Speaking at a press conference one day after the shootings by two teenagers who killed three Muslim men at the Islamic Center of San Diego, Hawaa Abdullah, the daughter of slain victim Amin Abdullah, passionately conveyed how seriously her father took his job of protecting the community. With her voice trembling, Hawaa’s grief was palpable, especially as she recalled her father’s deep sense of…
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The Trump administration is withholding pay from legal aid groups while demanding they share confidential case data about unaccompanied migrant children fighting to remain in the country, according to records reviewed by The Lever. For months, the records show, the primary legal services provider for unaccompanied migrant youth has been locked in a standoff with the federal government over…
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What happens to higher education when institutions dedicated to critical thought increasingly align themselves with the logics of war, surveillance, and national security? Unless we mount an organized resistance, we may viscerally experience the answer to this question all too soon. We are already watching this transformation play out in both the U.S. and Canada as universities face growing…
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Days after being fired from the CBS News program “60 Minutes” for speaking out against the dismissal of several top correspondents and declaring that editor-in-chief Bari Weiss was “brought in to kill” the show, veteran journalist Scott Pelley described in detail the right-wing former opinion columnist’s efforts to push for political coverage that centered the White House’s point of view…
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A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked an attempt by the US Department of Agriculture to force state governments to comply with President Donald Trump’s positions on gender and immigration or lose out on billions of dollars in funding, including for food assistance. The attorneys general of the District of Columbia and 20 Democrat-led states sued the department and Secretary of…
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A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a series of President Donald Trump’s policies that he ruled were rooted in “anti-immigrant sentiments” and ordered the administration to resume processing of asylum grants and immigration benefit applications of people from 39 targeted countries. Last November, US Citizenship and Immigration Services indefinitely suspended asylum…
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