With final approval by the Indiana House Thursday, the Indiana-Illinois border bill passed both chambers of the Indiana legislature and heads to Gov. Mike Braun’s desk for signature into law. Braun intends to sign the bill, said governor’s office spokesman Griffin Reid Thursday. When asked about the governor’s response to the bill, Reid pointed to […]
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Chicago employees of federal contractor oversight agency put on paid leave: ‘It’s open season out there for all these contractors’
The staffers put on paid leave are employees of the agency’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which investigates federal contractors to ensure they comply with nondiscrimination laws.
Can US border officials search your phone without a warrant? Here’s what you need to know
In an age where the data of an entire life can be held in the palm of your hand, a fundamental question has emerged about rights to digital privacy when crossing international borders: Can U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers demand access to your phone or laptop at airports and seaports?
10,000 pages of records about Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 assassination are released, on Trump’s order
Approximately 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy were released Friday, continuing the disclosure of national secrets ordered by President Donald Trump.
The US has a single rare earths mine. Chinese export limits are energizing a push for more
America’s only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump’s tariffs this month by limiting exports of those minerals used for military applications and in many high-tech devices.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US will drop Ukraine-Russia peace efforts if no progress within days
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. may “move on” from trying to secure a Russia-Ukraine peace deal if there is no progress in the coming days, after months of efforts have failed to bring an end to the fighting.
Trump administration seeks explosive expansion of nation’s immigration detention system
Amid rural Louisiana’s crawfish farms, towering pine trees and cafes serving po’boys, nearly 7,000 people are waiting at immigration detention centers to learn whether they will be expelled from the United States.
Strange sell-off in the dollar raises the specter of investors losing trust in the US under Trump
Among the threats tariffs pose to the U.S. economy, none may be as strange as the sell-off in the dollar.
Trump administration’s defiance over Abrego Garcia’s deportation is ‘shocking,’ appeals court says
A federal appeals court says it is “shocking” that The Trump administration claims it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison and return him to the U.S.
Photos: Day of Action protests at Northwestern and UIC
Students and professors at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Chicago held events Thursday as part of the National Day of Action for Higher Ed, a nationwide effort to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to education funding and changes to policy.