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.
Civil rights groups sue ICE over conditions at the country’s largest immigration detention camp, in Texas, where three detainees have died and inspectors logged nearly 50 violations.
ICE arrests six protesters outside Newark’s Delaney Hall as detainees report being pepper-sprayed and beaten inside during a 300-person hunger strike.
CBP detains pregnant Ghanaian woman and her 4-year-old son at Dulles for over a week after she arrived on a tourist visa for the boy’s medical care.
U.S. kills two in second Pacific drug-boat strike in two days, raising campaign death toll to at least 196.
Ten ICE detainees have died by suicide since Trump returned to office, AP investigation finds, as detention population spiked 50% to 60,000.
ICE denies Governor Sherrill entry to Newark’s Delaney Hall and pepper-sprays protesters on Memorial Day, fourth day of 300-detainee hunger strike.
Pope Leo’s first encyclical condemns AI militarization with Pentagon-blacklisted Anthropic co-founder Olah beside him at the Vatican.
HUD strips emotional support animals from disability protections in housing, reversing first Trump administration guidance and threatening thousands of tenants with eviction.
USCIS forces visa holders seeking green cards to leave the U.S. and apply from abroad, ending longstanding practice used by roughly 1 million annually.
Treasury lifts sanctions on UN Palestinian rights rapporteur Francesca Albanese a week after federal judge ruled they violated her First Amendment rights.
Chula Vista police sought court order to remove guns from San Diego mosque shooter’s home 16 months before attack, citing Nazi idolization.
Nine doctors warn 23-year-old Guatemalan woman in El Paso ICE detention urgently needs ovarian surgery she was scheduled for days before Operation Metro Surge arrest.
Jewish woman married to Black man sues whites-only Arkansas Ozarks community for denying her land purchase under Fair Housing Act.
ICE tightens access to overcrowded Arizona holding facility on second surprise oversight visit, requiring 24-hour notice for congressional staff and barring Mesa councilmember.
Iowa Gov. Reynolds signs laws requiring in-person abortion pill prescriptions, parental consent for HPV vaccines, and shielding providers who deny care for religious or moral reasons.
Colorado Supreme Court orders Children’s Hospital to resume gender-affirming care for 800 minors after hospital cut access citing federal funding threats.
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Trump administration raises refugee ceiling from 7,500 to 17,500 to admit more white South Africans while keeping other vulnerable populations excluded.
Texas AG Paxton forces Texas Children’s Hospital to open nation’s first ‘detransition clinic,’ pay $10 million, and fire five doctors over gender-affirming care.
911 call obtained this week reveals ICE pepper-sprayed 47 detainees in February in enclosed Mesa room designed for two dozen, sending one detainee to the ER.
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration’s sanctions against UN expert on Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese, finding likely First Amendment violation over her criticism of Israel.
US deportations to El Salvador nearly double to 5,033 in first three months of 2026 as Bukele aligns with Trump immigration agenda.
Sixth Circuit becomes third appeals court to block mandatory detention for longtime undocumented residents, deepening 3-2 split likely headed to Supreme Court.
ProPublica documents 79 children harmed by federal tear gas and pepper spray during Trump immigration crackdown across multiple cities.
Tennessee passes US House map dismantling state’s last majority-Black district eight days after Supreme Court Voting Rights Act ruling.
ATF proposes rule requiring buyers to mark biological sex on firearms forms, exposing transgender Americans to perjury charges.
GAO finds Bureau of Prisons closes 77% of sexual abuse allegations against staff inconclusively as annual complaint rate doubles to 857.
Education Department probes Smith College for admitting trans women, citing Title IX single-sex exception.
Federal judge blocks Trump termination of Temporary Protected Status for 3,235 Yemenis three days before May 4 deadline.
Flock surveillance employees accessed cameras in children’s gymnastics room and Jewish community center pool during sales demos, public records reveal, as company expands across U.S. police departments.
DHS environmental waivers allowed border wall construction to destroy 60-foot section of 1,000-year-old Hia-ced O’odham intaglio in Arizona wildlife refuge.
Federal appeals court strikes down Trump’s Day 1 “invasion” order banning asylum at the southern border, ruling only Congress can rewrite the law.
Justice Department reinstates federal executions, adds firing squad, and moves to shorten death row appeals and clemency petitions.
Trump FY2027 budget earmarks $7.5 million for ICE smart glasses with real-time biometric identification of migrants in the field.
Federal judge releases Boulder firebomber’s wife and five children held nearly a year in Texas family detention, finding political targeting by guilt-by-association.
