Wednesday, May 27, 2026

15-Year-Old Gunned Down by Police

While a bystander is disputing the killing of a 15-year-old boy suspected of stealing a car this weekend, the officers have not been identified, but have been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation.

Abortion is a fundamental human rights issue

It is a women’s rights issue—among the right to vote, the right to free movement, and the right to live free of violence.

Trump’s asylum ban hasn’t disappeared—but media outrage over it has

As border crossings increased in the second year of the pandemic, Republicans, Democrats and the Washington Post are all in agreement that shelving human rights concerns is the price of keeping unwanted refugees and migrants out of the U.S.

Far-right activists on social media telegraphed violence weeks in advance of the attack on...

Right-wing activists have made a habit of organizing in the open and galvanizing supporters to express their desire for violent confrontation.
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‘This is my home:’ Meet the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court case to...

The Obama-era program has granted protection from deportation and a work permit to at least 700,000 undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children.

VIDEO: Domestic Terrorism: From the Charleston Massacre to 1964 Slaying of Mississippi Civil Rights...

While the fifty-first anniversary of the 1964 slaying of Mississippi civil rights workers just passed, another hateful crime just recently took place at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina this past week. Is domestic terrorism still at large?

New bill proposes stopping unemployment agencies that make mistakes from demanding money back

State unemployment agencies have been demanding recipients repay thousands of dollars, even if the agency made the mistake and the money’s already been spent, but legislators are trying to end it.
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Despite today’s court-ordered deadline, more than 900 migrant children remain separated from parents

The government admits at least 900 children have yet to be reunited, and some 463 separated parents have been deported – even as their children remain in U.S. detention centers.

Atlanta police shoot and kill Rayshard Brooks as protests demanding racial justice continue worldwide

Brooks' death added to the growing outrage over police violence toward people of color, particularly black Americans, that has fueled #DefundPolice demands and demonstrations across the U.S. and in other countries for nearly three weeks.

Appeals court: Trump’s third attempt at travel ban is illegal

The president failed to make a "legally sufficient" finding that entry of those he wants to bar from entering the US would be “detrimental to the interests of the United States.”