Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk.

Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.

Putting government counsel on both sides "makes me feel like it's all a farce," says one immigration attorney.

Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv

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

A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

The request represents a major assault on the state's voting system by unelected state officials.

Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.

Some conservative PACs have backed off from running anti-trans ads. Is this a sign of what's to come for trans people?

Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

For his new documentary about the tech mogul, the director plays by unconventional rules.

In a letter to Congress, former employees say the center delayed a plan to address the leaks that its officials now cite as a serious safety risk.

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Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus," an ACLU and Amnesty International USA research report, documents the heavy-handed responses by certain univers...

Plus: The Agriculture Department arbitrarily threatens to close a year-old FOIA request for SNAP data within four days

Stephen Colegrave pays personal tribute to our much-loved Byline Times contributor, who died last week

My friends gave me a toaster as a wedding gift. Trump family friends treat them to multi-day destination weddings, no strings attached (wink wink)

The reported threat comes as federal agencies devote increasing resources to investigations of possible noncitizen voting, which is exceptionally rare.

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The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...

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

Russian intelligence agents are “hijacking” online networks of violence-obsessed children and offering them money, guns and coaching on making explosives and poisons, new research suggests. Law enforc...