit to slow down.
Amazon powers ICE. Its workers aren't happy.
Warehouse workers, delivery drivers, and software engineers are organizing against America’s deportation machine.
Amazon powers ICE. Its workers aren't happy.
Trump's new Medicaid work requirements are here
It's just cruelty.
A right-wing court just moved to choke off abortion by mail
A sweeping decision threatens to unravel one of the last remaining pathways to care post-Dobbs.
The Iran war remains unpopular—unless you’re a weapons contractor
The US keeps selling arms without congressional approval.
