North Carolina and Idaho have already announced plans to cut payments to hospitals, doctors, and caregivers.

As others languished without FEMA’s help, Noem flew to Florida to tout the $11 million project and meet with the donor.

The resistance centered around Chicago’s Broadview ICE detention center shows our radical solidarity against fascism.

Trump retaliated over the Colombian president’s speech demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza.

Trans people in prison are at the front lines of the increased targeting that trans people are facing under Trump.

After Isabella received an H-2A visa, she faced trafficking, brutal working conditions, and gender-based violence.

Trump has picked a corporate litigator to defend a Supreme Court case that could unleash unlimited political spending.

The federal government worked to relocate Indigenous residents of Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles. What went wrong?

As a trans journalist, I see corporate media outlets as inconsistent in their treatment of right-wing disinformation.

I deeply value free speech and debate. The watchlist created by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is anathema to both. buff.ly/K0adt8e

Trump's memo supposedly defines what constitutes “antifa” beliefs, listing “anti-American,” “anti-capitalist,” and “anti-Christian” views. However, it doesn’t specify whether it will target groups based on actual incidents of violence or simply for professing a certain ideology.

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers announced they are investigating the Trump administration’s practice of disappearing immigrants to countries where they are not citizens, have no connections, and are at risk of being tortured.

The deadline to pass appropriations bills and avert a shutdown is closing in, and Trump is refusing to negotiate unless Democrats agree to a slew of anti-trans measures — from bans on transgender healthcare to nationwide sports restrictions.

Four D.C. residents have filed a class action suit against the Trump administration, alleging that federal agents have systematically arrested people whom the agents perceive to be Latino without warrants or probable cause.

Israel’s military has issued new evacuation orders for neighborhoods of Gaza City as Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into the Gaza Strip’s largest urban area. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have already fled Gaza City, as Israeli forces systematically flatten much of the city.

Microsoft has blocked the Israeli army’s access to technology it was using to store data on Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after an investigation conducted by the Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call exposed the practice.

Raunaq Alam was charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly spray painting Uncommon Church’s exterior wall with “F*** ISRAEL.” But in a move that should chill free speech advocates, the county brought new charges against Alam, including a hate crimes enhancement that may have led to 10 years in prison.

United Nations delegates from multiple countries stood up from their seats and exited the chamber as Netanyahu took to the podium and prepared to deliver his address. The mass walkout left the assembly hall mostly “empty,” Axios reporter Barak Ravid reported.

Rep. Jamie Raskin said the charges against Comey — filed by one of Trump’s former personal defense attorneys installed as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia just days ago, show that Trump “refuses to allow the facts or the law to stand in the way of his wrath and vengeance campaign.”

This week, the Planned Parenthood affiliate for the state of Wisconsin announced that it will not be scheduling abortion services beyond September 30 due to funding cuts included in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act.

Masked federal agents raided a snack bar factory in the small town of Cato, New York. “They were there to humiliate people,” said a coordinator. “They’re terrorizing kids,” said another advocate. “What is the goal of taking all of these families and ripping them apart other than cruelty?”

On top of everything else, the Trump admin is pushing to open the last remaining truly wild wilderness up for logging and development. Ag Sec Brooke Rollins gave the public little time to comment on the proposal -- and 99% are opposed. Will the forests be saved by the admin's sheer incompetence?

DHS has taken down a propaganda video featuring podcaster Theo Von after he demanded that it be removed. “Please take this down and please keep me out of your ‘banger’ deportation videos,” he said.

Amid a flurry of disinformation and non-science-based medical advisories from the Department of Health and Human Services, a Democratic lawmaker Haley Stevens has indicated she is readying articles of impeachment against HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Rep. Summer Lee and other lawmakers are demanding that Israel be held accountable for the violence perpetrated against Palestinian Americans by Israeli soldiers and settlers. “The grief and outrage of the families of American citizens killed and detained by Israeli forces was palpable,” Lee said.

In 2023, Newsom signed a bill into law protecting school curricula from bans. As the superintendent of public instruction said, “In the Golden State — we don’t ban books — we cherish them.” This conviction is missing a caveat: We don’t ban books here — except in our state prisons.

A senior Department of Justice official has directed staff to begin investigating billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, who has long been the target of a vast array of bunk, antisemitic conspiracy theories, including some spread by President Donald Trump.

“Being transferred is like the worst experience that anybody could go through,” one man detained by ICE said. Detainees were not initially told where they were going, and only received a piece of bread and cheese and a bottle of water for the entire day.

