The Pentagon is scrambling to retain the main pipeline for new service members as disillusioned families steer young people away. This article is part of a series examining the problems confronting America’s military.
SCOTUS has ruled 6-3 that state legislature district drawing actions can be reviewed by state courts, and those judgements of state courts can be reviewed by federal ones. A surprise decision to see Kavanaugh and Barrett reject the independent state legislature theory, since they seemed to be supportive of it.
A new study by the University of California, San Francisco shows that homeless people in California were struggling with poor health and deep poverty before becoming homeless. The study released Tuesday by the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative aims to provide a comprehensive picture of adult homelessness in a state...
Is child labor making a comeback? Several US states are considering or have passed bills that would make it legal for children to work in certain types of jo...
SCOTUS dismisses Texas and Louisiana's immigration challenge, says they have no standing. This plus Kavanaugh's footnote makes me think there's a very solid chance that Biden's student debt relief will also survive on standing grounds.
The federal charges against Hunter Biden arose from an investigation by David Weiss, the U.S. attorney in the Democratic president's home state of Delaware who was appointed by Republican former President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump was indicted on Tuesday for his wide-ranging attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the third time in four months that the former U.S. president has been criminally charged even as he campaigns to regain the presidency next year.
Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden has been slapped with several misdemeanor tax charges, but whistleblowers allege that's not all he's guilty of, and that he's ge...
The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into Harvard University’s policies on legacy admissions, which give an edge to applicants with family ties to alumni.
In a 6-3 decision, the court's conservative majority found that federal law does not authorize the program to wipe out nearly half-a-trillion dollars in debt.
Wagner's lightning insurrection appeared to develop with little pushback from Russia's regular armed forces, raising questions about Vladimir Putin's hold on power even after the abrupt halt to the advance.
President Joe Biden is warning that Republicans seeking a nationwide ban on abortion won’t stop there. He is urging supporters to channel their outrage into mobilizing votes for Democrats in 2024. Just a mile from where Biden rallied reproductive rights supporters on the eve of the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that...
JPMorgan Chase said the U.S. Virgin Islands gave Jeffrey Epstein more than $300 million in tax incentives and waived sex offender monitoring requirements, shielding the disgraced late financier as he gave cash and gifts to top officials.
There has been a lot of discussion about whether former President Donald Trump had the authority to hold onto to all the materials he brought home after he l...
The US is making plans to evacuate Taiwan in the event of an invasion. While this might seem like the US is expecting an imminent war, it could also just be ...
Former President Donald Trump's 2024 White House campaign said on Wednesday he had raised $7 million since being indicted on federal charges last week, as his message of political persecution continues to resonate with die-hard supporters.
A federal appeals court says a Biden administration rule aimed at curbing the use of stabilizing braces on handguns is unlikely to survive a legal challenge.
A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday blocked President Joe Biden's new regulation restricting asylum access at the U.S.-Mexico border, upending a key tenet of his plan to deter migration after COVID-era Title 42 restrictions ended in May.