Travis Loller

Rev. Bernard Lafayette, national coordinator of the Poor People's campaign, holds a news conference where he expressed that he expects no less than a million people to converge on Washington May 30 for the largest demonstration in history. (UPI)

Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer and leader with the Chicago Freedom Movement, dies at 85

March 5, 2026 at 5:48 p.m.

Bernard LaFayette, a leader with the Chicago Freedom Movement and the Selma voting rights organizer who laid the groundwork for the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has...

FILE – Kilmar Abrego Garcia speaks during a rally ahead of a mandatory check at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Baltimore, Dec. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough, File)

Human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia ‘just kept getting stronger,’ agent testifies

February 26, 2026 at 12:02 p.m.

A Homeland Security agent testified in federal court on Thursday that the human smuggling case she initiated against Kilmar Abrego Garcia was strong even as his attorneys tried to persuade a judge to throw...

Federal judge rules Kilmar Abrego Garcia can’t be re-detained by immigration authorities

February 17, 2026 at 12:27 p.m.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled...

Alexis Strain, graduate student in biological sciences at Louisiana State University, shows the biodegradable Mardi Gras beads they are developing, Jan. 27, 2026, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Biodegradable Mardi Gras beads help make Carnival season more sustainable

February 16, 2026 at 9:48 a.m.

This year, beads are back, but not the cheap plastic ones. Freret is one of three krewes throwing biodegradable beads developed at Louisiana State University.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura leave the United States District Court District of Maryland, Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, in Greenbelt, Md. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

DOJ pushed to prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia only after mistaken deportation, judge’s order says

December 30, 2025 at 1:31 p.m.

A newly unsealed order in the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia reveals that high-level Justice Department officials pushed for his indictment, calling it a “top priority,” only after he...

Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, a lawyer on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s legal team who specializes in federal immigration cases, is interviewed in Fairfax, Va., Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still hoping to find justice after his wrongful deportation, his lawyer says

December 15, 2025 at 6:02 p.m.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia wasn’t an activist and he didn’t choose to become locked in to what has become one of the most contentious immigration issues of the Trump administration, his...

Kilmar Abrego García arrives to his home in Beltsville, Md., Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025, after being released from ICE custody. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from federal immigration detention on judge’s order

December 11, 2025 at 9:52 p.m.

A federal judge in Maryland ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia freed from immigration detention on Thursday while his legal challenge against his deportation moves forward.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia attends a protest rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore on Aug. 25, 2025. (Stephanie Scarbrough/AP)

Trump officials not giving up on deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to African nations despite resistance

October 10, 2025 at 8:48 p.m.

The Trump administration is pushing again to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador, even though three African countries they’ve approached have rejected...

People demonstrate above Interstate 40 in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, against the deployment of the National Guard in Memphis. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Bondi and Hegseth rally federal agents and troops in Memphis as part of crime task force

October 1, 2025 at 6:35 p.m.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Wednesday rallied members of a federal law enforcement task force that has...

FILE – Sara Jane Moore rides in the backseat of a car on her way to federal court in San Francisco, Dec. 17, 1975, where a federal judge accepted her plea of guilty to the attempted assassination of President Ford. (AP Photo/Jim Palmer, File)

Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, dies at 95

September 26, 2025 at 9:54 p.m.

Sara Jane Moore, who spent more than 30 years in prison for trying to shoot President Gerald Ford, has died. She was 95.

All Stories