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Lead paint peeling from a radiator in a first-grade classroom in Brooklyn; chipping from the plumbing in a boy's bathroom in Queens; falling from the ceiling in a school room in Manhattan. [ more › ]...

The official Twitter account of the Oregon Republican party tweeted Saturday night that a “heavily armed militia” had laid “siege” to the state’s Capitol building as “Senate Democrats cower in fear.” But as i...

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence both tried to blame Democrats for the inhumane conditions suffered by children and families detained on the southern U.S. border during interviews that aired on Sunday. Reports this week revealed m...

When Robert Mueller addressed the nation about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Americans clung to his every syllable. These revelations were two years in the making. Attorney General William Barr’s sum...

There’s a lot of history on display at the 2019 Women’s World Cup in France, but no player represents more of that history — the heroics and the heartbreak, the progress and the barriers — than Formiga, Brazil’s 41-year-...

President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Saturday that he is cancelling the planned mass Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids set to take place on Sunday, portraying himself as the savior of a crisis of his own making. “At the request...

At least one advertiser has told ThinkProgress that it is re-thinking its relationship with Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s program, The Ingraham Angle, after she made racist remarks dismissing reparations for slavery on her podcast this week. I...