17+ hour, 10+ min ago   (475+ words) Unions sued over the question, which asks job applicants to share how they would further the president’s agenda. A court’s decision to block the Trump administration from including a “loyalty question” on federal job applications was a win not only…...

17+ hour, 12+ min ago   (800+ words) More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE. Just a year ago, Martín Soto was making breakfast at home with his wife, Gabriela, while their daughter got ready for her first day…...

23+ hour, 45+ min ago   (362+ words) The ruling is one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s use of “energy emergency” powers. The Department of Energy overstepped when it ordered an aging coal-fired power plant in Michigan to stay open past its planned retirement…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (503+ words) The complaint alleges that there is a “legitimate question” whether Trump is paying staffers for their loyalty. The Campaign Legal Center (CLC), a nonprofit whose stated aim is to defend democracy, has filed a formal complaint with the U.S....

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (450+ words) As a Kansas obstetrician-gynecologist, Sen. Roger Marshall served many patients in a poor, rural part of his state. Republican Sen. Roger Marshall (Kansas) sued hundreds of his patients for outstanding debts and had dozens of them arrested over the course…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (545+ words) Matt Chapman, a researcher with the Chicago-based Lucy Parsons Labs, stumbled across the map when he was researching license plate readers maintained by the Illinois State Police (ISP). “Anybody can find this,” Chapman told Truthout. “Anybody can use this for…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (247+ words) As former residents of a California prison, we celebrated its closure but abhorred the punitive transfer process. As CRC emptied out, one of us stayed behind while the other was transferred to another prison. From both sides of the closure…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (360+ words) “RFK’s platform is built on lies and grifts that leave a trail of dead children in their wake,” said Sen. Ron Wyden. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) has called for a criminal investigation into Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (201+ words) Lawmakers warn Rubio that Safi, who has chronic health issues, may die in Israeli prison if he doesn’t take action. Dozens of Democrats from both chambers of Congress are demanding the release of U.S. citizen Sami Safi from Israeli prison,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1359+ words) Katie Smith, whose murder conviction was based on what’s increasingly seen as junk science, is fighting for her freedom. By the time Mason Tucker Smith was 2 years old, his mother, Mary Katherine Smith, had taken him to the doctor dozens…...