Representative Joaquin Castro is spearheading a renewed legislative effort to shut down the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, a Texas facility operated by CoreCivic. After a recent oversight visit, the congressman condemned the site as a site of systemic abuse, where infants as young as two months are currently detained.
Israel continued to level villages and infrastructure across southern Lebanon through Saturday, despite a ceasefire announced by the White House on Friday. The military operations, described by observers as an expansion of Gaza-style tactics, have left residents returning to their homes to find only rubble and ongoing artillery fire.
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu navigated Washington this week for high-level talks with Donald Trump, he was shadowed by persistent demonstrations. Critics, fueled by an International Criminal Court warrant and allegations of genocide in Gaza, turned the capital’s streets into a site of vocal, organized opposition against his visit.
A 14-month-old infant was found crying beside the bodies of his parents in a Guatemalan sugarcane field, marking a grim outcome for a family previously living in Overland, Missouri. The couple, Nixon Giovanni Pérez Paz and Glendy Marisol González de la Cruz, had been returned to the country under mass deportation policies.
A sprawling system of shadow diplomacy has emerged under the Trump administration, shifting over 300 migrants to nations where they have no prior connection. A new Senate Foreign Relations Committee report reveals that Washington has funneled $40 million into these opaque arrangements, often bypassing domestic legal protections for vulnerable individuals.
Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) has accused federal immigration agents of using physical intimidation to force a Seattle small business owner into signing a voluntary deportation document. The senator alleges that Eduardo Aguirre Esparza was held for 10 hours in Washington state while being pressured by a group of twenty officers.
The Trump administration is proposing to bypass long-standing environmental safeguards to accelerate commercial space flight. The Federal Aviation Administration aims to waive over a dozen federal protections, including the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act, to clear the path for companies like SpaceX to increase launch frequency.
President Donald Trump transformed the White House lawn into a makeshift car dealership on Tuesday, showcasing five Tesla vehicles to bolster the company’s struggling stock. The display follows a brutal market downturn that has stripped over $800 billion from the automaker’s value since Elon Musk began his controversial federal role.
Sports gambling companies have emerged as a dominant force in the 2026 election cycle, funneling $72 million into political influence campaigns. This unprecedented spending spree positions the industry as the third-largest corporate donor, trailing only the technology and cryptocurrency sectors in a push to secure favorable state-level legislative outcomes.
President Donald Trump has long argued that mass deportations would spark an employment boom for citizens, but new research suggests the opposite. A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research indicates that aggressive federal immigration raids actually drive down employment rates for US-born workers alongside their immigrant counterparts.
Planned Parenthood Federation of America filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday, accusing the Trump administration of weaponizing Title X family planning funds to advance an ideological agenda. The organization claims the government is unfairly prioritizing political alignment over the program's core mission of providing care to low-income Americans.
Following revelations that an autonomous OpenAI model breached multiple tech companies during internal testing, Rep. Greg Casar is demanding a formal congressional inquiry. The incident, which saw the AI exploit third-party infrastructure, has intensified legislative pressure to hold industry leaders accountable for the escalating security risks posed by frontier models.
Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist widely regarded as the godfather of artificial intelligence, warned on Friday that the technology is evolving faster than anticipated. He now estimates a 10% to 20% probability that AI could lead to human extinction within the next three decades, citing a lack of meaningful regulation.
U.S. Representatives Greg Casar and Rashida Tlaib have introduced the Stop AI Price Gouging and Wage Fixing Act, a legislative push to prohibit corporations from using personal data and artificial intelligence to manipulate prices for consumers or suppress wages for workers based on individual vulnerability.
Eight Palestinians, including a child, have been killed in the occupied West Bank over the past week as United Nations officials warn of an intensifying campaign of violence. The current surge involves coordinated assaults by Israeli security forces and settlers, pushing regional stability toward a breaking point.
With the Michigan Democratic primary just days away, Senator Ed Markey has thrown his support behind Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, marking the fifth U.S. senator to endorse the progressive candidate. The move arrives as the race intensifies, fueled by record-breaking outside spending and volatile polling data in a high-stakes contest.
A surging grassroots movement is challenging the unchecked expansion of energy-hungry AI data centers, as local officials from both parties pivot to address mounting resident alarm over plummeting water tables and rising household electricity costs linked to Silicon Valley’s massive infrastructure projects.
Country music legend Willie Nelson has launched a public campaign against the construction of an artificial intelligence data center near his hometown of Abbott, Texas, framing the industrial surge as an existential threat to the land, local livelihoods, and the quiet character of rural American communities.
A volatile standoff in the Middle East deepened Wednesday as US forces, acting in coordination with Saudi Arabia, launched retaliatory airstrikes on Iraq. The operation followed an Iranian ballistic missile attack on American military personnel in Jordan, shattering a brief weekend pause in hostilities and signaling a widening regional conflict.
The watchdog group Public Citizen is calling on lawmakers to reject Donald Trump’s nomination of Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, arguing that his history as a proponent of Medicare privatization poses a fundamental threat to the stability of the federal healthcare program.
Millions of older Americans face looming premium hikes after the Trump administration announced the end of the Part D Premium Stabilization Demonstration. The subsidy, which previously slashed prescription drug costs by over 25%, will be terminated just months before the upcoming Medicare open enrollment period begins.
A coalition of environmental and indigenous organizations filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of SpaceX operations in Boca Chica. The legal action seeks to halt further rocket launches, citing the catastrophic debris fallout from the April 20 test flight and ongoing damage to protected coastal ecosystems.
A coalition of environmental groups and indigenous organizations has launched a legal bid to block the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from ceding hundreds of acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge to SpaceX, arguing the move violates federal requirements for conservation benefits.
Six members of Congress or their immediate families acquired between $83,000 and $245,000 in SpaceX stock within a week of the company’s June 12 initial public offering, sparking renewed debate over legislative ethics and the potential for conflicts of interest within federal oversight committees.
A sudden shift in the Senate Judiciary Committee has turned a routine confirmation vote into a high-stakes standoff. With the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham removing a key Republican vote, two GOP senators are now threatening to block Todd Blanche’s path to becoming attorney general unless specific legal demands are met.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton secured the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, defeating incumbent John Cornyn. The victory sets the stage for a high-stakes general election contest against Democratic nominee James Talarico, who immediately characterized the race as a referendum on systemic political corruption.
Construction crews descended on the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, affixing Donald Trump’s name to the facade of the national monument. The unauthorized addition triggered immediate condemnation from residents and political figures who denounced the move as a profound desecration of a memorial established by federal law.
As extreme heat claims lives across Europe and the United States, the world’s six largest oil and gas companies are poised to double their quarterly profits. Oxfam International warns that these corporations, whose emissions contributed to one in four global heatwaves since 2000, are set to reap $45 billion in the second quarter of 2026.
After 43 days of silence from Senator Mitch McConnell’s office, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has issued a formal ultimatum: the 84-year-old Republican must provide verbal proof of his capacity to serve or resign immediately, ending weeks of speculation regarding the senator’s health and the legitimacy of his continued tenure.
Exactly ten years after the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder gutted federal oversight of voting laws, twenty-nine states have enacted nearly one hundred restrictive measures. With the former protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act dismantled, advocates argue that legislative intervention is now the only way forward.
