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Four House Democrats on Friday demanded that DHS turn over records to local prosecutors investigating the February death of Rohingya refugee Nurul Amin Shah Alam, whose body was found in Buffalo after border patrol agents left him outside…
2026-09-04 · 5 MIN READTennessee has scheduled the execution of Christa Pike for September 30, which would be the state's first execution of a woman since 1819, according to Austin Sarat, associate dean of the faculty and William Nelson Cromwell professor of…
2026-09-04 · 4 MIN READThe California City immigration detention center, California's largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility housing roughly 1,600 people, has prohibited all contact visits since opening one year ago under the Trump administration,…
2026-09-04 · 4 MIN READThe U.S. Education Department published the 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection on its website this week, about six months past the agency's own deadline for releasing the data. The dataset, drawn from nearly every public school in the…
2026-09-04 · 6 MIN READCandidates from both parties are attacking Flock Safety's AI-powered license-plate cameras as the devices emerge as a 2026 midterm campaign issue. Wisconsin gubernatorial hopefuls want to limit them, Pennsylvania candidates support a ban,…
2026-09-04 · 3 MIN READThe Bank of Canada unveiled a new vertical $20 banknote on Thursday bearing the portrait of King Charles III, the first new monarch to appear on Canadian currency in more than 70 years. Governor Tiff Macklem said the polymer note will…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READFormer U.S. Pardon Attorney Elizabeth Oyer filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Justice Department and Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging her March 2025 firing was unlawful and tied to her refusal to recommend restoring actor…
2026-09-03 · 3 MIN READMore than 50 legal organizations, firms and law offices have launched the Children's Due Process Project to free migrant children held in US immigration custody, the Guardian reported Thursday. The attorneys are filing habeas corpus…
2026-09-03 · 4 MIN READThe Tucson Police Department confirmed Tuesday that a shooting early Monday outside Venture-N, a gay bar in Tucson, was a targeted hate crime against the LGBTQIA+ community, according to a department news release. Vincent Anthony…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READHeba Gowayed, a resettlement policy expert who has consulted for the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, wrote in a Guardian opinion piece published Tuesday that 10,258 refugees admitted through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program in…
2026-09-02 · 5 MIN READThe Vermont Department of Corrections has agreed to provide federal immigration detainees in its prisons with better access to language interpretation, legal counsel and court hearings, settling a discrimination complaint that the Vermont…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READA professional MMA event at Orlando's Kia Center drew condemnation from Florida officials after fighter Paul Miller used an antisemitic slur against opponent Ben Azoulay and appeared to give at least two Nazi salutes from the ring. A…
2026-09-02 · 3 MIN READThe Trump administration will not meet its Sept. 4 deadline for publishing state citizenship lists ahead of the November midterm election, according to recent court filings in two separate lawsuits. Department of Justice attorneys told…
2026-09-03 · 6 MIN READSenatobia, Mississippi's board of aldermen voted unanimously on Tuesday to fire Police Chief Harold Vanderford after it was reported that he regularly used racist slurs against Black people in his text messages. The town, about 40% Black,…
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Hundreds of people lined up outside Miami's immigration court on Tuesday under a new Trump administration scheduling tactic — "mega master" calendar hearings — that places more than 100 cases on individual dockets that previously averaged…
2026-09-02 · 6 MIN READU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reported that Lianyong Wei, a 51-year-old Chinese immigrant, was pronounced dead hours after being booked into immigration detention at a Saipan facility run by the Northern Mariana Islands…
2026-09-02 · 4 MIN READWhen Texas's new fiscal year begins on Tuesday, the state's hospitals expect to lose $27 million a day in additional Medicaid funding. The shortfall stems from a Trump administration decision to withhold federal approval for about $9.8…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READA Guardian opinion column published Tuesday compared the White House ballroom under construction to Confederate monuments, characterizing the project as a "monstrous architectural legacy" that should be repudiated. The column, written by…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READPEN America released a report Tuesday finding that US public libraries are "at breaking point" because of political interference, harassment and ideological censorship. The 16-page study, "Out of Circulation: Expanding Censorship in Public…
2026-09-01 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Postal Service could "derail" the midterm election if it continues rushing out "untested" technology as part of President Trump's push to restrict mail-in voting, according to a whistleblower report released Tuesday by Sen.…
