WASHINGTON — Government investigators Thursday released a report that found the Department of Homeland Security wasted more than $20 million in federal funding in its rapid expansion of immigration…

As authorities from Arkansas, Oklahoma and the federal government deal with the aftermath of the acid spill, elected officials are demanding answers on how the chemical manufacturing plant could have…

WASHINGTON — More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children Monday lost their legal representation because the Trump administration has not entered into a new agreement to take over their legal…

The Shelby County District Attorney’s office Wednesday released videos of an agent with the Memphis Safe Task Force shooting Darrin Pigram.

New Mexico's Indigenous leaders and federal delegation spoke outside the U.S. Capitol to oppose BLM plans to undo Chaco Canyon protections.

The family of a man killed by an agent with the Memphis Safe Task Force is calling for a swift and public accounting of the May 13 shooting.

Construction of the Military Gallery at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck is paused through at least July 31 due to insufficient private fundraising, the State Historical Society announced…

Instead of observing the nation’s birthday, some Indigenous people are focused on the 150th commemoration of the Battle of Little Bighorn.

William Skipworth, a staff reporter for the New Hampshire Bulletin since January 2025, has won this year’s Livingston Award for Local Reporting for his series on abuse and neglect in the state’s disab...

Scores of low-income immigrant children living with critical illnesses could soon lose access to life-sustaining medical care after Tennessee officials directed public health departments to verify…

A study shows that nearly half of transgender adults nationwide have moved or considered moving out of states with laws targeting them, such as Arkansas.

Faith leaders will hold a prayer event in Selma Saturday morning, followed by a mass rally at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery in the afternoon.

The Supreme Court Monday allowed the state of Alabama to use 2023 a congressional map that had previously been ruled racially discriminatory against Black Alabamians.

Tennessee’s Republican House speaker is punishing Democrats for participating in a chaotic end to the special session lawmakers used to redraw congressional maps to bolster a GOP candidate in the…

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The Tennessee Legislature passed a gerrymandered U.S. Congressional Map to favor Republicans in all nine of the state’s districts.

HB 1, sponsored by Speaker Pro Tempore Chris Pringle, R-Mobile, and SB 1, sponsored by Sen. Chris Elliott, R-Josephine, would respectively allow new primary elections for congressional districts and…

The Trump administration sued Colorado claiming its law restricting large-capacity magazines for rifles violates the Second Amendment.

The Attorney General's motion states that the situation has changed since the Callais decision and asked the injunction be lifted.

A Tennessee congressional map redrawn by Republicans with input from the White House cuts Shelby County into GOP-controlled three districts.

Lawmakers in the session will consider setting special primary election dates if the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals end injunctions against the state redrawing its…

Tennessee lawmakers adopted a set of rules for their special legislative session that would limit public comment and shorten the time frame for the public to view any new U.S. House map. The rules…

A Mesa ICE facility built for 157 people held nearly 800 in a single day, with some detainees staying up to 18 days

Millions of women could face new challenges to voting under President Donald Trump’s SAVE America Act, which would require voters to prove their citizenship before casting a ballot.The federal…

Rodricus Lewis' death reveals gaps in Arkansas' overburdened jails and health care systems.

Rodricus Lewis' death reveals gaps in Arkansas' overburdened jails and health care systems.

Data center dilemma: Why money isn’t winning over communities

As telehealth access to abortion medication has grown in the years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, anti-abortion groups and attorneys general from states with abortion bans are…

For the second time this year, the Trump administration is trying to at least delay another legal attempt to curb access to medication abortion.

Billion Dollar Baby Bump: A States Newsroom 50-state investigation examining the tax records of more than 1,600 crisis pregnancy center organizations nationwide and state and federal budgets found…

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump Thursday said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem will be leaving the post for a job as a special envoy, following an appearance before a U.S. Senate panel…

For nearly 60 years, crisis pregnancy centers have been a pillar of the anti-abortion movement.

The bulk of the money Missouri gives to its crisis pregnancy centers comes from federal funds meant to assist families experiencing poverty with basic necessities and child care, Republican Rep.…

Editor's note: This is the first report in an ongoing series.The patient came in with a belly full of blood, Dr. Leilah Zahedi-Spung recalled. Her pregnancy was ectopic, no longer viable, and could…

Thousands of Arkansans are expected to cast their ballots Tuesday in the primary and nonpartisan judicial elections.

Thousands of Arkansans are expected to cast their ballots Tuesday in the primary and nonpartisan judicial elections.

The Trump administration is using a law Congress passed in the 1990s after a wave of deadly violence at abortion clinics to prosecute demonstrators and reporters who were at a immigration-related…

President Donald Trump’s border czar announced on Thursday an imminent end to Operation Metro Surge, claiming success from the unprecedented federal incursion that brought thousands of immigration…

The allegations come from an anonymous 2019 email alleging two "foreign girls" were strangled and buried in the hills near Zorro Ranch.

Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday said that he expects the federal immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota to wind down soon. During a press conference intended to highlight the adverse impacts of…

Cameron Sexton took steps that allowed the owners of a payday lending company, Advance Financial, to keep using their stores to boost a now-defunct online sports betting enterprise.

A now-defunct Tennessee sports betting operation was under investigation. Then, House Speaker Cameron Sexton stepped in.

Roughly 200,000 Tennesseans remain without power Monday in frigid temperatures after a major winter storm froze trees, power lines and roadways and coated them with ice. The Tennessee Department of He...

A retail worker arrested at a routine immigration check-in. A mother and a student, both asylum seekers, taken into custody. A civil engineer on a work visa and a corrections officer recruit, whose…

Frank has a hard time explaining to his 8-year-old daughter why they rarely leave their home in the Twin Cities. Why she can’t go to school, and why he can’t work. “The only thing we tell her is that…

WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials placed an asylum seeker who is eight months pregnant on a deportation flight Wednesday afternoon, even though she was in medical…

The Trump administration made its opinion known almost immediately after an ICE agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday: The officer acted heroically in defending himself from Renee ...

The driver then slowly backs up and appears to be leaving, when another officer fires three shots.