Daily Headlines: Human Rights Six months after his arrest in Trump’s immigration crackdown, an immigration judge orders pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil deported to Algeria or Syria. September 18, 2025 View Details The CDC denies employees with disabilities the option of telework as a reasonable accommodation in an apparent violation of federal law. September 18, 2025 View Details Eleven West Africans deported from the U.S. claim they are still detained in Ghana, directly contradicting Ghanaian officials’ recent statements. September 18, 2025 View Details Portland cites ICE for violating its facility permit 25 times in 10 months by holding people beyond an agreed 12-hour limit. September 18, 2025 View Details South Korea is probing the U.S. for human rights violations after an ICE raid on a Georgia factory detained 300 Korean workers for a week. September 17, 2025 View Details Trump announced U.S. forces sank a previously undisclosed third boat off Venezuela, escalating a naval campaign that raises war crime concerns. September 17, 2025 View Details Data reveals ICE violated its own policy by holding hundreds of immigrants for days at a Massachusetts office not meant for long-term detention. September 17, 2025 View Details Secretary of State Rubio backs a new Gaza offensive and sets a ‘days away’ deadline for diplomacy, despite a U.N. report accusing Israel of genocide. September 16, 2025 View Details The Trump administration directs the NPS to remove slavery exhibits, including the famed ‘Scourged Back’ photo, under an order to purge ‘negative’ history. September 16, 2025 View Details U.S. removes 14 men to Ghana, creating chaos as lawyers and officials give conflicting reports on their whereabouts. September 16, 2025 View Details Trump orders a second deadly strike on an alleged drug boat in international waters, continuing a controversial policy of lethal force. September 16, 2025 View Details Secretary of State Marco Rubio signals support for Israeli annexation to counter Palestinian statehood recognition, directly contradicting internal White House warnings about regional fallout. September 15, 2025 View Details A federal judge accused the Trump administration of using Ghana to make an ‘end run around’ court orders protecting African immigrants from deportation. September 14, 2025 View Details UC Berkeley provided the Trump administration the names of 160 students and staff for a federal investigation into campus antisemitism. September 14, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s HUD from awarding housing grants under new rules targeting sanctuary jurisdictions and transgender-inclusive policies. September 14, 2025 View Details Taliban leaders claimed a prisoner swap agreement with U.S. envoy Adam Boehler in Kabul despite Trump’s recent travel ban on Afghans September 14, 2025 View Details Lawyers: Trump arrest surge packs migrants into bedless cells, creating a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in a suburban Virginia office park. September 13, 2025 View Details A federal appeals court overturns a judge’s order, clearing the Trump administration to deport 500,000 migrants admitted under a parole program. September 13, 2025 View Details Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed a U.S. response after Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced ally Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years for plotting a coup. September 12, 2025 View Details The State Department will punish foreigners in the U.S. for disrespectful comments about Charlie Kirk’s death, with a top official asking the public to report them on social media. September 12, 2025 View Details A new doxxing website and far-right influencers are leading a harassment campaign against people accused of celebrating or mocking Charlie Kirk’s death. September 12, 2025 View Details A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reopen TPS registration for Venezuelans after its online system went down on the final day of the sign-up period. September 12, 2025 View Details At least six historically Black colleges and universities canceled classes and locked down campuses nationwide following a coordinated wave of threats the FBI is investigating. September 12, 2025 View Details New Mexico becomes the first state to offer universal free childcare, expanding a program credited with reducing poverty. September 12, 2025 View Details A U.S. appeals court reversed a lower court’s order, allowing the Trump administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood. September 12, 2025 View Details Two federal judges blocked an Education and HHS Dept. policy issued in July that required immigration verification for families to access Head Start. September 12, 2025 View Details A federal judge in Arizona blocked the Trump administration from deporting 69 Guatemalan and Honduran children. September 12, 2025 View Details A Trump-appointed judge confronts the Justice Dept. for falsely claiming families requested the Labor Day deportation of dozens of Guatemalan children. September 11, 2025 View Details A divided Supreme Court permits a transgender South Carolina student to use the boys’ restroom, ruling the state failed to justify an emergency stay. September 11, 2025 View Details Citing the Supreme Court’s Skrmetti decision, the 11th Circuit rules a Georgia county can deny gender-affirming surgery because the exclusion is based on diagnosis, not discrimination. September 11, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocks a Justice Dept. subpoena for transgender patient records, ruling it a bad-faith effort to harass Boston Children’s Hospital and intimidate patients. September 10, 2025 View Details Activists continue their 44-year protest outside the White House despite the Trump administration dismantling their shelter on Sunday. September 9, 2025 View Details Texas’s state education agency changes guidance that blocked school nurses from most care, including bandages, days after the law’s author called the rule “insanity.” September 9, 2025 View Details The Supreme Court lifts a ban on stop-and-frisk style immigration patrols in Los Angeles two months after a judge found the tactics unconstitutional. September 9, 2025 View Details Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted Vice President JD Vance for praising the military killing of 11 alleged cartel members in international waters without a trial. September 8, 2025 View Details South Korea’s government secures the release of 300 workers three days after ICE detained 475 people during a raid at a Hyundai electric vehicle plant in Georgia. September 8, 2025 View Details Chicago church leaders urge residents to prepare for calm resistance as the Trump administration threatens a federal law enforcement crackdown despite the city’s falling crime rates. September 8, 2025 View Details Thousands march in Washington to end the ‘D.C. occupation’ during the fourth week of the city’s federal takeover. September 7, 2025 View Details After an ICE raid detains 475 workers at a Hyundai plant, South Korea’s president warns the U.S. not to infringe on its citizens’ rights or economic activities. September 7, 2025 View Details The Trump administration will deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini under a new deal with African nations to accept foreign deportees. September 6, 2025 View Details A Justice Dept. appeals board affirms a new ICE policy of mandatory detention without bond hearings for millions of undocumented immigrants. September 6, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocks DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s ‘illegal’ revocation of TPS for over one million Venezuelan and Haitian migrants, previously citing likely racial animus as a motive. September 6, 2025 View Details Trump denies knowledge of a secret 2019 mission in North Korea that a report says he approved where U.S. forces killed civilians during peace talks. September 6, 2025 View Details Trump signs an executive order giving the secretary of state new power to sanction countries that wrongfully detain Americans. September 6, 2025 View Details The U.S. sanctions three Palestinian human rights groups for successfully petitioning the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli leaders for war crimes. September 5, 2025 View Details The Justice Dept considers classifying gender dysphoria as a mental illness to restrict gun ownership, citing recent shootings as justification. September 5, 2025 View Details After denying visas to Palestinians, the Trump administration now considers a Costco ban for Iranians and new restrictions for Brazil. September 5, 2025 View Details Louisiana Gov. Landry and top Trump officials are housing ICE detainees in a reopened solitary confinement “dungeon” at Angola prison. September 4, 2025 View Details In her first major immigration rulings, Attorney General Bondi reinstated Trump-era restrictions on asylum for victims of domestic abuse and gang violence. September 4, 2025 View Details DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is using a new legal tactic to end Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status just days after a court ruled her previous attempt unlawful. September 4, 2025 View Details The Texas Legislature has passed a bill that allows private citizens to sue individuals who assist others in obtaining abortion pills, a practice commonly known as “bounty hunting.” September 4, 2025 View Details As Epstein survivors and bipartisan lawmakers demanded the Justice Dept release all case files, Trump dismissed their effort as a “Democrat hoax.” September 4, 