A Texas judge struck a blow to the state’s newly adopted CROWN Act on Thursday‚ ruling that a public school district can continue to punish a Black teen who wears his hair in locs. In a trial that lasted just a few hours‚ Judge Chap Cain III ruled that Barbers Hill Independent School District did not violate the CROWN Act when it subjected Darryl George‚ 18‚ to in-school suspensions and off-site instruction for nearly six months. George has been isolated from his peers for most of the...

American law enforcement officials spent years looking into allegations that allies of Mexico’s president‚ Andrés Manuel López Obrador‚ met with and took millions of dollars from drug cartels after he took office‚ according to U.S. records and three people familiar with the matter. The inquiry‚ which has not been previously reported‚ uncovered information pointing to potential links between powerful cartel operatives and Mexican advisers and officials close to the president while he governed...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) expressed no interest in being former President Donald Trump’s vice president during a call with supporters on Wednesday‚ according to multiple reports. While Trump appeared to confirm Tuesday that DeSantis was on his shortlist for vice president — along with Vivek Ramaswamy‚ South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R)‚ Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and others — his campaign axed the idea on Thursday. In the half-hour call‚ DeSantis also reportedly opined that it would be a...

Joe Biden is considering using executive authority to deal with the issue of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border‚ a move Republicans have demanded for weeks. House Speaker Mike Johnson‚ who said prior to Senate Republicans killing a 370-page immigration package on February 7that the bill was "dead on arrival" in his chamber for not going far enough‚ has questioned why Biden wouldn't "use his existing executive authority" to remedy the situation. "I wanted to provide a brief update...