A provision of the 1994 Immigration and Nationality Act allowed migrants who typically would not qualify for legal permanent residency status — because of the way they entered the U.S. or because they ...

Sahar Emami, an anchor for Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB, went viral for being on air as a bomb struck the building where she was broadcasting, then returning to the air after the strike. Then an X ...

After June 29 shootings in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, killed two firefighters and injured another, social media users rushed to fill in the blanks of suspected shooter Wess Roley’s background. Roley, 20, ...

The Biden Promise Tracker monitors the 99 most important campaign promises of President Joseph R. Biden, elected in November 2020. Biden said his top priorities were fighting the coronavirus ...

As a 2024 candidate, Donald Trump promised to end the taxation of Social Security. Both the House and Senate versions of his "Big Beautiful Bill" would cut taxes for many Social Security beneficiaries ...

Warren’s X post is accurate that $35 copays for every American — which equals about $11.9 billion — would be less than one estimate of what Meta would save from the proposed tax break. The Institute ...

Available numbers show that immigrants in the U.S. illegally paid more in taxes in recent years than Amazon, General Motors, IBM and Netflix combined. But there are some caveats to that, including ...

Florida and federal officials announced the state will build a new immigration detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Everglades, and because the facility will be partly funded by the ...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt offered an even larger number during a June 19 briefing, saying the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers "found that the One Big Beautiful Bill will ...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s platform proposes free buses and day care, rent control and city-owned grocery stores to make city living more affordable. Mamdani’s platform is not ...

The most obvious category of people who don’t have workplace insurance are those who don’t have a job. This group includes children and retirees, people searching for work, people who choose not to ...

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