Ten years after the Standing Rock protests captured national attention, the tribe is still fighting the project.

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Ahmed Soliman has been detained since he was sent there in April under Trump’s third-country deportation policy.

Vice President Vance said Thursday that foreign workers at Microsoft will no longer be able to apply for permanent resident status in the U.S. through an employer-based program, after he accused th…

Mystal makes case for why

The Pentagon is expanding the U.S. military’s multifront war against drug cartels in South America.  For more than a year, the U.S. military has been blowing up alleged drug boats on both side…

As ICE widens its surveillance dragnet, activists plan a week of action to disrupt a major data network.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel to San Diego on Tuesday and will welcome the USS Abraham Lincoln crew home on Wednesday after the aircraft carrier extended its deployment to the Middle E…

“The concerning rise in measles cases is due to a decrease in childhood vaccines driven by misinformation," said the chair of the New York state Senate's health committee.

Whistleblower report alleges Trump admin violated constitutional rights of protesters. FBI pushed to investigate peaceful demonstrators.

"Rampant corporate control of our water systems and federal disinvestment in aging infrastructure are driving up bills, forcing households to pick up the tab."

International election observers criticize Trump's refusal to invite OSCE to monitor US midterms, raising concerns of voter intimidation. Is the administration trying to manipulate the elections?

“Everyone should be alarmed that ICE is preparing to deploy a tool designed to inflict, at best, intense pain," said one watchdog.

Democratic Senator Michael Bennet criticizes the establishment Democratic Party as a "failed enterprise" after losing to Trump twice. Bennet calls for a new approach to politics.

Hegseth is plotting

President Trump’s doxing of Sen. Tom Cotton over a stalled bill to establish year-round daylight saving time is throwing an unexpected twist in the Arkansas Republican’s reelection race and sets up…

The companies completed the deal on Tuesday, ushering in a new Hollywood giant with the now shorter “Skydance” nametag.

A record number of pregnant women and teenagers have been arrested by ICE. They cannot access medical care they need.

A public policy expert described the move as “the largest evisceration of public lands protection in American history.”…

Trump’s proposed budget hides $1 trillion in military spending from the public by spreading it across disparate government agencies.

Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor.

President Trump’s super PAC and affiliates have injected tens of millions of dollars into pivotal Senate and House races just one month from Election Day as the GOP looks to kee…

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The real reason Americans are paying more under Trump Republicans

Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move.

David is warning us!

Groundwork Collaborative unveils a proposal for a "Shopper's Bill of Rights" to protect US consumers from corporate greed.

“The detentions are happening in a flash—we’re talking, like, 90 seconds from the time ICE shows up to that person being driven away,” said one immigration attorney.

"Just six weeks out from the election, the Trump administration continues to kick working Americans while they’re down."

​"The SAVE database has known errors, including incorrectly flagging numerous eligible citizens, such as recently naturalized citizens, as noncitizens," an election security expert told Common Dreams.

Labor unions and rights groups in Europe call for governments to cut ties with Palantir, citing threats to democracy and civil liberties.

US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemns the culture that protects accused sexual assailants while survivors like Jane Doe are forced out of their communities. How can we allow this injustice to cont...

“This is not normal," said the president of the union representing CDC workers. "What we are witnessing is the dismantling of public health infrastructure our country relies on."

​"Oil companies will get a windfall from gutting the fuel economy standards, but the rest of us are going to be handing over more of our hard-earned paychecks to fill up the tank," said one environmen...

Education Secretary Linda McMahon's announcement to rescind Biden-era anti-discrimination protections has sparked outrage among women's rights and LGBTQ+ advocates. The decision was made without publi...

One Palestinian from Gaza said the imagery "shows you the Israeli barbarism and terrorism that the world lets happen."

Trump faces backlash from elected Democrats and the Senate's top Republican appropriator for cutting nearly $1 billion in spending via a legally contested process.

Security researchers investigate tens of thousands of artificial intelligence security incidents, fueling fresh calls for government action to rein in AI.

"If there was ever a time in human history, in our country and throughout the world, that we have got to come together and create a world not based on greed but based on justice, based on decency, now...

A UN panel warns of "unraveling" AI safeguards as incidents like the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach highlight the risks of misaligned goals and loss of control.

"Today, billionaires have yet again bribed, censored, and bullied their way to the top."

​A host on the Trump-friendly Newsmax network said it seemed his exile of the press was "backfiring just a little bit.”