2025 View Details ICE reactivates a $2 million spyware contract nearly a year after the Biden administration paused it over human rights concerns. September 3, 2025 View Details The Trump administration taps 600 military lawyers to serve as immigration judges months after firing dozens of experienced judges. September 3, 2025 View Details A federal appeals court says Trump cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans, finding no ‘invasion’ occurred. September 3, 2025 View Details Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics told Heritage Foundation interns that male intelligence varies more widely than female intelligence. September 3, 2025 View Details Senator Rand Paul attacks former CDC official Demetre Daskalakis’s ‘lifestyle’ days after he resigned to protest administration policy. September 3, 2025 View Details Trump stated he would consider reopening long-term psychiatric institutions, or “insane asylums,” to involuntarily confine mentally ill people and clear them from city streets. September 2, 2025 View Details Protesting today? Here’s what you need to know about your rights, what to bring, and how to stay safe. September 1, 2025 View Details A federal judge blocks the Trump administration’s early-morning holiday weekend plan to fly 600 unaccompanied children back to Guatemala. September 1, 2025 View Details The State Dept. escalates a Gaza visa ban to a global refusal for all Palestinian passport holders, including UN invitees. September 1, 2025 View Details After a meeting with his son-in-law Jared Kushner and former UK PM Tony Blair, Trump considers a plan to displace two million Gazans to build a tourism and tech hub. September 1, 2025 View Details Advocates allege ICE is forcing detainees to sleep on floors with little food at its Chantilly, Virginia administrative offices. August 31, 2025 View Details Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signs an executive order requiring body cameras and banning masks for federal agents ahead of Trump’s threatened immigration crackdown August 31, 2025 View Details Two northern Virginia school districts serving more than 207,000 students sued the Education Dept. for freezing millions in funds over their transgender student policies. August 30, 2025 View Details The Trump administration will halt the release of 600 Guatemalan children to relatives for a mass removal program it calls ‘repatriation’ but advocates call illegal abandonment. August 30, 2025 View Details A federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration from ending legal protections for 600,000 Venezuelans, ruling Congress did not grant it that authority. August 30, 2025 View Details Citing a violation of constitutional due process rights, a federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s nationwide expansion of fast-track deportations. August 30, 2025 View Details Defying its UN host agreement, the U.S. has denied visas to Palestinian President Abbas and his delegation to block a French-led statehood vote. August 30, 2025 View Details The U.S. seeks U.N. authorization for a revamped Haiti security force as a company run by Blackwater’s founder prepares a private deployment. August 29, 2025 View Details In a major reversal, Louisiana’s attorney general now asks the Supreme Court to find a key provision of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. August 28, 2025 View Details Kilmar Abrego Garcia requests asylum to prevent his deportation to Uganda after being re-detained by immigration authorities in Baltimore. August 28, 2025 View Details Florida official says the Everglades immigration detention facility will be empty within days, just a week after a judge ordered it to wind down operations. August 28, 2025 View Details DHS bars disaster aid groups from helping undocumented immigrants, reversing a long-standing practice of serving anyone in need regardless of status. August 28, 2025 View Details Judge upholds Trump law cutting Medicaid funding from Maine clinics that provide abortions, diverging from a Massachusetts ruling that restored Planned Parenthood support nationwide. August 26, 2025 View Details France’s foreign ministry summons US ambassador Charles Kushner after he accused France of failing to confront antisemitism as Macron prepares to recognize Palestine. August 25, 2025 View Details DHS orders Kilmar Abrego Garcia deported to Uganda within 72 hours after his release from a Tennessee jail, five months after wrongful expulsion to El Salvador. August 23, 2025 View Details Journalist sues DHS and Justice Dept after ICE keeps him jailed despite judge’s release order, citing retaliation for reporting. August 22, 2025 View Details Florida officials painted over the Pulse Memorial rainbow crosswalk overnight, erasing a tribute to 49 shooting victims despite previous state approval. August 22, 2025 View Details Trump administration sending migrants into exile under third-country deportation pacts with Uganda and Honduras August 22, 2025 View Details Trump budget office withholds over half of PEPFAR’s $6 billion despite congressional appropriation, jeopardizing a program credited with saving millions of lives. August 22, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Texas Ten Commandments law in 11 districts, citing precedent from Louisiana case August 21, 2025 View Details Trump administration eliminates gender-affirming care coverage from federal employee health plans starting in 2026, with only narrow exceptions. August 21, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Justice Dept to explain Trump administration subpoenas seeking trans minors’ patient records under dubious legal theories after Children’s Hospital warns of trauma. August 21, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Mississippi’s DEI ban law indefinitely, citing threats to free speech, academic freedom, and due process in schools. August 20, 2025 View Details Yosemite fires park ranger SJ Joslin for helping display a transgender pride flag on El Capitan, reversing long-standing practice after Trump’s anti-trans orders. August 20, 2025 View Details Trump administration flips Education Dept. civil rights mission, dismissing most discrimination complaints while targeting programs for students of color and transgender students. August 19, 2025 View Details Housing Dept cancels translation services and removes multilingual materials to enforce Trump’s English-only order, raising civil rights violations concerns. August 19, 2025 View Details Judge denies bid by San Carlos Apache Tribe and allies to halt Oak Flat land transfer for copper mine, clearing way for appeal before deadline next week. August 17, 2025 View Details Education Dept. moves to cut federal funding for five Northern Virginia school districts serving nearly 400,000 students over transgender bathroom rules. August 16, 2025 View Details Federal judge rejects Trump administration’s bid to end Flores settlement protecting immigrant children, citing lack of new evidence and ongoing violations. August 16, 2025 View Details Press groups accuse LAPD of violating judge’s order protecting journalists by striking and arresting reporters at Aug. 8 protest. August 16, 2025 View Details Air Force eliminates board reviews for transgender members automatically discharged due to gender dysphoria. August 16, 2025 View Details Blumenthal urges RFK Jr. to fire Malone from CDC vaccine panel after violent posts linked to attack on agency. August 16, 2025 View Details Trump administration orders DC police to clear homeless encampments as city officials scramble to provide shelters and resources. August 16, 2025 View Details Maine Family Planning sues Trump administration to restore Medicaid funds lost after independent clinics were swept into national Planned Parenthood defunding policy. August 14, 2025 View Details Justice Department finds George Washington University violated civil rights law by ignoring campus antisemitism and threatens federal funding cuts. August 13, 2025 View Details Judge Lewis Kaplan orders ICE to improve Manhattan immigration facility after government admits detainees lack beds, sleeping mats and adequate meals. August 13, 2025 View Details Trump administration rewrites annual human rights report to shield allies like Israel and El Salvador while targeting Brazil and South Africa. August 13, 2025 View Details Air Force denies early retirement and benefits to transgender personnel with 15–18 years of service, forcing separation with only lump-sum pay. August 9, 2025 View Details Defense Secretary reposts video by CREC pastors led by Doug Wilson calling to revoke women’s voting rights while praising a Christian nationalist church. August 9, 2025 View Details Education Department opens civil rights probe into Baltimore City Public Schools over antisemitism after ADL complaint alleging Nazi salutes and harassment. August 8, 2025 View Details Pentagon says Fort Bliss will start holding 1,000 migrants in late August, expanding to 5,000 as the largest U.S. detention center to speed deportations. August 8, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump birthright citizenship order nationwide, citing likely 14th Amendment violations, the fourth block since the Supreme Court’s June ruling. August 8, 2025 View Details Leaked State Department drafts dramatically soften human rights criticism of strategic partners El Salvador, Israel and Russia. August 7, 2025 View Details Florida plans second immigration internment center at Camp Blanding to expand capacity despite ongoing lawsuits over inhumane conditions at Everglades facility. August 6, 2025 View Details Tennessee executed intellectually disabled Byron