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For Women Seeking Asylum in the United States, Things Are About to Get Harder

For Women Seeking Asylum in the United States, Things Are About to Get Harder

The Trump administration is making it much more difficult for women fleeing gender-based violence in other countries to immigrate to the United...

20.07.2025 20

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ICE Agents Are Harassing the Courthouse Volunteers Who Assist Besieged Immigrants

ICE Agents Are Harassing the Courthouse Volunteers Who Assist Besieged Immigrants

The recent, nationwide phenomenon of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents showing up at federal courthouses to arrest undocumented people...

17.07.2025 20

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Experts Question the Legality of Deploying National Guard Officers as Immigration Judges

Experts Question the Legality of Deploying National Guard Officers as Immigration Judges

Last week, while touring “Alligator Alcatraz,” the new immigrant detention center in Florida, President Donald Trump said he approved of a plan to...

09.07.2025 40

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Senators Introduce a Bill Requiring Immigration Agents to Show Their Faces

Senators Introduce a Bill Requiring Immigration Agents to Show Their Faces

Senate Democrats are introducing legislation today that would force immigration officers around the country to wear clear identification while making...

08.07.2025 100

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We Asked Trump’s Former Prisons Chief How $45 Billion Will Reshape Immigrant Detention

The massive piece of legislation to which President Donald Trump has just attached his legacy allocates $170 billion for immigration and border...

06.07.2025 5

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Murder Rates Could Hit Record Lows This Year, but Killings by Police Are Rising

There’s a good chance the United States will see the lowest murder rate it has ever recorded this year, a major change from the early pandemic, when...

26.06.2025 3

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ICE Agents Concealing Their Faces: Can They Really Do That?

On Saturday, as locals opposed to the federal immigration raids clashed with law enforcement in Los Angeles County, President Donald Trump took to...

10.06.2025 30

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Scientists Deem Trump’s Latest Funding Freeze a “Slow-Moving Apocalypse”

The hits to science, and scientists, keep coming under the Trump administration. This week, the National Science Foundation (NSF), a government agency...

04.05.2025 20

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The Immigrant Families Trump Separated Years Ago Are Getting Another Raw Deal

The immigrant families separated at the US-Mexico border during Trump’s first administration have gotten some bad news: Essentially, Trump’s...

04.05.2025 30

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A Whistleblower Says Trump Sent the US Marshals to Try to “Intimidate” Her

A whistleblower who testified in Congress today is accusing the Trump administration of trying to “intimidate” her with help from the US Marshals...

08.04.2025 100

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Elon Musk’s Secret Weapon: the US Marshals Service

As if Elon Musk didn’t already have enough advantages, between his billions and his leverage over President Donald Trump, he appears to have another...

07.04.2025 5

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What the Hundreds of Venezuelans Trump Sent to El Salvador Are Up Against

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump used the Alien Enemies Act to deport 238 Venezuelans from the United States—sending them not to their...

26.03.2025 10

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Trans People in Prison Sue Trump Over Their Right to Medical Care

Six days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January, Alishea Kingdom went to a medical appointment at the federal prison in New Jersey...

19.03.2025 3

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A Federal Judge Blocked DOGE’s Access to Treasury Systems—for Now

A federal judge on Saturday temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from looking at the Treasury Department’s...

09.02.2025 30

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Oklahoma Moms Locked Up for Their Abusers’ Violence Might Finally Get a Break

One mom was sentenced to 30 years in an Oklahoma prison because her abusive boyfriend broke her kids’ legs, and she wasn’t able to stop him. (He...

08.02.2025 4

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Lateefah Simon, on Track to Be a New House Dem: “I’ve Never Shied Away From Any Fight”

Lateefah Simon, left, and Rep. Barbara Lee at their campaign headquarters in March Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP Inside a...

07.11.2024 10

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The Murder Rate Fell at the Fastest-Ever Pace Last Year—and It’s Still Falling

Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump wants you to believe that violence is surging. “All over the world crime is...

02.10.2024 2

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San Francisco’s DA Wants Two Kids to Be Prosecuted as Adults

District Attorney Brooke Jenkins speaks at a press conference outside City Hall in San Francisco on June 8. Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle...

27.09.2024 3

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Judge Rules Breonna Taylor’s Boyfriend, Not the Police, Caused Her Death

A mural portrait of Breonna Taylor Julio Cortez, File / AP More than four years after Kentucky police barged into Breonna Taylor’s home in the...

24.08.2024 1

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What Would It Mean to Have a Prosecutor as President Right Now?

Vice President Kamala Harris Andrew Harnik/Getty Images As soon as President Biden handed the baton to Kamala Harris, who is now expected to clinch...

31.07.2024 6

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