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Dozens Disappeared on El Salvador Deportation Trips, Flight Logs Reveal

Dozens Disappeared on El Salvador Deportation Trips, Flight Logs Reveal

“We pretty much have no idea if they are in CECOT or someplace else,” said one immigrant rights advocate.

18.07.2025 3

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Family Demands US Investigate Fatal Beating of US Citizen in the West Bank

Family Demands US Investigate Fatal Beating of US Citizen in the West Bank

Sayfollah Musallet is at least the ninth US citizen to be killed by Israeli forces or settlers since 2022.

15.07.2025 5

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Israel Launches New Round of Strikes, Warns of “Prolonged Campaign” Against Iran

Iran’s Health Ministry says over 400 Iranians — mostly civilians — have been killed amid Israel’s recent strikes.

21.06.2025 2

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After Release From ICE Detention, Mahmoud Khalil Says “Justice Will Prevail”

Khalil said he will continue fighting against the Trump administration's targeting of him and immigrants across the US.

21.06.2025 3

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Gaza Death Toll Surpasses 55,000 as Israeli Attacks Kill Dozens at Aid Sites

At least 120 Palestinians were killed and 474 have been injured in the last 24 hours across the enclave.

12.06.2025 3

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Trump Administration Is Eliminating USAID’s Entire International Workforce

All foreign assistance programs will be managed by the State Department.

11.06.2025 2

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Observers Say Noem’s Leaked Letter Portends “Grave Escalation” Amid Protests

The DHS secretary reportedly requested to have the military arrest protesters in Los Angeles.

11.06.2025 80

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ICE Strands Migrants in Djibouti After Failing to Send Them to South Sudan

Migrants and ICE agents are being forced to live in shipping containers on a US military base in hazardous conditions.

06.06.2025 3

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Trump’s Proposal for Office of Remigration Evokes Ethnic Cleansing, Critics Say

The president's call for a policy of “remigration” has been embraced by far right groups in Europe.

30.05.2025 5

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Judge Rules Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention by ICE Was “Likely” Unconstitutional

Despite the ruling, the judge stopped short of ordering Khalil's release and allowing him to meet his newborn son.

29.05.2025 3

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Israeli Military Opens Fire on Palestinians at Privatized Food Distribution Site

Dozens were wounded at a hub of the Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which aid groups have boycotted.

29.05.2025 20

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Judge Questions Whether Trump’s Hands Are Really Tied Over Kilmar Abrego García

At stake is whether some deported to El Salvador could be brought back to the US to receive due process denied to them.

09.05.2025 30

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Critics Slam Trump’s Plan to Fill Federal Government With “Political Cronies”

Around 50,000 career civil servants would be reclassified as “at-will” employees and lose civil service protections.

20.04.2025 10

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SCOTUS Halts Deportation of Venezuelan Migrants After ACLU’s Emergency Petition

The notices of removal were written only in English and did not inform recipients of their right to court proceedings.

19.04.2025 3

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More Than 150 Campuses Held Day of Action Against Trump’s Attacks on Higher Ed

Labor unions, Palestinian rights groups and other advocacy groups demanded their schools stand up to the White House.

18.04.2025 2

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Trump Adviser Compares Opposing Abrego Garcia’s Detention With Backing Terrorism

Sebastian Gorka suggested that those concerned about due process are “aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists.”

17.04.2025 3

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19-Year-Old Was Not Whom ICE Was Looking For. Now He’s in an El Salvador Prison.

Merwil Gutiérrez, an asylum seeker, was reportedly sent to the Terrorism Confinement Center without due process.

16.04.2025 2

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Human Rights Defenders Sue Trump Administration Over Sanctions on ICC Prosecutor

The suit argues it is unconstitutional for Trump to block humanitarian groups in the US from working with the ICC.

12.04.2025 2

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House Republicans Advance Bill Backing Trump- and Musk-Led Destruction

Critics say the bill would accelerate their plan of gutting Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, among other things.

27.03.2025 10

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“Stop Sending Us Money”: NYC Dem Socialist Mayoral Candidate Hits Donation Cap

State Rep. Zohran Kwame Mamdani sees surging support three months before the Democratic primary.

26.03.2025 20

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The IRS Is Reportedly Nearing a Deal to Share Confidential Tax Data With ICE

The agreement targets undocumented taxpayers’ data as the Trump administration ramps up efforts to deport them.

24.03.2025 2

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Texas Files Criminal Charges Against Midwife Who Allegedly Offered Abortion Care

Houston-area midwife Maria Margarita Rojas is the first person to be criminally charged under the state's abortion ban.

18.03.2025 2

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Israeli Blockade Prevents 1 Million Children in Gaza From Meeting Basic Needs

Israel is endangering Palestinian kids' lives to force Hamas into accepting a proposal without a permanent ceasefire.

17.03.2025 3

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Critics Slam the EPA’s Plan to Shutter All Environmental Justice Offices

EPA head Lee Zeldin also announced that he was canceling 400 grants for environmental justice and diversity initiatives.

13.03.2025 4

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Trump Kills $400M in Columbia University Contracts Over Campus Gaza Protests

“You can't appease the Zionists,” said one critic. “Stop playing the game — refuse the terms.”

