News

An appeals court has ruled in favor of the Trump administration and stopped a judge from trying to get daily updates from a Border Patrol official about the government… Read moreCourt says Border Patrol official won't have to brief judge on Chicago-area immigration sweeps

The recent escape of several research monkeys after the truck carrying them overturned on a Mississippi interstate is the latest glimpse into the secretive world of an… Read moreMonkey escape in Mississippi gives a glimpse into the secretive world of animal research

President Donald Trump has called for Republican states to redraw their U.S. House districts ahead of next year's elections. Now a growing number of both Republican an… Read moreTrump urged GOP-led states to redraw US House districts. Now other states also are gerrymandering

Illinois lawmakers have approved legislation prohibiting immigration arrests near courthouses. The measure adopted Friday also allows lawsuits by people who believe th… Read moreIllinois lawmakers approve ban on immigration arrests near courthouses

Coast Guard Island — a California Coast Guard base located in the Oakland Estuary — was the focus of protests of last week's planned-then-abandoned surge of federal im… Read moreFederal agents detained immigrants and held them on California's Coast Guard Island in the 1980s

What is next for the commoner once known as Prince Andrew probably involves moving trucks as he packs up the trappings of his once royal life to move to an isolated pr… Read moreAndrew, the civilian formerly known as 'prince,' faces an uncertain future

President Donald Trump has declined to say whether he plans to resume underground nuclear detonation tests. He had seemed to suggest that was a possibility in a social… Read moreTrump declines to clarify if the US will conduct tests of its nuclear weapons

There’s been an unprecedented surge in the numbers of attendees at Sunday worship at the Quaker Arch Street Meeting House in Old City Philadelphia. Many of them are yo… Read moreYoung adults turn to Quakers' silent worship to offset — and cope with — a noisy world

President Donald Trump wants Republicans in the Senate to kill a longstanding rule called the filibuster. The rule effectively requires that at least 60 senators out o… Read moreWhat's the filibuster and why does Trump want to get rid of it during the shutdown?