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One month after the deadline set by Congress for the Justice Department to release all files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Trump administration has made available less than 1% of the files. This comes as President Trump has dramatically expanded immigration operations in Minnesota while attacking Venezuela, threatening to bomb Iran and maintaining that the United States will annex Greenland. Trump’s campaign promised “that the files would be released, all of the files. Now, that’s not happened,” says legal expert Michele Goodwin, calling it a “travesty.”

At least 50 countries back the call for a special session of the UN Human Rights Council to address credible reports of violence, crackdowns on protesters, and violations of international human rights law across the country

As the Trump administration deepens its involvement in Venezuela, critics warn the US is slipping back into an old pattern of intervention in Latin America. Few places better illustrate what can follow than the history of the Panama Canal. Shortly after returning to office, President Donald Trump said the US would be “reclaiming” the Panama […]

Devastating images and videos have come out of Iran since December 28, when a wave of protests began sweeping the country: dozens of body bags outside a medical center and security forces firing into crowds. At the time, shopkeepers in Tehran’s central market closed their stores in a movement that grew to hundreds of thousands […]

"This is not theoretical," Marc Morial said. "It's showing up in paychecks and classrooms, in courtrooms and communities."