U.S. removes 120 Iranians in rare deal with Tehran despite UN warning of execution surge, including some with valid residency permits who agreed to leave amid Trump deportation crackdown.
Education Department orders Fairfax County schools to investigate abortion claims after already withholding millions over transgender bathroom policy, threatening district with total loss of $167 million in federal funding.
Reagan-appointed judge rules Trump officials illegally revoked visas and arrested pro-Palestinian students to chill free speech, revealing threatening note his chambers received saying ‘Trump has pardons and tanks.’
EEOC closes disparate impact cases examining neutral-seeming policies that disproportionately harm protected groups, forcing workers to pursue AI bias and systemic discrimination claims in court without agency backing.
Education Department orders Minnesota to strip titles from transgender athletes and issue apology letters to competitors, threatening federal funding cuts over state policy allowing participation in girls’ sports.
Trump administration’s unpublished housing rules could strip aid from 4 million people through work requirements and two-year time limits, while kicking out 20,000 mixed-status families HUD admits will choose homelessness over family separation.
HUD fires two attorneys who exposed Trump administration dismantling fair housing discrimination enforcement, explicitly citing their whistleblower interviews as reason for termination in violation of federal protection laws.
ACLU sues DHS for masked federal agents arresting DC residents based on perceived Latino appearance six weeks after Trump declared crime emergency.
California now allows doctors to anonymously mail abortion pills to shield them from Texas lawsuits as FDA review threatens access.
Trump appeals to Supreme Court to overturn 150-year understanding of 14th Amendment, claiming birthright citizenship was “mistaken.”
Federal judge extends block on deportation of 70 Honduran and Guatemalan children after finding Trump’s reunification claims false.
ICE officer relieved of duties after throwing Ecuadorian woman to floor following her husband’s arrest at Manhattan courthouse.
Sixteen states sue HHS after agency threatens to strip $35 million in sex ed funding over lessons mentioning transgender students.
Trump orders federal prosecutors to seek death penalty in every eligible DC case despite city’s 44-year ban on capital punishment.
Portland State study finds Trump’s spending bill threatens $530 million in federal funding for Northwest tribes’ water, housing and climate programs.
Hegseth keeps Medals of Honor for 20 soldiers who participated in 1890 Wounded Knee massacre after Austin-ordered review panel recommended retention.
Planned Parenthood halts Wisconsin abortion services after appeals court lifts injunction blocking Trump’s Medicaid funding ban.
Days before meeting with Netanyahu, Trump privately promised Arab leaders at the UN he would not allow Israel to annex the West Bank.
ICE orders the immediate deportation of a journalist arrested for covering a protest, citing a disputed 13-year-old case.
The Education Dept. moves to strip $24M from three major school districts, targeting their policies supporting transgender and Black students.
Texas Gov. Abbott signs a “bathroom bill” with the nation’s highest fines, forcing transgender people to use facilities matching their sex at birth.
Trump creates the novel “domestic terrorist organization” label for the Antifa movement via executive order.
An ICE official defended the agency’s use of force and claimed activists were inciting non-compliance eight days after an officer killed an immigrant in Chicago.
The CDC backtracks on a remote work ban for disabled employees four days after a union called the new HHS policy a civil rights violation.
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.
