New federal rule cancels asylum interviews for up to 444,000 cases, sending applicants who entered legally straight to deportation proceedings.
U.S. diplomats walk out on France at the U.N. after its mission says America now stands with North Korea and Russia on human rights.
Judge orders ICE to free a witness to its fatal Houston shooting, ruling his detention without a hearing violates due process.
Trump imposes 10% to 12.5% tariffs on 60 economies under a forced labor rationale, his third scheme since the Supreme Court struck his tariffs in February.
Judge orders ICE to fix likely unconstitutional conditions at California’s Adelanto detention center, where advocates say four people have died since September.
ICE officials privately warned of “insane” crowding as 86 detainees filled a Manhattan holding room built for brief stays, a Washington Post visual investigation shows.
New York Mayor Mamdani reviews whether the city can arrest Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on his ICC war crimes warrant during a September UN visit.
Seven American Ebola aid workers become the first people quarantined at a Kenya facility a court ordered halted, barred from reentering the U.S. for three weeks.
Rubio launches a campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court, warning nations under the US security umbrella to reject its authority or face scrutiny.
Morgantown, West Virginia votes 5-2 to ban hostile architecture, the spikes and divided benches designed to keep homeless people from resting in public.
Rep. Ro Khanna says armed Israeli settlers detained his delegation for 90 minutes in the West Bank as IDF soldiers refused to intervene.
Lawsuit alleges ICE hand-delivered confidential asylum files of pro-democracy protesters and religious minorities to Iran’s government, continuing even after the U.S. went to war with Iran.
A medical examiner’s report shows Camp East Montana staff dismissed a detainee’s suicide attempt as manipulation and repeatedly skipped his antipsychotic drugs before his death, ruled a homicide.
ICE detains more than 10,000 people in five days after the White House demands higher arrest rates, a quiet surge doubling the daily pace to 2,000.
ICE detains a 56-year-old Nigerian nun walking to Sunday Mass in South Texas, releasing her only after members of Congress intervene with the DHS secretary.
New Jersey lawmakers pass a bill criminalizing interference with reproductive and transgender healthcare and shielding providers from extradition, sending it to Governor Sherrill.
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship violates the 14th Amendment, holding that children born on U.S. soil to undocumented or temporary residents are citizens.
The Supreme Court rules 6-3 that states may bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports, upholding West Virginia and Idaho laws over Title IX and equal-protection challenges.
Chicago builds the nation’s largest community air-monitoring network, 277 sensors citywide, under a 2023 settlement of a civil rights complaint over a polluting scrap shredder.
Senator Wyden warns the administration is preparing to fast-track the removal of more than 500 unaccompanied migrant children, a year after a judge halted a similar overnight attempt.
A Tennessee judge temporarily blocks the state from handing immigration enforcement the names of about 400 chronically ill undocumented children before a law forcing the disclosure takes effect.
The Supreme Court clears the way for Trump to physically block migrants at the border from setting foot on U.S. soil and seeking asylum.
A federal judge blocks a Justice Department subpoena seeking transgender youth’s names and medical records, finding it a likely effort to identify and target them.
The Supreme Court refuses to let a Texas death row inmate present intellectual-disability evidence that could bar his execution, though state prosecutors backed his appeal.
A one-year Republican ban on Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood expires July 5 with no extension, after the Senate parliamentarian capped it at one year and the GOP concedes it lacks the votes.
Secretary of State Rubio orders a Colombian asylum-seeker detained for criticizing a Trump-endorsed candidate in Colombia’s election, calling his advocacy a threat to U.S. foreign policy.
A Trump-appointed judge orders the Milwaukee mosque president freed from ICE detention, finding his arrest may have been retaliation for his pro-Palestinian advocacy.
The State Department will permanently end PEPFAR HIV funding for South Africa, home to the world’s largest HIV population, tying the cut to political demands including ending affirmative action.
U.S. forces kill three more in an eastern Pacific boat attack, pushing the campaign’s death toll to at least 211 since September with no trafficking evidence released.
The State Department conditions billions in African health aid on real-time access to citizens’ medical data, with Uganda granting seven years of system logins.
The FTC and four states sue the leading transgender-health provider group, alleging it falsely marketed gender-affirming care for minors as medically necessary.
The Justice Department joins a conservative legal group’s suit to dismantle Evanston’s first-in-the-nation reparations program, calling race-based eligibility unconstitutional.
A Tennessee law drafted with Stephen Miller will report roughly 400 chronically ill immigrant children to ICE if they keep getting lifesaving state-funded care past June 30.
The Education Department moves special education oversight to HHS and school civil rights enforcement to the Justice Department, advancing its own elimination.
A federal judge blocks most of Idaho’s law making transgender bathroom use a crime, two weeks before it would have taken effect.
HHS Secretary Kennedy overrules his own department’s medical reviewer to keep a symptom-free cruise passenger locked in a federal quarantine facility against her doctors’ recommendation.
Appeals court upholds ruling that Alabama’s nitrogen gas executions are unconstitutional, but the state says Thursday’s execution is proceeding anyway.
Federal appeals court calls Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution method intolerably cruel but lets Thursday’s execution proceed.
New Jersey Governor Sherrill says federal officials blocked her from speaking to Delaney Hall detainees during a tightly controlled tour.
ICE facility in Louisiana reports its second detainee death in two months, days after an inspection found filthy conditions and excessive force.
Milwaukee mosque leader has lost 30 pounds in immigration detention as lawyers say guards disrupt his prayers and deny halal food.
Central African Republic agrees to take U.S. deportees from other countries, the latest African deal that rights groups say sidesteps court protections.
Defense Secretary Hegseth cuts the Pentagon’s recognized faiths from 211 to 31, dropping Unitarian Universalists, humanists, and pagans.
ICE releases Guatemalan asylum seeker Andrea Pedro-Francisco after four months without surgery for a dangerous ovarian cyst, following a senator’s call to DHS.
DHS watchdog finds staff at a Louisiana ICE jail used a banned chokehold and stabbed a detainee with a pen amid unsafe, unsanitary conditions.
New Jersey Governor Sherrill says ICE is still barring her from Delaney Hall, where detainees report inhumane conditions during an ongoing hunger strike.
New Jersey sues GEO Group in state court after inspectors were allowed into only the food service areas of the Newark migrant jail where detainees report tuberculosis and untreated illness.
Detainees at New Jersey’s largest ICE jail reach day 10 of a hunger strike demanding freedom, as Jeffries tours the facility and calls for it to be shut down.
Federal appeals court rules Hegseth’s transgender military ban unconstitutional and blocks the discharge of active-duty troops, calling it driven by animus.
Judge orders the pregnant Ghanaian woman and her disabled son out of detention at Dulles, and the government flies them home under a five-year reentry bar.
