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Facing 100 Lawsuits, Trump Admin Walks Back Student Visa Record Terminations

The administration says that it is restoring student visa records while it drafts a new policy to allow terminations.

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Human Rights Watch: Israel Used US Weapon in Likely War Crime in Lebanon

One strike killed 22 members of the same family, with three young boys surviving the attack.

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Tlaib: CBP Has Detained 200 in Michigan Where People Took Wrong Turn to Canada

Tlaib said the detentions, which occurred over the course of just two months, are “outrageously cruel and inhumane.”

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Yale Voids Pro-Palestine Group’s Status After Protest of Israeli Police Minister

Itamar Ben-Gvir, who leads Israel’s police, has called for the resettlement of Gaza numerous times.

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Israeli Minister Says GOP Leaders Agree That Gaza “Aid Depots Should Be Bombed”

Experts have said that Israel’s withholding and targeting of humanitarian aid amount to genocidal acts.

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US Citizen Detained for 10 Days After He Asked Border Patrol Officer for Help

Border agents forced the 19-year-old, who cannot read, to sign a transcript of his arrest he says was false.

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Democrats Travel to Louisiana ICE Prisons to Demand Release of Khalil, Öztürk

“[Donald Trump] is a dictator. And the only way to beat a dictator is with defiance,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley said.

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Sen. Peter Welch Meets With Columbia Activist Mohsen Mahdawi in Prison

“How could [my activism] be a threat to anybody except the war machine that is feeding this?” Mahdawi said.

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Over 200 Higher Education Institutions Pledge to Resist Trump Attacks

The academic leaders vowed to resist Trump’s efforts for “retribution, censorship, or deportation.”

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Education Department Restarting Loan Collections for First Time Since 2020

The administration said it will begin garnishing wages for millions this summer.

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Van Hollen Meets Abrego García After Saying Officials Breaking International Law

Van Hollen Meets Abrego García After Saying Officials Breaking International Law

Officials are in “violation of international law” by barring Abrego García access to legal counsel, the senator said.

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Mahmoud Khalil Writes From Prison: “Democracy for Some Is No Democracy at All”

Mahmoud Khalil Writes From Prison: “Democracy for Some Is No Democracy at All”

“I lie sleepless … in Jena, Louisiana, far from my wife, Noor, who will give birth to our baby in two weeks,” he wrote.

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UN Expert: Israel Has “Decimated” Gaza Health System, Leaving “Zero” Options

UN Expert: Israel Has “Decimated” Gaza Health System, Leaving “Zero” Options

“The options for health care — especially emergency care — for the people of Gaza are reduced to zero,” the expert said.

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Van Hollen Denied Visit With Abrego García as Republicans Take Selfies at Prison

Van Hollen Denied Visit With Abrego García as Republicans Take Selfies at Prison

One Republican posted a picture of himself posing with both thumbs up in front of a cell crammed with men.

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Israel Executed Paramedics in Gaza With Gunshots to the Head, Autopsies Show

Israel Executed Paramedics in Gaza With Gunshots to the Head, Autopsies Show

The autopsies also found evidence that medics were shot with bullets that explode on impact, shredding their victims.

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Rubio Memo: Mohsen Mahdawi’s Presence in US Undermines Gaza “Peace” Prospects

Rubio Memo: Mohsen Mahdawi’s Presence in US Undermines Gaza “Peace” Prospects

Federal officials are seeking to deport the Columbia pro-Palestine protester to the occupied West Bank.

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Rubio Brags He’s “Championing Free Speech” as He Hand-Picks Protesters to Deport

Rubio Brags He’s “Championing Free Speech” as He Hand-Picks Protesters to Deport

The US is a “beacon of hope for millions of people around the world,” he said amid his sweeping deportation campaign.

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Israeli Minister Vows Permanent Occupation of Buffer Zone Spanning Half of Gaza

Israeli Minister Vows Permanent Occupation of Buffer Zone Spanning Half of Gaza

The defense minister also pledged to continue the total aid blockade, as humanitarians warn Gaza is now a “mass grave.”

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ICE Seizes Palestinian Columbia Student After Summoning Him for Citizenship Test

ICE Seizes Palestinian Columbia Student After Summoning Him for Citizenship Test

Immigration officials called him in for what was supposedly his final interview to become a U.S. citizen.

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Whistleblower Who Exposed DOGE Raid of NLRB Data Finds Threats Taped to His Door

Whistleblower Who Exposed DOGE Raid of NLRB Data Finds Threats Taped to His Door

The worker said he received a note with photos of him that seemed to be taken by drone after he spoke out against DOGE.

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Abrego García’s Senator Vows to Go to El Salvador If He Isn’t Released

Abrego García’s Senator Vows to Go to El Salvador If He Isn’t Released

Democratic leadership has been largely silent when it comes to the administration’s detention of the Maryland man.

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US Has Killed 123 in Yemen Since Bombing Planned on Signal, Health Officials Say

US Has Killed 123 in Yemen Since Bombing Planned on Signal, Health Officials Say

Five children were killed or wounded in a US strike on a ceramics factory on Sunday.

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“Obviously a Lie”: El Salvador’s Bukele Claims He Can’t Return Abrego García

“Obviously a Lie”: El Salvador’s Bukele Claims He Can’t Return Abrego García

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, sitting next to Donald Trump, said he is powerless to return the Maryland man.

