New York is leading a 22-state lawsuit against the Trump administration for unlawfully expanding the “public charge” rules that restrict entry to the United States for immigrants deemed likely to make use of public benefits. A group of municipalities, led by New York City, are separately suing over the same rules. The new regulations, scheduled […]

“We have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates that they will not allow a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup,” promoter says

The US Supreme Court is ​still weighing the administration’s ⁠request to ​overturn a separate ​order ​blocking the ​rule

Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The Democrats intend to train tens of thousands of volunteers to monitor the polls and counter possible voter intimidation under a new plan to protect November’s US midterm elections from anticipated interference from Donald Trump and his allies. The nationwide initiative, dubbed the New Battlefield Project, w...

The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector general’s report.

When a researcher in San Francisco announces a 10% chance that I will die within the decade, I am being addressed as humanity in the abstract while being excluded as a citizen in the particular.

Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’

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Saudi Arabia called Trump twice begging for help. He said no. Yemen now controls the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and the ‘Axis of Resistance’ has its hand on the throat of global trade.

There has always been the promise that it won’t keep happening, that things will get better. There has always been the mantra that there is a diminishing racial chasm in America that will somehow generate a better economic and social order for Black and Brown people in the nation. But nothing better seems to happen,… Continue reading America’s Enduring Racial Chasm: Broken Promises and Systemic Injustice Deepen the Divide

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"The current methods being used by your agencies, including helicopter roundups, are inhumane and unnecessary," Gov. Jared Polis and four congressional representatives wrote in a letter this month.

Updated in 2026, thirteen years after the original video went viral, we dive even deeper into the worsening inequality crippling our country. This video contains updated infographics on the distribution of wealth in America, highlighting both the inequality itself, and the difference between our perception of inequality and the actual numbers. The reality is worse than what we think it is.

President Trump fell asleep at the 9/11 memorial ceremony.

The president dozed off at multiple points during the event Friday, slumped over in his chair with his eyes closed and his head hanging down while everyone else onstage—Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Melania Trump, and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice—was clearly awake.

Rossi, a rare Kemp's Ridley sea turtle, is put back into her tank after veterinarians and specialist at the Houston Zoo gave her a check up after she was flown in over 5,000 miles from the Anglesey Sea Zoo in the United Kingdom to Houston, on Aug. 11, 2026.

The New York attorney general charges that White House rule changes have gutted protections for plants and animals alike. [ more › ]

Sacked after less than two weeks as Donald Trump’s communications director, the financier and podcaster reflects on the mistakes he made in an exclusive extract from his new book • Plus: What it’s like to be fired by Trump, by four people who know 19 July 2017. My phone rings. White House operator: “Please hold for the president.” I do. Of course. Continue reading...

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The idea behind the spoken word was for it to be harder for targets to be entertained by. No groove, no music, no pause. Just constant monotone questions.

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“Mass detention of marginalized individuals without due process harkens back to some of the darkest moments in our country’s history,” 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Nicole Berner, a Biden appointee, wrote in a 2-1 majority opinion joined by Judge Barbara Keenan, an Obama appointee.

“Those shameful and abhorrent past detentions were limited in scope in comparison to the mandatory detention that the Government urges us today to find that Congress established thirty years ago in an ambiguously worded statutory provision. We decline to do so,” Berner wrote.

It’s the ninth loss in a row for ICE at federal appeals courts, all of which have now ruled on the policy. The Supreme Court is all but certain to take up the issue in its next term.

A woman who became a widow 25 years ago on 9/11, 2001, called on Trump Friday to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the terror attacks on the United States.

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