The city is looking to repurpose the two gatehouses, built during the Civil War as control points for water from upstate ...

In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that ...

An extraordinary legal showdown took place last weekend over President Donald Trump’s invocation of an 18th century wartime ...

Trump issued a proclamation that the 1798 law was newly in effect due to what he claimed was an invasion by the Venezuelan ...

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old law to order the arrest, detention and deportation of ...

The United Kingdom began the Online Safety Act Monday, which requires every online organization to implement action against ...

Administration officials said they expect the fight over using the wartime act to ultimately head to the Supreme Court.

ACLU lawyers want answers from the federal government about its deportation actions over the weekend. A judge ordered a ...

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 gives the president wartime powers to deport undocumented immigrants with little to no due ...

Professor of law at Georgetown University David Super speaks with NBC News' Gadi Schwartz about President Trump's invoking of ...

Top Democrats on the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees have filed a lengthy Freedom of Information Act request about the Department of Government Efficiency.

The statute justified the imprisonment in World War II of thousands like Heidi Gurcke Donald. She is horrified as Trump invokes it for mass deportation.