Daily Headlines: Human Rights 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
