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Punishing freedom

Last week, the Trump administration announced the streamlining of access to illegally seized personal data from unsuspecting Americans, thereby making warrantless domestic spying easier for the spies. Here is the backstory. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right ...

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By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, June 7, the 158th day of 2025. There are 207 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 7, 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, struck down, 7-2, a Connecticut law used to prosecute a Planned Parenthood ...

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By The Associated Press Today's Highlight in History: On June 6, 1944, during World War II, Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy, France, on "D-Day" as they began the liberation of German-occupied Western Europe. On this date: In 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association was ...

A long walk to protest ICE

WASHINGTON — On foot and carrying flags, they crossed the Mason-Dixon line -- the old American border between slavery and freedom - walking to Washington, D.C., over the course of three weeks in May. They canoed across the broad, grand Susquehanna River. They walked more than 300 miles ...

Trump’s promised steel and aluminum tariffs go into effect

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. PresiTrump's promised steel and aluminum tariffs go into effect dent Donald Trump hiked nearly all of his tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to a punishing 50% on Wednesday in a move that's set to hammer businesses from automakers to home builders, and likely push ...