2026-09-01 · 5 MIN READOfficials in Tarrant County, Texas, are scheduled to vote Tuesday on a proposal to use dozens fewer polling locations than in previous elections, according to The Associated Press. The plan has drawn protests from Democrats who say the…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READSeven parents in a Philadelphia suburb have filed a federal lawsuit against the Lower Merion School District, arguing that a district technology policy under which parents cannot opt their children out of internet-connected devices at…
2026-08-31 · 3 MIN READA Cedartown, Georgia, police officer has been placed on administrative leave after fatally shooting a family's pet baby donkey named HeeHaw during a predawn search at the owners' Rockmart property. The animal's owner, Hannah Israel, wrote…
2026-08-31 · 4 MIN READOlivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields festival raised $20 million for women's well-being at a Saturday benefit concert in Irvine, California, the Associated Press reported. Proceeds were directed to 10 nonprofit partners including Planned…
2026-08-30 · 3 MIN READA federal judge in San Jose, California ruled Friday that the Trump administration is unconstitutionally using deportation powers to silence critics of Israel's war in Gaza. U.S. District Judge Noël Wise struck down portions of the federal…
2026-08-29 · 4 MIN READAbbas Alawieh, a co-founder of the 2024 'uncommitted' movement that drew more than 700,000 Democratic primary voters to pressure the party over the war in Gaza, won the Democratic nomination for a state senate seat in Dearborn, Michigan,…
2026-08-29 · 3 MIN READThe Los Angeles Police Department on Friday released body-camera footage showing officers beating and restraining a handcuffed man, Jose Carlos Hoyoz-Munoz, in the minutes before he was found dead in a Van Nuys jail cell on July 15. Mayor…
2026-08-29 · 3 MIN READWyoming Attorney General Keith Kautz is investigating how two U.S. Department of Justice officials monitored poll workers and observed voters in the state's most populous county during the Aug. 18 primary, a spokesperson for Republican…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth is considering summoning hundreds of senior military personnel back to Marine Corps Base Quantico this year for a second address, according to U.S. officials. The potential gathering would echo last…
2026-08-28 · 3 MIN READThe New Orleans Roman Catholic archdiocese has begun distributing its $305 million bankruptcy settlement to clergy abuse survivors, with individual payouts capped at roughly $641,000 under a points-based system that survivors say insults…
2026-08-28 · 4 MIN READA group of U.S. senators led by Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada asked Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday to cancel its plan to outfit officers with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks. In a letter to…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READContractors working for U.S. Customs and Border Protection have begun building a stretch of border wall in southern Arizona along part of the Tohono O'odham Nation's reservation, the Associated Press reported. The project advances one of…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READCalifornia lawmakers are weighing liability caps, higher evidence standards and other changes as public entities confront billions of dollars in childhood sexual abuse claims. The legislative session ends Aug. 31. Los Angeles County has…
2026-08-27 · 4 MIN READHouse Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries drew a left-wing backlash this week for holding a private meeting with Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and outside adviser, as Democrats head into midterm elections with growing…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned Wednesday that automated license plate readers risk creating "a surveillance state" and called for new state laws to restrict the technology. The Republican governor said he is reviewing New Hampshire's…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READMeta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.7 billion (£12.26 billion) to settle claims by US states that its Facebook and Instagram platforms harmed children's mental health. The deal, announced Wednesday in federal court in Oakland,…
2026-08-26 · 3 MIN READA Department of Homeland Security official told Nevada election officials earlier this month that the agency's initial figure of roughly 16,000 noncitizens on the state's voter rolls was a 'ceiling,' with each match still requiring manual…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READThe Legal Accountability Center filed bar complaints on Tuesday against U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two subordinates, alleging the prosecutors violated ethical duties by seeking federal charges against six Democratic lawmakers for…
2026-08-25 · 4 MIN READThe wife of an active-duty U.S. Army sergeant was deported Monday to her native Honduras, according to her family and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The Associated Press identified her as Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo and…
2026-08-25 · 3 MIN READRobert White Jr., the Democratic nominee for the District of Columbia's nonvoting U.S. House delegate seat, unveiled a 'Defend DC' strategy Monday to counter congressional interventions in the district's affairs by recruiting city…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READTarget removed a children's Halloween costume from sale after social media users said the outfit resembled a racist caricature used in minstrel shows. The retailer apologized in a statement, saying the costume "is offensive and should…
2026-08-24 · 3 MIN READThe State Department is preparing to revoke the business and tourism visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are seeking asylum in the United States — a move that would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in…
