Malnutrition and hunger are prevelant in the Gaza strip as Israel’s blockade enters its third month.

The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

After weeks of backroom wrangling the Washington State Senate and House reconciled their dueling rent stabilization bills, settling on a policy that caps rental hikes at 7% plus inflation, not to exce...

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, has been detained by ICE since February. She was arrested as she returned to Boston with frog embryo samples. The government says she kn...

The wire service on Wednesday accused The White House of continuing to bar its reporters from the press pool despite a judge’s order that called the restriction a violation of the First Amendment.

Trump has repeatedly said the United States is taking in $2 billion per day from tariffs.

The government sent several planeloads of alleged gang members to El Salvador, including 137 people under the act, the White House said at the time.

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An estimated 69 million American women and 4 million men do not have a birth certificate that matches their current legal name.

A social media post on April 9, followed by a market-moving tariff announcement, led President Donald Trump’s critics to speculate that he might have profited from inside information. Legal and…

Relatives say an autistic, nonverbal teenage boy, who was shot by Idaho police from the other side of a chain link fence while holding a knife, has died.

An estimated 3,500 barrels of oil spilled in a field near Fort Ransom, N.D., and the release was contained, the pipeline’s operator said.

The exaggerated government claims and ensuing public concern about Tren de Aragua’s activities in the United States amount to a classic moral panic.

A Southeast Louisiana jury ruled oil company Chevron must pay more than $740 million dollars to restore damage it caused to coastal wetlands following a landmark trial more than a decade in the making.

The decision came as an initial win for a broad coalition of academic institutions that had argued the policy jeopardized ongoing research, but it set up an almost certain appeal.

The firms signed a legal brief supporting Perkins Coie, calling the president’s actions a threat “to the rule of law.” The largest firms declined to sign.

China is the third-biggest buyer of U.S. agricultural products. Now that it has punched back with tariffs on American goods, farmers can expect to feel the pain.

In a lawsuit, 21 state attorneys general argued that the steep cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services violate the Constitution and other federal laws related to spending.

New York’s stance differed from the muted and deferential responses from other major institutions to the administration’s threats.

A corporate front group is pushing ads seeking to sap support for taxing the rich as the state faces a budget crisis. John Burbank points out the ads are misleading and argues the state must raise new revenue to avoid draconian cuts that will hit the working class hard. The post Op-Ed: Don’t Believe Corporate Elite Claiming to Fight for ‘Affordable Washington’ first appeared on The Urbanist.

By Erica C. Barnett In a recent meeting of the Seattle City Council’s special committee on the comprehensive plan, Councilmember…

Elon Musk failed to fend off an investor lawsuit claiming he manipulated the stock price of Twitter Inc. months before he bought the company in 2022 by concealing how much stock he’d acquired.

Emergency response experts say that funding and staff cuts at the National Weather Service could mean less reliable weather forecasts.

In a major overhaul, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and shut down entire agencies, including ones that oversee billions of dollars in funds for addiction services and community health centers across the...