POLITICS

5 Takeaways From Supreme Court Hearing on Nationwide Injunctions, Birthright Citizenship

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The Supreme Court on May 15 heard oral arguments in relation to the Trump administration’s request to lift nationwide injunctions placed on the president’s birthright citizenship order. The decision could determine how judges can address presidential actions. During the argument, the justices posed questions about how far lower court judges could go in issuing relief

‘Corpse of the Phallus,’ Black Latex, and Circus Performers: Meet The Avant-Garde Artists Arrested For Violently Storming Columbia Library

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Before Isaiah Decastro Nash was arrested for storming a Columbia University library, the philosophy undergraduate dabbled in poetry. “The primordial trauma of existence is the death and rot of God. The corpse of God; the corpse of Death; the corpse of Time; the corpse of the Phallus,” he wrote in “Sociotraumatics,” a 2024 poem published

DHS requests 20,000 National Guard troops to help with mass deportation

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The Department of Homeland Security has requested roughly 20,000 National Guard troops to assist with the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, two U.S. officials told CBS News Thursday. The Defense Department is still reviewing the request, and National Guard troops could be pulled from different states to help DHS.  The officials said the troops are

The GOP’s Budget Bill Will Cost Less Than Expected: Congressional Budget Office

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All components of the bill will either meet their spending limits or cut more spending than required—except defense, which is over budget. WASHINGTON—The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that the budget reconciliation bill being drafted by House Republicans will cost less than expected. Republicans are using the “budget reconciliation” process to enact President Donald