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Human Rights

A federal judge blocks a USDA plan to collect SNAP data for immigration enforcement two months after the agency threatened states.

The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to reinstate its ban on the ‘X’ passport marker five months after a judge blocked it as discriminatory.

The Justice Dept. again asks the Supreme Court to end Venezuelan TPS, accusing a lower court of disregarding its previous order.

ICE releases Cincinnati imam Ayman Soliman and reinstates his asylum two months after detaining him based on a disputed terror designation.

Sen. Bernie Sanders becomes the first U.S. senator to declare Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, citing a U.N. panel’s conclusion from two days prior.

NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams and 11 other officials are arrested protesting illegal ICE detentions one month after a judge barred them at the same location.

A Trump-appointed judge blocks the deportation of 600 Guatemalan children, ruling the administration’s family reunification claim lacks evidence.

Six months after his arrest in Trump’s immigration crackdown, an immigration judge orders pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil deported to Algeria or Syria.

The CDC denies employees with disabilities the option of telework as a reasonable accommodation in an apparent violation of federal law.

Eleven West Africans deported from the U.S. claim they are still detained in Ghana, directly contradicting Ghanaian officials’ recent statements.

Portland cites ICE for violating its facility permit 25 times in 10 months by holding people beyond an agreed 12-hour limit.

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.

Trump announced U.S. forces sank a previously undisclosed third boat off Venezuela, escalating a naval campaign that raises war crime concerns.

Data reveals ICE violated its own policy by holding hundreds of immigrants for days at a Massachusetts office not meant for long-term detention.

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.

The Trump administration directs the NPS to remove slavery exhibits, including the famed ‘Scourged Back’ photo, under an order to purge ‘negative’ history.

U.S. removes 14 men to Ghana, creating chaos as lawyers and officials give conflicting reports on their whereabouts.

Trump orders a second deadly strike on an alleged drug boat in international waters, continuing a controversial policy of lethal force.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio signals support for Israeli annexation to counter Palestinian statehood recognition, directly contradicting internal White House warnings about regional fallout.

A federal judge accused the Trump administration of using Ghana to make an ‘end run around’ court orders protecting African immigrants from deportation.

UC Berkeley provided the Trump administration the names of 160 students and staff for a federal investigation into campus antisemitism.

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s HUD from awarding housing grants under new rules targeting sanctuary jurisdictions and transgender-inclusive policies.

Taliban leaders claimed a prisoner swap agreement with U.S. envoy Adam Boehler in Kabul despite Trump’s recent travel ban on Afghans

Lawyers: Trump arrest surge packs migrants into bedless cells, creating a ‘humanitarian crisis’ in a suburban Virginia office park.

A federal appeals court overturns a judge’s order, clearing the Trump administration to deport 500,000 migrants admitted under a parole program.

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.

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.

A new doxxing website and far-right influencers are leading a harassment campaign against people accused of celebrating or mocking Charlie Kirk’s death.

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.

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.

New Mexico becomes the first state to offer universal free childcare, expanding a program credited with reducing poverty.

A U.S. appeals court reversed a lower court’s order, allowing the Trump administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood.

Two federal judges blocked an Education and HHS Dept. policy issued in July that required immigration verification for families to access Head Start.

A federal judge in Arizona blocked the Trump administration from deporting 69 Guatemalan and Honduran children.

A Trump-appointed judge confronts the Justice Dept. for falsely claiming families requested the Labor Day deportation of dozens of Guatemalan children.

A divided Supreme Court permits a transgender South Carolina student to use the boys’ restroom, ruling the state failed to justify an emergency stay.

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.

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.

Activists continue their 44-year protest outside the White House despite the Trump administration dismantling their shelter on Sunday.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thousands march in Washington to end the ‘D.C. occupation’ during the fourth week of the city’s federal takeover.

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.

The Trump administration will deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Eswatini under a new deal with African nations to accept foreign deportees.

A Justice Dept. appeals board affirms a new ICE policy of mandatory detention without bond hearings for millions of undocumented immigrants.

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.

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.

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