Hegseth prays for “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy” at Pentagon Christian worship service on day 27 of the Iran war.
Federal judge orders Trump administration to return a deported DACA recipient to the U.S. within seven days, calling her removal a flagrant violation of her protections.
Plainclothes ICE agents pin a Guatemalan mother to the ground at San Francisco’s airport as her young daughter watches, refusing bystanders’ demands to show badges.
Trump installs replica of Baltimore Columbus statue toppled during 2020 racial justice protests on White House grounds, calls Columbus “the original American hero.”
UN Ambassador Waltz calls Iran’s power plants valid military targets as Trump’s 48-hour ultimatum clock runs and Israel launches wide-scale strikes.
Justice Department moves to permanently dismiss all federal charges against two former Louisville officers in the Breonna Taylor case, six years after the fatal raid.
ICE jails a Milwaukee woman a second time despite no criminal record in 36 years and a judge’s finding that she qualifies for permanent residency.
HHS launches investigations into 13 states that require health insurers to cover abortion, executing a strategy the Heritage Foundation proposed in Project 2025.
A 19-year-old Mexican migrant dies of a presumed suicide at a Florida ICE detention center that the Biden administration had restricted over medical care failures.
Spanish-language reporter in Tennessee is released on $10,000 bond after more than two weeks jailed by ICE, with her attorneys alleging First Amendment retaliation.
Protestant and Catholic clergy ask a federal judge to order pastoral access to immigrants held at the Minneapolis ICE facility that was the center of Operation Metro Surge.
Georgia charges a woman with felony murder after police say she took pills to induce an abortion, in one of the first such cases since the state’s heartbeat law took effect.
Federal judge vacates RFK Jr.’s declaration targeting gender-affirming care, ruling HHS exceeded its authority and calling the approach “break it and see.”
Trump administration installs a statue of Declaration signer Caesar Rodney, who enslaved 200 people, in downtown D.C. after it was removed from Delaware during the 2020 racial justice protests.
State Department memo proposes cutting HIV treatment for 1.3 million Zambians unless the country gives U.S. companies preferential access to its copper and lithium mines.
U.S. transfers sacred Apache site Oak Flat to mining company partly owned by Chinese state entity, ending seven decades of federal protection.
Leqaa Kordia, Paterson woman jailed by ICE for over a year after attending pro-Palestinian protests near Columbia, released on $100,000 bond.
Human Rights Watch says El Salvador arbitrarily detains and disappears Salvadorans deported from the U.S., with only 10.5% convicted of violent crimes.
Afghan man who aided U.S. Special Forces and was awaiting asylum dies in ICE custody in Dallas less than 24 hours after eight masked agents detained him while taking his children to school.
Federal judge temporarily blocks termination of deportation protections for more than 1,000 Somalis, days before the status was set to expire.
Federal order seeks to expand proposed Arizona ICE detention center 50% beyond its 513-person capacity, as immigration detention deaths hit highest level since 2004.
Colorado Democrats demand answers after data shows ICE held detainees for up to 39 days in holding cells with no beds, no toilets, and a 72-hour limit.
Fourth Circuit becomes first federal appeals court to uphold a state ban on Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery, citing last year’s Supreme Court transgender ruling 70 times.
Sen. Hawley introduces bill to revoke FDA approval for mifepristone, the drug used in 63% of all U.S. abortions, citing a study whose findings the FDA disputes by a factor of 22.
VA announces plan to force homeless veterans into guardianship proceedings that could place them in involuntary mental health treatment.
Texas excludes every Islamic school from its $1 billion voucher program while approving Christian, Catholic and Jewish schools, prompting a religious discrimination lawsuit.
State investigation reveals Bridgeport, CT, officer having a panic attack took the ambulance called for a man police shot in the back, who died in surgery after a 12-minute delay.
Speaker Johnson declines to condemn GOP members who said Muslims “don’t belong” in America, calling their remarks “popular sentiment” about Sharia law during the Iran war.
Rubio designates Afghanistan as second country labeled a state sponsor of wrongful detention, enabling sanctions over Taliban’s imprisonment of Americans.
Trump tells House Republicans the SAVE Act will “guarantee the midterms,” demands expanded bill with mail-in ballot restrictions and transgender sports ban before he signs any legislation.
US military kills six more people on a suspected drug boat in the Eastern Pacific, bringing SOUTHCOM’s total to 156 killed since September with no evidence made public.
Federal judge orders Portland ICE officers to stop using tear gas after chemicals from their facility seeped into a nearby apartment building housing seniors, veterans, and disabled tenants.
U.S. military investigators believe American forces likely struck the Iranian girls’ school that killed 150 children on day 1 of the war.
House Speaker Johnson calls Islam a “misguided religion” while defending U.S. airstrikes that have killed more than 1,000 Iranian civilians including 165 children in a girls’ school.
ProPublica sues Education Department for hiding civil rights records as open discrimination investigations nearly doubled to 24,000 under Secretary McMahon.
U.S. sanctions Rwanda’s military and top commanders for backing rebels in eastern Congo, accusing Kigali of violating a peace deal Trump brokered in December.
New York attorney general orders NYU Langone to resume transgender youth care, telling the hospital its shutdown was “self-imposed” because no federal rule required it.
Leaked database shows National Park Service flagged hundreds of exhibits on slavery, civil rights and climate change under Trump order banning content that “disparages” Americans.
Melania Trump chairs UN Security Council meeting on children in conflict two days after Iranian envoy says U.S. strikes killed more than 100 schoolgirls.
Supreme Court orders California schools to tell parents when children change names or pronouns, bypassing oral argument on its emergency docket.
EEOC rules federal agencies can restrict transgender employees from using bathrooms matching their gender identity, overturning 2015 protection.
Mistakenly deported Babson College student refuses government flight from Honduras after learning feds plan to detain and re-deport her upon arrival.
Federal judge extends order blocking ICE from arresting Minnesota refugees, calls administration policy a “dystopian nightmare.”
DHS admits to Congress it deported 86 DACA recipients protected under U.S. law, claiming 241 of 261 detained had “criminal histories” but providing no details on charges.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to end Temporary Protected Status for Syrian nationals, accusing lower courts of “persistent disregard” for the court’s prior rulings on TPS terminations.
Treasury blocks Venezuela from paying Maduro’s legal fees less than three hours after approving them, lawyer says move violates Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
Mostly blind Myanmar refugee who spoke no English found dead in Buffalo five days after Border Patrol agents dropped him at a Tim Hortons without notifying anyone.
US embassy will offer passport services inside illegal West Bank settlement for the first time, breaking longstanding policy as Palestinians call it a violation of international law.
Capitol Police arrest Rep. Omar’s State of the Union guest Aliya Rahman for standing silently during the speech, weeks after federal agents dragged her from her vehicle in Minneapolis and injured both shoulders.
Supreme Court unanimously rejects GEO Group’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit alleging its Aurora immigration detainees were forced to work for $1 a day, sending the case back for trial.