Black despite defibrillator warnings, with inmate reporting severe pain attorneys predicted during lethal injection. August 6, 2025 View Details Trump reverses Biden’s expansion of VA abortion services as Republicans claim 2022 policy violated 1992 congressional prohibition. August 5, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s expedited deportations of migrants who entered legally through humanitarian parole programs as policy deemed likely illegal. August 2, 2025 View Details Ninth Circuit upholds restrictions requiring Trump immigration agents establish reasonable suspicion beyond language or job for detentions in Los Angeles. August 2, 2025 View Details Trump says he didn’t know why Epstein took young women from Mar-a-Lago, prompting pushback from Giuffre family August 1, 2025 View Details Senate confirms EEOC acting chair Andrea Lucas to five year term, giving Trump a likely majority to roll back pregnancy, transgender and DEI protections. August 1, 2025 View Details Federal judge halts Trump order sanctioning Americans assisting the International Criminal Court, calling it an unconstitutional speech restraint. July 31, 2025 View Details U.S. sanctions Brazilian judge overseeing Bolsonaro case and imposes 50% tariff on most Brazilian goods, citing rights abuses and censorship. July 31, 2025 View Details Senate blocks bid to halt $675 million arms sale to Israel as 27 Democrats break over Gaza’s soaring death toll. July 31, 2025 View Details California leads 23 Democratic states suing Trump administration to permanently block Planned Parenthood funding cuts after federal judge temporarily halted them Monday. July 30, 2025 View Details Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes first Republican lawmaker to call Israel’s Gaza campaign genocide, breaking with party’s unified support for Israel. July 30, 2025 View Details Texas sues New York clerk for protecting local doctor from $100,000 fine over abortion pills prescribed to Texas patient. July 29, 2025 View Details Twenty-one states sue USDA over demand for Social Security numbers and personal data of food stamp recipients amid Trump immigration enforcement push. July 29, 2025 View Details Civil rights lawyers seek restraining order against Everglades immigration detention center over detainees held without charges and barred from legal access. July 29, 2025 View Details Judge Indira Talwani orders continued Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood after ruling Trump’s targeted exclusion likely unconstitutional. July 29, 2025 View Details Trump pressures Netanyahu to allow more food aid into Gaza after seeing images he describes as ‘real starvation’ during Scotland meeting with Starmer. July 29, 2025 View Details State Department official tells embassy Trump’s South African refugee program is for whites only despite public claims it includes all racial minorities. July 27, 2025 View Details Trump urges Netanyahu to escalate Gaza war to eliminate Hamas after ceasefire talks collapsed as at least 122 Palestinians died of starvation in recent days, including 83 children. July 26, 2025 View Details DOJ sues New York City and Mayor Adams over sanctuary policies, accusing city of enabling criminal activity and violating the Supremacy Clause. July 25, 2025 View Details Supreme Court blocks 8th Circuit ruling that would strip private enforcement of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. July 25, 2025 View Details IRS reviews phasing out multilingual tax filing services and translation assistance after executive order declaring English the official language. July 25, 2025 View Details ICE mandates GPS ankle monitors for roughly 183,000 immigrants in its Alternatives to Detention program, excluding pregnant women, boosting surveillance via Geo Group contractor tied to former Trump officials. July 25, 2025 View Details Trump order pushes forced hospitalization of homeless individuals, reversing housing‑first policy and favoring treatment over shelter. July 25, 2025 US and Israel leave Gaza ceasefire talks, accusing Hamas of bad faith as child malnutrition and aid deaths escalate. July 25, 2025 View Details Government awards $232 million contract for 5,000-person tent internment camp in west Texas despite border crossings plunging. July 24, 2025 View Details Ninth Circuit upholds nationwide block of Trump order redefining birthright citizenship despite Supreme Court limiting such injunctions. July 24, 2025 View Details Citing its federal charter, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee quietly updated its policy to comply with Trump’s executive order banning transgender women from competition. July 23, 2025 View Details A federal judge has partially blocked a Trump administration law to defund Planned Parenthood, shielding some clinics while the legal fight continues. July 22, 2025 View Details Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, wrongly deported by the Trump administration once before, have now asked a judge to keep him in jail to prevent a second deportation. July 22, 2025 View Details 21 Democratic AGs are suing to block a Trump rule cutting immigrant access to health, housing, and Head Start that the White House claims saves $40B. July 22, 2025 View Details A federal judge rebuked Trump’s DOJ for seeking leniency and sentenced ex-detective Brett Hankison to 33 months for his role in the killing of Breonna Taylor. July 22, 2025 View Details The Trump administration released 200,000 pages of FBI surveillance files on Martin Luther King Jr. despite his family’s pleas to prevent the weaponization of the records. July 22, 2025 View Details In a culture war appeal to his base, Trump demanded the return of the Redskins and Indians names while threatening to block a D.C. stadium deal that Biden already approved. July 21, 2025 View Details Protesters in 1,600 cities stage “Good Trouble” demonstrations against Trump policies on John Lewis anniversary. July 18, 2025 View Details Attorneys sue Trump administration to restore deportation protections for 150,000 abused migrant children. July 18, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court blocks Trump administration’s attempt to unilaterally revoke green cards, ruling Justice Department exceeded congressional authority in separation of powers violation. July 17, 2025 View Details The Trump administration exiled five migrants to the African nation of Eswatini, citing a recent and controversial Supreme Court order on third-country removals. July 16, 2025 View Details A Seattle judge ordered the Trump administration to admit approximately 80 refugees, ruling the president’s travel ban overstepped his executive authority. July 16, 2025 View Details The Veterans Affairs Dept is requiring senior executives to approve telework for disabled employees, a policy the AFGE union claims is designed to push those workers out. July 16, 2025 View Details In a policy shift, Trump’s EEOC will allow some transgender discrimination cases to continue while instituting a new, heightened review process controlled by its acting director. July 16, 2025 View Details Judge orders release of Iranian student arrested for deportation through police trick, citing unconstitutional arrest and valid student visa. July 15, 2025 View Details Senate confirms Trump’s first new judge of second term in party-line vote, replacing Obama appointee with conservative who defended Tennessee abortion ban. July 15, 2025 View Details Appeals court temporarily blocks Trump administration from ending deportation protections for 11,700 Afghans day before scheduled termination. July 15, 2025 View Details ICE acting director declares millions of longtime undocumented immigrants ineligible for bond hearings as Congress allocates $45 billion to double detention capacity. July 15, 2025 View Details Attorney General Bondi suspends federal multilingual website and orders agencies to end unnecessary foreign language services after Trump declares English official language. July 15, 2025 View Details Noem accuses Biden-appointed judge of “getting political” after ruling blocked ICE operations targeting people by race, language and employment in California. July 14, 2025 View Details Noem announces talks with five Republican governors about Everglades-style internment camps as Trump administration seeks to double detention capacity. July 13, 2025 View Details Democratic lawmakers condemn internment camp conditions including 32 men sharing three toilets and 83-degree temperatures in crowded indoor cages after touring DeSantis Everglades facility. July 13, 2025 View Details Trump DOJ official attacks DC Mayor Bowser over antisemitism response as administration escalates federal control push. July 13, 2025 View Details Trump threatens to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship despite 1967 Supreme Court ruling barring government from stripping native-born Americans’ rights. July 13, 2025 View Details ICE memo authorizes exile to non-citizen countries with six hours notice after Supreme Court cleared path around federal judge’s safety protections. July 13, 2025 View Details EPA union demands Zeldin reinstate 144 workers placed on leave for criticizing Trump policies, calling disciplinary action “blatant retaliation” for protected speech. July 12, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks ICE from detaining people based on appearance after finding agents followed White House instructions to “grab people first and ask questions later.” July 12, 2025 View Details Border Czar Homan sparks outrage after saying ICE can detain people based on “physical appearance” despite DHS calling racial profiling claims “categorically false.” July 12, 2025 View Details Louisiana threatens deputies with 10-year prison sentences for refusing to help ICE despite federal court order prohibiting such cooperation after past civil rights violations. July 12, 2025 View Details Farmworker dies from 30-foot fall during chaotic ICE raid where agents used tear gas against protesters and arrested 200 workers. July 12, 2025 View Details AG Bondi issues subpoenas to 20 clinics providing trans care to minors while calling doctors who perform procedures part of “warped ideology.” July 12, 2025 View Details Federal judge issues nationwide block of Trump birthright citizenship order by certifying class action to circumvent recent Supreme Court limits on such injunctions. July 11, 2025 View Details Trump administration sues California Education Department over transgender athlete policies after state refused federal demand to ban participation in high school sports. July 10, 2025 View Details Trump sanctions UN expert Francesca Albanese for criticizing Israel’s Gaza offensive and supporting ICC arrest warrants against Netanyahu. July 10, 2025 View Details Ongoing protests as largest US public transgender youth clinic at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles closes July 22 after Trump threatens federal funding cuts. July 10, 2025 View Details Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says “no amnesty” for migrants and cites 34 million able-bodied Medicaid recipients as available workforce replacements. July 9, 2025 View Details Education Department releases draft proposal to strip student loan forgiveness from organizations serving immigrants and transgender youth by defining them as “illegal activities.” July 8, 2025 View Details Federal trial begins challenging Trump crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activists as university groups argue administration violates First Amendment through deportation threats. July 8, 2025 View Details Trump ends 27-year deportation protections for 76,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans despite federal courts blocking similar TPS terminations for Venezuelans and Haitians. July 8, 2025 View Details WSJ Exclusive: Columbia University board discusses deal with Trump administration to restore $400 million in federal funding canceled over antisemitism claims. July 7, 2025 View Details Trump administration completes exile and imprisonment of 8 men to war-torn South Sudan after Supreme Court overruled lower court protections. July 6, 2025 View Details ADL and Jewish members of Congress criticize Trump for using antisemitic slur “Shylock” at Iowa rally as Trump claims ignorance of term’s meaning. July 4, 2025 View Details ICE releases 6-year-old Honduran boy with leukemia and family after month-long detention sparked public outcry and federal lawsuit. July 4, 2025 View Details Planned Parenthood vows to sue Trump administration over provision in megabill that blocks Medicaid funding for one year. July 4, 2025 View Details Trump’s Labor Department eliminates overtime protections for home health aides and union rights for migrant farmworkers among 60 regulations being cut. July 4, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to deport eight migrants held in shipping container for six weeks to South Sudan despite seven having no ties there. July 4, 2025 View Details Missouri judge lifts state abortion ban with preliminary injunction allowing Planned Parenthood to resume services Monday. July 4, 2025 View Details Palestinian woman released after nearly five months in ICE detention following government attempts to deport her despite federal court order that officials called “honest mistake.” July 3, 2025 View Details Court filing details severe beatings and psychological torture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia at El Salvador prison including 31-pound weight loss and forced kneeling for nine hours nightly. July 3, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules Trump exceeded constitutional authority with asylum ban and “invasion” proclamation as court gives administration 14 days to appeal before forcing resumption of asylum processing. July 3, 2025 View Details Federal judge issues 103-page ruling blasting “newly-minted war” against health research as systematic discrimination after finding officials illegally canceled grants based on race, gender and ideology. July 3, 2025 View Details Wisconsin’s liberal-controlled Supreme Court strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban in 4-3 ruling as conservative justices accuse majority of “raw exercise of political power.” July 3, 2025 View Details Twenty states sue Trump administration for allegedly sharing millions of Medicaid beneficiaries’ health data with ICE in violation of HIPAA and federal privacy laws. July 2, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court rejects Trump request to re-detain Georgetown researcher while criticizing government for moving him across states to evade court jurisdiction. July 2, 2025 View Details Trump says he would arrest NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani if he defies ICE and threatens to “look into” deporting Elon Musk amid their feud over spending bill. July 2, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump from ending temporary protected status for 500,000 Haitians five months early after ruling the acceleration violates federal law. July 2, 2025 View Details Justice Department issues new guidelines encouraging attorneys to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans for pending charges and vague criteria that could target 25 million people. July 2, 2025 View Details Penn erases Lia Thomas’ swimming records and bans transgender women from women’s sports after Trump Education Department finds Title IX violations. July 2, 2025 View Details Federal investigation finds Harvard violated civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish students, putting additional funding at risk beyond $2 billion already frozen. July 1, 2025 View Details Trump administration gave University of Virginia president ultimatum to resign by 5 PM on specific day or face immediate cuts to funding, jobs and student aid over DEI policies, senator reveals. June 30, 2025 View Details Trump expected to attend opening of Florida Everglades detention camp built on seized land using emergency powers despite environmental lawsuit and $450 million annual cost. June 30, 2025 View Details GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin says U.S. citizen children should be deported with undocumented parents after Supreme Court allows Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions in some states. June 30, 2025 View Details About 1,000 protesters denounce DeSantis’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center as “inhumane” for being built in the Everglades on land indigenous groups call sacred. June 29, 2025 View Details Fighting Back Resource: Guide by attorney Qasim Rashid provides ICE raid protection strategies and organizing tactics. June 28, 2025 View Details Trump officials plan to resettle 1,000 White South Africans by September while blocking court-ordered refugees from travel ban countries. June 28, 2025 View Details Teacher tells Palestinian American student to “go back to your country” after refusing to stand for Pledge of Allegiance, prompting federal lawsuit. June 27, 2025 View Details Education Secretary McMahon gives California 10 days to strip transgender athletes of awards and ban them from competition or lose federal funding. June 26, 2025 View Details EEOC fires administrative judge after month-long suspension for calling Trump’s gender identity order “unethical” and demanding acting chair resign. June 26, 2025 View Details SD officials push to build Trump’s National Garden of American Heroes statue garden in Black Hills near Mount Rushmore despite Indigenous opposition over sacred land taken in violation of 1868 treaty June 24, 2025 View Details Masked Border Patrol agents hold down landscaper in street and repeatedly strike him during arrest, sparking outrage over father of three U.S. Marines who was applying for citizenship. June 24, 2025 View Details Florida uses emergency powers to seize Everglades land and build immigrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in days using tents and trailers, despite county objections over environmental impact. June 24, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to deport migrants to third countries without due process after administration repeatedly violated lower court orders, prompting Sotomayor to accuse colleagues of “rewarding lawlessness.” June 24, 2025 View Details Trump-nominated judge gives academic award to University of Florida law student who argued Constitution applies only to white people and called for removing non-white voting rights. June 22, 2025 View Details Abbott signs law mandating Ten Commandments displays in all Texas classrooms one day after federal court ruled identical Louisiana law unconstitutional. June 22, 2025 View Details Advocates discover adults fighting children for clean water at privately-run Texas detention centers in late Friday lawsuit filing challenging Trump’s effort to end child protections. June 22, 2025 View Details Delaware Governor Matt Meyer signs executive order shielding gender-affirming care providers from investigations based solely on providing such treatment. June 22, 2025 View Details Georgia’s Gwinnett County files new traffic charges against detained Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara for following unmarked vehicles during immigration raids. June 21, 2025 