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The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be a...

This wasn’t a joke or a mistake but a warning about how racism, silence, and abuse of power are eating away at democracy…

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ICE’s nationwide detention system continues to expand under plans that would double its size while shielding it from meaningful accountability…

A federal judge found merit in the claim that anti-Black and anti-Haitian animus prompted the homeland security secretary’s action.

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Under Trump, tax giveaways to the wealthy and soaring debt replaced economic stability and sacrificing the nation’s future for short-term political gain…

Trump’s recalibration follows the same step-back, step-forward playbook used by Orbán, Putin, and every modern strongman…

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Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.

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Kristi Noem made public statements about Alex Pretti and details surrounding his fatal shooting. But the videos tell a dramatically different — and tragic — story.

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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this morning, a visibly exhausted president of the United States of America rambled in angry free association in a speech before the world’s leaders.

When future historians ask what Putin wanted from Trump, the answer may be painfully simple: “Everything America once stood for.”

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The psychology of domination, cruelty, and control that defines both men is now shaping the fate of entire nations…

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Yesterday, in an apparent attempt to regain control of the national narrative surrounding the deadly shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, Vice President J.D.

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On MS NOW today, columnist Philip Bump broke down when talking about the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis.

The Founders didn’t build this country for secret police and point-blank executions…

What seemed like fringe science in the 1990s is now finding unexpected support from cutting-edge research, forcing us to reconsider one of humanity’s greatest mysteries.

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