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ICE arrested these immigrants in San Francisco and sent them 2,400 miles away—to Hawaii
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Evidence in her brutal 1979 rape pointed to the Golden State Killer. The police didn’t want to hear about it.
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Six Months in, Trump Has Made American Life Immeasurably Worse
President Donald Trump's first six months back in office have indeed been historic...just not in the ways that he thinks....
ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants
A man is taken into custody by federal agents following an immigration hearing in Phoenix on May 21, 2025.Ross D....
One year after assassination attempt, MAGA reiterates “God spared Trump”
Secret Service agents shielded President Donald Trump after the shooting at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last July.Evan Vucci/AP Get...
Senators introduce a bill requiring immigration agents to show their faces
Sen. Alex Padilla is pushed out of the room by security personnel after he tried to ask a question to...
We asked Trump’s former prisons chief how $45 billion will reshape immigrant detention
President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tour "Alligator Alcatraz," a new migrant detention facility in Ochopee, Florida,...
Trump’s FCC scraps ban on prison phone price gouging, a gift to some of his big donors
Incarcerated men make phone calls at the "little Scandanavian" unit of SCI Chester prison in Pennsylvania, in March 2023.Kent Nishimura/Getty...
Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people
Children flee a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, 2022. The 18-year-old gunman gave...
Political violence is surging as Trump kills prevention efforts, a top security expert warns
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