Law & Defense
Trump says he made Memphis safer. Locals told me it felt like 1930s Germany or North Korea.
President Donald Trump with Attorney General Pam Bondi during a public safety roundtable at a Tennessee Air National Guard Base...
Trump’s lust for Greenland’s rare earth minerals faces harsh Arctic realities
The town of Sisimiut lies in a region with rich rare earth deposits.Ina Fassbender/AFP/Getty Get your news from a source...
Tens of thousands of new mothers have been flagged to police over unreliable drug tests
Ayanna Harris-Rashid checks on her youngest child as her other children play at the table in their home in Iowa...
Minneapolis is the violent reckoning the gun rights movement has long wanted
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How to get away with anything: Trump’s sordid year of pardons
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Trump’s minions are pressuring prosecutors to charge ICE protesters based on scant evidence
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ICE violence is fueled by misogyny and white nationalism
ICE and other federal officers remove a woman from her vehicle near an area where ICE was operating in Minneapolis...
How a violent, warrantless ICE raid devastated a Memphis family
Cesar Alexander Antunes-Maradiaga, pictured with his son, was detained by the Homeland Security officer (right) on November 24.Courtesy family Get...
No, antidepressants do not cause mass shootings
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Federal judge nixes rule that enables clearcutting in the name of taming wildfires
A patch of the White Mountain National Forest is clear-cut in a logging operation near Stow, Maine. Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty/Inside Climate...
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