• Arkansas governor says she’s not rushing to resume executions after signing nitrogen gas bill
    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday that she’s not in a rush to resume executions after signing legislation allowing the use of nitrogen gas to put inmates to death. Sanders made the comments during a joint interview with The Associated Press and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, days after lawmakers […]
  • FACT FOCUS: Trump exaggerates revenue from tariffs
    President Donald Trump makes no secret of his love of tariffs. He heralds them as a way of bringing in revenue, striking back at countries he sees as taking advantage of the U.S. in trade, and as a cudgel to push countries to do what he wants. Even Canada and Mexico have been handed heavy […]
  • Judge blocks Trump administration’s from passport changes affecting transgender Americans
    BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers. In an executive order signed in January, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes instead […]
  • Tropical drinks by the pool? Not so fast, says senator who visited Abrego Garcia in El Salvador
    There was the pool furniture in the background. There were the tropical drinks, which looked to be margaritas garnished with cherries. And then there were the deported prisoner and the American senator, sitting and chatting. That senator, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, accused El Salvador’s government on Friday of aiming to paint the picture of […]
  • Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont
    A Tufts University student from Turkey being held in a Louisiana immigration facility must be returned to New England no later than May 1 to determine whether she was illegally detained for co-writing an op-ed piece in the student newspaper, a federal judge ruled Friday. U.S. District Judge William Sessions said he would hear Rumeysa […]