In 1963, Black residents of Cambridge, Maryland, organized against segregation and discrimination, bringing state and federal officials into a tense local struggle. The Treaty of Cambridge offered a negotiated path…
In 1889, Congress divided Dakota Territory and established a process for North Dakota and South Dakota to draft and ratify separate constitutions. The United States admitted both states on November…
A federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s effort to stop California counting ballots flagged as potentially cast by noncitizens, citing unreliable evidence and risks to voters’ rights.
A Delaware judge dismissed Candace Owens personally from the Macrons’ defamation suit, while a federal challenge to immigrant social-media screening proceeds without an injunction.
Investigators say a 75-year-old Palm Coast woman lost about $25,310 in an alleged sweepstakes fraud involving an American Airlines flight attendant who traveled to Florida using employee benefits.
A proposed New York ban on health-care noncompetes and a Texas hospital’s state-ordered detransition clinic show two distinct ways states are shaping medical policy.
In 1938, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Missouri could not deny Lloyd Gaines a law education in the state while offering one to white students. The decision forced Missouri…
The Justice Department’s latest effort to prosecute James Comey hinges on whether a criminal information can preserve charges when his lawyers say the law required a grand-jury indictment.
A preliminary injunction pauses additional tree removal and other irreversible changes at East Potomac Golf Links, but does not decide whether Donald Trump’s proposed renovation can ultimately proceed.
