RECORD SHUTDOWN: Day 36 of the government shutdown makes it the longest in U.S. history, beating out the 35-day closure during Trump's first term. While Congress hasn't reached a deal to end the ...

A Sioux Falls elementary school honored the country’s heroes Friday ahead of Veterans Day on Tuesday. It was a sea of red, ...

From left: U.S. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Justice Sonia Sotomayor and University of Vermont president Marlene Tromp. Credit: Pool photo by Catherine Morrissey/For the Burlington Free Press U.S.

October 2025 has not been a happy month for death penalty opponents. A total of seven people have been or are scheduled to be executed between Oct. 1 and the end of the month. That is a lot of ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. October 2025 has not been a happy month ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor led the court’s other two liberal justices in penning a dissent that condemned the use of nitrogen hypoxia in executions. Sotomayor — joined by Justices Ketanji ...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the court is allowing “extraordinary misconduct to stand” after justices declined to take up a case of a Georgia man named Stacey Humphreys, who has ...

As a U.S. Supreme Court justice whose views of late are often heard in dissenting opinions, Sonia Sotomayor is accustomed to fighting for lost causes. The third woman and first Hispanic person on the ...

The Democratic appointees dissented from the majority’s refusal to halt the execution of Charles Crawford, who, they said, raised an important issue. By Jordan Rubin The Supreme Court’s ...

Sonia Sotomayor spent her first week at Princeton University obsessing over the sound of a cricket. Growing up in New York City, her only notion of ...

'No one should presume that they have all the answers': First Hispanic justice shares wisdom with UVM students, as she talks politics and her expansive career Tropical Storm Melissa update as ...