America used to have the best medical research system in the world. Elon Musk and RFK Jr. are ripping it to shreds.

A letter obtained exclusively by The Appeal says Trump’s Department of Justice has cut all funding to the Prison Rape Elimination Act Resource Center.

Authorities launch inspection of school rabbit pens, ahead of army’s founding anniversary.

Eli Lilly, the drugmaker behind the blockbuster weight loss drug Zepbound, is suing four telehealth companies for allegedly selling illegal copies of the drug made by compounding pharmacies.

When Yolanda Tinajero told the man that killed her brother Arturo Benavides that she felt a desire to hug him but knew it wasn’t allowed, District Judge Sam Medrano felt a personal connection.

“The first thing that moved me about her was her true faith in trying to forgive. And I’ll be honest with you, she reminded me of my mom. My mom would do the same thing,” Medrano said in an interview with El Paso Matters on Wednesday, a day after two women who lost loved ones to gunman Patrick Crusius in the 2019 Walmart mass shooting chose to forgive and hug him.

So Medrano, who has presided over the 409th District Court for 29 years, asked Tinajero: “Ma’am, would it truly bring you peace and comfort if you were to hug him?” She said yes, and Medrano granted permission for the hug.

Adriana Zandri of Ciudad Juárez, whose husband, Ivan Filiberto Manzano, was among the 23 people killed by Crusius on Aug. 3, 2019, had given her victim impact statement Monday. But she remained in El

In February, without any public announcement, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removed from its website the vast majority of investigative records by the department’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), an internal watchdog. Most of those records include recommendations “aimed at addressing any civil rights or civil liberties concerns” identified by CRCL’s investigations, according to the online repository where those records could previously be found. Those probes “involve a range of alleged abuses, including violation of rights while in immigration detention.” The records stretch from October 2014 through December 2024, spanning the Obama, Biden, and first Trump administrations.

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) saved the web addresses for many of these records, which were backed up by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and has recreated CRCL’s repository below with over 160 CRCL memos and other related documents.

The U.S. Department of Education has announced the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) will resume collections of federal student loans that are in default on May 5.

Cities nationwide are facing a dual challenge when it comes to public safety. The place-based assets proven to keep communities safe—including employment, housing, and education—are under threat at the same time that punitive measures shown to exacerbate crime, recidivism, and taxpayer costs are being championed.

As the Trump administration is ramping up detentions and deportations of immigrants living in the United States, it is also revising and expanding contracts with private prison facilities. Prison companies can earn millions from the federal government by building and operating the facilities used to hold people before they are removed from the country.

• Pipeline: A Chinese prison is part of the pipeline that delivers fentanyl to the U.S., ProPublica found in a review of U.S. and Chinese documents and interviews with investigators.
• Fallout: Opioid overdoses have killed more Americans than the number of U.S. deaths in several wars combined.
• Permissive: Veteran federal agents told ProPublica that China has failed to cooperate and even interfered with drug investigations; China insists it has cracked down.

The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s chief of staff issued the warning as department employees have spoken to the news media about harms they see resulting from the dismantling of their agency, which enforces laws guaranteeing workers’ rights.

Workers say girl’s death is an example of what they feared from Providence closing the unit

Restrictions on movement and total siege making aid operations almost impossible

“Please come back, my son, I will share everything I have with you.”

"If you can't respect the basic fundamental underlying principles with which we order society — which is 'Do not steal' — then what are you left with?" asks investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. Following her TED2025 stage talk, Cadwalladr is in conversation with Chris Anderson, head of TED, to warn about surveillance fascism. What happens when big Silicon Valley companies take over communication platforms and weaponize intellectual property against you? She suggests that when you feel powerless, it's often actually because you are powerful — and explores why it's so important to fight information chaos by supporting independent media and journalists.