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NPR interviewed a human rights professor who said children at holding centers on the U.S. border are living in unsanitary conditions.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is getting help with her White House bid from her academic coherts and a new leftwing political campaign organization.

The Congregation Action Network — formerly called the DMV Sanctuary Congregation Network — is working in Washington, DC, Virginia, and Maryland to make churches places where people in the United States illegally can gather to prevent their detainment and deportation.

The GOP headquarters in Lansing, Michigan, was defaced over the weekend with graffiti targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a Democrat, signed a bill on Friday that bans privately run migrant detention centers in the state.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday released the International Religious Freedom Report for 2018 and announced the expansion of the State Department’s efforts to address religious liberty around the globe.

A pact between Democrat candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to not criticize one another shows signs of cracking, a report says.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said at a Democrat candidate forum on Friday that illegal migrants would be eligible for Medicare for All under his healthcare plan.

Democrat gun control advocates gathered at the Capitol on Thursday to put out a rally call for the Senate to take up the universal background check for gun purchases bill the House passed 114 days ago, claiming 11,400 people have since died from “gun violence.”

Members of the Project 21 black leadership network say reparations for descendants of slaves is a “sham” that will hurt race relations.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill in the Senate on Thursday that would allow same-sex couples to amend past tax returns.

The World Holocaust Remembrance Center — Yad Vashem — in Israel is schooling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on the truth about the Nazi concentration camps where millions of people were incarcerated and murdered during World War II.

The CDC’s most recent reporting reveals 1,044 cases of measles in 28 U.S. states — the highest rate of infection since 1992.

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties holds a hearing about reparations for slave descendants on Wednesday.

The Trump International Hotel in Washington DC was abuzz Tuesday night as President Donald Trump held a rally in Orlando to officially announce he is seeking re-election in the 2020 race for the White House.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pushed back on Monday in a discussion about free speech with Washington Post tech reporter Tony Romm, who pressed Cruz about whether attacks on social media about people’s sexual orientation or ethnicity should be censored.

Quinnipiac University released an early voter poll on Tuesday that shows former Vice President Joe Biden with a commanding primary advantage.

DOI Secretary David Bernhardt announced a plan to ditch 7,500 regulations to give Americans access to 1.4 million acres of federal land.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) slammed billionaire Jeff Bezos for paying his employees at Amazon what she called “starvation wages.”

Senate and Congressional Western Caucuses are praising the revision of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to help prevent wildfires.

WASHINGTON, DC – Jacqueline Murekatete did not expect to find her life’s work as a nine-year-old in Rwanda in 1994, when as many as one million people — including her entire family — were murdered in the span of about 100 days.

Former Democrat Congressman and presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke will fight climate change through executive action when he is elected by ending new leases for oil and gas production on federal lands.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. James Clyburn will introduce bills that would forgive up to $50,000 of each students’ college loan debt.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to shut down a new Amazon “credit builder” card for people with no credit or bad credit.

A California judge overturned the conviction of five men who had marijuana in their prison cells after the state legalized recreational pot.

Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who lost the gubernatorial race in Georgia in the midterm elections, is speaking out against the Hollywood boycott of Georgia since the state passed legislation that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.

A survey of hundreds of individuals with investable assets of $1 million or more reveals that the majority would support Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) plan to impose a wealth tax on millionaires and billionaires.

The United States Supreme Court declined to take up a case atheists launched in an effort to remove ‘In God We Trust’ from U.S. currency.

Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a speech on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s wealth was built on “racial discrimination.”

Citizens Against Government Waste released its annual Pig Book, which details how Congress approved $15.3 billion in earmarks in 2019.