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Social Justice

In a Desperate Search for Detention Space, the U.S. Moves 1,600 Immigrants to Federal Prisons

Over the weekend, 1,600 people being detained at the border were transferred to federal prisons because current detention infrastructure can no longer house the overwhelming number of detainees.

Ashley Hackett

News in Brief

Suicide Rates Have Increased Across the U.S. Since 1999

From 1999 through 2016, suicide rates increased in nearly every state, according to a new report.

Jack Denton

Environment

Scientists Create a Cheaper Way to Pull Carbon Dioxide From the Atmosphere

In a study released Thursday, a group of scientists announced the creation of what they say is a significantly cheaper method to scrub carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere.

Jack Denton

Kim Kardashian poses with President Donald Trump at the White House.

Social Justice

Trump Commutes the Life Sentence of the First-Time Drug Offender Backed by Kim Kardashian

President Donald Trump on Wednesday commuted the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, who has already served 21 years of a life sentence for charges of cocaine possession and money laundering.

Francie Diep

Demonstrators protest Trump administration policy that enables federal agents to separate undocumented migrant children from their parents at the border on June 5th, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.

Social Justice

U.S. Border Stations Are Now Overflowing With Migrant Children

Customs and Border Protection agents are running out of space to shelter the hundreds of migrant children who have been separated from their parents at the United States border as part of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy.

Ashley Hackett

Police officers push back demonstrators as they protest against President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on January 20th, 2017.

Social Justice

Jury Appears Deadlocked on Fate of Trump Inauguration Protesters

A Washington, D.C., jury appears deadlocked in the cases of three people facing felony charges for destruction of property during protests on President Donald Trump's inauguration day.

Kate Wheeling

News in Brief

ICE Agents Arrest More Than 100 Employees at an Ohio Landscaping Company

The raid was one of the largest stings in recent years.

Kate Wheeling

The Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C.

Social Justice

The Supreme Court Voids an Appeals Court’s Ruling on a Detained Immigrant Abortion Case

Acceding to a request from the Trump administration, the Supreme Court has voided a federal appeals court's ruling upholding the right of teens in immigration custody to seek abortions.

Ashley Hackett

Protesters hold up placards during the London March for Choice, calling for the legalising of abortion in Ireland after the referendum announcement, outside the Embassy of Ireland in central London on September 30, 2017. Tens of thousands are expected at a rally for abortion rights in Dublin on September 30, campaigning on one side of a fierce debate after Ireland announced it will hold a referendum on the issue next year.

Social Justice

A Judge Temporarily Blocks Iowa’s Controversial Abortion Ban

The injunction is the first step in a legal challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa and Planned Parenthood.

Rebecca Worby

The Supreme Court has agreed to bypass lower appeals courts and review a case about a question on the 2020 census asking about citizenship status.

Social Justice

Immigrant Rights Groups File a Lawsuit Challenging the Census’ Citizenship Question

The suit's plaintiffs say the question could discourage certain ethnic minorities from completing the census due to fears that their responses could be used against them.

Rebecca Worby