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An appeals panel Friday seemed inclined to agree that more than 100 Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to a brutal prison in El Salvador are entitled to due process hearings to challenge…

Residents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457.

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United Sta...

Advocates say it’s too easy to abuse automated license plate reader technology.

Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process.

New Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers say tariffs and warfare aren’t good news for jobs.

Enraged citizens got wind of the Ohio EPA’s outrageous proposal to make it easier for massive data centers to pollute local waterways with impunity and they mobilized. They fought and won. The power…

The League of Women Voters and the Electronic Privacy Information Center are challenging the SAVE system's four-state exception in two separate courts.

A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to ...

The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.

Huge Trump cuts to healthcare and food assistance will cost Ohio 51,000 jobs and sap $5 billion from the economy, new study finds.

Families are facing rising grocery prices at the same time that many of the most vulnerable are losing access to the nation’s largest food assistance program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance…

President Donald Trump's administration is quietly folding on a major policy to attack the development of renewable energy in the United States.According to Heatmap, the Justice Department this week "filed a motion ... to dismiss its appeal of a federal court's December decision vacating the order t...

Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."

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In Kentucky and Ohio, lawmakers are considering ‘constitutionally vague’ bills that attack bodily autonomy by targeting drag performances

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