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Trump increased immigration detention to record levels, with 69,000 held as of early January, according to ICE statistics. Some 43% of the detainees picked up by ICE had no criminal charge or ...

Vanity made the Revolution; liberty was only a pretext,” is a quote widely attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte — and germane to ...

Venezuela's attorney general, Tarek William Saab, said Thursday that between 100 and 120 people were killed during the U.S.

Venezuelan lawmakers on Thursday backed a plan that would make it easier for foreign companies to participate in the country’s oil industry, in the latest move by Caracas to meet the demands of US ...

Beyond headlines of economic collapse and political turmoil, Venezuela’s queer community faces a lack of LGBTQ+ rights and ...

The Trump administration’s exercise in armed regime change in Venezuela should have come as no surprise. The U.S. naval ...

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said the Insurrection Act wouldn’t be needed “right now” in Minneapolis after meeting ...

The efforts to defend immigrants from ICE raids have all the markings of an authentic nascent social movement. ” ...

Historians say underpinning Trump's talk of national security lies a longstanding pattern of American entitlement to Native ...

With thousands feared dead and information tightly controlled, the actress warns that inaction will only embolden repression: "Nothing in our recent history compares to this moment of reckoning." ...

A Venezuelan man arrested and jailed in Orange County on an immigration detainer earlier this month was released after a ...