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Immigration officials want to send a Peruvian man to the Central African Republic within hours, court filings show.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris during a fireside chat on September 22, 2026, at Fellowship Church in Detroit. Credit: Katy Kildee/Detroit News via AP. The other day, California’s lame-duck Gov.

In Chicago, city data shows fewer than 4 percent of the more than 30,000 drivers removed from rideshare platforms were reinstated.

A lot of rich and influential people have suddenly become very worried about artificial intelligence models’ danger to humanity, thanks to several recent episodes in which various AI “agents” carried ...

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. It wasn’t so long ago that when a scary new ...

States giveth corporations the right to exist, so the states can taketh away their political spending power—or at least, Hawaii and Montana are trying.

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights once resolved issues before they became yearslong investigations.

Tens of thousands of people have been subjected to the cruel policy, but the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” could soon bring it back.

Republicans were way behind in spending for Ken Paxton in Texas, and now they have a $102 million lead in money deployed. That money’s going to go further thanks to a Supreme Court ruling that gives ...

Medicare for All is a winning policy supported by the vast majority of Democratic voters that can give the party a boost, including in battleground states, according to a new survey from Rep. Pramila ...