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State Department Found No Evidence of DHS’s Reasons for Abducting Tuft’s Öztürk

The State Department’s findings came in a memo issued just days before DHS abducted Öztürk anyway.

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Fetterman Joins GOP in Voting to Confirm Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel

Huckabee once said that he believes there’s “really no such thing as a Palestinian.”

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UN Chief Says Israel Has Made Gaza Into “a Killing Field”

“Gaza is a killing field — and civilians are in an endless death loop,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

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DHS Announces It’s Surveilling Immigrants’ Social Media for “Antisemitism”

“You are not welcome here,” read a chilling statement from a top DHS official.

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Israel Now Occupying Over Half of Gaza After Expanding Bulldozed Buffer Zone

One soldier said they’re directed to make the buffer zone look like the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

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Yemen Strike JD Vance Called “Excellent” on Signal Reportedly Killed a Newborn

“They were scattered and torn into pieces,” a witness said of a family killed by the strike.

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Trump Administration’s Food Aid Cuts “a Death Sentence for Millions,” WFP Says

Trump Administration’s Food Aid Cuts “a Death Sentence for Millions,” WFP Says

Termination notices said that the contracts were being canceled “for the convenience of the US Government.”

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Sanders: 67,000 Will Die Waiting for Social Security Benefits Under Musk Plan

Sanders: 67,000 Will Die Waiting for Social Security Benefits Under Musk Plan

This is an average of nearly 190 people dying per day while waiting for an initial determination on benefits.

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Trump Sends Israel 20,000 Rifles Withheld by Biden Over Settler Violence

Trump Sends Israel 20,000 Rifles Withheld by Biden Over Settler Violence

The sale comes as Israeli ministers are pledging permanent annexation of the occupied West Bank.

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Only 15 Senators Back Sanders Bid to Block Arms to Israel as Gaza Deaths Top 50k

Only 15 Senators Back Sanders Bid to Block Arms to Israel as Gaza Deaths Top 50k

The resolutions failed by a larger margin than in similar votes in November, with several Democrats flipping to “no.”

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Poll Finds Over a Third in US Can’t Access Quality Health Care — a New High

A new Gallup survey finds 11 percent of US adults can’t access quality care and can’t pay for care or medicine.

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Palestinian Child Killed in Israeli Prison After Being “Systematically Starved”

Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, who was 17 years old, is the first known child killed in an Israeli prison.

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Elon Musk May Be Pushed Out of Trump Admin After Humiliating Wisconsin Loss

Musk spent millions to meddle in a Wisconsin state Supreme Court election — which his candidate lost by double digits.

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Waltz Has Used Personal Email and 20 Other Signal Threads for Government Affairs

Reports of 20 Signal chats and Waltz’s Gmail mark at least four major security liabilities uncovered since Signalgate.

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Israel Bombs UN Clinic, Killing 22, Days After Gaza Medics Found in Mass Grave

Footage circulating in the aftermath of the attack showed a newborn who was decapitated by the bombing.

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Israel’s Genocide Has Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined: Report

At least 232 journalists have been killed amid the genocide, a new Costs of War report finds.

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Tlaib, Jayapal Introduce Resolutions to Block Trump’s Weapons Sales to Israel

The weapons sales deepen the US’s complicity in Israel’s assault on Gaza, Rep. Pramila Jayapal said.

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Children in Gaza Are So Hungry They’re Drawing Pictures of Food in the Sand

Israel has blocked all aid from entering Gaza for over three weeks, the longest total aid blockade so far.

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Pressley: Tufts’s Ozturk Is a “Political Prisoner” Who Was “Kidnapped” By ICE

Ozturk has been brought to an immigration jail in Louisiana where there is “rampant abuse,” rights advocates say.

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Trump Admin Deported Venezuelan Men Just Because They Had Tattoos, Report Finds

“We’re finding and questioning everyone who has tattoos,” one ICE agent reportedly told a deportee.

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Tufts Student Activist Rumeysa Ozturk Abducted by ICE on Her Way to Iftar

Ozturk’s location after being abducted by ICE agents is currently unknown.

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Democrat: Leaked Messages Show Waltz Admitting to War Crime in Yemen Strike

J.D. Vance said it was “excellent” that a strike collapsed a building. Thirteen civilians died, according to one count.

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Court Extends Hussam Abu Safiya’s Detention in Israeli Torture Camp by 6 Months

The Gaza hospital director has faced relentless torture in his three months in Israel’s camps, his legal team says.

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Tlaib: Democrats Rage Over Yemen Strike Leak, But Not at the Strike Itself

The US’s airstrikes on Yemen have reportedly killed dozens of civilians, with the US twice bombing a cancer hospital.

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USPS’s Louis DeJoy Resigns as Banks “Salivate” Over Musk Goal of Privatization

Earlier this month, Musk singled out USPS for privatization at a Morgan Stanley conference.

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Oscar-Winning Hamdan Ballal Released From Israeli Custody Bruised and Bloodied

Fellow co-director Basel Adra said there has been an uptick in Israeli settler violence since the Oscar win.

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Israeli Settler Mob Attacks “No Other Land” Co-Director Hamdan Ballal

Israeli soldiers blocked the ambulance transporting Ballal after the attack and detained him.

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