Yunseo Chung, a junior at Columbia University, sued U.S. President Donald Trump and other top officials in the Southern District of New York on Monday, challenging “the government’s shocking overreach in seeking to deport a college student… who is a lawful permanent resident of this country, because of her protected speech.” The 21-year-old, who moved...
A mob of Israeli settlers has attacked Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal just three weeks after the documentary he co-directed on the violence of Israel’s occupation of Palestine, No Other Land, won an Oscar. According to his co-director Yuval Abraham and witnesses, per Haaretz, Ballal called an ambulance after settlers attacked him but was...
One study found that 2 in 5 older Americans rely on Social Security as their sole means of income. Commerce Department Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed in an interview last week that beneficiaries of Social Security payments wouldn’t complain if they didn’t receive their checks this month — and that anyone who did speak up would...
One doctor condemned US presidents and Western media for complicity in Israel’s violence on CNN hours before the attack. Israeli forces bombed the largest hospital in southern Gaza on Sunday, killing at least five people and destroying a surgery ward just after U.S. doctors volunteering there gave an interview on CNN about Israel’s mass killings...
Israeli forces killed two Palestinian journalists in Gaza on Monday in separate strikes, bringing the total number of Palestinian journalists killed to at least 208 since October 7, 2023, according to a count by Gaza officials. Mohammad Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today, was killed along with his wife and child when Israel struck his...
Over the past two weeks, even as Democratic Party leaders have opted for capitulation rather than forceful efforts to slow the Trump juggernaut, the judiciary has stirred to life. In the fight to protect basic constitutional norms such as the right to due process from the chainsaw massacres being unleashed by Donald Trump and Elon...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation Israel’s recent brutal attack in Gaza resulted in the killing of predominantly women and children. It involved some of the most fatal attacks on Gaza that we have witnessed in 17 months. Given the degree to which the Israeli state formation has made clear...
“The only purpose is to show a demonstration of power to us,” said outgoing Prime Minister Múte Egede. Greenland politicians have denounced plans for White House officials to travel to the island this week amid President Donald Trump’s demands to annex Greenland into the U.S. Second Lady Usha Vance is reportedly coming to the island...
Amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on U.S. immigration, Canada and several European countries have issued travel advisories urging their citizens to closely follow the U.S.’s entry rules, citing recent detentions and deportations. “We have seen too many stories of citizens being pulled out of airport lines, and being fingerprinted and deported, as if they were...
Undocumented immigrants, who contribute nearly $100 billion in taxes each year and help fund benefits like Social Security and Medicare while remaining ineligible to receive them, are expected to soon lose the privacy afforded to them by a long-standing Internal Revenue Service policy as the IRS nears a deal with the Trump administration to help...
President Donald Trump and members of his administration are describing a small number of vandalous actions taken against Tesla properties as “domestic terrorism,” threatening participants with exceptional prison sentences and the possibility of cruel and unusual punishment. Tesla is owned by “Department of Government Efficiency” head Elon Musk, who was also Trump’s largest donor during...
The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to target free speech on college campuses and one doctoral student at Cornell University who was involved in pro-Palastinian protests on campus now finds himself targeted for deportation once again. Momodou Taal is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Africana Studies at Cornell University who is a...
International outrage and charges of “viciousness” and “outright autocracy” have followed Sunday’s imprisonment of Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s top political rival, the popular Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, who is seen as Erdogan’s likeliest opposition challenger in upcoming national elections. The corruption charges levied against İmamoğlu, a member of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), are...
Legal advocacy groups have issued a sharp rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump’s directive aimed at holding “accountable” law firms and lawyers that, according to him, “engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation against the United States.” “Accountability is especially important when misconduct by lawyers and law firms threatens our national security, homeland security, public...
The court filing signals a shift from targeting openly trans troops to potentially investigating those who are closeted. According to a newly filed document in Talbott v. Trump — the court case that will determine whether transgender people can continue to serve in the U.S. military — the military now plans to ask all service...