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By: Sofia Resnick December 19, 2025 2:38 pm Going into the fourth year without federal abortion rights protections, groups that helped overturn Roe v. Wade are focused on cutting off access to abortion pills. As multiple lawsuits over the abortion drug mifepristone unfold, state and federal proposals to regulate and restrict medication abortion are expected to continue in 2026.…

The Trump administration is dissolving long-established protections meant to help undocumented children stay in the country. By Ana Ley Published Dec. 14, 2025 On a crisp November morning in White Plains, N.Y., six lawyers spent hours in a federal courtroom arguing about the government’s plan to deport a teenager from the Bronx. Agents had detained the…

The Republican senator told NOTUS the U.S. must first “deal with the millions of people here illegally.” By Manuela Silva December 12, 2025 03:03 PM Ahead of his reelection bid next year, Sen. Lindsey Graham dropped his support for the Dream Act, a bill to help undocumented immigrants that he co-sponsored each time it was introduced for…

December 4, 2025 2:44 PM ET Jaclyn Diaz The Department of Justice has instructed inspectors to stop evaluating prisons and jails using standards designed to protect transgender, intersex and gender-nonconforming people from sexual violence, according to an internal memo obtained by NPR. This population is uniquely vulnerable to attacks while incarcerated, data shows, and advocates say the…

Former oversight officials alarmed by dismantling of DHS system that oversees complaints about civil rights harms José Olivares in New York Sun 30 Nov 2025 06.00 EST The federal watchdog system at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that oversees complaints about civil rights violations, including in immigration detention, has been gutted so thoroughly that…

29 November 2025 Yang Tianand James FitzGerald The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington DC, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) director has said. Joseph Edlow said the pause would be in place “until we can ensure that every alien is vetted and…

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot a day earlier just blocks from the White House had died. He called the suspect, an Afghan national who had worked with the CIA in his native country, a “savage monster.” As part of his Thanksgiving call to…

Global HIV assistance is projected to drop by 30 to 40 percent in 2025 compared with 2023, a new UNAID report found. Ryan Adamczeski November 26 2025 11:01 AM EST HIV prevention efforts around the world have suffered their “most significant setback in decades” due to funding cuts, a new report from UNAID has found. Global…

The new language adopted by the Alabama Public Library Service board does not define gender ideology. By: Ralph Chapoco November 21, 2025 6:01 am The Alabama Public Library Service Thursday voted to restrict books for minors that address “transgender procedures, gender ideology, or the concept of more than two biological genders.” The changes — which…

By Konstantin Toropin Published November 13, 2025 at 7:40am ET WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of 17 transgender members of the Air Force are suing the U.S. government over what they say is the military’s unlawful revocation of their early retirement pensions and benefits. The lawsuit, filed in federal court Monday, comes several months after the Air…