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A retired University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor who received a $313 trespassing fine for walking his dogs along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Shorewood, Wis., has appealed the case, arguing that Wisconsin law entitles the public to…
4 MIN READAttorneys for the president of Wisconsin's largest mosque say he has lost 30 pounds and is being denied basic medical care for diabetes while detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal…
3 MIN READA 43-year-old man from Georgia died June 4 at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana, marking the second death at the facility in less than two months. The facility had been cited in a recent inspection for…
3 MIN READThe Taxpayer Inspector General reported Monday that the IRS provided addresses for nearly 47,000 people to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement under a data-sharing agreement, but that the matching process was inconsistent and…
3 MIN READTrump administration border czar Tom Homan said Monday he has reviewed a plan to deploy a surge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to New York City, threatening to send 'more ICE agents than you've ever seen' in what he…
3 MIN READAn estimated 206 Afrikaner refugees have resettled in Ohio under the Trump administration's program for white South Africans, but they have encountered major obstacles from state driving laws that require $500 and up to nine months to…
3 MIN READA 28-year-old Illinois woman has filed a lawsuit against Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Hoffman Estates, alleging the Catholic-affiliated facility denied her a standard medication for an ectopic pregnancy, leading to a ruptured…
4 MIN READA D.C. Superior Court judge dismissed a breach of contract lawsuit against musician Chuck Redd on Friday, ruling that the Kennedy Center's suit violated Washington's Anti-SLAPP law. Redd had canceled a Christmas Eve performance after the…
3 MIN READThe Food and Drug Administration has launched a safety study of the abortion pill mifepristone, a step administration officials said could lead to restrictions on how the drug is distributed and used. The study, which uses the agency’s…
4 MIN READNew Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill is facing intensifying backlash from immigrant-rights advocates and protesters who say her administration dispatched state police in riot gear to suppress demonstrations at the Delaney Hall immigration…
4 MIN READActing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director David Venturella has issued a memo ordering the agency to stop reporting and investigating deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release, rescinding a Biden-era…
3 MIN READRuby Duncan, a welfare-rights activist who led a 1971 protest into Caesars Palace that halted gambling and later founded the community organization Operation Life, died April 26 in Las Vegas at age 93, her family confirmed.
3 MIN READThe Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Federal Communications Commission's authority to levy fines through in-house proceedings, ruling 8-1 against wireless carriers AT&T and Verizon in a case that tested the constitutional right to a…
3 MIN READA federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a series of Trump administration immigration policies, ruling that the government must resume processing asylum applications and green card petitions from citizens of 39 countries.
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Detainees at Florida's 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigration detention center said guards denied them food and clean water for several days this week unless they signed documents written in English that they did not understand, according to an…
3 MIN READSavneet Talwar, a tenured art therapy professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, was suspended from teaching and placed under investigation after a student complained about an assigned case study that mentioned violence…
3 MIN READThe SAVE America Act, a sweeping Republican election overhaul that would have required proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, failed in the Senate on Thursday. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., acknowledged there were not…
4 MIN READThe U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division has launched investigations into 15 medical schools over allegations that their admissions processes may illegally use race as a factor, the department announced Thursday. The move…
4 MIN READFive Republican governors have issued proclamations renaming June to titles such as Nuclear Family Month, Strong Families Month and Fidelity Month, offering alternatives to the widely recognized LGBTQ+ Pride Month, according to the…
3 MIN READA Colorado appeals court on Thursday reversed homicide convictions against two paramedics who injected the sedative ketamine into Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after a police encounter in 2019. The court ordered new…
4 MIN READThe Ohio State University has agreed to pay $100 million to 279 former students who alleged campus doctor Richard Strauss sexually abused them, the university announced Wednesday. The settlement covers claimants from a period spanning 1978…
3 MIN READA wave of lawsuits and legislative efforts across the U.S. is pushing to restore statues of Confederate generals, Christopher Columbus, and other historical figures that were removed from public spaces during the 2020 protests against…
4 MIN READSeveral Jewish faculty members at Columbia University filed Equal Employment Opportunity Commission claims this week arguing that a $21 million antisemitism settlement fund, created as part of the university's deal with the Trump…
3 MIN READIn the small, diverse community of Winooski, Vermont, a school district of about 800 students has refused to comply with Trump administration policies on immigration enforcement and diversity programs — a stand that drew death threats,…
3 MIN READMore than 50 bills introduced across half of U.S. states in 2026 seek to restrict retailers from using personal data to set individualized prices, a practice researchers warn could let companies charge more during emergencies or to…
3 MIN READTed Turner, the media mogul who created CNN and built a broadcasting empire, and Jason Collins, the first openly gay NBA player, both died in May 2026, according to the Associated Press.
