Homeland Security's deportation agency performed at least two unnecessary sterilizations on immigrant women, the department's inspector general said Thursday, confirming the gist of whistleblower allegations raised during the Trump administration.

BOONE COUNTY, West Virginia — Not many people in the national press were paying attention to the Democratic presidential primary results in West Virginia on May 8, 2012. Barack Obama was the incumbent president, and few outside local press noticed that Keith Russell Judd, a Texas convict sitting in a federal prison for extortion, had sent […]

Although President Joe Biden has so far adhered to his promise to respect the independence of the Federal Reserve, fellow Democrats continue to refuse to play quite so coy, with Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) overtly calling upon Chairman Jerome Powell to juice the economy in time for the president’s reelection by cutting the federal funds […]

Once upon a time on Comedy Central, Jon Stewart was seen as more honest than the most milquetoast anchor on cable news. The host of The Daily Show from 1999 to 2015, whose favorite pastime might have been mocking politicians, especially Republicans, was once described as “the Most Trusted Man in America” and commanded an […]

A Democratic lawmaker said that artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes are a bipartisan issue in the wake of reports of a recent spread of AI-generated graphic images of pop superstar Taylor Swift on social media. “What’s happened to Taylor Swift is nothing new,” Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) said in a post on X, the platform formerly...

Babies born to mothers who contracted a COVID-19 infection while pregnant have “unusually high rates” of respiratory distress at birth or shortly after, a Nature Communications study found. While studies have shown contracting COVID during pregnancy has been associated with adverse outcomes for both mothers and newborn babies, the authors of the study found there...

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Ben Cardin (D-Md.) pushed for increased aid to Ukraine in remarks on the Senate floor Thursday. “This isn’t a choice between sending funding to Ukraine or not sending funding to Ukraine,” Cardin said. “The choice is between sending American dollars to fight [Russian President Vladimir] Putin now or sending American...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved Sweden’s accession into the Western security alliance NATO, Sweden's Prime Minister announced on Thursday, “Welcome Türkeiye’s approval of the ratification of Sweden’s NATO accession. With this, a key milestone has been reached in Sweden’s path towards NATO membership,” Ulf Kristersson posted on X, the platform formerly known as...

A federal judge handling cases involving Jan. 6 defendants starkly criticized some of the language used to describe the 2021 riot at the Capitol, saying in a court filing that he is “shocked” by rhetoric describing those convicted of crimes that day as "hostages." Judge Royce Lamberth said such rhetoric falsely portray the events of...

Actor Dean Cain criticized President Biden in an online post over the president’s pledge to restore Roe v. Wade after the Supreme Court struck down the longstanding abortion access law nearly two years ago. Biden hosted his first campaign rally of the year in Manassas, Va., on Tuesday where he zeroed in on former President...