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Jim Young / Reuters What's Causing Chicago’s Homicide Spike?
President Trump is vowing to “send in the Feds,” but researchers aren’t convinced they understand the rise, or how to stop it.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Here's What Trump's Latest Executive Orders Do
With a pen stroke, President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, imposed a federal hiring freeze, and reinstated the “Mexico City policy” on defunding international abortion-related services.
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Spencer Selvidge / Reuters The 'Far Right' in America: A Brief Taxonomy
Untangling the different figures and factions, from the Klan to the alt-right.
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Reuters Staff / Reuters Trump's Press Secretary Falsely Claims: 'Largest Audience Ever to Witness an Inauguration, Period'
In his first official White House briefing, Sean Spicer blasted journalists for “deliberately false reporting,” and made categorical claims about crowd-size at odds with the available evidence.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Today's News: Jan. 14, 2017
Trump prepares for his inauguration, the U.S. Mint unveils a black Lady Liberty, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Today's News: Jan. 7, 2017
Trump responds to his intelligence briefing on Russian hacking and more from the United States and around the world.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Today's News: Dec. 31, 2016
Bombings strike Baghdad, cities ring in the new year, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters Today's News: Dec. 17, 2016
Trump spars with China, an earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters A Blueprint to End Mass Incarceration
A Brennan Center report argues that releasing the “unnecessarily incarcerated” could reduce U.S. prison populations by almost 40 percent.
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Murad Sezer / Reuters Today's News: Dec. 11, 2016
Bombings strike Istanbul and Cairo, Trump expands his team, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Untangling Trump's Conflicts of Interest
A conversation with Norman Eisen, former White House ethics czar, about the legal challenges facing the president-elect.
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Reuters Today's News: Nov. 19, 2016
Soul singer Sharon Jones dies at 60, President-elect Donald Trump’s transition continues, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters What Lies Ahead for the Supreme Court in a Trump Administration?
Ten questions about the challenges facing the justices in the next four years
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Jason Reed / Reuters Trump's Striking Lack of Interest in the Supreme Court
It’s the issue many conservatives care about most—but when Clinton blew an answer at the debate, the Republican nominee didn’t even seem to notice.
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Allan Green / AP Remembering Jack Greenberg
The last surviving lawyer who argued Brown v. Board of Education at the U.S. Supreme Court died Wednesday at 91.
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Donald Trump / Reuters Trump's Tape Scandal: The Latest Updates
A growing number of Republican elected officials demand their party’s presidential nominee step aside.
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John Bazemore / AP Hurricane Matthew: The Latest Updates
The Category 1 storm made landfall in South Carolina after leaving hundreds of people dead in Haiti and a trail of devastation across the Caribbean.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Donald Trump Doesn’t Care If You’re Innocent
The Republican nominee continues to insist that five men exonerated in a notorious case were guilty.
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Richard Carson / Reuters An Execution in Texas
The Lone Star State put Barney Fuller to death on Wednesday, breaking a rare six-month streak without capital punishment.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters A Judicial Rebuke of Mike Pence's Syrian-Refugee Policy
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Indiana governor’s efforts to block their resettlement, calling his reasoning “nightmare speculation.”