08.03.2025 7

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Trump Is Circumventing the Courts’ Block on His Federal Funding Freeze at NIH

By preventing mandated NIH grant meetings, Trump has effectively stalled the distribution of funds despite court orders.

24.02.2025 10

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Israel Suspends Release of Palestinian Prisoners as End of Ceasefire Looms

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is “prepared to resume intense fighting at any moment.”

24.02.2025 40

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Judge Halts Trump’s Anti-DEI Executive Orders Targeting Federal Contractors

In a setback for Trump's anti-DEI purge, a judge said the orders would “likely” be found to violate the First Amendment.

22.02.2025 40

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Leonard Peltier Is Released After Nearly 50 Years in Prison

The 80-year-old activist, who always maintained his innocence, will serve the rest of his sentence in home confinement.

18.02.2025 10

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Trump’s Limits on NIH Grants Could Bring Lifesaving Medical Research to a Halt

Rep. Rosa DeLauro warned that limiting grants from the National Institutes of Health will cause “irreparable damage.”

11.02.2025 30

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Google Drops Pledge to Not Use AI to Develop Weapons, Surveillance Technologies

One Google worker says there’s widespread employee sentiment that the company shouldn’t be in the “business of war."

05.02.2025 4

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Top Official Exits Treasury Amid Clash With Musk’s Allies Over Federal Payments

New reporting raises concerns that Musk wants to control Medicare and Social Security through access to payment systems.

31.01.2025 3

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Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze Sparks Alarm and Confusion

Among other things, the move threatens programs and aid that millions in the US rely on.

29.01.2025 30

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Fracking CEO Slammed Ahead of His Confirmation Hearing for Energy Secretary

The Sierra Club called Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright the “personification of 'conflict of interest.'”

15.01.2025 4

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Sunrise Calls on Next DNC Chair to Curb Corporate Influence in Democratic Party

The youth climate group wants bans on super PAC spending in primaries and corporate lobbyist donations to the DNC.

14.01.2025 3

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Judge Blocks Title IX Protections for Trans Youth and Other Vulnerable Students

The ruling strikes down expanded anti-discrimination protections proposed by Biden's Department of Education last April.

10.01.2025 3

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Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Say Insurance Industry Is to Blame in UHC CEO Killing

In the wake of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in early December, some political observers were taken aback by the public...

29.12.2024 2

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Lawmakers and Free Speech Groups Urge SCOTUS to Overturn Impending TikTok Ban

On Friday evening, President-elect Donald Trump filed a brief with the Supreme Court that took no position on whether a ban on TikTok would violate...

29.12.2024 4

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Over 120 House Democrats Urge Biden to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment

With weeks to go until President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office with a Republican trifecta in the White House, Senate, and House of...

16.12.2024 4

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Rep. Ro Khanna Rebukes ABC Anchor for Dismissing Possibility of Medicare for All

Advocates for a government-run healthcare program applauded U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna for pushing back during a Sunday morning interview in which ABC...

09.12.2024 4

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Wealth of the World’s Billionaires Has More Than Doubled Over the Past Decade

Driven largely by the accumulation of massive wealth by the richest people in the United States, the Swiss wealth manager UBS said Thursday the...

07.12.2024 3

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4.3M Consumers Set to Get Checks From Agency Trump and Musk Want to “Delete”

In the coming weeks, as President-elect Donald Trump’s second term approaches and his pledge to dismantle key agencies potentially comes closer to...

06.12.2024 5

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Progressives Say Trump’s Pick to Run IRS Will Spark “Open Season for Tax Cheats”

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Internal Revenue Service, former Rep. Billy Long, didn’t serve on the House committee tasked...

05.12.2024 3

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Federal Court Rules Idaho Can Enforce Law Banning Interstate Travel for Abortion

Nearly two years after it was first proposed by Republican lawmakers, an Idaho law that, as one rights advocate said, essentially “traps” people in...

03.12.2024 3

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CAIR Calls for Protection of Reps. Tlaib and Omar After Florida Senator Randy Fine’s Threats

The country’s largest Muslim civil rights group on Thursday called for added protections for U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar after Florida...

28.11.2024 3

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French Foreign Ministry Says It Won’t Enforce ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu

A day after French Prime Minister Michel Barnier told Parliament that the government would fulfill its obligations as a state party to the Rome...

27.11.2024 6

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Trump Picks Medicare Privatization Proponent Dr. Oz to Oversee Medicare Agency

If confirmed to be the next U.S. secretary of health and human services, anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could be working “closely”...

20.11.2024 3

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Aid Entering Gaza “At Its Lowest Level in Months” as Israel Ignores US Deadline

As the deadline set by the Biden administration last month for Israel to step up aid deliveries to Gaza passed on Tuesday, human rights groups...

12.11.2024 2

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Trump Threatens to Defund Schools for Teaching US History

Education advocates implored voters to take Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s latest comments on public schools on Friday seriously...

19.10.2024 20

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Global Water Cycle Out of Balance for First Time in Human History, Report Says

Decades of mismanagement of water resources, deforestation, and the fossil fuel-driven crisis of global warming have put “unprecedented stress” on...

18.10.2024 5

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