Freedom of speech. Due process under the law.

They sound good, don’t they?

They’re the twin pillars of a free society and a free university. And they’re both under assault from President Donald Trump’s administration.

The only way for universities to fight back is to join hands around these principles. Everything else is just a ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s expansive executive order on elections Tuesday attempts to take control of voter citizenship verification, absentee ballot deadlines and voting technology, but its immediate impact in Georgia appears to be limited.

The order requires citizenship checks and absentee ballots to be returned by Election Day, both of which...Read more

Public health work by universities, hospitals, social services and health departments around North Carolina will be impacted after the Trump administration announced $11.4 billion in immediate cuts, state officials say.

For the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, it will mean more than 80 job losses and at least $100 million...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia Republican state legislators unveiled an elections overhaul bill Wednesday that would empower the State Election Board after its conservative majority tried and failed to change several rules weeks before Election Day last year.

The rewritten bill would mandate the kind of hand ballot counts proposed by the board last fall, ...Read more

Democrats in Springfield and Washington are vowing to defend Illinois election laws against a sweeping executive order from Donald Trump aimed at limiting counting of mail-in votes, requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and giving Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to voter data.

The executive order, signed ...Read more

President Donald Trump‘s recent executive order overhauling U.S. elections has drawn swift opposition from California leaders and advocacy groups who say it threatens how the state conducts elections.

Signed Tuesday, March 25, the order calls for stricter voting rules, including requiring voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania election officials and experts said Wednesday that it’s highly unlikely a sweeping executive order from President Donald Trump seeking to require proof of citizenship for voters and altering rules for administering elections will take full effect.

And at least one Philadelphia area county said it is consulting ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A majority of the Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to wipe out a Federal Communications Commission program, voicing skepticism about arguments that Congress had ceded too much of its power to the agency.

In the two cases argued Wednesday, the justices questioned how they could deal with a lower-court decision that found...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- The owner of Philadelphia’s commercial shipyard is backing a Trump administration proposal that aims to counter China’s dominance in shipbuilding and subsidize domestic industry following decades of declining production.

The Trump administration in February proposed charging Chinese shipping companies and other ocean ...Read more

ATLANTA — Attorneys representing Fani Willis and the state Senate investigative committee probing her conduct offered differing accounts Wednesday about whether the Fulton County district attorney had agreed to testify under oath.

Earlier in the day, Josh Belinfante, the outside attorney for the GOP-led Senate Special Committee on ...Read more

The U.S. announcement that Washington will impose a 25% tariff on any country that purchases Venezuelan oil or gas has quickly made commercial dealings with Venezuela’s oil industry a highly toxic proposition, as some of the South American country’s largest customers begin to signal that they will look elsewhere for crude.

India’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The city of Beverly Hills is seeking more than $400,000 in legal fees from an abortion provider who accused officials of colluding with extremists to scuttle the opening of a clinic, drawing new outrage in a case that has already seen national outcry and official state censure.

Dozens of pro-choice protesters descended on the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court upheld a rule that restricts access to so-called “ghost guns” in a ruling Wednesday, holding that a federal gun control law could cover weapons parts kits that can be easily assembled into working firearms.

The 7-2 decision revives a 2022 regulation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a federal ban on the sale of parts kits that permit unlicensed gun owners to make firearms at home which cannot be traced by the police.

In a 7-2 decision, the justices agreed these homemade weapons, often referred to as "ghost guns," qualify as firearms under federal law.

"Today, thousands...Read more

Four California Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are on the target list of a liberal Democratic group preparing for the 2026 election, another indication of how pivotal the state's congressional races will be in determining control of Congress.

EMILYs List, a group dedicated to electing Democratic women who support access to ...Read more

Since resuming office, President Donald Trump has not for one minute parted from his promise to leverage tariffs to ignite a new “golden age.” At times, he seems to be working continually to stimulate major trading partners into arrangements that make America great again.

However, anyone attempting to follow the bouncing tariff proposals ...Read more

At a 2017 hearing on Capitol Hill, then-Sen. Marco Rubio described a dark, fantastical vision of life in America.

“Imagine if the United States had an executive branch that basically took over the Supreme Court and put political cronies on it,” Rubio said. “(Imagine it) canceled all funding and all function of the Congress, both House and...Read more