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US Admits Some Families It Rounded Up for Deportation Could Qualify for Asylum
Some Central American families that were detained last week had already been loaded onto planes to be deported when they received a last-minute reprieve.
Too Many Secrets: The Fight to Make the US Government More Accountable in 2015
The Obama administration calls itself the most transparent in history — yet remains extraordinarily secretive. Still, this year saw several victories in the fight for greater government transparency.
A Third of the Inmates Being Released Early from US Federal Prison Face Deportation
As a new sentencing law allows many low-level drug traffickers to be freed from prison, advocates say that efforts to deport the non-citizens among them effectively punishes these convicts twice for the same crime.
The White House Held a Webinar on Time Travel
Check out the interview with two physicists on quantum physics, entanglement, and what time travel experiments can tell us.
Chelsea Manning Is Suing the Government to Get Her FBI File
The government has insisted that the documents are related to ongoing law enforcement work, and are therefore not subject to FOIA requests.
Joe Biden Is the Most Popular Presidential Candidate Despite Not Actually Being One
A new poll finds that Joe Biden has the edge in the 2016 presidential race, even though he's not actually running for president.
A Lawyer for Guantánamo Inmates Explains Why 'Guantánamo North' Is a Terrible Idea
"When people call for Guantánamo to be closed, it is simply shorthand for a more comprehensive demand to end torture and arbitrary, indefinite imprisonment without trial or fair process."
Canada and Iran Still Aren't Friends — Even as Tehran Buddies Up to the West
The UK reopened its embassy in Tehran on Sunday. But Canada remains decidedly cool to the warming of relations between Western powers and Iran.
The US Government Is Spending Millions to Illegally Lock Up Immigrant Families
Private prison companies are reaping in government cash to run detention centers for immigrant families, despite a court ruling ordering the Obama administration to close the controversial facilities.
A White House Aide Allegedly Fired Her Cop Boyfriend's Gun at Him in a Fit of Rage
Barvetta Singletary helped make the Affordable Care Act—a.k.a. Obamacare— happen. Now she's on unpaid leave and has lost her White House security privileges.
Transgender Immigrants Still Face Rampant Physical and Sexual Abuse in US Detention Centers
The Obama administration recently announced new guidelines for handling transgender detainees, but activists say the rules don't go far enough.
DEA Chief Michele Leonhart to Retire Following 'Sex Parties' Scandal
Senior Obama administration officials said that DEA Administrator Michele Leon will step down in the near future after reports emerged last month detailing agent misconduct.