View Details Federal judge frees Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil after 104 days in immigration detention despite Trump administration claims his presence threatens foreign policy. June 21, 2025 View Details On Juneteenth, Trump says U.S. has too many non-working holidays costing billions while Biden celebrates the day at a historic Galveston Black church. June 20, 2025 View Details Texas federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk voids Biden HHS rule shielding abortion and gender care records from prosecutors and says expanded HIPAA privacy exceeds agency authority. June 20, 2025 View Details FL AG Uthmeier calls to “denaturalize and deport” MN Rep. Omar after she criticized Trump’s military parade. June 19, 2025 View Details EEOC Acting Chair Lucas tells senators agency will follow White House directives and defends dropping transgender discrimination cases to comply with Trump executive order. June 19, 2025 View Details Trump administration ends Trevor Project’s specialized LGBTQ+ suicide prevention service through federal hotline, giving nonprofit 30 days notice to shut down program. June 19, 2025 View Details Supreme Court upholds state transgender care bans for minors in 6-3 ruling, with Sotomayor reading rare dissent comparing majority’s deference to past defenses of interracial marriage bans. June 19, 2025 View Details Brain-dead Georgia woman kept on life support for four months under state abortion law gives birth before family can end treatment. June 18, 2025 View Details Federal judge expands injunction blocking Trump from restricting passport sex markers for transgender and nonbinary Americans, citing constitutional equal protection violations. June 18, 2025 View Details NAACP breaks 116-year tradition by not inviting sitting President Trump to convention, saying his mission is to “eliminate civil rights.” June 17, 2025 View Details California lawmakers introduce “No Secret Police Act” to ban face coverings for law enforcement after ICE raids involving masked agents without identification. June 17, 2025 View Details White House denies Guardian report that VA hospitals are already refusing care to veterans based on marital status and political affiliation under January executive order. June 17, 2025 View Details Reagan-appointed federal judge rules Trump’s cancellation of $1 billion in NIH diversity research grants illegal, calling it “palpable” racial discrimination. June 17, 2025 View Details Federal agents recapture two of four detainees who punched through an unpermitted wall at Newark’s for-profit Delaney Hall ICE facility, spotlighting security lapses as two remain at large. June 16, 2025 View Details Trump directs ICE to prioritize mass deportations from Democratic-led cities after LA protests while pausing raids on farms and hotels to ease industry backlash. June 16, 2025 View Details US border agents detained Australian writer Alistair Kitchen for 12 hours at LAX, downloaded his phone’s contents, and expelled him over Israel-Gaza views. June 16, 2025 View Details Kilmar Ábrego García pleads not guilty to smuggling charges after Trump administration wrongfully deported him against court orders, then brought him back to face prosecution. June 14, 2025 View Details Federal judge rules Trump administration’s foreign policy grounds for detaining Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil unconstitutional but allows continued detention on technical immigration charges. June 14, 2025 View Details ICE holds immigrants for days in Burlington office building not equipped for detention, denying women menstrual products and forcing detainees to sleep on concrete floors. June 14, 2025 View Details Kennedy advisers order federal health officials to hand over millions of Medicaid enrollees’ personal data to immigration authorities within 45 minutes despite privacy law concerns. June 14, 2025 View Details Resource: Wired’s digital security guide for protesters covers phone encryption, avoiding facial recognition, and protecting online privacy as Trump administration deploys surveillance tools against demonstrators. June 13, 2025 View Details Nonprofit sues USDA for canceling legally required food assistance hotline contract after agency says government determines whether to follow “that particular law.” June 13, 2025 View Details Four detainees missing from private Newark ICE facility as Newark mayor cites withholding food and poor treatment leading to uprising and escaped detainees. June 13, 2025 View Details Trump vows to protect migrant farm and hotel workers from deportation after businesses complain mass deportation policy is taking away essential employees. June 13, 2025 View Details Trump strips work permits from 530,000 legal migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, ordering immediate departure or risk detention. June 13, 2025 View Details Missouri becomes second state after Texas to activate National Guard ahead of planned protests while KC mayor criticizes lack of action against neo-Nazi marchers. June 13, 2025 View Details DeSantis tells drivers they have right to hit protesters blocking roads if they fear for their safety, saying “that’s their fault for impinging on you.” June 13, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders release of Harvard researcher detained 4 months for bringing undeclared frog embryos for cancer research. June 13, 2025 View Details Federal judge transfers deportation case for Boulder attack suspect’s family to Texas after blocking Trump administration’s expedited removal attempt. June 13, 2025 View Details Trump kills $1 billion salmon recovery agreement with Native American tribes to prioritize dam energy production, forcing return to decades of litigation over treaty fishing rights. June 13, 2025 View Details Breaking overnight: Appeals court blocks ruling through at least Tuesday that would have returned CA National Guard to state control, keeping Trump’s federal deployment for immigration raids. June 13, 2025 View Details San Diego lawsuit challenges Trump’s shutdown of asylum processing at border crossings, saying administration “pulled the rug out” from migrants who had scheduled appointments and followed legal migration rules. June 12, 2025 View Details Kosovo agrees to accept 50 U.S. deportees from other countries as Trump pressures allies worldwide to take migrants whose home nations won’t accept them. June 12, 2025 View Details Federal judge says Trump administration cannot detain green card holder Mahmoud Khalil over pro-Palestinian activism, gives government until Friday to appeal or he could release him. June 12, 2025 View Details Anti-ICE protests spread to New York, San Francisco, Boston and Austin as LA enters second night of curfew and Marines prepare to join 2,800 federal troops already deployed. June 12, 2025 View Details Appeals court pauses order requiring due process for 140 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador prison under wartime Alien Enemies Act without hearings. June 11, 2025 View Details LA lawmakers pass bill allowing lawsuits against out-of-state doctors who mail abortion pills after NY refuses to extradite physician charged with felony. June 11, 2025 View Details MT Supreme Court strikes down 2021 GOP abortion restrictions as unconstitutional as anti-abortion groups file same-day lawsuit challenging voter-approved constitutional amendment. June 11, 2025 View Details FL state senator Ileana Garcia, Latinas for Trump co-founder, posts on social media that president’s immigration arrests are “unacceptable and inhumane,” saying “this is not what we voted for.” June 10, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Trump administration to reconsider cases of migrant children stuck in custody more than 7 months on average under Trump’s new sponsor requirements that prohibit foreign documents. ` June 10, 2025 View Details Trump seeks removal from New Hampshire lawsuit challenging his transgender sports ban after federal judge allows two teen girls to keep playing while case proceeds. June 10, 2025 View Details Federal judge gives Apache tribes 60 days after environmental review to challenge sacred land transfer to mining company for congressionally authorized copper mine. June 10, 2025 View Details World Pride 2025 concludes in Washington with defiant protest march toward the White House as LGBTQ+ activists prepare for renewed fight against Trump’s second-term policies. June 9, 2025 View Details Trump’s travel ban targeting citizens from 19 countries including Haiti and Venezuela, whose citizens he demonized during his campaign, takes effect with full restrictions on 12 nations and partial bans on seven others. June 9, 2025 View Details WorldPride parade draws 700,000 attendees to Washington, nearly doubling typical turnout despite Trump administration targeting of LGBTQ rights. June 8, 2025 View Details Wichita and Washoe tribes sue federal government for using $23.3 billion in Native trust funds to finance abusive boarding schools that harmed their children. June 8, 2025 View Details Trump administration returns El Salvador deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia to face federal smuggling indictment after months of resisting Supreme Court order to facilitate his return. June 8, 2025 View Details Supreme Court unanimously rules straight woman can pursue workplace discrimination claim without meeting higher legal standard than minority groups. June 6, 2025 View Details Federal officials threaten to cut NY school funding over Indigenous mascot ban as state vows to expand the ban to all racial and ethnic mascots. June 6, 2025 View Details California’s Yurok Tribe