On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

From Montezuma’s fall to the discovery of the Higgs boson, this week in history spans Aztec tragedy, American independence, ...

The Supreme Court delivered significant victories for President Donald Trump in its term that ended Friday. In the past five ...

The two Detroit Democrats were part of a group of lawmakers calling for the facilities to be closed as Trump uses them to ...

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer brings us a report on the Trump administration's plans to house migrants at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.Support NPR and hear every episode of Trump's Terms sponsor-free with NPR+. Sign ...

Michigan’s U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib is leading an effort backed by 15 members of Congress – including U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar ...

The collapse of Trump’s Guantánamo Bay policy, however, is qualitatively different: The administration is backing down, not because of a judge or public backlash, but because its own officials ...

Newly erected holding tents for detained migrants are seen at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba on Feb. 21. (U.S. Navy/AFN Guantanamo Bay Public Affairs/Reuters) ...

Edwidge Danticat on photos from the nineteen-nineties of Haitian refugees and asylum seekers who were held at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, in abysmal conditions.

President Donald Trump’s plan to use the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to detain 30,000 immigrants has been hitting major legal, logistical and financial hurdles ever since he ...

For boomers, Guantánamo radiates Cold War vibes: the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis, and, more generally, an aura of hypermasculine martial toughness, embodied best perhaps in the ...