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38 percent of local election officials report threats, harassment or abuse: Poll

Nearly 4 in 10 local election officials experienced threats, harassment or abuse while on the job, according to a new poll. In the survey, published Wednesday by the Brennan Center for Justice, 38 percent of local election workers reported "threats, harassment or abuse," while 54 percent said they are concerned about the safety of their...

It’s official: Non-police first responders work and America needs more of them

Many of these programs have the full support of police, who are relieved to not have to act as social workers or counselors, which they aren’t trained to be.

Map: Where teachers are being paid the least, according to new report

In some states, teachers are barely making enough to be considered middle class.

Witnesses line up to slam Michael Cohen ahead of Trump trial star’s turn 

NEW YORK — In 2011, Stormy Daniels’s manager phoned a lawyer to complain that “some jerk” had called her up threatening to sue over a blog post claiming the porn actress slept with Donald Trump. “I hate to ask it this way,” Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor with the Manhattan district attorney’s office, said Tuesday while...

Of course Trump isn’t immune from prosecution

Several of the justices focused on a parade of hypotheticals that allowed them to avoid the actual case before them.

UCLA, Columbia protests reach tipping point with 300 arrested in New York

Violence erupted between police and student protesters Tuesday night and Wednesday morning at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with hundreds arrested in New York. The New York City Police Department went through a second-story window at a Columbia building that had been seized by demonstrators and cleared out the protesters,...

Blinken says ‘time is now’ for Gaza cease-fire

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said late Tuesday that "the time is now" for a cease-fire agreement in the Gaza war, and that it is up to Hamas to agree to Israel's proposal and "compromise." Blinken's remarks came during a press conference after he met with Israeli leaders earlier in the day. Asked by a...

Mexico’s migrant bussing spree a lifeline for Biden on border crisis: expert

A recent lull in attempts to illegally cross the U.S. southern border could have more to do with beefed up enforcement efforts by Mexico in recent months.

Hundreds of asylum seekers in encampment at Seattle park after funding for hotel stay runs out

Hundreds of asylum seekers set up an encampment at Powell Barnett Park in Seattle's Central District neighborhood after funding for housing ran out.

Fetterman blasts UN rights chief for ‘concern’ over anti-Israel agitators while never condemning Hamas

The U.N. has consistently urged restraint in dealing with the situation in the Gaza Strip, but critics have blasted officials for not condemning Hamas.

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