The Justice Department's case for criminally charging a Wisconsin county judge for allegedly interfering with the arrest of an unauthorized immigrant is "absurd" and manufactured out of whole cloth, an attorney who chairs the state's Elections Commission wrote in a lengthy thread on X.Judge Hannah D...

A bishop asked the president to show mercy to immigrants and scared children. The response tells us everything about the next four years.

An editorial in a Maine newspaper took direct aim at Donald Trump Saturday after the president issued a direct threat to the state.The Bangor Daily News’ editorial board issued its scathing putdown af...

Surgery was rare and risky in the medieval period. Though medical options were limited, trans people were able to take transitioning into their own hands.

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James E. Dennehy, the highly respected leader of the largest and most important field office in the bureau, said in an email to staff that the F.B.I. was in “a battle of our own.”

He also championed a Samoan anti-vaxxer tied to the 2019 lethal eruption that killed scores of children.

Idaho legislators voted to advance a measure challenging federal same-sex marriage protections, potentially making it one of the first states to ban gay marriage if federal protections are reversed.

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Daniel Ball, of Florida, is accused of unlawfully possessing a .22-caliber rifle as a convicted felon.