1989—According to the logbook maintained by the staff of the Morristown public library, squatter Richard R. Kreimer “spent 90 minutes—twice—staring at reference librarians.” In response to this and…
On the banks of the Hudson River in Buchanan, New York, the Indian Point Energy Center once stood as one of the most important pieces of the state’s power grid. For decades, the facility consistently generated reliable electricity for millions of homes while supporting good-paying union jobs and providing critical tax revenue for local schools […]
On the morning of Feb. 28, the United States and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury against Iran, killing supreme leader Ali Khamenei and several senior military officials. It was audacious, dramatic, consequential, and executed entirely on President Donald Trump‘s terms. That last part has become a serious political problem. The speed and scale of the […]
Senate Democrats failed last week in their effort to end the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to arrest, detain, and deport illegal immigrants. They voted to fund every DHS agency except Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Thankfully, ICE can keep going on funds from the One Big Beautiful Bill to deport people in the country illegally. […]
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The Senate advanced a DHS shutdown deal without ICE or CBP funding, as Republicans plan to use reconciliation to secure immigration enforcement funding long-term.
The Trump administration likely broke the law when it banned the government from using the artificial intelligence tool Claude and forbade any contractors from doing business with its creator, Anthropic PBC, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
A federal judge on Thursday extended her order requiring that federal authorities give immigrants detained in Minnesota access to attorneys immediately after they are arrested and before they are transferred out of state.
President Trump on Thursday directed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration officers amid the ongoing partial government shutdown.
With President Trump putting a spotlight on fraud, Congress sought to make an example of one of its own members Thursday, holding a rare public hearing to accuse Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of siphoning millions of dollars of ill-gotten money into her campaigns.
An appeals court paused two lower court rulings that limited tear gas use on protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Portland.
A Minneapolis woman who confronted federal immigration officers alongside Alex Pretti in January was among a group of potential litigants who spoke out Thursday about alleged excessive force against people protesting or monitoring the enforcement surge in Minnesota.
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday to rename Cesar Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day in an effort to reconcile the Latino labor icon's legacy with explosive sexual abuse allegations before the state holiday on March 31.
The Education Department will relocate from its headquarters to a smaller Washington office as part of the Trump administration's dismantling of the agency, officials said Thursday.
Many of the celebrations and holidays honoring the late farmworker labor leader Cesar Chavez are being renamed, postponed or completely canceled in the wake of allegations that he sexually abused women and girls while at the helm of the United Farm Workers Union.
Utah's new congressional map, which gives Democrats a high likelihood of picking up a U.S. House seat in the Salt Lake City area, is likely to remain in place beyond this election cycle because a Republican-led initiative to repeal the state's anti-gerrymandering law failed to make the November ballot.
The Conservative Political Action Conference kicked off its first full day Thursday, focusing on its theme "action over words" with panelists and speakers who delivered remarks about America's enemies.