3 MIN READSupport for same-sex marriage among U.S. adults has dropped to 65%, down from 71% in 2022-2023, according to Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs survey released Wednesday. The percentage of Americans who view gay and lesbian relations as…
3 MIN READA Rutgers University graduation speaker was disinvited for pro-Palestinian social media posts, as campus free speech advocates warned that the move reflects a broader trend of universities canceling commencement speakers over controversial…
3 MIN READDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth stripped nine Navy officers — including all three women and two of four Black service members — from a promotion list last month, according to a person familiar with the matter, resulting in an all-male,…
4 MIN READLabour MP Jess Asato has filed a lawsuit at the High Court in London against Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, alleging that its Grok chatbot was designed without safeguards that allowed users to create fake sexualised…
4 MIN READA UK parliamentary bill that would impose fines on airlines for damaging or losing wheelchairs and failing disabled passengers passed its second reading in the House of Lords on Tuesday, with Paralympic champion Baroness Tanni…
3 MIN READDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked the appointment of nine Air Force colonels to one-star general and delayed the promotion of at least two dozen more senior officers, according to current and former U.S. officials. The moves have…
4 MIN READThe Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling and cleared the way for Alabama to use a congressional map that a three-judge panel had found "tainted by intentional race-based discrimination," a decision that will likely cost…
3 MIN READTennessee Republicans have eliminated the state's only Democratic, Black-majority congressional district, splitting Memphis's Black voters across three Republican-leaning seats in a redistricting that followed the U.S. Supreme Court's…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 2-1 on Monday to block the Trump administration from discharging transgender servicemembers who challenged the president’s ban, while allowing the government to deny future…
3 MIN READThe White House Correspondents’ Association has rescheduled its annual dinner for July 24, 2026, nearly seven weeks after a shooting during the April 25 gala forced its cancellation, WHCA President Weijia Jiang announced Tuesday. President…
3 MIN READBetty Brown, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, said King Charles III told her during a ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday that the scandal was a "dreadful thing" that "should never have happened." The…
4 MIN READNearly 300 immigrants detained at the Delaney Hall ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, have described spoiled food, inadequate medical care, and physical abuse in accounts smuggled to journalists, as a labor and hunger strike…
3 MIN READThe UK Home Office revoked the visas of US political commentators Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, blocking them from entering the country to speak at the SXSW London festival and a university event. The two said they were banned for…
3 MIN READMore than 120 civil society groups are issuing a travel warning to the 10 million potential visitors expected for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, cautioning them about the risk of detention, deportation, and arbitrary denial of entry as U.S.…
3 MIN READThe Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is proposing to halt its annual collection of employee demographic data and revoke a decades-old regulation that authorized employers to take voluntary steps to correct race and gender…
3 MIN READRep. Maxine Dexter said she was denied access to speak with pregnant minors at an Office of Refugee Resettlement facility in San Benito, Texas, during a late April visit, raising questions about the whereabouts of transferred children and…
3 MIN READThe killing of three people at a mosque in San Diego has renewed calls among Jewish and Muslim leaders to confront anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism as interconnected threats rather than competing grievances. In a commentary published by…
3 MIN READFamily visitation was partly restored at the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on Sunday after being suspended during a week of protests prompted by a detainee hunger and labor strike. New Jersey Governor…
3 MIN READThe Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a Black death row inmate from Mississippi who argued that racial discrimination tainted the selection of the jury that convicted him, in a 5-4 ruling that faulted a process in which 11 of the 12…
3 MIN READKyle Adler, a 36-year-old Chilean American, learned he was stolen from his biological mother as an infant and was adopted by an American family in 1990, the Associated Press reported. Earlier this year he reunited with his birth mother,…
4 MIN READDemocratic members of Congress who toured the Delaney Hall immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday described dire conditions inside the facility, asserting that detainees are participating in a hunger strike and…
3 MIN READA federal appeals court is giving former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil more time to fight the Trump administration’s efforts to deport him, extending a legal battle that has drawn attention over free speech and…
3 MIN READA Maine ballot initiative that would have required public schools to restrict access to bathrooms and sports based on the gender listed on a child's birth certificate has been removed from the November ballot, Secretary of State Shenna…
3 MIN READGov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Tuesday making it a crime to block someone from entering a house of worship or to act in a way that makes worshippers fear for their safety, and expressly authorizing police to establish 50-foot…
3 MIN READAttorneys for journalist Don Lemon argued Wednesday that a wave of recent findings of prosecutorial misconduct in grand jury proceedings warrants the unsealing of the secret transcripts that led to his indictment on federal civil rights…
3 MIN READChicago’s top federal prosecutor abandoned a closely watched case Thursday against four activists who protested outside a federal building during an immigration crackdown last year, after a judge highlighted allegations of grand jury…
