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On Tuesday, Y Combinator announced that the ACLU is participating in its winter accelerator program.

The idea of vetting Muslims didn't start with Donald Trump, or even with the 9/11 attacks. It goes back to this country's earliest days.

A constitutional law expert explains the legal arguments for and against Trump's travel ban.

Ever the boy who acts out to get the teacher's attention, Donald Trump is staying true to himself, issuing a flurry of ill-conceived orders, tweeting blasts at the media and dispatching his aides to assert "alternative facts."

On a recent Friday morning, Cazembe Jackson donned a sharp blue suit and green paisley tie and made his way to Atlanta's Midtown US passport office.

Watching me read "1984," arguably the greatest dystopian novel ever written, in high school, my mother told me that it was a book that everyone should read not just once, but again, every 10 years. It certainly deserves a reread right now.

The nation will be watching closely when President Donald Trump reveals his nominee for the Supreme Court Tuesday night.

Senate Democrats are raising questions about whether Steve Mnuchin, President Donald Trump's treasury secretary nominee, deliberately misled lawmakers at his confirmation hearing.

The newly installed secretary of homeland security on Tuesday defended the rollout of the controversial executive order by President Donald Trump over the weekend, saying that he and his agency had been fully involved its drafting.

The best (and the worst) protest signs from the anti-travel ban demonstrations. Jeanne Moos shows it all, from signs held by adults to those worn by dogs.

Pharrell Williams and wife Helen Lasichanh are celebrating some happy news.

James Corden is the latest celebrity to protest President Donald Trump's travel ban -- and he did so basically without saying a word.

An executive order protecting federal employees from anti-LGBTQ discrimination that was first signed in 2014 by President Barack Obama will continue under President Donald Trump, the White House said Tuesday.

The acting Attorney General Sally Yates has told Justice Department lawyers not to make legal arguments defending the President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration and refugees, according to sources familiar with the order.

To outsiders looking in, President Donald Trump's decision to give his chief strategist Steve Bannon a permanent seat with the National Security Council's most senior officials marked the startling elevation of a political adviser to a policy-making role.

Iran has conducted its first missile test since US President Donald Trump took office, giving the nascent administration an early opportunity to show the world how they plan to deal with a key US adversary.

A 10-year veteran of the Volusia County Sheriff's Office in Florida resigned on Monday not long after officials released body camera video that allegedly shows the deputy taking money from the wallet of a DUI suspect.

A Senate committee is expected to send Treasury secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin one step closer to confirmation Tuesday.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to approve Elaine Chao as secretary of transportation.

In a surprise turn of events, Senate Democrats announced Tuesday morning that they are boycotting a committee vote on two of President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees, drawing fury from Republicans across the aisle.