A controversial California bill that would appoint an “Antisemitism Coordinator” is heading to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk. The legislation, which is purported to combat antisemitism, will stifle criticisms of Israel and its genocidal assault on Gaza according to teachers' unions.

More than a dozen West African men who were deported to Ghana by the United States have since been returned to their home countries by the Ghanaian government, despite legitimate fears of torture at home.

A group of senators have introduced a bill which would forbid redrawing maps between census cycles, which is currently being performed by several Republican-led states seeking to subvert the will of voters in order to ensure a GOP-majority Congress in the 2nd half of President Donald Trump’s term.

International human rights scholars discuss Israel’s violations of international law, the complicity of the US, the responsibility of states to immediately halt their direct and indirect support for the genocide. International civil society must protect the rights and lives of Palestinians.

A federal judge has said that multiple DOJ employees appear to have violated Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial by posting social media posts that “baselessly link him to unrelated violent events, and left-wing extremist groups, despite there being no connection or affiliation.”

A calculated pattern is emerging in Donald Trump’s planned National Guard deployments: After wobbling on sending the military into Chicago earlier this month, Trump has pivoted toward targeting Democratic cities in red states with Black mayors.

The Roadless Rule prohibits road construction and timber harvests in many of the remaining wilderness areas that standard cars and trucks cannot reach, effectively preventing mining, hydrocarbon extraction, and logging in those areas and limiting the human footprint in pristine ecosystems.

The EPA is proposing a rollback of regulations that would weaken safeguards to protect people from toxic exposures. Top EPA officials have reportedly been meeting frequently with lobbyists from the chemical, plastic, agricultural and energy industries and mostly shutting out environmental groups.

Since October 2023, Israel has decimated Gaza, destroying schools, universities, homes, and hospitals, and forcibly displacing about 90 percent of the population. The Israeli government has “deliberately deprived Palestinians in Gaza of resources indispensable for their survival.”

The Italian government says it has sent a naval ship to assist the Global Sumud Flotilla after it was attacked by several drones. Organizers of the flotilla said that the boats carrying humanitarian aid for Gaza were attacked by a swarm of 15 drones early Wednesday morning.

Grijalva’s win narrows the Republican House majority, with the GOP now holding 219 seats to Democrats’ 214 seats. Grijalva’s win also makes her the 218th lawmaker in the House to support a bipartisan call for the release of the Epstein files, as a few Republicans agree with Democrats on doing so.

In what became the longest U.N. speech ever made by a U.S. president, Trump bragged about ending “seven unendable wars” and said countries that do not crack down on immigration “are going to hell.” “Trump was speaking to a far-right international around the world.”

An open comment period put forward by the FTC regarding gender-affirming care for transgender youth is set to close this Friday. Many believe the Request for Information, is a ruse — a means by the administration to selectively pick comments in order to justify bans on health care for trans youth.

A draft proposal to authorize the use of U.S. military force against drug cartels is currently floating around Congress and the White House. Publicly available information suggests that it could be used to justify U.S. military intervention in at least 60 countries.

After our apartment was bombed, we tried to flee south but failed, returning to our ruined home only to be bombed again.

Israeli forces have attacked a pediatric hospital and the only eye care hospital in Gaza, forcing them to close.

In an appearance before the UN, Trump launched into a barrage of complaints about the international body, bemoaning it as ineffective at stopping wars and conflicts around the world — despite his own administration’s role in vetoing efforts relating to these conflicts, particularly in Gaza.

Georgia senators are demanding information from the Trump administration on the record high number of deaths of people detained by ICE. Ten people in ICE custody died between January and June of this year — “the highest number of deaths in 6 months of any year listed in ICE’s public records.”

Following ABC’s announcement that it will reinstate “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Nexstar and Sinclair Broadcast Group said they will not air the program on their channels. Those companies are currently preparing to request waivers from Trump’s FCC regarding mergers with other companies.

Trump first proposed designating antifa a “terrorist organization” during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 that erupted in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd. The president renewed this call last week in a social media post.

For many communities, the compounded impact of anti-immigration laws, surveillance, and the threat of deportation, detention, or forced family separation violently strips them of their reproductive freedom.

Democrats in both the US Senate and House on Tuesday announced they were launching a probe into President Donald Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, after MSNBC reported this past weekend that he was caught on camera accepting a $50,000 cash bribe by undercover FBI agents.