The Trump administration is expediting the use of mass immigration hearings in order to issue more deportations. NPR reports immigrants are now being scheduled to appear in front of what’s known as ...

In Texas, the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton, backed by President Trump, defeated four-term incumbent Senator John Cornyn in the Republican Senate primary runoff Tuesday. Paxton has previously ...

The U.S. military carried out another strike Tuesday on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing one person and leaving two survivors. The Trump administration once again claimed the vessel was ...

A federal court blocked Alabama from using its new congressional map in this year’s midterm elections, ruling that it ...

Israel said Wednesday it had killed Mohammed Odeh, Hamas’s newly appointed armed wing chief, in an operation in Gaza on Tuesday. A family statement said he was killed along with his wife and son. Gaza ...

Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed at least 31 people and wounded 40 on Tuesday, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry. Israel launched more than 120 airstrikes on Tuesday alone, one of the ...

Mass protests have continued in Bolivia for nearly a month as thousands take to the streets demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. Lawmakers this week moved to approve the possible ...

The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in blocking a free speech lawsuit involving federal immigration judges. The conservative-majority justices overturned a lower court ruling ...

The Trump administration is pushing a new nondisclosure agreement that would apply to all federal workers. The Office of Personnel Management posted a draft to the Federal Register on Tuesday, ...

We speak with political scientist Jeffrey Winters about his new book, The Blind Spot: How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies. Winters argues that democracy’s failure to address wealth inequality is by ...

Tennessee death row prisoner Tony Carruthers was issued a one-year stay of execution last Thursday after prison officials were unable to find a backup injection vein in a botched execution attempt ...

The Trump administration announced Friday that most immigrants seeking green cards must return to their home countries to apply. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it would only grant ...