Encrypted messaging apps promise privacy. Government transparency is often the price
While such apps promise increased security and privacy, they often skirt open records laws meant to increase transparency ...
A former W&M president says Trump exceeds his authority by ordering 18th century law
It is “very, very clear” that the invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 by President Trump requires a declaration of ...
Trump contends that Biden’s pardons have no force because they were signed with an autopen
President Donald Trump claimed Monday that pardons recently issued by Joe Biden to lawmakers and staff on the congressional ...
Letters to the Gazette
Trump “hired” the so-called richest man in the world, Elon Musk, to cut down the federal government and he sure must know ...
Trump administration deports hundreds of immigrants even as a judge orders their removals be stopped
The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order ...
ACLU asks judge to force the Trump administration to state under oath if it violated his court order
Plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed to halt deportations under a rarely-used 18th century wartime law invoked by President Donald ...
Presidential history: John Quincy Adams, the father of American astronomy
American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching ...
Trump’s bluntness powered a White House comeback. Now his words are getting him in trouble in court
Trump doesn’t usually let legal disputes force him to turn down the volume. During a criminal investigation over his decision ...
The Alien Enemies Act: What to know about a 1798 law that Trump has invoked for deportations
In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...
Pamunkey Tribe receives grants that will help in restoration of schools, museum
The money will be used to refurbish three structures — the Pamunkey Indian Schoolhouse, the Pamunkey Pottery School and Guild and the Pamunkey Indian Museum & Cultural Center.
Homeland Security overhauls asylum phone app — now it’s for ‘self-deportation’
The renamed app, announced Monday and now called CBP Home, is part of the administration’s campaign to encourage ...
Appeals court blocks Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors is unconstitutional and must be permanently blocked from ...