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 […]

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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 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.

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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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 › ]

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.

The post 9/11 Widow Rips Saudi Arabia in Stunning Moment During Ground Zero Ceremony — Implores Trump, ‘Tell The Saudis To Stop Lying!’ first appeared on Mediaite.

The proposed legislation comes at a time of increasingly devastating wildfires.

Joe diGenova, the 81-year-old Trump loyalist who had headed a sprawling investigation in the Southern District of Florida that targeted President Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies, has resigned from the Justice Department.

Zeteo reports from the GOP convention in Dallas, where Trump offered Americans a fake bribe while dismissing the real pain he’s causing them. Some Republicans already have a ‘flight to catch.’

Justice Kavanaugh refused to override a Missouri Supreme Court ruling that killed Trump’s midterm redistricting play.

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...

Trump is set to speak both nights of the unusual Republican Convention starting Wednesday

Seven right-wing bigots have said bigoted things in recent weeks and top Dems have said... nothing, even as they piled on against a Palestinian journalist who apologized for her own bigoted remarks.

Mehdi Hasan grilled Hunter Biden on ways the latter undermined the presidency of former President Joe Biden, including his work history.

The post ‘You Did Undermine Your Dad’s Presidency!’ Mehdi Hasan Holds Hunter Biden’s Feet to Fire Over Business Dealings first appeared on Mediaite.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expects to meet Donald Trump in the second half of September and plans to press the US president for ballistic missiles and support for Ukraine’s “Freya” missile program as Kyiv seeks to revive stalled peace talks.

Control of the Senate in the midterm elections is no longer a foregone conclusion, according to Decision Desk HQ, which changed its forecast for the chamber.

The post Democrats Just Hit a Midterm Polling Milestone in the Battle for the Senate With Midterms Less Than 60 Days Away first appeared on Mediaite.

In Colorado and across the country, higher costs, tariffs and cheap beef imports are affecting voters who will help determine which party controls the House next year.

WASHINGTON — For years, Jose Palma has advocated for immigrants with Temporary Protected Status who hail from countries deemed too unstable for return. But as the Trump administration has stripped those humanitarian protections for nearly a million people, the Salvadoran national is uncertain if his own legal status will remain in place next week.  “I’m […]