The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (PL 89-236 (79 Stat.911), abolished the “National Origins Formula,” which had been the basis of U.S. immigration policy since the 1920s. (As Wikipedia ex…

On September 29, 1915 the Alabama legislature passed a law providing that “White women not to nurse where negro men are patients.” Further, No person or corporation shall require any white female n…

Carlos Josue Marchena Marchena’s condition worsened after he arrived at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana, and he died less than a week later, his family said.

A new disclosure also shows $210,000 in consulting fees paid to Cheryl Hines, the health secretary’s wife, by one of several MAHA-affiliated groups capitalizing from his agenda.

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Last year, at the U.N. General Assembly, Donald Trump scoffed at the “empty words” that make up deliberations; panned green policies as a “con job”; and berated European leaders in the room for letting in migrants from countries whose leaders were also in the room. He returns to the U.N. next week.

As a rule, state House candidates’ backgrounds tend not to generate national headlines, but once in a while, there are important exceptions.

During his lifetime, abolitionists ridiculed Key’s words, sneering that America was more like the “Land of the Free and Home of the Oppressed”

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

Jefferson, writing from Paris to Madison, averred that “no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.” He therefore argue…

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

On this day in history, 28 Chinese were killed, 15 wounded and all 79 of the shacks and houses in Rock Springs’ Chinatown were looted and burned by white mobs. The whites resented the Chinese for a…

On this day in history, Thurgood Marshall was confirmed as an Associate Justice by a Senate vote of 69–11. He was the 96th person to hold the position, and the first African American. He had been n…