What Is Habeas Corpus, and Why Are Trump Officials Talking About Suspending It?
Administration officials have suggested suspending a legal principle that protects against unlawful detention, and struggled to accurately define it.
Trump and Biden Backed Easing Marijuana Policy. What Happened?
Removing marijuana from the government’s most restrictive class of drugs had rare bipartisan support last year. But the D.E.A. slowed the effort and legal challenges followed.
Trump Lectures South African President in Televised Oval Office Confrontation
President Trump showed a video and leafed through printouts that he falsely claimed showed widespread persecution of white South Africans. The country’s president tried to correct the record.
Federal Cuts Become ‘All Consuming’ at Harvard’s Public Health School
At the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, which relies heavily on federal support, a crisis response is underway and a reshaping of the institution feels inevitable.
Some Students Weigh Leaving the U.S. for College
Amid political attacks and funding cuts, some American students are changing their college and graduate school plans and heading to other countries.
Kristi Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as Trump’s Right to Deport People
The right allows people to legally challenge their detentions by the government and is guaranteed in the Constitution.
O’Connor Wins Democratic Primary for Pittsburgh Mayor, Defeating Incumbent
The outcome is the latest in a string of losses in deep-blue cities that has raised questions about the power of progressive officeholders.
Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump
An assessment contradicted a presidential proclamation. A political appointee demanded a redo, then pushed for changes to the new analysis, too.
Judge Orders U.S. to Keep Custody of Migrants Amid Claims They Were Sent to South Sudan
In a chaotic hearing, Trump administration officials told a federal judge they did not know where a plane of deportees was going. The judge raised the possibility that he could order its return.
New Orleans Jail Employee Is Charged With Helping 10 Inmates Escape
A maintenance worker shut off water at the jail, allowing the inmates to remove a toilet and sink fixture from a cell wall, according to the Louisiana attorney general’s office. On Tuesday, a fifth escapee was arrested.
Senate Democrats Grill Defiant Rubio on Trump Policies
There was shouting and gavel banging as Marco Rubio and his former Senate Democratic colleagues clashed over U.S. foreign aid.
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