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Enough Republicans are on a discharge petition to get a House vote to end congressional stock trading—if Democrats sign on.

JACKSON IS ONE OF 12 CANDIDATES IN THE RACE, and faces a strong challenge from the left by state Sen. Robert Peters, who cut his teeth pushing for bail reform in Illinois. Peters has also put his ...

Ryan Coogler’s bloodsucker blockbuster is all about Black creative freedom. No wonder the industry saw it as a threat.

Why did a critical darling and commercial juggernaut publicly auction itself off, and why is it now caught in a bidding war ...

Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended ...

It wasn’t until the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 that shooting the wounded became a war crime. The 1907 version explicitly declared that it is forbidden “to kill or wound an enemy who, having ...

Two firms are vying for control over much of New Mexico’s energy infrastructure, but consumer advocates are fighting back.

He reminds us that the internet’s decline wasn’t inevitable—it was policy-driven. Antitrust law atrophied. Venture capital rewarded growth over governance. Where Doctorow rages from the barricades, Wu ...

But there have been plenty of other extreme weather events during Trump’s second term—from severe winter storms to tornadoes ...

Fewer streaming options, or a streaming landscape where two of the three largest outlets have the same corporate parent, ...

The veterans disability system has traditionally been a sacred cow for politicians of all stripes. Now, as part of the conservative war on the Department of Veterans Affairs, the administration is ...