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Record 3 million cases clog U.S. immigration courts
Eight months after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States, a couple in their 20s sat in an immigration court in Miami with their three young children. Through an interpreter, they asked a judge to give them more time to find an attorney to file for asylum and not be deported back to Honduras, […]
Feds open civil rights investigation of Teaneck schools following student walkout
The U.S. Department of Education confirmed Friday that it has opened a federal civil rights investigation of Teaneck schools. The school district was added on Jan. 5 to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights list of open Title VI Shared Ancestry Investigations of Institutions of Higher Education and K-12 schools. The township has been […]
Ban on guns in post offices is unconstitutional, US judge rules
A federal judge in Florida on Friday ruled that a U.S. law that bars people from possessing firearms in post offices is unconstitutional, citing a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling from 2022 that expanded gun rights. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, an appointee of Republican former President Donald Trump in Tampa, reached that conclusion […]
Man Sentenced for Illegally Distributing Over $16M of Adulterated HIV Medication
A man from Florida was given a prison sentence today, lasting four years and three months, for his involvement in a nationwide scheme to unlawfully distribute HIV drugs that were tampered with, amounting to a total value of at least $16.7 million. These adulterated drugs were then unknowingly given to patients across the country. According to […]
Texas National Guard ‘seizes control’ of border and blocks Border Patrol from area
Republican Governor Greg Abbott has seized a city park on the US-Mexico border and has reportedly directed the Texas National Guard to impede federal agents patrolling the area. The guardsmen were directed to block US Border Patrol agents from patrolling near the border town of Eagle Pass, according to CBS News . The town is where border agents typically first encounter migrants crossing into the US […]
A woman was hired to investigate racial harassment after a suicide. Then she encountered it herself.
A Black woman hired by a northern Utah school district to investigate racial harassment complaints the year after a 10-year-old Black student died by suicide says that she, too, experienced discrimination from district officials. Joscelin Thomas, a former coordinator in the Davis School District’s equal opportunity office, alleges in a federal lawsuit that district staff […]
Alabama cannot ban sex offender parents from living with kids, US judge rules
An Alabama law that bars people convicted of a sex offense involving a minor from living with a child, including their own, unconstitutionally violates the rights of parents to care for their children, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge R. Austin Huffaker in Montgomery, Alabama, in a ruling on Wednesday sided with a […]
Inmates’ bodies returned to families without hearts, other organs, suit says
The bodies of two men who died while incarcerated in Alabama’s prison system were missing their hearts or other organs when returned to their families, a federal lawsuit alleges. The family of Brandon Clay Dotson, who died in a state prison in November, filed a federal lawsuit last month against the Alabama Department of Corrections […]
Lawmakers move to make it easier to remove children from drug-addicted parents
“Washington children are dying or being seriously injured due to fentanyl exposure or ingestion of other illicit drugs.” That statement from state Rep. Travis Couture R-Allyn, is based on a recent report from the state Office of the Family and Children’s Ombuds. The group reviews cases of child death and injury for children under state supervision. The […]