After a decline following statewide bail reform — and years of reductions prior to that — the county’s jail population has begun to tick up once again.
With Cook County Jail’s population again on the rise, officials weigh the reasons
Category: Politics
Three Hegseth aides ousted in leak investigation decry ‘baseless attacks’
Three former senior advisers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decried on Saturday what they called “baseless attacks” after each was escorted from the Pentagon in an expanding probe on information leaks.
Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime law
In a brief order, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in Northern Texas “until further order of this court.”
Vatican notes ‘exchange of opinions’ over migrants, prisoners in meeting with Vice President JD Vance
U.S. Vice President JD Vance met Saturday with the Vatican’s No. 2 official amid tensions over the U.S. crackdown on migrants, with the Holy See reaffirming good relations but noting “an exchange of opinions” over current international conflicts, migrants and prisoners.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announces an Easter ceasefire in Ukraine
According to the Kremlin, the ceasefire will last from 6 p.m. Moscow time on Saturday to midnight following Easter Sunday.
A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country
A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by immigration authorities even after his mother showed a judge her son’s birth certificate and the judge dismissed charges.
Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says
The Wisconsin governor’s creative use of his uniquely powerful veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years may be “attention grabbing,” but it was constitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Illinois allows kids as young as 10 to be put in detention. A bill before the state House could change that.
Juvenile justice advocates are pushing a bill that would largely ban the detention of kids 12 and under.
The Abrego Garcia case pulls Democrats into the immigration debate Trump wants to have
This is playing out as Democrats double down on their defense of Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran who was living in Maryland and was mistakenly deported and imprisoned without communication.
Judge blocks Trump administration from enacting passport changes affecting transgender Americans
A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.