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Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay
By JOHN HANNA Updated 5:51 PM CST, December 23, 2025 The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” The university said in a statement posted…
Under Trump, Northwest immigration detainees are traveling farther from families, legal help
The Trump administration has sent five times more people at least 1,000 miles compared to the last year of former President Joe Biden’s term. Troy Brynelson/OPB December 23, 2025 / 2:13 pm Carmen Paniagua’s phone had sat silent all day, and she began to worry. It was early December, and her brother-in-law was supposed to call.…
EPA, state lawmakers could consider regulating abortion pills as pollutants in 2026
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.…
Officials Target Youth Immigration Program, Speeding Up Deportations
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…
Lindsey Graham Abandons the Dream Act
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…
DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards
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…
‘I made my American dream in my country’: How Rancho Feliz is confronting the immigration crisis at the source
by Lorenzo Gomez December 2, 2025 AGUA PRIETA, Mexico – It was Thanksgiving Day in 1987, and Gil Gillenwater sat comfortably in his home, preparing to stuff himself with food, drink beer and watch football. But that year, he decided he’d had enough of the uniquely American holiday routine. It was like watching the movie…
Gutting of key US watchdog could pave way for grave immigration abuses, experts warn
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…
US halts all asylum claim decisions after National Guard shooting
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…