The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

The problem? No federal official can seize control of election administration from the states and counties, who hold the power run elections under the U.S. Constitution.

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DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

It sure looks like things are adding up for widespread data center construction on public lands, without public input

A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.

A quiet rule change could signal “the end of independent financial regulators” just as the SEC prepares to deregulate crypto, mega-IPOs, and corporate governance.

As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow in the Eastern Pacific, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything ...

A hit 1983 movie illustrates what computer scientists have long known: If you give an AI agent a goal but don’t control what it can and can’t do, you shouldn’t be surprised by what it does.

Thiel made the statement while answering a question about "moralizing" new technologies.

Majority Democrats has assembled a “party within the party” of PACs, wealthy donors, and consultants pushing Democrats to the center — and testing the limits of campaign finance law.

Assembly Bill 2222 will create refundable tax credits for California local news organizations based on the number of journalists they employ.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has funneled just over $100 million to a group trying to defeat a one-time state tax on California’s billionaires this November.

Tim Miller has more candidates to watch and support.

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...

A delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options.

Witness thousands of tarantulas on the move each fall in La Junta during this rare and unforgettable nature event.

The Defense secretary pointed out that the number of service members unregistered to vote would outnumber the populations of multiple blue cities.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will now oversee a new Pentagon advisory committee focused on homeland security and defense — the first such department panel to do so. The Homeland Defense Board (HD…

Sen. Maggie Hassan (R-N.H.) wants to know specifics about what the U.S. Secret Service is spending money on after President Donald Trump diverted funds from them to his ballroom project.

Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.

A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

Under Zeldin’s leadership and Musk’s influence, an unlikely federal agency has become a key enabler of AI data centers.

David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?

Tracing Heritage and Kevin Roberts’s ties to a growing network of classical Christian schools—and the policies steering public money their way.

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

The disturbing global decline in test results rests on wrong-headed curriculum changes