After Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike survived an execution attempt it's unclear whether the state will try again.

Long ago Alexander the Great deployed religious myths to conquer much of the known world. Today, a different religious vision animates an intention to conquer the world.

Calls for, or at least predictions of, revolution or civil war have been common on the religious and political Right for decades. This has been particularly so among leaders of the Christian revivalis...

State health officials said 55 new cases had been reported since Wednesday. In all, 890 measles cases have been reported across 39 counties so far this year.

A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Mea culpa for the long post on a Saturday night, but read on and see if you don’t agree that it’s essential.

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Louisiana continues to persecute a wrongly convicted man

The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's request to allow mail-in voting restrictions under a U.S. Postal Service plan for the midterm general election.

An inspector general’s audit found a lack of training for post office staff, deficiencies in how ballots were tracked and errors leading to delays. Experts say it raises questions ahead of the midterm...

When I ran President Obama’s socials from the DNC, I treated that work as needing checks and restraint at every point of the process. Its absence in the Trump White House is scary.