4 MIN READBall State University will pay $225,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by Suzanne Swierc, a former employee who was fired after posting a critical comment about conservative activist Charlie Kirk on her private Facebook page, the…
3 MIN READOn May 26, 2026, Rep. Yvette Clarke, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, sent a letter to more than 250 major U.S. companies urging them to publicly condemn Republican‑led redistricting plans that would eliminate majority‑Black House…
3 MIN READA federal appeals court has put its ruling on hold, giving former Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident, extra time to challenge the Trump administration’s effort to deport him. Khalil was detained last year…
3 MIN READAn Associated Press investigation found an “alarming” spike in suicide deaths among people held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with at least 10 deaths since President Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025. AP reported…
3 MIN READA Democratic primary runoff in South Central Texas is drawing condemnation after party leaders and local Jewish leaders criticized candidate Maureen Galindo for remarks they said were antisemitic. Galindo, a housing activist and sex…
3 MIN READChicago’s top federal prosecutor dropped remaining charges against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown, after a judge scrutinized allegations of grand jury misconduct. U.S.…
3 MIN READAdvocates marked the 230th anniversary of Ona Judge’s escape from slavery on May 21, 1796, with events in Philadelphia and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In Philadelphia, a rally at the President’s House site emphasized keeping exhibits and…
3 MIN READRepublicans in several Southern states are moving quickly to redraw congressional district maps before the 2026 midterm elections, capitalizing on a recent Supreme Court ruling that weakened protections for minority voters under the…
3 MIN READRepublican leaders in Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana and South Carolina are moving quickly to redraw U.S. House districts before the 2026 midterm elections, citing a recent Supreme Court decision that weakens minority‑vote protections under…
4 MIN READBrittney Brown, a biologist at Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, has signed a $485,000 settlement after she was fired over a social media repost involving conservative activist Charlie Kirk after his death. The…
3 MIN READThe Trump administration announced Friday that most foreign nationals with legal status in the U.S. who want to become lawful permanent residents must leave the country and apply from their home nations, ending a practice in place for more…
3 MIN READPHILADELPHIA (MSI) — Philadelphia marked the 230th anniversary of Ona Judge's escape from slavery by formally declaring May 21 as Ona Judge Day, while a historical marker and a portrait were unveiled in New Hampshire where she settled, the…
3 MIN READA Tennessee judge set a $1 million bond for white livestreamer Dalton Eatherly, who is charged with attempted murder after shooting Black man Joshua Fox outside the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville on May 13. The case has…
3 MIN READAdvocates marked the 230th anniversary of Ona Judge’s escape from slavery by George Washington with events in Philadelphia and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In Philadelphia, a Thursday rally honored Judge on what the city has declared Ona…
3 MIN READThe House rejected a bill Thursday that would have authorized a new Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the National Mall, after Republican leaders inserted language barring transgender people from being included in the…
3 MIN READA federal lawsuit filed in Arkansas says a woman was denied the chance to buy land in an Ozarks development because of her Jewish ancestry and because her husband is Black and their children are biracial. The suit names Return to the Land…
3 MIN READThe U.S. House of Representatives voted 204‑216 on May 21 to reject a bill that would have authorized a Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum on the National Mall. Republicans rewrote the measure to bar any depiction of transgender…
4 MIN READFlorida officials will pay $485,000 to a biologist who was fired by the state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission after she reposted a meme about conservative activist Charlie Kirk on social media following his death, the biologist…
3 MIN READA lawsuit filed Wednesday in Massachusetts state court alleges that the state’s school‑assignment rules legally segregate Black and Latino students into high‑poverty districts, violating their right to an adequate education. The suit,…
4 MIN READChicago’s top federal prosecutor dismissed remaining charges against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown after a judge raised questions about alleged grand jury misconduct by the…
3 MIN READThe National Trust for Historic Preservation on Wednesday released its annual list of 11 of the country’s most endangered historic places, themed around the principle that “everyone is created equal.” The list for America’s 250th…
3 MIN READA federal lawsuit filed in Arkansas says the owners of a development asked an applicant about her Jewish ancestry and rejected her land purchase because her mother was Jewish and because she has a Black husband and biracial children. The…
3 MIN READRepublicans in the South Carolina House voted just after midnight Tuesday to endorse a congressional redistricting plan favoring the GOP, setting up a fight in the state Senate. The House map would reshape South Carolina’s only…
3 MIN READThe NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus on Tuesday launched a campaign urging Black athletes and fans to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in Southern states they say are restricting Black voting rights. NAACP…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to reconsider a decision in a Voting Rights Act case brought by two Native American tribes, saying the ruling improperly limited who can sue to enforce the law. The justices sent back a…
3 MIN READThe U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit against Connecticut over a new state law that bars federal agents from wearing masks and requires them to display identification during operations in the state. The department said the…
3 MIN READA white livestreamer known as “Chud the Builder” was ordered held on $1 million bond Thursday after a Tennessee judge set the amount, following his arrest on attempted murder and other charges in the May 13 shooting of a Black man outside…
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