Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals students celebrate on June 18 at the Supreme Court after the justices rejected President Trump's effort to end legal protections for young immigrants. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption toggle caption Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals students celebrate on June 18 at the Supreme Court after the justices…
Black Lives Matter is not inherently political so federal employees are free to express their support for the movement while on the job, according to the government agency that polices such matters. The Office of Special Counsel says employees can wear BLM pins, post supportive messages to their social media accounts during work time, or…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has stayed all pending federal executions—including one that had been set for Monday."[B]ecause the public is not served by short-circuiting legitimate judicial process, and is greatly served by attempting to ensure that the most serious punishment is imposed in a manner consistent with our Constitution, the court finds that…
(CNN)Federal and Navy firefighters are continuing to battle a blaze aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard more than 15 hours after the fire first broke out Sunday morning. There were 160 people on board t…
The US government is planning to carry out the first federal execution in nearly two decades, despite the objections of the family of the victims and after a volley of legal proceedings surrounding risks caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Daniel Lewis Lee, of Yukon, Oklahoma, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 4pm on…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…