Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...

From at least the 1880s through the early 1970s, it was illegal for parents in Idaho to choose prayer over medical care when a child’s life was at stake.

An extra layer of cruelty is added by limiting communication access for Deaf people.

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.

Linda McMahon announced today further dismantling of the Dept. of Education, making good on the previously announced plan to move the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) to...

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President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.

Deaf six-year-old and family deported after legal immigration check-in. Lesly Rodriguez Gutierrez, and her sons (5 and 6) have been deported after Gutierrez attended her legal immigration check-in app...

Attorneys were scrambling to find a mother and her two young children after they were arrested by federal immigration officers in San Francisco this week, an attorney said.

Border Patrol causes death of blind Rohingya refugee in Buffalo, NY. 56 year-old Nurul Amin Shah Alam was detained on February 19th and released the same day. However, instead of being returned home, ...

"They just left him."

All Eyes on the Senate

Many U.S. policies inspired by the Science of Reading rest on two assumptions: (1) skilled reading always involves automatic mapping between written words and speech sounds, and (2) all children benefit from systematic instruction of phonological awareness and phonics. These assumptions are not whol …

Deportation practices in the USA continue to undermine the communication and disability rights of asylum seekers with disabilities, especially deaf individuals, causing serious health consequences and...

Good news: Black Deaf Minnesota man Ike Muringai, who was taken by ICE last month, has been released from custody and is home with his fiancee. Anthony Paredes, a Latino and Chicano deaf high schooler...

On January 23, 2026, Texas and eight other states – Alaska, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, and South Dakota – renewed their attack on Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and...

Authoritarianism is a disability rights issue. Immigration is a disability rights issue. And , as we've seen throughout the escalations over the past year, disabled people are particularly vulnerable ...

Marriage often nullifies the government benefits they need to get by.

HHS to remove recommendation for infant Hepatitis B vaccine, Trump asks RFK to fast-track a revamp of entire childhood vaccine schedule. The majority of Hepatitis B patients who go on to experience ch...

Trump and McMahon further dismantle Department of Education, moving programs to Department of Labor, Interior, and HHS. The relocated programs include Title 1, teacher training grants, English learner...