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Kilmar Abrego Garcia described a harrowing account of his detainment during the nearly three months he was wrongfully imprisoned in El Salvador thanks to Donald Trump’s administration, claiming he was beaten, deprived of sleep, and psychologically tortured. According to court papers filed by his lawyers on Wednesday, upon his arrival …

The Republican-led House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s profoundly unpopular tax and spending bill. It has been called “the most regressive U.S. tax and budget law in at least the past four decades — and possibly ever,” according to researchers at Yale University. Trump’s …

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke for eight hours and 44 minutes on the House floor on Thursday, in a marathon speech delaying the passage of = Donald Trump’s Medicaid-and-food-assistance slashing, tax-gift-for-the-wealthy abomination of a reconciliation bill. The speech breaks the record for longest ever delivered on the House floor, …

Republicans are clapping each other on the back after passing one of the most destructive pieces of legislation to ever target the American poor and middle class. Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” belly-flopped through Congress not because it makes sense economically, environmentally, or morally — but …

Republicans in Congress have obeyed Donald Trump and passed the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” a sweeping reconciliation package that pairs massive tax breaks for the wealthy with massive cuts to Medicaid and other social services. The bill’s journey through Capitol Hill has been fraught. Democrats were universally opposed to the …

As millions of low-income and disabled Americans are at risk of losing their health insurance thanks to the passing of Donald Trumpand the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill,” Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wisc.) joined Republicans in celebrating one of the most destructive pieces of legislation in U.S. history. Van Orden …

Scenes of “law enforcement” that look like lawlessness are unfolding, daily, on the streets of America. Masked agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies jump out of unmarked cars. They wear masks and are often irregularly uniformed, in a slapdash assemblage of jeans and security vests. …

About midway through our film Familiar Touch, Ruth (played by me, Kathleen), bursts into the kitchen of the memory care facility she’s just moved into. A professional cook, she believes she’s there for a day on the job. Knife in hand, she confidently takes over the prep station, showing the …

Judges in federal courts have issued two major blows against the Trump administration’s multi-pronged immigration crackdown, ruling on Wednesday that the government cannot block undocumented migrants who enter the United States outside of authorized ports of entry from applying for asylum, and in a separate ruling that it cannot revoke …

The Senate passed Donald Trump’s tax bill on Tuesday, sending the latest version of the legislation back to the House for more debate. The so-called “Big Beautiful BIll” slashes taxes for millionaires and billionaires, strips millions of lower-income Americans of health insurance, and adds trillions to the national debt. It …