The Trump administration wants to buy facilities to house detained migrants, but it is facing citizen protests, owners who don’t want to sell, and legal barriers
A system of snow, ice, and extreme cold could bring daily life to a standstill for over 150 million people, hitting the south and east of the country particularly hard
Items such as clothing, computers, and school supplies can be purchased with no taxes during this time
The rise of televangelist Paula White in the president’s circle propels a religious movement that links faith with economic success
The Mexican asserts that organizations defending the community are operating under an even more intimidating climate since Trump returned to power
Missouri and Mississippi lawmakers have proposed creating ‘certified bounty hunters’ to work on the Republican’s mass expulsion campaign
The victim Michael Corey Jenkins still has trouble speaking due to his injuries, and in a statement read by his lawyer, said Christian Dedmon’s actions were the most depraved of any of those who attacked him
The judge is also due to sentence five other ex-officers who admitted to torturing Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker after a neighbor complained that the men were staying in a home with a white woman
The two candidates already have the numbers for the summer conventions following Tuesday’s primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington
Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, voters in seven states have either protected abortion rights or defeated attempts to curtail them in statewide votes
The lawsuit claimed officers targeted Black drivers with illegal roadblocks, retaliated against people for recording police activity, committed sexual assault and made arrests of people for using profanity
It’s also been increasingly difficult for medical providers to get benzathine penicillin injections — the main medical weapon against congenital syphilis — because of supply shortages
Five Black candidates are running for statewide office, from agriculture commissioner to secretary of state. Each is trying to become the first Black candidate to ever win one of those posts
In addition to not approving the University of Wisconsin pay raises, Gov. Tony Evers argues that the Legislature is blocking state conservation programs
At a news conference Wednesday, activists said they spoke for Jackson residents who want more say over reforms to the city’s water system.
American calligrapher and researcher Phyllis Goodnow has collected a list of thousands of victims of the slave trade in a project to honor their history
Brandon Case and his father, Gregory Case, are charged with attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy and shooting into the vehicle driven by D’Monterrio Gibson in January 2022
Prosecutors say the officers nicknamed themselves the ‘Goon Squad’ because of their willingness to use excessive force and cover it up, including the attack that ended with a deputy shooting one victim in the mouth
Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division says the trauma of the case “is magnified because the misconduct was fueled by racial bias and hatred”
Court documents say the officers called themselves The Goon Squad “because of their willingness to use excessive force and and not to report it
Since 1996, tornadoes in the United States have killed 815 people in mobile or manufactured homes, representing 53% of all the people killed at home during a tornado
Emmett Till’s lynching in 1955 and his mother’s insistence on an open casket helped galvanize the civil rights movement
The National Weather Service has issued flash flood warnings and watches for the area where Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri meet at the convergence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers
Authorities said 31 cows died in the northern Alabama town of Berlin during Saturday’s severe weather when lightning struck the tree they were hiding under
State emergency workers were still working with counties to assess the damage from storms in which high temperatures and hail in some areas accompanied tornadoes
About 475,000 customers were without electricity in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma as of Friday morning, as another series of fierce storms made its way through Southern states