In Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, Barbara Demick tells the story of twin sisters torn apart by the nation’s experiment in ...

“In Illinois, the state that led nationwide movements for worker’s rights in the 18 and 1900s, we have protections for ...

LeClaire School kindergartners celebrated with a Maypole dance in the early 1900s, reflecting the community’s unique history.

On this week’s Amicus podcast, professor Aziz Huq, who teaches law at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses his recent article in the Atlantic titled “America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual ...

The Texas House voted to repeal the "zombie" sodomy law, but Republicans may not allow the bill to get a vote in the Senate.

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A quiet change tucked into this year’s state budget now makes it illegal for anyone under 14 to have a paper route in New ...

MAGA voices were ringing alarms louder than the tolling bells in St. Peter's Square after white smoke heralded the selection ...

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is urging President Donald Trump's Department of Labor to open an investigation into Tyson Foods on Tuesday after receiving a whistleblower report claiming ...

YOU'VE seen them in the novels of Charles Dickens and the proletarian novelists of 1930s America, books that deal with child laborers in the factories and fields. Harnessing child labor prevents them ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Federal Grants to Fight Child Labor Worldwide Are Axed in DOGE Cuts NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administrated has canceled millions of dollars in international grants that a Department of Labor ...