As activists rally around federal legislation to dismantle ICE, Amnesty International joins the call for abolition.

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New Orleans is the latest to refuse a $300 million grant program that critics say would build Trump’s police state.

Trusted figures such as firefighters and clergy will protect Black, Latino, and Asian precincts that could be targets.

Advocates asked a court to unseal more details on Trump’s surveillance of churches, schools, and libraries in Minnesota.

In a world where autonomous weapons can choose targets on their own, data can put us all at risk, a US veteran warns.

Contractors damaged federally protected habitats in Big Bend National Park and areas near sacred springs in Arizona.

A Kansas activist discovered that police tracked him with Flock-style cameras after he wrote an op-ed criticizing them.

Trump’s administration omitted microplastics from a list of pollutants for local utilities to monitor in drinking water.

Hundreds of local police departments have received waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI.

As Elon Musk defends nude deepfakes, the FTC is moving to censor AI models trained to recognize historical injustices.

A new report further links fossil fuel emissions to extreme weather events. States are trying to make polluters pay.

At least 53 people have died in ICE custody since President Donald Trump’s return to office.

Trump administration officials were notably absent from a House hearing on reforming FEMA this week.

“This constitutes a cowardly war crime against the most innocent,” said a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

Calls for all agents to be outfitted with cameras have accelerated amid a series of fatal shootings.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday issued a new broadside in the U.S. fight with the International Criminal Court (ICC), announcing a diplomatic effort by the Trump administration to dismantl…

Organizers across the country are using every tool in their arsenal against Flock surveillance cameras.

Food banks are struggling to fill the gap in Arizona, where more than half of recipients lost federal assistance.

Immigrants are jailed in unsanitary, overcrowded jails and camps as part of Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

On January 7, 2026, an ICE agent murdered Renee Good. This is an account from a participant in the protests that broke out on scene of the murder.

The GOP is souring on Trump’s $1.5 trillion military budget as the president pushes for yet another reconciliation bill.

New polling shows even 82 percent of Trump supporters want stronger federal protections from toxic pollution.

Were early Christians class conscious? How does archaeology reveal the role of wealth, patronage, and social hierarchy in late antique churches?

The judge’s ruling rejected a request to end the prison’s use of grueling farm labor as a disciplinary measure.

Backlash to Flock cameras and AI systems is exploding after scandals, including police using the tech to stalk women.

Privacy groups are pushing Big Tech to notify users about federal surveillance after anonymous ICE critics were exposed.

Trump’s assault on refugees is coming for Afghans left stranded in Qatar since the 2021 US withdrawal.

Doxxed by Canary Mission and jailed by ICE, Salah Sarsour calls on his Wisconsin community to challenge injustice.

“Democrats chose genocide over winning in 2024,” one Palestinian rights advocate said. “When does this stop?”…

The right attacked Biden for “jawboning” social media. Now Trump is doing it explicitly to control cable news.

US media talk about the island’s civilians as if they are a military problem, if they talk about them at all.

“Unfortunately there isn’t really a picture of it, it was photoshopped,” the Israeli military said of the photo.

The right attacked Biden for “jawboning” social media. Now Trump is doing it explicitly to control cable news.

Minneapolis residents are continuing to express their grief over ICE’s sustained occupation through civil disobedience.

Scientists are linking deadly heat waves, like the record-breaking heat dome, to pollution from fossil fuel companies.

The Trump administration’s housing agenda targets immigrant families and the nation’s poorest renters.

The Trump administration’s housing agenda targets immigrant families and the nation’s poorest renters.