Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting. Volunteers escort a 2-year-old American boy to be reunited with his mother, who awaited deportation in February. Christopher Lee for ProPublica Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood, a

It wasn’t clear why the Defense secretary issued the order not to send troops on a routine mission to a country the administration refers to as a “model ally.” Soldiers of the U.S. Army 2nd Cavalry Regiment Stryker Brigade watch Apache helicopters engage during NATO military exercises near Bemowo Piskie, Poland, on May 7, 2026. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images Pete Hegseth’s last-minute decision to cancel the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland caught Pentagon staff and European a

The entrance of the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center in the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Florida, on August 3, 2025. (Eva Marie Uzcategui/Reuters) Florida is expected to wind down its “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention facility sometime this summer, according to a source familiar with the planning. Vendors at the site were told Tuesday that detainees will be removed by “the start of” June and the center will be dismantled in the fo

Credit: Damon Winter/NYT President Trump’s war with Iran is the most significant military action in American history that a president has undertaken without any form of congressional authorization. Yes, past presidents have often pushed the bounds of their constitutional authority in using the military. Nonetheless, they have typically involved Congress for anything more than a brief attack. Sometimes, Congress passed a bill formally approving action, as was the case in Iraq

We’re seeking records related to the whistleblower-alleged political pressure, communications, and decision-making behind DOJ’s targeting of a leading civil rights organization. Credit: American Oversight Friday, American Oversight launched an investigation into the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) politically motivated prosecution of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), following whistleblower allegations that senior DOJ official Aakash Singh ordered prosecutors to “rush” th

The targeted Americans are accused of misdeeds that can qualify them to lose citizenship, but denaturalization has rarely been invoked in the past. A naturalization ceremony for new citizens in Chicago last year. Photo Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The Trump administration asked federal courts this week to revoke the citizenship of 12 immigrants who committed crimes or took other actions that officials say disqualify them from being Americans,

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks during a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel next to him, at the Department of Justice in Washington, April 21, 2026. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images The Department of Justice on Tuesday announced a bombshell 11-count fraud indictment accusing the Southern Poverty Law Center of secretly funding leaders and organizers of white supremacist, racist and other hate groups that the civil rights group claimed to be battling

Leo, ​who last year became the first US-born pope, has emerged as an outspoken critic of the US-Israeli ⁠war on Iran. Pope Leo XIV delivers his message as he leads a vigil for peace inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on April 11, 2026 [Gregorio Borgia/AP Photo] Pushing back against United States President Donald Trump’s broadside, Pope Leo XIV says the Vatican’s appeals for peace and reconciliation are rooted in the Gospel, and that he did not fear the Trump administ

Legal expert says targeting civilian sites would be ‘collective punishment’, which is prohibited under laws of war. US President Donald Trump says he is in talks with a 'new' government in Iran [Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters] Donald Trump has renewed his threat to “blow up” a range of civilian infrastructure in Iran, including all of the country’s desalination plants, in a move that would threaten the water source for millions of people and that experts say would be illegal. The

[Getty Images/CNN] When millions of Iranians poured into the streets in 1979 to end the rule of the former shah, their revolution seemed to have put an end to the practice of passing power from father to son. Not so. Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been elevated to the position his father held for nearly four decades until his death in US-Israeli air strikes. The 88-member Assembly of Experts did what many Iranians had hoped it woul