Illinois abolished cash bail and drove down the population at the Cook County jail. Under the county’s top prosecutor, it’s rising again.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul instead suggested a $4.1 million rate decrease, citing “unsubstantiated” charges, including at least $97.2 million in “unsupported and unexplained” cost increases...

“What if changing the world looked more like care than like war,” asks writer Rebecca Solnit.

Congress has repeatedly failed to curb Trump’s ability to wage war and to rein in his boat bombing spree.

Hegseth pledged that the military is showing “no quarter” to its enemies. Experts say that’s a war crime.

Migrants at the GEO Group-run facility demand their right to due process, edible food, and an end to sleep deprivation.

Will the broad coalition of unions, nonprofits and activist groups make a long-term impact?

Todd Lyons, who on Thursday resigned from his position as acting director of ICE, also claimed in the letter to the Illinois congressional delegation that no U.S. citizens were arrested by federal imm...

The policy sought to revoke journalists’ access to the inside of the Pentagon building.

The spectacle saw hundreds of phallic items, big and small, flood the designated free speech zone—a small barricaded area where people have been permitted to demonstrate since President Trump’s mass d...

US soldiers have a rich history of questioning the wars they’re told to wage abroad.

A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated, an allegation Swalwell strongly de...

A movement in the name of democracy must resist imperial ambition done in our name and with our money.

Thousands of workers miss pay as shutdown continues, and Trump proposes sending ICE to US airports.

People who were tracking civilian casualties have been reassigned to other jobs, says journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed.

About 30 U.S. service members remained hospitalized Tuesday after an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait.

Despite government attacks against protesters and the press, documenting interactions with law enforcement and federal agents is protected by the First Amendment. Here’s what you need to know.