The Center for Policy and Research has just published a new report titled “American Torturers: FBI and CIA Abuses at Dark Sites and Guantánamo,” which compiles a series of 40 drawings by Guantánamo Bay prisoner Abu Zubaydah that chronicle the horrific torture he endured since 2002 in CIA dark sites and at Guantánamo Bay, where he has been detained without charge since 2006.
Calls are growing for the Justice Department to investigate Donald Trump’s attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for allegedly plotting to sell presidential pardons during the Trump administration, after his former employee Noelle Dunphy filed a $10 million lawsuit against Giuliani accusing him of sexual assault and other misconduct. The complaint alleges Giuliani “asked Ms.
Most abortions will be restricted to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy starting July 1
Monica Bertagnolli will oversee billions in research grants if she’s confirmed to head the National Institutes of Health.
A conversation with Damon Beres about what regulating this technology would actually look like
Instead of being replaced by robots, office workers will soon be pressured to act more like robots themselves.
Special Counsel John Durham served up not an investigation, but an excuse for future partisan abuses.
The franchise’s formula—merciless villain and world-threatening chaos, plus cars—just isn’t landing like it used to.
The Fed is paying particular attention to so-called core prices, which exclude volatile food and energy costs and are regarded as a better gauge of longer-term inflation trends.
POLITICO asked a panel of strategists and elected officials what under-the-radar issue they think could play an outsize role in 2024.
The slowdown reflects the impact of the Fed’s aggressive drive to tame inflation.
We host a roundtable discussion on the human rights crisis unfolding at the U.S.-Mexico border and the impact of President Biden ending the Trump-era pandemic policy known as Title 42 last Thursday, after it had been used to expel nearly 3 million migrants without due process.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) poked fun at the House Oversight Committee chair’s update on his Biden family investigation this week.
The lawsuit alleges Escambia County School District and its School Board are violating the First Amendment through the removal of 10 books from library shelves.
The exchange was one of several testy moments outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
A bill to ban access to health care for young transgender kids is headed to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is now reconsidering a Texas judge’s ruling to restrict mifepristone access.
During a two-hour oral argument, the judges appeared sympathetic to an anti-abortion medical group seeking to revoke the FDA’s approval of mifepristone.
On May 13, 1985, police surrounded the home of MOVE, a radical Black liberation organization that was defying orders to vacate from 6221 Osage Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Police flooded the home with water, filled it with tear gas, blasted it with automatic weapons, and finally dropped a bomb on the house from a helicopter, setting it ablaze and killing 11 residents — six adults and five children.
More than a dozen former U.S. national security officials have released an open letter calling for a diplomatic end to the Russia-Ukraine war. The call for peace was published as a full-page ad Tuesday in The New York Times and organized by the Eisenhower Media Network. They called the war an “unmitigated disaster” that the U.S. should work to end before it escalates into a nuclear confrontation.
With the United States just two weeks away from a possible default on its debt for the first time ever, President Joe Biden has cut short a trip to Asia to continue negotiations with congressional leaders in Washington over lifting the federal government’s debt ceiling.
His effort is the latest sign the progressive stalwart is toggling between his activist persona while pressing for a deal on what he thinks can pass a narrowly divided Senate.
As legislative sessions come to a close, state lawmakers are divided over whether children and teenagers should be able to have an abortion without telling their parents.
Monica Bertagnolli will oversee billions in research grants if she’s confirmed to head the National Institutes of Health.
Makers of products that take medicine online say slow-moving bureaucracy is crushing innovation.
Health groups say the move could devastate a nursing workforce that is plagued by staffing shortages.
The move sets up an override vote by the GOP supermajority legislature.
The sooner Putin and his coterie are forced to face failure, the better.
Companies using AI to generate fake people are committing an immoral act of vandalism, and should be held liable.
Readers share their views on the tragedy—and on individuals’ responsibility to one another.