9+ hour, 50+ min ago   (475+ words) Unions sued over the question, which asks job applicants to share how they would further the president’s agenda. A court’s decision to block the Trump administration from including a “loyalty question” on federal job applications was a win not only…...

9+ hour, 52+ min ago   (800+ words) More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE. Just a year ago, Martín Soto was making breakfast at home with his wife, Gabriela, while their daughter got ready for her first day…...

16+ hour, 25+ min ago   (362+ words) The ruling is one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s use of “energy emergency” powers. The Department of Energy overstepped when it ordered an aging coal-fired power plant in Michigan to stay open past its planned retirement…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (527+ words) Two federal statutes forbid paying people to vote, and the Constitution lists bribery as an impeachable offense. On Wednesday, during the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, President Donald Trump promised voters that if they deliver a GOP-controlled Congress in…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (360+ words) The decision will likely be appealed by Republican state leaders to the US Supreme Court. Missouri voters will be given the chance to weigh in on maps redrawn by the Republican-led state legislature last year, which created congressional boundaries many…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (513+ words) The HFAC’s ranking member and likely next chair Greg Meeks (D-NY) — similarly a hardline supporter of Israel and of autocratic U.S. allies — unsurprisingly praised the new likeminded appointees and expressed positivity about how they will soon “guide the committee…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (471+ words) Military officials only launched an inquiry into the situation after a social media post by the widow went viral. The United States Air Force is reportedly reviewing a case of a Gold Star widow who claims she was denied benefits…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (457+ words) Under the system, USPS could toss an entire batch of 10,000 ballots if the agency fails to verify one of them. The United States Postal Service (USPS) has been secretly and, at times, unlawfully working on an unprecedented new screening system…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (522+ words) Five thousand people attended a rally in New York City led by the right-wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Eighty-seven years later, global leaders in ethno-fascism and their sympathizers returned to Madison Square Garden. Speakers pointed out how the RSS’s notion of…...