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Members of the Honolulu Police Specialized Services Division respond to a barricade situation with an armed man at the Kahala Hotel in Honolulu on April 10, 2021.

Honolulu Hotel on Lockdown After an Armed Man Fired Shots Inside a Room

Photos and videos shared by local media showed about 100 people locked down...

Photos and videos shared by local media showed about 100 people locked down in the hotel's ballroom

Congressman Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks at a Women for American First event in Doral, Fla., on April 9, 2021

Rep. Matt Gaetz Faces House Ethics Probe as Federal Investigation Widens

Federal agents have been examining Gaetz’s connections to several other inf...

Federal agents have been examining Gaetz’s connections to several other influential Florida political figures

The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 6, 2020.

Supreme Court Halts California COVID-19 Restrictions That Limit Home Worship

California has already announced significant changes loosening restrictions...

California has already announced significant changes loosening restrictions on gatherings that go into effect April 15

The Amazon fulfillment warehouse at the center of a unionization drive is seen on March 29, 2021 in Bessemer, Alabama.

'You Can't Escape the Gravitational Pull of Jeff Bezos.' How Amazon Won the Preliminary Union Vote in Alabama

After months of campaigning, weeks of voting, and hours of counting thousan...

After months of campaigning, weeks of voting, and hours of counting thousands of green ballots by hand, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) delivered Amazon an apparent win on Friday afternoon against the most significant...

Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, listens during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Oct. 26, 2020.

A Surprising Opinion From Justice Thomas May Signal an Ominous Shift on Free Speech

A curious thing happened at the Supreme Court a few days ago. One of the ju...

A curious thing happened at the Supreme Court a few days ago. One of the justices, Clarence Thomas, broke from his traditional judicial role and weighed in on a matter of public policy. He tried...

A sign is laid on the grass during a Stop Asian Hate rally in Houston on March 20, 2021.

How the Pressure of the Model Minority Myth Restricts Our Imagination—and Our Freedom

Ambition saturates my earliest memories. I was a parody of the so-called “m...

Ambition saturates my earliest memories. I was a parody of the so-called “model” minority. As a pre-teen, I scribbled journal entries about my Ivy League dreams. In high school, whenever I visited Boston for debate...

“With this one bill, they took away so much,” Dylan Brandt says. “The one thing that is helping me become who I want to be and has made me as happy as I am and as confident as I am: they’re taking that away, without a second thought.”

In Arkansas, Trans Youth Face the Country's Strictest Laws Yet

HB 1570 is just the latest—and strongest—anti-trans bill to pass this year