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The House and Senate have reached a spending deal, though it’s unclear how much, if any, funds will be allocated to a border wall.

On the weekend before Thanksgiving, Congress, surprisingly, seemed to beat a deadline.

This past Saturday, negotiators in the House and Senate came to an agreement on top-line numbers for 12 spending bills, the Washington Post reported. These spending

A federal department ruled last week that the Forest Service violated a Spanish-speaking womans civil rights by calling the Border Patrol to help translate during a routine stop, saying it was “humiliating to Hispanics and an illicit backdoor way to capture more illegal immigrants.

The ruling by the Agriculture Departments assistant secretary for civil rights could change policies

It is a curious experience to wade into a 21st-century national tragedy midstream. I was returning Sunday from an overseas trip. Just before I departed, I saw the first tweets that suggested that something was wrong in Orlando. By the time I landed 12 hours later, social media was on its fourth iteration of the super fun “How Dare You Politicize a Tragedy!” game.

Julian Assange’s strange seven-year residence in Ecuador’s London embassy has ended, and Assange, thanks to the American president he helped elect, is now in British custody facing a US extradition request. The question now is what the freshly unsealed Trump Justice Department indictment against him means, and doesn’t mean—for Assange, for the British courts, which must decide whether to hand