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The Trump administration has stripped protections from unaccompanied migrant children and undocumented minors to fast-track deportations, a new lawsuit challenging the administration argues. The administration’s policies have created harrowing scenes in courts across the country, where an increasing number of kids appear before judges without a lawyer or the legal support nec...

In the first few weeks of October, three national pollsters asked three different questions about transgender issues, and all three landed in the same place from different angles: the anti-transgender ads this year may be backfiring on Republican strategists. Navigator Research, AP-NORC and ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos polls collectively found that voters trust Democrats on...

The leader of the movement that opposed separatists’ efforts to achieve independence for the Canadian province of Alberta said Monday night that voters’ resounding rejection of the secession push would “send a very strong message to the rest of the world,” after Trump administration officials backed the effort. “Don’t mess with Canada,” said Thomas Lukaszuk, a former deputy p...

Former Columbia University graduate student and pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil has filed a request to the Supreme Court, asking it to overturn an appellate court’s ruling that could lead to his being detained and deported by the Trump administration in the near future. Khalil is a legal U.S. resident, and his spouse has citizenship status, making the administration’s a...

Mississippi’s attorney general announced Monday that the police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in June “was justified.” “Today, the Office of the Attorney General announced it has completed the review of a June 14, 2026, incident in Senatobia involving one officer with the Senatobia Police Department,” the statement from the office of Mississippi’s attorney general, Lynn ...