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Students and faculty at Dakota State University are facing free speech concerns for the first time now that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is set to deliver the commencement speech May 10

HUD is retreating from long-established fair-housing protections by closing discrimination complaints

As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an interview

Cinco de Mayo festivities are taking place across the U.S. with music, tacos and tequila flowing

An ambitious project to restore a rapidly vanishing stretch of Louisiana coast devastated by the 2010 Gulf oil spill has been thrown deeper into disarray amid claims by Gov. Jeff Landry that his predecessor concealed an unfavorable study that could imperil the $3 billion effort

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President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that has been closed for more than 60 years

The suspects were recruiting minors to carry out coordinated attacks using improvised explosives and Molotov cocktails

It was the 43rd country admitted to the program and the fourth added under Biden after Croatia, Israel and Qatar

More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of layoffs and proposed budget cuts in the Trump administration’s first 100 days

Sewage spilled into our rivers 513,234 times last year for more than 4 million hours