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WASHINGTON — Local advocates in Washington, D.C., are pushing back against Congress’ latest attempt to block a local law, this time related to the District’s taxes.

The House is preparing to vote on a disapproval ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — It’s only February, but Minnesota is gearing up for a 2026 election that could reshape leadership of the state, and potential voters have their first formal chance to air their opinions Tuesday at the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The push to force the full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files appears nowhere near settled on Capitol Hill after the Justice Department’s latest document drop, with lawmakers requesting meetings and ...Read more

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing the latest policy requiring a seven-day notice period for members of Congress to make oversight visits at immigration detention ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson will try to clear a $1.2 trillion spending package in the House this week despite mounting Democratic opposition and fractures within his own GOP conference.

The five-bill fiscal 2026 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — According to President Donald Trump, the 68th Grammy Awards on Sunday were “virtually unwatchable.” Still, he watched enough to take issue with comedian Trevor Noah’s latest turn as the ceremony’s ...Read more

I haven’t seen it. I hope you don’t, either.

This, from one of the kinder reviews:

“Across some 104 minutes, the first lady delivers these blatantly scripted and meaningless narrations with all the conviction of ...Read more

With news of multimillion-dollar lawsuits arising from President Donald Trump administration’s military incursion to apprehend Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, America’s drug problem remains front and center. The ...Read more

Before June, when the ICE raids first began in Los Angeles, Daniel Sosa had not been active in the immigrants' rights movement. A cannabis dispensary owner, he'd previously directed his political energy to fights around ...Read more

A federal judge again ordered authorities to grant two Colorado congressmen and their colleagues unannounced access to immigration detention centers Monday.

The ruling is the latest blow to the U.S. Department of Homeland...Read more

Mayor Zohran Mamdani must immediately reverse his policy of allowing homeless encampments to proliferate on the streets of NYC. Fourteen New Yorkers have already died on the streets amid record-breaking cold, and the ...Read more

Anyone who tuned into the middle of Sen. Eric Schmitt’s furious floor speech on Wednesday might have been momentarily confused at why the MAGA Missouri Republican was condemning those who “deploy organized mob violence...Read more

The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, followed by the victim-blaming slanders from Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller, may finally have exhausted the public’s patience with the Trump administration.

We can only hope.

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No, you don’t have to vaccinate your children. That is, if you don’t mind watching them die.

That’s not precisely how Kirk Milhoan, a Hawaii physician who chairs the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization ...Read more

Iran said talks with the U.S. over a new nuclear deal could get underway in the coming days, building on a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at averting war between the two sides.

President Masoud Pezeshkian ordered ...Read more

The arrest of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, in connection with an anti-ICE protest that interrupted a church service in Minnesota, is a test for the American people. Well, some of us. Many of us ...Read more

Costa Ricans elected ruling party candidate Laura Fernández in a first round landslide as her promise of a draconian crackdown on criminals appealed to voters in a nation roiled by soaring drug violence.

With 94% of ...Read more

How do you find the missing?

If you do find them, how can you help?

Oakland, California, civil rights attorney James Cook has been on the ground in Minnesota for months figuring out answers to these question as he goes. ...Read more

When President Donald Trump called on Iranian demonstrators to “KEEP PROTESTING — TAKE OVER THE INSTITUTIONS” in early January and pledged “HELP IS ON THE WAY,” I feared a shameful episode of American betrayal ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A proposed amendment that would have let adults buy and use recreational marijuana failed to qualify for Florida’s 2026 ballot, the Department of State said Sunday.

Smart & Safe Florida, the group ...Read more