A coalition of six conservation and education organizations sued the US Department of the Interior on Tuesday, challenging a policy that has led to the removal of exhibits about slavery, climate change, and Indigenous history from national parks across the country. Trump signed an executive order in March 2025 titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to [...]
A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration for a second time from enforcing a policy requiring members of Congress to give seven days’ notice before visiting immigration detention facilities, finding the government’s revised restriction still likely violates federal law. US District Judge Jia M. Cobb granted a temporary restraining order sought by 14 [...]
US immigration enforcement faced mounting scrutiny Friday from international officials as well as congressional Democrats following a detainee death ruled a homicide by a county medical examiner in Texas. The disturbing development comes amid a dramatic spike in deaths in Homeland Security custody. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on the US [...]
Minnesota and Illinois filed separate federal lawsuits Monday challenging the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement operations, alleging constitutional violations and claiming federal agents have terrorized communities across both states. Minnesota’s lawsuit, filed jointly with the municipalities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, targets “Operation Metro Surge,” which has deployed thousands of Department of Homeland Security agents [...]
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a series of defiant statements as tensions between Tehran and Washington intensify over the former’s crackdown on nationwide protests. On December 28, amid inflation and a currency collapse, protests erupted in Tehran before spreading across the country. A violent crackdown ensued, resulting in hundreds of deaths, according [...]
President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum Wednesday directing the United States to withdraw from 66 international organizations, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The memorandum orders all executive departments and agencies to cease participation in and funding for 31 UN organizations and 35 non-UN entities [...]
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to accelerate the reclassification of marijuana, a move that would ease decades-old restrictions that have classified the drug alongside heroin as having no accepted medical value. The US Controlled Substances Act ranks drugs along a five-tier spectrum based on their potential for abuse and recognized medical value. [...]
Satellite imagery analysis reveals widespread evidence of systematic mass killings and body disposal by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, Sudan, following the paramilitary group’s capture of the North Darfur state capital in late October, according to a report released this week by Yale University researchers. The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian [...]
A coalition of nine international human rights organizations on Wednesday called on Kazakhstan to end its crackdown on independent media after authorities raided a newsroom, detained journalists, and pressured reporters over their coverage. Police searched the offices of independent news outlet Orda.kz on Dec. 1 and detained editor-in-chief Gulnara Bazhkenova, who was placed under house [...]
Citing violations of federal environmental law, a federal judge on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction blocking further expansion of Alligator Alcatraz, a controversial immigration detention facility in Florida’s Big Cypress National Preserve. US District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that state and federal defendants failed to conduct required environmental assessments before constructing the camp within the [...]