regains 73 square miles of ancestral land after 120 years, marking California’s largest tribal land return and beginning new restoration efforts. June 6, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks enforcement of Biden-era rules requiring Catholic employers and health providers to offer gender-affirming care, citing religious freedom and limiting federal agencies’ reach. June 6, 2025 View Details GOP budget bill would block millions of U.S. citizen children from the Child Tax Credit if their parents lack Social Security numbers, making eligibility depend on parental immigration status. June 6, 2025 View Details CA fourth grader detained by ICE 5 days ago and separated from father during routine immigration hearing in Houston as community back home rallies to bring student back. June 5, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks deportation of Boulder antisemitic attack suspect’s wife and five children after immigration officials detained the family despite their pending asylum case. June 5, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders Trump administration to allow migrants sent to El Salvador mega-prison under Alien Enemies Act to challenge their removal after significant evidence emerged many have no gang connections. June 5, 2025 View Details Guatemalan man wrongly deported to Mexico without due process finally returns to U.S. more than a week after federal judge ordered Trump administration to fly him back. June 5, 2025 View Details Trump bans travel from 12 countries and restricts it from 7 others while citing Boulder antisemitic attack by Egyptian man as justification despite Egypt not being on either list. June 5, 2025 View Details RESOURCE: Free social media toolkit to amplify Trump administration’s pattern of disappearing people from American communities through detention, deportation and government retaliation. June 4, 2025 View Details Trump proposes cutting tribal college funding by nearly 90%, threatening to close institutions already underfunded by $250 million annually. June 4, 2025 View Details ICE detains wife and five children of Boulder antisemitic attacker after State Department revokes their visas, with administration threatening deportation “as early as tonight” despite no evidence of family involvement. June 4, 2025 View Details Four-year-old with life-threatening illness and mother granted one-year humanitarian parole after DHS terminated their status in April, forcing public outcry to avoid deportation that could prove fatal. June 4, 2025 View Details Hegseth orders Navy to strip gay rights icon Harvey Milk’s name from ship during Pride month, announcing the renaming aboard USS Constitution to “reestablish warrior culture.” June 4, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump’s order cutting transgender inmates’ hormone therapy after prison officials abruptly stopped treatment that could cause depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts when discontinued. June 4, 2025 View Details Trump administration revokes Biden-era guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions to stabilize patients, despite federal law mandating emergency rooms treat all medical emergencies. June 4, 2025 View Details Boulder attack suspect charged with federal hate crime after planning Molotov cocktail assault for a year, telling police he “wanted to kill all Zionist people” and would “do it again.” June 3, 2025 View Details Justice Department threatens legal action against 1,600+ California school districts unless they ban transgender athletes by June 9 despite state compromise allowing dual medals. June 3, 2025 View Details Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman uses makeshift flamethrower to injure eight Israeli hostage awareness marchers in Boulder, shouting “free Palestine” in what FBI calls targeted terrorism. June 2, 2025 View Details AB Hernandez wins gold in high jump and triple jump at California track championships despite Trump’s federal funding threats and Justice Department Title IX investigation into the transgender woman’s participation. June 2, 2025 View Details Federal judge blocks Trump administration from revoking protected status for 5,000 Venezuelans who received paperwork during brief January-February extension window. June 1, 2025 View Details Customs and Border Protection collected DNA from 133,000 migrant children as young as 4 and uploaded genetic data to FBI criminal database designed for violent offenders. June 1, 2025 View Details Trump administration knew that vast majority of 238 Venezuelans jailed without trial in El Salvador had no U.S. criminal convictions, with government data showing only 32 were convicted of crimes and most violations were immigration-related. May 31, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to strip humanitarian parole from 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. May 31, 2025 View Details National Association of the Deaf sues White House for removing sign language interpreters from press briefings after Trump eliminated diversity programs. May 30, 2025 View Details HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bypassed CDC and expert review to end federal COVID-19 vaccine recommendations for healthy pregnant women and children. May 29, 2025 View Details CA high school sports federation adds more girls to state meet after Trump threatens funding over trans athlete. May 28, 2025 View Details Missouri Supreme Court halts abortions again by ordering district judge to reconsider ban despite voter approval. May 28, 2025 View Details Privacy groups sue Trump administration over USDA demand for personal data of 42 million SNAP recipients, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers from five years of records. May 24, 2025 View Details Jailed Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil finally holds his one-month-old son after federal judge overrules Trump administration’s attempt to force plexiglass barrier between father and infant. May 23, 2025 View Details White House calls federal judge “liberal activist” after he ruled Trump administration violated court order by giving South Sudan deportees only 12 hours notice instead of “meaningful” due process. May 23, 2025 View Details Trump administration moves to terminate 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement that limits detention of immigrant children and requires government provide them food, water and clean clothes. May 23, 2025 View Details Education Department investigates Virginia’s elite Thomas Jefferson High School for alleged discrimination against Asian American students despite Supreme Court upholding admissions policy that reduced Asian enrollment from 73% to 54%. May 23, 2025 View Details Trump administration finds Columbia University violated Jewish students’ civil rights by showing “deliberate indifference” to harassment since October 7, 2023, including failure to investigate swastika vandalism. May 23, 2025 View Details Trump administration revokes Harvard’s ability to enroll international students after university refuses to turn over five years of foreign student conduct records including protest footage. May 23, 2025 View Details Federal judge reverses Trump’s firing of Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board members, ruling president lacks authority to remove independent agency officials without cause. May 22, 2025 View Details Justice Department cancels Minneapolis and Louisville police reform settlements following George Floyd and Breonna Taylor killings days before fifth anniversary of Floyd’s murder. May 22, 2025 View Details ICE denies Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil’s request to hold his newborn son during detention center visit after jailing the legal resident for over two months without criminal charges May 22, 2025 View Details Trump-appointed federal judge strikes down EEOC regulations requiring employers to provide time off and accommodations for abortions. May 22, 2025 View Details Donald Trump played a video and presented news articles falsely claiming white genocide in South Africa to President Cyril Ramaphosa during their Oval Office meeting, despite South Africa’s denials. May 22, 2025 View Details Supreme Court orders Maine House to restore voting rights of Republican lawmaker punished for identifying transgender student athlete in social media post. May 21, 2025 View Details Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shocks Senate committee by incorrectly defining habeas corpus as presidential power to deport immigrants. May 21, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders U.S. to maintain control of migrants sent to South Sudan after finding Trump administration potentially violated court restrictions on third-country deportations. May 21, 2025 View Details RFK family foundation awards Maine Gov. Mills human rights prize for defying transgender policies of administration where RFK Jr. serves as HHS Secretary. May 20, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to revoke protected status for 350,000 Venezuelans, shortening Biden’s extension to 2026. May 20, 2025 View Details Trump-appointed Texas judge strikes down federal workplace protections for transgender workers as EEOC leadership abandons discrimination cases. May 17, 2025 View Details Newark Mayor Ras Baraka claims prosecutors tried to “humiliate and degrade” him by requiring second fingerprinting and mugshot after ICE detention center arrest. May 16, 2025 View Details Pentagon to screen troops for gender dysphoria during routine medical exams as part of effort to remove transgender service members from military. May 16, 2025 View