2026-08-24 · 4 MIN READMore than a dozen major US companies that publicly backed the Voting Rights Act continue to fund state-level political organizations working to weaken the legislation, according to research by the nonpartisan Center for Political…
2026-08-24 · 4 MIN READThe Department of Homeland Security has published plans to spend up to $20 million outfitting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers with electric-shock gloves by March 2027, according to procurement documents reviewed by The…
2026-08-24 · 4 MIN READThe White House declined to comment on the possibility that President Trump would declare a national emergency over US elections when asked by The Guardian, framing the dispute around pending legislation instead. Since a July primetime…
2026-08-23 · 3 MIN READTwo Phoenix police officers were fired and arrested Saturday on charges including aggravated assault and kidnapping following an unreported Aug. 5 traffic stop in which they physically assaulted a man and a woman and used a Taser on them,…
2026-08-23 · 3 MIN READThe Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber 825 million euros (about $964 million) on Friday, finding that the ride-hailing company used automated software to suspend driver accounts — sometimes permanently — without any human review to…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READThe BackBlack initiative has directed more than $12 million toward Black-led nonprofits over the past three years, founder Floyd Jones told the Associated Press. The August campaign invites online donation platforms to center typically…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READImmigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Assim Alkhawaja, a 53-year-old San Diego coffee shop owner, in February as he dropped off two Lyft passengers at Camp Pendleton, the sprawling military base in San Diego County. Alkhawaja…
2026-08-21 · 5 MIN READA New York City Council oversight hearing held Tuesday examined concerns about Mayor Zohran Mamdani's rollout of a 'pied-à-terre' tax on second homes worth more than $5 million (£3.7 million) or condos and co-ops worth more than $1…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READThe Justice Department aims to deploy roughly 1,000 election monitors at polling places for November's midterm elections, a target that voting rights experts and former department officials said the agency is unlikely to reach. Harmeet…
2026-08-21 · 3 MIN READFlock Safety's automated license-plate cameras have been vandalized in at least 36 states, according to NPR's review of local news reports, as opposition to the surveillance technology has grown into what one civil-liberties analyst called…
2026-08-21 · 4 MIN READJosé Mejía Hernandez, 45, was hospitalized with a brain injury and severe bruising after being arrested by ICE agents in Arlington, Virginia on August 11, according to medical records and his lawyers. The Department of Homeland Security…
2026-08-20 · 3 MIN READTenants across multiple U.S. cities are facing eviction over add-on utility fees — charges that can amount to hundreds of dollars a month and that many tenants did not know they owed when they signed their leases. A Guardian investigation…
2026-08-20 · 4 MIN READA coalition of 12 privacy and civil rights organizations filed a consumer complaint Wednesday asking Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown to investigate seven data brokers for allegedly collecting and selling Marylanders' geolocation…
2026-08-20 · 6 MIN READHarvard University has agreed to pay $53 million (£39 million) to settle class-action lawsuits from families who alleged the school mishandled the remains of loved ones donated to its medical school, according to a settlement proposed in a…
2026-08-19 · 3 MIN READFlorida and Alaska voters head to the polls Tuesday in primaries that will serve as early tests of Republican-led congressional redistricting efforts ahead of November's midterm elections, contests that could determine control of Congress…
2026-08-18 · 3 MIN READThe San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday to terminate contracts allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to train at a county-owned firing range near the Mexican border…
2026-08-18 · 3 MIN READWASHINGTON — A former Justice Department lawyer has alleged in a whistleblower disclosure that a Trump administration task force created to combat antisemitism pushed Ivy League universities toward settlements despite government…
2026-08-18 · 3 MIN READThe U.S. Department of Justice plans to send about 1,000 poll monitors to elections this fall, including primary contests in Florida and Wyoming on Tuesday. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon, who leads the Justice Department's…
2026-08-18 · 3 MIN READComedians Eric André and Clayton English have settled a 2022 lawsuit against Clayton County, Georgia, that accused county police of racially profiling Black passengers at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport through coercive…
2026-08-18 · 3 MIN READDisney's ABC has sued the Federal Communications Commission, alleging the agency's efforts to challenge its broadcast licenses and regulate the talk show 'The View' are illegal and an effort to quash speech the Trump administration finds…
2026-08-18 · 4 MIN READTwo counties and two cities sued the Trump administration Monday over FEMA's decision to condition national security funding on local governments adopting sweeping election procedures. The Brennan Center for Justice filed the lawsuit in…
2026-08-18 · 4 MIN READRep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is seeking her 12th term in Congress by running in a new district after Florida Republicans redrew the state's congressional map earlier this year, ahead of Tuesday's Florida primaries.
