The candidate for the Republican presidential nomination insists books aren’t actually being ‘banned’ in his state’s schools, preferring to call the forced removal of some books ‘curation choices’
Jessica Watkins is the third member of the far-right extremist group to receive her punishment this week in one of the most serious cases the Justice Department has brought in the riot
The ruling Friday by Judge Clifton Newman came just about 24 hours after Gov. Henry McMaster signed the bill. The court’s decision means South Carolina reverts back to a ban around 20 weeks
Ahead of Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday, the National Security Archive has published a selection of declassified documents that illustrate the ‘darker side’ of the former U.S. secretary of State
The DEA acknowledged the time it took to issue its final decision was ‘longer than typical for the agency’ but blamed Morris & Dickson in part for holding up the process
The move sets up what could be a remarkably sudden downfall for one of the GOP’s most prominent legal combatants, who in 2020 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory
As soon as June 1, Treasury says it could run short of funds to pay the nation’s bills. A federal default on the national debt would send the economy into chaos
The case involving Dr. Caitlin Bernard became a flashpoint in the national abortion debate days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer
Officials in the state capital of Jackson announced Wednesday that a grand jury had indicted two former police officers on murder charges and another ex-officer on a manslaughter charge in the death of Keith Murriel
Bannon, longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty last September following his indictment on state money laundering, conspiracy, fraud and other charges
The initiative is centered around four goals: increasing awareness and understanding of antisemitism, improving safety for Jewish communities, reversing the normalization of antisemitism and building solidarity across communities
A bigger supply of vaccines, more people with immunity and readier access to treatment point to fewer and less severe infections, but a false sense of security still poses a risk
‘I’m a political prisoner and like President Trump my only crime is opposing those who are destroying our country,’ Rhodes said during Thursday’s sentencing hearing
Along with a few other cities, Minneapolis has issued bans on chokeholds and neck restraints, and restrictions on no-knock warrants. But activist calls to defund the police, and to hold officers accountable have mostly failed
The decision from the court on Thursday strips protections from wetlands that are isolated from larger bodies of water, saying that they are not covered by the Clean Water Act
The efforts to significantly roll back labor rules are largely led by Republican lawmakers in states like Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio, and in some cases run afoul of federal regulations
The Biden administration on Thursday is announcing a total of $53 million in grants to Delaware and seven other states aimed at high-tech solutions to traffic congestion problems
“Robbing children of the chance to find their voices in literature is a violation of their right to free thought and free speech”, the poet wrote on Facebook in reaction to the news
About 400 international migrants have been put up in a small number of hotels in other parts of the state this month to relieve pressure on the city’s overtaxed homeless shelter system, but it hasn’t been easy for those who have relocated
Republicans are insisting on spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit, while Biden says the GOP lawmakers will have to back off their “extreme positions”
The Republican Governor of Florida revealed his decision in a Federal Election Commission filing before an online conversation with Twitter CEO Elon Musk