After a month of intense national scandal and heightened international outrage, the administrative court concluded that the idea of prohibiting the full-body bathing suit insulted “fundamental freedoms” such as the “freedom to come and go, the freedom of conscience and personal liberty.”
Describing the election as a cesspool, 12 swing voters participating in a focus group in this battleground state were deeply negative about both candidates, starkly describing their choice this year as one between a candidate they loathe (Hillary Clinton) and one they fear (Donald Trump).
In a normal election cycle, Hillary Clinton's plans to link the GOP nominee with racists and anti-Semites would prompt Republicans to line up leaders and surrogates in defense of their candidate. This isn't a normal election cycle.
Jefferson County schools in Alabama are still bound by a federal desegregation court order, which means a federal judge will have the final say over whether one small suburb will be allowed to secede.
Players in baseball’s sprawling farm system eke out an existence — many earning less than $10,000 a season. This is happening when Major League Baseball's franchises are averaging $23 million in profits a year.
Ahead of Donald Trump’s policy speech this week on immigration, his newly installed campaign manager said, “What he supports is to make sure that we enforce the law, that we are respectful of those Americans who are looking for well-paying jobs and that we are fair and humane for those who live among us in this country,” avoiding the issue of what the Republican nominee would do about 11 million undocumented immigrants.
The GOP nominee launched his campaign on a promise to be very tough on illegal immigration. But it sure sounds like he might change his tune.
Filings show limited investments that have forced the Republican National Committee to effectively serve as the campaign's organizing arm. But the mogul's allies fear he has left himself vulnerable by outsourcing voter mobilization to the party.
"He has said that when the audit is complete, he will release his tax returns," Kellyanne Conway said in an about-face from five months ago when she called for transparency.
For 17 days, Rio featured a decathlon of mishaps, with Brazilians' boisterous passion the only constant in a roller-coaster Games during which it was hard to know where to look: at victorious athletes like Usain Bolt or drunk American swimmers vandalizing a gas station.
When Feyisa Lilesa crossed the marathon finish line, he held up his hands in an "X" to call attention to the killing of the Oromo people, an ethnic majority that has long complained about being marginalized.
