The dispute is not simply about which programs deserve funding. It is about whether a president can cancel federal spending without obtaining a vote from Congress.

The National Museum of African American History and Culture represented the culmination of a struggle that had begun more than a century earlier—a struggle not simply to preserve Black history, but to establish that African American history belongs at the center of the American story. Ten years later, as the United States commemorates its 250th anniversary, that mission carries renewed significance.

The federal government says it has removed approximately 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage as part of a sweeping effort to identify fraud, improper subsidies and enrollment records that officials say could not be verified. That is the headline. But it is not the whole story.

An operation largely invisible to passengers traveling through Akron-Canton Airport has turned the regional airport into an important link in the federal government's immigration detention and deportation network.

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s request to enforce new Postal Service restrictions on mail-ballot distribution during the 2026 midterm election.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked Missouri from using a Republican-drawn congressional map designed to improve the party's chances of gaining another U.S. House seat, bringing at least temporary clarity to an extraordinary legal battle that has moved through state and federal courts just weeks before the November midterm election.

The strongest thread today is who gets to shape the future: voters defending political voice, Black communities preserving cultural landmarks, Akron neighborhoods rebuilding housing, climate-vulnerable communities confronting catastrophe, and musicians demanding rules for the AI era.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations unit published a new federal acquisition plan on August 31 seeking private data services for its election-fraud investigations.

In a recent article for The American Prospect, Robert Kuttner warns that the Trump administration’s reported effort to use the IRS against liberal nonprofits could reach far beyond a handful of prominent foundations. It could threaten the civic work that nonprofit and faith-based organizations have performed in American communities for generations.

On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, providing the final approval needed to add it to the United States Constitution.

The real crisis this kind of media causes isn’t just the misinformation; it’s the collapse of a shared reality among Americans, without which democracy can’t function. And we’re seeing that play out in real time in the daily dysfunction both in Congress and in state capitols across the nation.

Demonstrators across the country expressed anger at the killing of a woman in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents.

Winter’s here, and you can feel it. Short days. Cold nights. Holiday music is trying to warm a world where many still feel iced out. ’Cause like my favorite wordsmith, Gil Scott-Heron, once reminded us — It’s “Winter in America.”

Pentagon memo details plan to train over 20,000 National Guard members across the US to carry out Trump’s order on subduing civil unrest

Trump is now trying to extract a quarter-billion dollars from the American treasury — our tax dollars — to compensate himself for the troubles he faced when Merrick Garland belatedly tried to hold him to account for criminally stealing classified documents, trying to overthrow the 2020 election, and his explicit, public outreach to Putin to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails and make them public that helped him win the 2016 election

Vice President JD Vance sparked alarm on Sunday when he said that President Donald Trump was considering invoking the Insurrection Act under the pretenses of combating violent crime in US cities.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — From purging diversity programs to steamrolling media independence, Trump has unleashed a blitzkrieg of white nationalist policymaking under the guise of federal power.

President Trump has repeatedly promised to "make America affordable again." But for those Americans most in need, his administration's latest budget plan would dramatically shrink the federal rental aid that helps keep millions of people housed.

Elizabeth Hays, a white woman from central North Carolina, had never been to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. But earlier this month, after she read about Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the museum and others throughout the Smithsonian system, she made the nearly five-hour drive up to Washington, D.C., to visit. She was worried that if she waited any longer, she might encounter a sanitized version of the museum, or no museum at all.

The president has grown more impulsive, more vindictive, and more anarchic