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13 小时之前 · With Californians still reeling from what is expected to be "the costliest wildfire disaster in American history," a federal judge in the state on Tuesday dismissed a constitutional climate case that young people brought against the U.S. government.. The firm Our Children's Trust filed the equal protection lawsuit on behalf of 18 children in the Central District of …

A federal court late Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants to Guantánamo Bay, where the U.S. president is planning to jail tens of thousands of people in new detention facilities that critics have likened to concentration camps.. The decision from Judge Kenneth Gonzales of the U.S. District Court for the District of New …

6 天之前 · "We the people reject Project 2025." That was one of the rallying cries of demonstrations that took place at state capitols and other locations across the United States on Wednesday. The protests are a part of "Movement 50501," which describes itself as "a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic, destructive, and, in many cases, illegal …

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4 天之前 · People march to demonstrate during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally, a pro-Palestinian rally, and an anti-Trump rally on the day of Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration on January 20, 2025 in Charlotte, United States of America.

2 天之前 · A federal court late Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants to Guantánamo Bay, where the U.S. president is planning to jail tens of thousands of people in new detention facilities that critics have likened to concentration camps.. The decision from Judge Kenneth Gonzales of the U.S. District Court for the District of …

2025年1月5日 · 2025 offers an intriguing mix of the certain and the uncertain. Here’s what is certain: Democratic institutions will continue to crumble, witness the erosion of the rule of law in the U.S. and elsewhere; long-standing norms governing public affairs, such as a bar to prosecuting political opponents, will loosen their grip on behavior; countless species, …

2024年11月5日 · With every tick, the election clock feels like dread closing in on Americans. A recent Forbes Health survey shows that over 60% of participants consider their mental health to be under siege, grappling with everything from mild anxiety to deep distress as the political circus intensifies. A LifeStance Health survey backs this up, revealing that a staggering 79% of …

New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday became the first progressive House Democrat to call on Sen. Bob Menendez to resign following the former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair's indictment last week on federal bribery charges.. Menendez (D-N.J.) and his wife, Nadine Menendez, were charged Friday with accepting hundreds of thousands of …