Attorney Michael Jaafar represents dozens of girls who allege beatings, forced stripping and sexual misconduct at Vista Maria. The facility ended its residential program amid mounting complaints.

The Supreme Court’s rejection of a petition seeking menstrual leave for working women and female students, with judges ...

Bryan Betancur faces assault charges in D.C. and Virginia for offenses, police say, that he filmed on trains and posted on social media.

The Supreme Court recently spent three hours debating whether states may limit girls’ sports teams to people assigned female at birth. The justices pressed lawyers on endocrinology, competitive ...

As Mrs. Obama defended her remarks from November that the country wasn’t ready for a woman as president, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan offered a different view. By Lisa Lerer The Democratic ...

Susan Rodriguez was promoted into prominence this week when the U.S. Senate confirmed her lifetime appointment as the first woman to serve as a district judge in North Carolina’s federal courts in ...

Newly confirmed U.S District Court Judge Susan Courtwright Rodriguez during her September 2025 nomination hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary ...

In a world facing ecological exhaustion and spatial saturation, the act of building has come to represent both creation and consumption. For decades, architectural progress was measured by the new: ...

In October 2025, posts circulated online claiming that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was using a controversial full-body restraint device, called "the WRAP," on detained immigrants. The CEO ...

The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers clasped shackles on their hands and feet, he ...