National Politics
ICE arrests 10,000 in 5 days, a sharp late-June surge in Trump’s deportation push
Agency data shows increase in enforcement as detention facility population hits 39,000.
Former Olympian indicted on felony charge over alleged Reflecting Pool vandalism
Hearn had said he reached into the pool to examine the newly peeled coating.
Trump administration’s $46 billion ‘smart wall’ races ahead on the US-Mexico border
Critics argue this militarizes the border and impacts local communities.
As the Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a US strike that killed over 100 Iranian children
More than 120 days later, there remains no final accounting of what happened.
Trump administration seeks to stomp out all fires quickly, reviving policy that has been discredited
Deaths of three firefighters are casting a spotlight on Trump’s wildfire policy.
Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s proposed limits
Trump's restrictions had not taken effect anywhere in the U.S.
Supreme Court upholds state laws banning transgender girls and women from school athletic teams
The courtap conservative majority has repeatedly ruled against trans Americans in the past year.
Republican Tom Kean Jr. reveals depression diagnosis after his four-month absence from Congress
He’d missed more than 100 votes in Congress this year.
Iran says this. The US says that. A look at the trickiest issues in the unresolved conflict
The 60-day clock is ticking on further talks between the United States and Iran.
Supreme Court rules constitutional privacy protections apply to cellphone users’ location history
Court said people don’t forfeit expectations of privacy when they opt into Google’s location history.