Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), alongside Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), welcomed Tufts University Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk back to Boston after she was detained for nearly two months over a campus op-ed that condemned the war in Gaza. The lawmakers spoke about Öztürk's return at the city’s Logan Airport on Saturday, after a federal judge ordered...

A recent survey found transgender issues to be a relatively strong point for President Trump, who has issued several executive orders on the controversial topics since retaking the Oval Office. Respondents to a recent AP-NORC poll expressed higher support for Trump's transgender policies than for his presidency generally, with 52 percent of all Americans expressing support...

Journalist Maggie Haberman said the Trump administration’s proposal to nix habeas corpus is an attempt to sway the courts and strike fear into undocumented immigrants.  “Some of this might just be fear. A, it’s a way to intimidate the courts, which we have seen Trump and Stephen Miller do, a lot of, they’ve been criticizing...