Details Montana judge strikes down ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors as unconstitutional. May 15, 2025 View Details Federal appeals court blocks Florida’s drag show law as overly broad, citing First Amendment violations May 14, 2025 View Details Episcopal Church quits federal refugee program as presiding bishop condemns Trump for giving white South Africans preferential treatment over millions blocked and still waiting in camps. May 13, 2025 View Details EEOC moves to fire suspended administrative judge who resisted Trump directives on gender identity cases and criticized agency leadership. May 13, 2025 View Details DHS Secretary Noem strips legal residency from 9,000 Afghan nationals in U.S., making them deportable despite Taliban control of Afghanistan. May 13, 2025 View Details Harvard sends letter to Education Dept. denying partisan bias claims and warning of government overreach. May 13, 2025 View Details IL Gov Pritzker blocks federal access to personal autism health data two days after Kennedy announces plan to probe condition’s causes. May 13, 2025 View Details Hamas announces plan to release last known living American hostage Edan Alexander as goodwill gesture following secret U.S. talks before Trump Middle East trip. May 12, 2025 View Details Quakers march 300 miles from New York to Washington to protest Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants supporting faith tradition of activism. May 11, 2025 View Details Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk arrived in Boston Saturday after federal judge orders her release from six weeks of ICE detention for writing opinion piece critical of Israel. May 11, 2025 View Details Trump orders DHS to add 20,000 officers focused on deportation and deputize state and local law enforcement. May 11, 2025 View Details Tennessee Highway Patrol makes over 500 stops and ICE arrests more than 100 people during joint operation supporting deportation effort. May 11, 2025 View Details DHS confirms Democratic members of Congress may face arrests after scuffle with ICE officers during protest of Newark mayor’s arrest. May 11, 2025 View Details Federal judge orders release of Turkish Tufts student detained over Israel criticism, saying detention ‘chills speech of millions’. May 10, 2025 View Details Trump personally involved in discussions about suspending habeas corpus to fast-track deportations, sources tell CNN. May 10, 2025 View Details CBP quietly revokes protections for pregnant women, infants, and other vulnerable detainees. May 9, 2025 View Details Pentagon orders removal of up to 1,000 transgender troops following Supreme Court decision allowing Trump’s military ban. May 9, 2025 View Details NYPD investigates how sealed arrest records of Palestinian protester were shared with ICE for deportation. May 7, 2025 View Details Judge Stephanie Gallagher rejects Trump bid, orders return of second Venezuelan migrant deported to El Salvador. May 7, 2025 View Details Two more judges block Trump’s Alien Enemies Act deportations, saying wartime law is misused. May 7, 2025 View Details Trump administration asked Ukraine to accept third‑country deportees despite its war with Russia. May 7, 2025 View Details Trump administration may soon deport migrants to Libya as part of mass removal campaign. May 7, 2025 View Details Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce transgender military ban while appeals proceed. May 7, 2025 View Details Trump administration opens antisemitism probe into UWash after protests. May 7, 2025 View Details Rubio merges US Office of Palestinian Affairs into Jerusalem embassy, narrowing Palestinian access to Washington. May 7, 2025 View Details Trump says Hamas has 21 living hostages left in Gaza after three die. May 7, 2025 View Details Trump officials and Pelosi press Jordan’s king to honor pledge to treat sick Gazan children. May 6, 2025 View Details 20 attorneys general sue to block 25% workforce cuts at HHS under Trump admin. May 6, 2025 View Details Trump questions whether he must uphold the Constitution or guarantee due process to everyone in the U.S., including non-citizens. May 5, 2025 View Details Trump administration settles lawsuit and restores Maine school meal funds after state refused to ban trans girls from girls’ sports. May 3, 2025 View Details Unsigned HHS report commissioned by Trump promotes psychological treatment over gender-affirming care for trans youth. May 2, 2025 View Details Trump taps TX Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to lead new Religious Liberty Commission with TV’s “Dr. Phil” and Ben Carson. May 2, 2025 View Details Judge questions Trump move to shift deportation case of Georgetown scholar from Virginia to Texas after Gaza posts. May 2, 2025 View Details Houthis say U.S. strike on Saada migrant center kills at least 68 Africans, Pentagon reviewing the claim. April 30, 2025 View Details Harvard president apologizes and pledges reforms after task force reports expose campus antisemitism and anti-Arab bias. April 30, 2025 View Details Trump administration orders Penn to reverse Lia Thomas records and apologize or lose $175 million in federal funding. April 29, 2025 View Details Trump administration expands Harvard investigation to include Harvard Law Review over race-based article selection and membership. April 29, 2025 View Details Rubio defends State Department reorganization cutting human rights and diversity offices and seeking 15% staff reductions. April 28, 2025 View Details Trump official defends deporting U.S. citizen children, saying parents are responsible for family separations. April 28, 2025 View Details Trump vows to restore Columbus Day without Indigenous recognition, accusing Democrats of erasing the explorer’s legacy. April 28, 2025 View Details ICE and Florida police launch mass immigration raids targeting 800 undocumented immigrants in multi-city crackdown. April 27, 2025 View Details National Weather Service to resume translating forecasts after contract lapse endangered non-English speakers. April 27, 2025 View Details ICE deports immigrant mothers and four U.S. citizen children without due process as Trump crackdown intensifies. April 27, 2025 View Details Education Department opens civil rights probe into NY rule forcing schools to drop Native American mascots after Massapequa Chiefs fight. April 26, 2025 View Details Kennedy Center cancellations following Trump board takeover lead World Pride DC to relocate Pride week events. April 26, 2025 View Details Trump administration exiles two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras, provoking judge’s fury over vanished due process. April 26, 2025 Trump posts ‘Vladimir, STOP!’ after Russia’s deadliest Kyiv strike in months kills 12. April 25, 2025 View Details Trump asks Supreme Court to reinstate transgender military ban after judge blocks policy. April 25, 2025 View Details Judge slams Trump administration for defying court order in deportation case but grants DOJ a short delay. April 24, 2025 View Details Federal government fights judge’s order to move jailed Tufts student from Louisiana to Vermont after arrest over Gaza essay. April 24, 2025 View Details VA launches Christian bias task force to probe Biden-era discrimination and invites employees to report each other. April 24, 2025 View Details Borrenpohl sues Idaho sheriff and security firm after being dragged from GOP town hall for jeering. April 23, 2025 View Details Judge extends Colorado ban on Trump’s Alien Enemies Act deportations, orders 21-day notice and language access. April 23, 2025 View Details NIH to launch autism registry and share private medical data for RFK Jr.’s study criticized as stigmatizing and unfounded. April 23, 2025 View Details Trump says he’s ‘entitled’ to deport people without trials days after Supreme Court blocked Venezuela deportations. April 23, 2025 View Details Columbia students and alumni chain themselves to campus gates after ICE detains Palestinian activists with university ties. April 22, 2025 View Details Maduro accuses El Salvador of kidnapping deported Venezuelans and demands their release after Bukele proposes prisoner swap. April 22, 2025 View Details House Democrats go to El Salvador to demand return of immigrant deported in defiance of court order. April 22, 2025 View Details National May Day protests set, organizing call Wednesday. April 21, 2025 View Details RFK Jr. suggests compensating families of people with severe autism, saying his comments apply to 25% and linking the condition to environmental toxins. April 21, 2025 View Details El Salvador’s Bukele proposes swapping US-deported Venezuelans for political prisoners held by Maduro April 21, 2025 View Details Draft Trump order would gut State Department’s Africa offices, home to 18% of global population, and cut refugee and human rights bureaus. April 20, 2025 View Details Musk operatives are tapping Labor Dept systems to gather data on migrant workers, visa applicants, and ex-prisoners. April 19, 2025 View Details Musk operatives and Palantir are building a surveillance system using SSA, tax, and voter records to track immigrants. April 19, 2025 View Details Immigrants forced to prove they’re alive at Social Security after Trump officials falsely marked them dead to revoke legal status. April 19, 2025 View Details U.S. bombs fuel terminal in Yemen, killing 38 people including paramedics, in strike targeting Houthis. April 18, 2025 View Details Three judge appeals court panel calls Trump admin refusal to return Abrego Garcia “shocking” and rejects appeal. April 18, 2025 View Details Van Hollen meets with illegally deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia