George Retes was denied access to an attorney, wasn’t allowed to make a phone call, was not presented to a judge, and was put in an isolation cell before being released with no charges.
From Apocalypse Now memes to a re-named War Department, the second Trump administration is in love with authoritarian aesthetics.
Alaska has been trying to seize Ken Jouppi's Cessna for 13 years over a misdemeanor crime.
The state just cracked down on a form of state-sanctioned robbery, where governments seized and sold homes over minor tax delinquencies—and then pocketed the profits.
Nobody complained about the company, so federal bureaucrats launched their own crusade.
The Florida Immigrant Coalition's new billboards were restored less than a day after being taken down, but why were they removed in the first place?
Despite the setback, Middletown Township is taking the case to the state supreme court.
Matt and Tuckey Hernandez lost their daughters for two years after their infant's medical issues were misidentified as abuse.
Partly from coercion and partly by choice, many banks and social media businesses impose severe gun controls
No matter how John O'Keefe died, the government failed here on multiple levels.
But now his case against the government can move forward.
Sandy Martinez was fined for a parking violation on her own property, driveway cracks, and a storm-damaged fence.
"Just go to North Korea for 10 days and you'll know how bad it is," says Charles Ryu.
Half the elevators at Federal Detention Center Miami are broken. Immigrant detainees are kept on lockdown, and lawyers can barely reach their clients.
"We did a lot of field studies and got nothing to show for it," said one U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory researcher.
The Big Sky State becomes the first to close the "data broker loophole" allowing the government to get private information without a warrant.
Tony Gilroy's series reminds us that an empire doesn't need dark magic to be evil.
Some hospitals are even reporting women for testing positive for drugs that were given to them during labor.
Trade and immigration are areas where Trump operates most like a criminal autocrat.
A federal court ruled Trina Martin could not sue the government after agents burst into her home and held an innocent man at gunpoint.
Bureaucrats in Dunedin, Florida, originally hit Jim Ficken with a fine close to $30,000. When he couldn't pay that, things turned dire.
Entitlements are a much bigger expense, but that doesn't mean the waste doesn't matter.
The newly confirmed head of the country's leading law enforcement agency has a history of advocating politically motivated investigations even while condemning them.
The DOGE director wildly exaggerates what can be accomplished by tackling "waste, fraud, and abuse" in government spending without new legislation.
The full transcript shows the president's complaints about the editing of the interview are not just wildly hyperbolic and legally groundless. They are demonstrably false.
Plus: USAID and Education Department cuts, tariff deal reached, and more...
In a jaw-dropping argument, the Department of Justice claims seizing $50,000 from a small business doesn’t violate property rights because money isn’t property.
His last-minute acts of clemency invite Trump and future presidents to shield their underlings from the consequences of committing crimes in office.
Some IRS offices routinely threw away sensitive material with regular trash, while others used unlocked or damaged storage bins.
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A class action lawsuit claims Indianapolis law enforcement is using civil asset forfeiture to seize millions in cash from packages routed through a major FedEx hub, without notifying the owners of what crime they're suspected of committing.
Ending these unaccountable agencies would safeguard civil liberties and improve intelligence gathering.
Government agencies and officials can’t be trusted, so we should give them less to do.
Supposedly targeted at immigrants and travelers, the program endangers everybody’s liberty.
Congress needs to reassert its powers and bring the imperial presidency back down to earth.
In his second term, the former and future president will have more freedom to follow his worst instincts.
Peanut the Squirrel charmed a large internet audience that helped fund an animal sanctuary. Then the government seized him.
By prosecuting the website's founders, the government chilled free speech online and ruined lives.
