Sooknanan traced the Civil Rights Division’s history from its creation under President Dwight Eisenhower to enforce the Civil Rights Act of 1957, calling it the DOJ’s “crown jewel.”

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With Thursday’s 24 September deadline looming, international scientific societies and civil society leaders are pushing Spain to sponsor a last-minute WHO Director-General nomination for Dr María Neir...

Tech firms are giving big to a White House AI science program amid the destruction of institutions like the NIH.

Punchbowl News reports that former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson is next on President Donald Trump's revenge list.

The allegations against seven men at Cornell University come amid a climate of belligerent sexism

Many popular manga artists appear on PEN America’s list of most commonly banned authors in the 2025-2026 school year.

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Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.

President Donald Trump’s sprawling effort to root out noncitizen voters hasn’t produced any large purges that could meaningfully affect the midterm elections.

President Donald Trump frequently rails about “communists” and “socialists,” and the GOP has increasingly leaned into such attacks as it has grown more desperate in the face of an uphill midterm battle. But according to a longtime GOP pollster, accusations of “socialist” don’t have the “shock value”...

A federal court dismissed a lawsuit challenging a gerrymandered map adopted by Tennessee Republicans that eliminated what was the state’s one Black-majority congressional district, based in Memphis.

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Milo the whale shark has now been tracked across more than 34,000 miles, setting a record for the longest movement record ever documented for a shark. Retagged five times over nearly a decade, his tra...

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A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the...

Nearly 40% of Americans surveyed also don't want national Guardsmen at polling places. Public dissent comes as three major lawsuits were filed to block federal interference at polling places this mont...

The judge found that the pro-voting plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that officials in Lafayette Parish discriminated against some registration applicants based on national origin.