as Trump pushes to keep him jailed in El Salvador. April 18, 2025 View Details ICE arrests Palestinian Columbia grad Mohsen Mahdawi at citizenship interview; judge blocks transfer out of Vermont. April 15, 2025 View Details Bukele mocks U.S. over wrongful deportation as Trump officials defy court order to return Abrego Garcia. April 15, 2025 View Details Trump suggests El Salvador build more prisons to hold U.S. citizens he wants to exile for violent crimes. April 15, 2025 View Details State Dept investigation found no evidence linking Tufts student to terrorism before ICE detention. April 14, 2025 View Details Trump administration tells judge in writing it has no duty to bring back man illegally deported to El Salvador. April 14, 2025 View Details Trump deports more alleged gang members to El Salvador as court faults unlawful removal of Maryland man. April 14, 2025 View Details Judge orders Trump administration to restore USDA funds for Maine school meals after anti-trans funding cutoff. April 13, 2025 View Details Trump moves to cut Maine’s K-12 school funding over a handful of transgender athletes. April 12, 2025 View Details Trump DOJ kills sewage cleanup deal in Alabama, slamming environmental justice as DEI ‘preference’. April 12, 2025 View Details Twelve Stanford students charged with felonies for organized pro-Palestinian office takeover causing up to $1 million in damage. April 11, 2025 View Details Trump administration classifies 6,000 living immigrants as dead to force exits and block access to work, banking, and legal status. April 11, 2025 View Details Trump administration cancels $188 million in migrant shelter grants to New York City, ordering repayment over claims of illegal immigration support. April 9, 2025 View Details Trump admin kills final U.S. food aid in Middle East after Musk ally overrides Rubio, UN warns cuts endanger refugees in Syria, Yemen, Jordan, and Lebanon. April 8, 2025 View Details Rubio-led State Department fires U.S. aid workers while they conduct earthquake relief in Myanmar, where over 3,000 have died. April 6, 2025 View Details Trump administration tells appeals court that U.S. judges have no authority to undo wrongful deportation of man sent to brutal El Salvador prison. April 6, 2025 View Details Judge orders Trump administration to restore legal aid for 26,000 unaccompanied migrant children after March cutoff. April 2, 2025 View Details Trump administration admits ICE wrongly removed legal U.S. resident two weeks ago, now claims it can’t bring him back from El Salvador jail. April 2, 2025 View Details Trump admin withholds $27.5M in congressionally approved health funds from Planned Parenthood, citing DEI and care for undocumented patients. April 1, 2025 View Details Hundreds march with 200-foot trans pride flag for Transgender Day of Visibility on Monday, defying Utah’s new law banning flags on public property. March 30, 2025 View Details Utah enacts first-in-nation ban on pride flags in schools and government buildings as governor lets bill become law without signature. March 29, 2025 View Details Second federal judge blocks Trump’s transgender military ban, slams it as discriminatory and unsupported by evidence. March 28, 2025 View Details Trump signs order requiring proof of citizenship to vote, banning birth certificates and leaving many married women and trans voters unable to register. March 26, 2025 View Details Second federal judge halts Trump’s ban on transgender troops after Air Force sergeants were pulled from duty and faced involuntary separation. March 25, 2025 View Details Weeks after public clash, Trump demands Maine governor make “full-throated apology” and vow not to “unlawfully challenge” federal authority. March 23, 2025 View Details Trump threatens Tesla vandals with 20 years in Salvadoran prison, says they’re worse than Jan. 6 rioters—apparently violating their 8th Amendment rights. March 22, 2025 View Details DHS shutters watchdog offices monitoring migrant kids, civil rights, detention conditions—calls them roadblocks to immigration enforcement. March 22, 2025 View Details Trump moves student loans to Small Business Administration and children’s special needs programs to HHS after ordering McMahon to close Education Department. March 22, 2025 View Details Trump administration freezes $175M in federal funding to UPenn over transgender athlete policy, despite school following NCAA rules. March 20, 2025 View Details Trump administration shuts down war crimes database, blocks transfer of records on kidnapped Ukrainian children. March 19, 2025 View Details Second Judge Blocks Trump’s Transgender Military Ban, Final Order Expected Friday March 19, 2025 View Details Trump admin defies court order, sends 200+ migrants to El Salvador—pays $6M for their detention. March 17, 2025 View Details Trump moves to revoke protections for two California national monuments established by Biden, targeting safeguards for sacred Indigenous lands. March 16, 2025 View Details Arlington National Cemetery removed references to Black, Hispanic, and female service members from its website as part of a broader Defense Dept effort to eliminate DEI content. March 15, 2025 View Details A federal judge rebuked the Defense Dept. for misrepresenting studies on transgender people during a hearing on whether the military can discharge transgender service members. March 13, 2025 View Details Jailed activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in custody into next week, but his lawyers have gained their first chance to speak with him privately since his arrest. March 13, 2025 View Details Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender representative, was misgendered today by Rep. Keith Self, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe. March 12, 2025 View Details 13 Montana GOP legislators joined with Democrats to defeat two anti-LGBTQ+ bills March 8, 2025 View Details Trump admin cancels $400M in grants and contracts to Columbia, blames antisemitism. March 8, 2025 View Details DC clears homeless encampments one day after Trump threatens to do so. March 8, 2025 View Details CA Gov. Newsom condemned for calling trans women in sports “deeply unfair.” March 8, 2025 View Details A second federal judge blocked the administration from defunding institutions that provide care for transgender youth. March 6, 2025 View Details Senate Dems vote in unison to block GOP bill banning transgender athletes from schools receiving federal funds. March 5, 2025 View Details Nearly half of fair housing grants for monitoring discrimination are canceled. March 1, 2025 View Details Iowa is first state to strip discrimination protections for transgender people. March 1, 2025 View Details Trump to sign order making English official language, ending mandatory government translations for non-English speakers. March 1, 2025 View Details The U.S. military has reversed course and will discharge all active service members who are transgender. February 28, 2025 View Details Fired USAID employees and HIV advocates protested in the Capitol including a “die-in”. Police arrested 20 people. February 27, 2025 View Details The AG dismissed all racially unfair hiring cases against local fire and police departments. February 27, 2025 View Details Trump slashes 90% of foreign aid contracts, $60 billion cut. February 27, 2025 View Details The Social Security Administration disbanded its Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity. February 26, 2025 View Details The Trump administration is threatening jail & fines for undocumented immigrants over 13 who fail to register in a new federal database. February 26, 2025 View Details A video of an Idaho woman being dragged by private security at a GOP-sponsored town hall in Coeur d’Alene went viral Saturday night. February 25, 2025 View Details Hundreds rally at Maine State House backing Gov. Mills’ vow to sue Trump admin to protect state residents February 25, 2025 View Details Trump to Maine governor at meeting: ‘We are the federal law’; Mills retorts, ‘See you in court’ February 25, 2025 DOJ accuses judge of misconduct, files complaint in transgender military ban February 25, 2025 View Details French far-right leader ditches conference after Bannon’s Nazi salute February 25, 2025 View Details Judge blocks Trump’s DEI crackdown, calls it “textbook discriminatinon” February 25, 2025 View Details Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. issued guidance defining only two human sexes and barring trans women from women’s sports February 25, 2025 View Details EEOC drops gender discrimination case February 24, 2025 View Details CDC, FDA ordered to add anti-trans language to restored websites February 24, 2025 View Details Ed Dept freezes thousands of civil right investigations in schools February 24, 2025 View Details US Army bans transgender enlistment, halts gender-affirming care February 24, 2025 View Details The EPA’s Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights were closed February 22, 2025 View Details Trump signed an executive order that will cause K-12 schools and colleges to lose federal funds if they allow trans women to participate in women’s sports February 22, 2025 View Details Facing virtual worldwide opposition, the White House said Trump has not committed to sending US troops or spending US funds to rebuild Gaza February 22, 2025 View Details Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s order to move trans women to men’s prisons February 22, 2025 View Details Trump proposed ethnic cleansing in Gaza, saying that 2 million Palestinians who live there should be sent to Egypt and Jordan February 22, 2025 View Details
