China's "national security law" was perfectly tailored to zero in on someone like Lai, who vigorously pushed for democracy, freedom of speech, and government reform in Hong Kong.
All of San Francisco's public schools were shut down Monday thanks to the United Educators strike.
The commission has targeted the news rating company with onerous record demands and a merger condition aimed at cutting off its revenue.
“Both abstinence and excessive use can be problematic,” researchers suggest.
The Super Bowl is a celebration of excellence, and that includes the halftime show.
Plus: Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison, endemic fraud in federal welfare, Ghislaine Maxwell won't talk to Congress, and more...
Spurred by a hostile U.S. president, Europe struggles against stagnant economies to rearm.
People don't like property taxes—but they are also not eager to cut the government services they fund.
Lower courts keep inventing loopholes to uphold discriminatory booze regulations.
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss the outrages of the week, including Jeffrey Epstein, Billie Eilish, and DoorDash.
A new poll finds that even white men without college degrees, a key voting constituency for Trump, don’t approve of the president’s handling of the economy.
2025 is on track to have the largest drop in the murder rate in recorded history.
Trump's endorsements of Viktor Orbán and Sanae Takaichi, like Clinton's support for Boris Yeltsin or Obama's opposition to Benjamin Netanyahu, do not make America great.
Another judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to follow federal law, even as the Trump administration argues it has broad authority to conduct warrantless immigration arrests.
The Department of Homeland Security won't stop calling Marimar Martinez a "domestic terrorist," so she's getting the video of her shooting and text messages from the officer who shot her unsealed.
The ruling makes it less likely for copyright suits involving generative AI to be dismissed, discouraging use of the technology with the specter of costly legal fees.
Plus: assessing Trump’s first year, the dysfunction of Washington, D.C., and the politics of the Super Bowl. (Recorded live in Washington, D.C.)
Department of Homeland Security
Plus: detention center NIMBYism and why you shouldn't walk on the semifrozen Potomac river.
Thanks to a lack of hiring standards, purposeful federal policy, poor training, and a lack of accountability for bad behavior, ICE is eroding safety and liberty for all Americans.
The right to bear arms is inherently anti-authoritarian at a time when Trump wields authority.
"It's not that South Park suddenly quote got political. It's that politics became pop," co-creator Trey Parker said in a recent interview.
The federal case against the former CNN anchor hinges on conduct that can plausibly be viewed as part of a journalist's work, combined with the obvious partiality of that work.
Cooperation may get more ICE agents off the street, but it could make it harder for the state to enforce its laws.
The Department of Education is getting a bigger budget, less than a year after President Donald Trump ordered the department's closure.
Across advanced economies, they have repeatedly been narrowed or even repealed after delivering disappointing revenue, tax avoidance, capital flight, and costly administrative battles.
A Kentucky proposal to legalize cigar bars bucks the trend of prohibitionist tobacco policy.
To make sense of the Justice Department’s latest documents, you have to understand what they actually are.
The job of scientists isn't to manufacture alarm. It's to communicate the truth.
The bill has a wide variety of groups worried that they could be targeted for criticism of large agribusinesses.
"This type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt," warned Clay Higgins.
The Trump administration excludes advanced nuclear power reactors from excessive National Environmental Policy Act requirements.
Plus: the partial withdrawal of federal agents from Minneapolis, shifting public opinion on immigration, and D.C.'s continued snowpocalypse.
Here's a quick reminder of what the Fourth Amendment has to say about that.
The 4th Circuit held that the doorstep of an apartment did not qualify as protected "curtilage" under the Fourth Amendment.
Polymarket’s pop-up grocery and Kalshi’s food money giveaways are the latest examples in New York’s decades-long history of food charity.
“We’re standing up not just for ourselves, but for the principle that government must respect property rights.”
Sandy Martinez's little-known story is a microcosm of the broader debate over what, exactly, transgresses the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines.
Federal authorities should not be able to turn civil commitment into a life sentence for anyone the government deems inconvenient.
Yes, that includes drag queen story hour.
It's a bad idea, just like it was a bad idea five years ago when Democrats proposed something similar.
Crime analyst Jeff Asher explains the historic decline in murders, why Americans distrust crime statistics, and what the data actually show about public safety.
Plus: More evidence that immigrants are good for America, Trump's call to "nationalize" elections, and more...
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