Lawsuits raise unsettling questions about authorities’ considerable power to detain people at the nation’s 328 ports of entry.
“I’m not going there,” one GOP senator said when asked about racially charged insults the president has directed toward African Americans and others. The studied avoidance reflects the reluctance of Republicans to confront some of Trump’s often divisive and inflammatory remarks.
The president's latest criticism came after a report that White House counsel Donald McGahn had participated in three interviews for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's investigation.
Megan Stone Venton, Carolyn Surrick and Annie Applegarth say they survived sexual abuse while students at Key School in Annapolis in the 1970s. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Post)
Multiple former students said they were groomed and sexually abused by teachers in the 1970s at Key School in Annapolis, and in some cases had intimate contact with adults that lasted years. The private school has launched an investigation into the allegations.
A powerful corporation in Virginia plans to build a 600-mile pipeline and natural gas compressor station, drawing protests from a yoga retreat and a historic African American community founded after the Civil War by freed slaves.
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Mike Mullen said that while the president has the authority to pull security clearances of ex-officials critical of him, such as former CIA director John Brennan, “it immediately brings back the whole concept of the ‘enemies list’” under Nixon.
U.S. officials are concerned not only about Russia, but also Iran, China and North Korea, said national security adviser John Bolton. He said elections are not the only potential targets for hostile international hackers.
After 18 months of treating North Korea as the top national security threat, the president is taking a more confrontational approach with Beijing that experts said shows a risky shift in U.S. policy.
Some of the marchers walked more than 300 miles to Kabul to persuade the government to negotiate with the Taliban. Along the way, they encountered Taliban fighters and begged them to end the war.
ICE said the man, a Mexican national living illegally in the United States, is wanted in his home country on homicide charges.
Spewing vitriol and calling for violence, Richard Jankowski targeted Ferguson protesters, LeBron James and affirmative action. Now he's running for a school board seat in a N.J. district where more than a third of high school students identify as minorities.
Players from one of the nation’s top high school football teams complained of full-contact practices in shorts and inadequate attention to hydration and heat exposure. A player's parent said the practices caused “multiple players with broken bones.”
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