Parents who fail to pay child support will face significant penalties. The U.S. Department of State will begin revoking the passports of citizens with significant child support debts, as part of a policy the Trump administration introduced as an effort to strengthen enforcement of federal laws and compel those with overdue payments to catch up.
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The Illinois State Police have launched an investigation into the death of Silverio Villegas-González, a 38-year-old Mexican man shot and killed by a federal immigration agent in September 2025 in Franklin Park — a case that has been mired in conflicting accounts and criticism over the use of force from the very beginning.
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About 1,500 beagles bred for scientific experimentation are being removed from Ridglan Farms, a facility in Wisconsin that has been breeding dogs for laboratories for more than 60 years. The removal, which began this weekend, is the result of an agreement between rescue organizations and the company, amid protests, investigations into abuse, and a legal commitment that will require the company to cease operations by July 2026.
For more than six decades, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which guaranteed access to the ballot for millions of citizens in the United States, was considered one of the greatest achievements of the civil rights movement. However, a recent Supreme Court ruling has once again brought into sharp focus the extent to which that progress remains intact. The ruling, which limits one of its key legal tools, has raised alarms about a potential setback in the political representation of historically marginalized communities.
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The Trump administration’s policy of detaining most migrants facing deportation without bail has just suffered a setback in court. A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, based in New York, ruled unanimously on Tuesday that the administration cannot broadly apply mandatory detention by classifying nearly any undocumented migrant as an “applicant for admission,” even if they have been living in the United States for years.
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The proposal started as a joke on social media and ended up with the endorsement of the U.S. president. Donald Trump has backed renaming the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to National Immigration and Customs Enforcement — NICE — a play on the acronym.
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Information about what is happening inside the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Michigan — the largest immigration detention center in the Midwest — depends on who is telling the story. According to civil society organizations and detainees inside, hundreds of detainees have gone on a hunger strike in protest of the “inhumane” conditions. For the federal government, however, no such strike is happening, and the center meets — and even exceeds — the standards of other prisons in the country.
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On April 14, Deisy Rivera Ortega went to an immigration office in El Paso with her husband, Sergeant First Class Jose Serrano, hoping to make progress on her application to remain legally in the United States. She left in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The appointment was part of the “parole in place” process, a mechanism that has traditionally allowed family members of military personnel to regularize their status without leaving the country.
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The dispute surrounding Infowars, the website founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has entered a new phase: its potential transformation into a platform run by The Onion, the well-known satirical news site. The proposal, still pending judicial approval in Texas, marks the latest chapter in a protracted legal battle that began following Jones’s false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, in which 26 people were killed. Those statements — in which he described the shooting as “a giant hoax” — led to defamation convictions that forced him to face payments of up to $1.3 billion and resulted in the liquidation of his company’s assets.
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An image of a man in his underwear, wrapped in a blanket as he was being arrested by federal agents, went viral during the massive immigration raid launched by the White House in Minnesota earlier this year, sparking outrage across the country. Now, the arrest of that man, a U.S. citizen, has triggered a criminal investigation into possible kidnapping, unlawful entry, and unlawful detention, and has opened a new front of conflict between local authorities and the federal government.
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