2026-08-17 · 3 MIN READThe Guardian's "Stateside with Kai and Carter" podcast released an episode August 17 examining Black families' reactions to the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, who was found dead days after being last seen at a beach near Ocean Springs,…
2026-08-17 · 3 MIN READRetired feedstore owner Anne Smull, a conservative in Lincoln, California, said she learned she can no longer vote for Rep. Kevin Kiley, the conservative who currently represents her in Congress. The Associated Press reported that…
2026-08-16 · 3 MIN READThe Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is calling the July handcuffing of a New Orleans journalist and a TV station attorney "outrageous," saying the detentions sent "a chilling message to members of the press and the public."…
2026-08-16 · 4 MIN READThe Democratic National Committee on Saturday approved two competing resolutions on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at its summer meeting in Austin, Texas — one calling to abolish the agency and another backing 'concrete reforms.'…
2026-08-15 · 3 MIN READThe National Park Service opened Honouliuli, the largest and longest-operating of Hawaiʻi's 17 known wartime detention sites, to public guided tours for the first time on July 18. The monthly pilot program runs through the end of 2026 with…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READA federal judge ruled Thursday that Idaho cannot prosecute doctors who perform abortions to protect a pregnant person's health or to prevent self-harm. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill, sitting in Boise, issued an 81-page decision…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READThe Guardian published a reader callout on August 14, 2026, asking Americans to share how they see the impact of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the country and daily life with the attacks' 25th anniversary approaching. Submissions are…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READMaisa Lopes Eliaser, the wife of a U.S. soldier, is back home after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers removed her from a deportation flight to her native Brazil mid-flight, she told The Associated Press. Eliaser had spent…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READHundreds of Navajos were recruited by the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II to create a code based on their then-unwritten language, a program that played a vital role in U.S. victories in the Pacific War. On Aug. 14, a crowd is…
2026-08-14 · 4 MIN READA divided federal appeals court ruled 2-1 on Friday that the Justice Department may proceed with a subpoena against a provider of gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth, holding that President Donald Trump's stated goal of…
2026-08-14 · 4 MIN READAkron, Ohio, officials on Friday fired the police officer who shot and killed 15-year-old Jazmir Tucker in November 2024 and announced the city has agreed to pay $4.75 million to the teen's family in a settlement that still requires a…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READA detainee at the Adams County detention center in Natchez, Mississippi — an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility operated by private contractor CoreCivic — alleges that a gas leak sickened people held there and that staff denied…
2026-08-14 · 4 MIN READMichigan schools physically restrain students or place them in seclusion thousands of times a year, according to a Bridge Michigan report published by the Associated Press. Many of the students affected are children with disabilities. The…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READMichigan schools physically restrain or seclude students thousands of times a year, with many of those students having disabilities, according to reporting by Bridge Michigan. The practice continues nearly a decade after the state enacted…
2026-08-14 · 3 MIN READThe parents of Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old Mississippi college student found dead after a July 4 boating trip, used an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Atlanta on Thursday to call for a federal…
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