James Bickerton is a Newsweek U.S. News reporter based in London, U.K. His focus is on covering news and politics in Texas, as well as other general news across the United States. James joined ...

In early 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense removed at least two web pages related to Ira Hayes, a Native American veteran ...

Utah has become the first state to ban Pride flags from all government buildings, including schools. Gov. Spencer Cox (R) let ...

Utah became the first state to prohibit flying LGBTQ+ pride flags at schools and all government buildings after the ...

In mid-March 2025, a claim circulated online that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) had removed one or more pages ...

The analysis used Everytown’s petition data and U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for the District of Columbia and the ...

Officials at the VA say they plan to cut tens of thousands more jobs. Providers there say cutting any jobs will compromise health care. Mental health workers say they're already feeling these impacts.

The Supreme Court’s decision last year in Trump v. United States gave the president of the United States criminal immunity ...

In filmmaker Paul Verhoeven’s adaptation of Starship Troopers, military service guarantees citizenship in a futuristic — and fascist — regime. The policy is simple: Join the war on the alien ...

At some point, you have to stop feeling bad for people who repeatedly stick their hand in the fire and act shocked when it burns. Come on, folks — how many times do you need to touch a stove ...