Javier Villalobos, the mayor of McAllen, a city in the Rio Grande Valley, has noticed a change in his community in the past few weeks, after a series of ICE raids across the region, which is situated in the southern tip of Texas. “You go to some subdivisions that are...
On April 18th, 2012, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse delivered the first in what was to become one of the—if not the—longest-running series of speeches in congressional history. This was toward the end of Barack Obama’s first term, and Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode...
By Kate Plummer is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on U.S. politics and national affairs, and she is particularly interested in the impact of social policy decisions on people as well as the finances of political campaigns, corruption, foreign...
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Inspectors charged with safeguarding America’s drug supply say they are reeling from deep cuts at the Food and Drug...
Skip to main content The punk rock band took aim at the president during a concert in Belgium on the Fourth of July Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong performs at BottleRock. Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via Gett Billie Joe Armstrong celebrated the Fourth...
