Brittany Ziegler and Bettina Aelley have been live-streaming their dives for years, but last year they decided to do something different. After coming up for air, they left a GoPro down below and let ...

Last week, the U.S. House passed its first bill, the Laken Riley Act, beginning the new year with a law named for a nursing student killed by a non-citizen who had recently been cited for ...

U.S. senators in Washington are debating the Laken Riley Act this week. The legislation passed with bipartisan support in the U.S. House and would require Homeland Security to detain immigrants ...

Democrats have a terrible habit, during moments of right-wing backlash, of voting for Republican legislation that they don’t seem to truly believe in and eventually live to regret. The most ...

BOSTON — Nearly every member of the all-Democrat Massachusetts congressional delegation voted against a bill named after slain Georgia student Laken Riley that would require the detention of ...

Catherine Rampell / Washington Post So some Democratic senators have thrown their support behind the exploitatively titled Laken Riley Act, which takes its name from a young nursing student ...

In response to questioning from Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., attorney general nominee Pam Bondi said she would support classifying Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and ...

The Senate approved its first change to the Laken Riley Act on Wednesday evening, adding the assault of police officers to the list of offenses that trigger the detention of illegal immigrants.

The legislation, the Laken Riley Act, S. 5, would greatly expand detention of immigrants and give state attorneys general broad discretion to challenge federal immigration policy if enacted into law.

Deporting criminals, including shoplifters, is a no brainer. But the Laken Riley Act isn’t that simple. The legislation cruising through Congress does not just expand deportation of nonviolent ...