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A dust-up over geographical nomenclature is silly, but it signals the Trump administration's hostility to the First Amendment and freedom of the press.

LA immigrant communities are on edge after a leaked memo revealed plans for "large scale" immigration enforcement action in the city before the end of February.

Two students challenging New Hampshire’s ban on transgender athletes on girls sports teams will also fight President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.”

If Trump simply ignores the high court, is that the end of law?

President Donald Trump has nominated a longtime oil and gas industry representative to oversee an agency that manages a quarter-billion acres of public land concentrated in western states

State governments, community groups, advocacy nonprofits and regular Americans have filed a large and growing number of federal lawsuits opposing President Donald Trump’s barrage of executive orders and policy statements. Some of his actions have been put on hold by the federal courts, at least temporarily.

Protesting Tulsi Gabbard's fitness for National Security Director, Chuck Schumer contended that most Republicans would not vote for her if votes were private.

Street art will mark 60 years since US civil rights leader’s trip to Smethwick shortly before his assassination

Past efforts to allow more religion in public schools have been hamstrung by legal challenges. But those on the religious right feel empowered by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.