Two advocacy groups have filed a federal lawsuit asking the courts to halt new Trump Administration vetting procedures for reuniting children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents
Alabama sets a June date for its 5th execution using nitrogen gas
Alabama plans to carry out its latest execution using nitrogen gas next month
Iranian student in Alabama to self-deport despite withdrawal of initial charge
An attorney for an Iranian mechanical engineering student at the University of Alabama says he has decided to self-deport despite the government dropping a charge behind his initial arrest
Justice Sonia Sotomayor says lawyers should stand up and fight amid turmoil in nation’s legal system
Justice Sonia Sotomayor says lawyers should stand up and fight in battles faced by the nation's legal system
Judge to hear arguments over whether LA prosecutor should be kicked off Menendez case
Attorneys for Erik and Lyle Menendez will make their case to a judge that Los Angeles prosecutors should be removed from the resentencing case for the brothers
Leo XIV’s brother recalls feeling of ‘disbelief’ over his sibling becoming pope
When white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel revealing that a new pope had been chosen, John Prevost turned on his television in Illinois and watched in awe as his brother’s name was announced
The Trump administration has all but stopped enforcing environmental laws
Protecting the nation from polluters is a core function of the Environmental Protection Agency. But in the last few months, federal enforcement of major violations of environmental laws appears to have ground to a halt. A Grist review of data from the Department of Justice and EPA found that the...
Why are all of America’s biggest cities sinking?
Cities sit unmoving on the landscape — a sprawling collection of roads, sidewalks, and buildings designed to last for generations. But across the United States, urban areas are silently shifting: The land beneath them is sinking, a process known as subsidence, largely because people are using too much groundwater and...
The head of FEMA defended the agency on Capitol Hill. Trump fired him.
On Thursday, the Trump administration forced Cameron Hamilton, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, out of his job. The move came one day after Hamilton told lawmakers that the agency, which the administration favors dismantling, shouldn’t be eliminated. “I do not believe it is in the best...
Plastics companies know about chemical recycling’s shortcomings — but still sell it as a solution
For years, the plastics industry’s narrative about recycling has been falling apart. Research and media investigations have revealed that it doesn’t make economic sense and that petrochemical companies have used it more as a public relations gambit than as a serious effort to mitigate the plastic pollution crisis. Conventional recycling...