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A California judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt much of its massive downsizing of the federal workforce
The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has been released from custody after being arrested at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week
Southern accents are disappearing in some parts of the U.S. South due to the migration of people into the region from other parts of the United States and around the world
The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity of the Creole identity
The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has been arrested at a federal immigration detention center where he has been protesting its opening this week
Church bells rang out for hours in celebration at Villanova University in suburban Philadelphia after one of their graduates was elected the first pope from the U.S. in the history of the Catholic Church
Federal agents investigating New York City Mayor Eric Adams were still seizing phones and applying for search warrants days before Justice Department leaders ordered prosecutors to drop the corruption case
A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave
Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected data on users without permission
A Tufts University student from Turkey has been released from a Louisiana immigration detention center more than six weeks after she was arrested while walking along a street in a Boston suburb
Pope Leo XIV, now the successor of St. Peter, leads the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church in a sacred role that few others will ever hold
An interview with a brother of Pope Leo XIV conducted by a journalist for The Associated Press was interrupted when the new pontiff called his sibling via FaceTime from Rome
The former North Carolina elections director who was ousted this week after a politically motivated move by Republicans said Friday she hopes the new leadership will approach elections in a nonpartisan way and called for an end to verbal attacks against those who oversee the voting process
A Christopher Columbus statue removed in 2020 amid a climate of racial reckoning has finally found a home in a new museum dedicated to preserving the history of New Haven, Connecticut
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a federal civil rights investigation into a Muslim-centered planned community around one of the state’s largest mosques near Dallas, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said Friday
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