Jake Johnson

Staff Calls Police as Senator Attempts to Examine Immigrant Detention Center

“Children should never be ripped from their families and held in secretive detention centers.”

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Housing for immigrant children and families.

America's inhumane immigration system has come under growing scrutiny in recent days after President Donald Trump introduced his new policy of separating migrant children from their families, and when a sitting U.S. senator attempted on Sunday to examine the conditions of one immigrant detention center in Texas—where "hundreds" of children are

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Trump Announces Full Pardon for ‘Openly Racist’ Right-Wing Propagandist Dinesh D’Souza

D’Souza mocked school shooting survivors, circulated anti-semitic lies, and suggested that the white supremacist Charlottesville rally was “staged.”

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President Donald Trump smiles while speaking to a meeting of the National Governors Association, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, at the White House in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

President Donald Trump announced in a tweet on Thursday that he will fully pardon the "openly racist" right-wing propagandist Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations in 2014 and has—in just the past year—mocked school shooting survivors, circulated anti-semitic lies, and suggested that the white supremacist Charlottesville

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Report: DNC Threatens Free Press with Lawsuit Against WikiLeaks

Free speech advocates raised alarm about the DNC’s suit when it was filed in April, arguing that it is both riddled with legal holes and full of dangerous implications.

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Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez speaks at a protest against President Donald Trump's travel ban in Lafayette Square outside the White House, March 6, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

As President Donald Trump continues to wage war on journalism with "violent anti-press rhetoric," the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) published a scathing analysis on Tuesday arguing that the Democratic National Committee's recent lawsuit against WikiLeaks could set the stage for even more alarming attacks on press freedom by empowering the

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Koreans and Anti-War Voices Unite to Demand Trump Resume Peace Talks

Trump’s announcement that the scheduled summit will not take place was met with dismay by both North and South Koreans.

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Refusing to let a chance to achieve lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula slip away and warning against "return to a rhetoric of nuclear annihilation," a group of peace activists, foreign policy experts, and ordinary Koreans gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Seoul on Friday to call on President Donald Trump to reverse his cancellation of the

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Donald Trump Can’t Block Twitter Users, Federal Judge Rules

The decision is being celebrated by free speech advocates as a “historic moment for the First Amendment” and online freedom of expression.

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President Donald Trump's Twitter feed. Twitter users say Trump is violating the First Amendment by blocking people from his feed after they posted scornful comments. (AP/J. David Ake)

In a decision free speech advocates celebrated as a “historic moment for the First Amendment” and online freedom of expression, a federal judge ruled (pdf) on Wednesday that President Donald Trump cannot block Twitter users for their political views or criticism of his policies. “We’re pleased with the court’s decision, which reflects a careful

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Pompeo Issues Laundry List of Demands to Iran, Threatens ‘Strongest Sanctions in History’

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo just outlined a “wildly unrealistic” list of demands that Iran must meet if it wants nuclear talks with America, warning that the U.S. will “crush” Tehran with sanctions if it doesn’t comply.

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In a speech at the right-wing Heritage Foundation on Monday that critics said should put to rest all lingering illusions that the Trump White House wants anything other than regime change in Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined a "wildly unrealistic" list of demands that Iran must meet if it wants nuclear talks with America and warned that

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Threat of War Soars as Israel Launches Massive Attack on “Iranian Targets” in Syria

Israel launched an “extensive” bombing campaign against what it claimed were Iranian targets in Syria early Thursday and warned the Syrian government that it will face “dire consequences” if it dares to respond.

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Israeli soldiers gather next to their tanks near the border with Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Dramatically escalating the risk of an all-out regional war in the aftermath of U.S. President Donald Trump's violation of the Iran nuclear accord, Israel launched an "extensive" bombing campaign against what it claimed were Iranian targets in Syria early Thursday and warned the Syrian government that it will face "dire consequences" if it dares to

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