Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The Deportation Project tracked them, and depicted them in this map.

Students faced prison terms and thousands of dollars in restitution over campus protest against Israel’s war on Gaza

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation passed to protect providers of gender-affirming care from charges in other states. This past weekend, the Democrat nixed Assembly Bill 2164, which would prevent the governor from honoring an extradition request for anyone who comes to California to receive an abortion or undergo gender-affirming care, citing concerns it would restrict his office’s executive authority. “This would prohibit future governors from recognizing a request for extradition of a person subject to criminal liability based on allegations that the person engaged in specified health care activities,” Newsom wrote in a veto message published on Sunday. Progressive groups voiced disappointment about the veto of AB 2164. The California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus had made the bill a priority this year, saying it was important to prohibit “future Governors from recognizing a request for extradition of a person providing or aiding legally protected reproductive health care services or gender-affirming health care services in California.”

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry filed a lawsuit Wednesday claiming that Mayor Kaohly Her sexually harassed and battered him, and that the city retaliated against him when he reported it and initiated an investigation. Several allegations in the lawsuit, which names Her and the city as defendants, had been made public during the course of an earlier internal probe into Her’s conduct. But the complaint includes new claims, including that Her made “unwanted and nonconsensual physical contact” with Henry, “placing her hand on his upper thigh beneath a conference-room table — not once, but twice — during a [St. Paul Police Department] budget meeting.” It also accuses Her of making sexual innuendos about the size of Henry’s penis and describing herself as a “MILF,” a sexually vulgar acronym. The lawsuit comes less than a week after the city announced that the misconduct investigation into the mayor found that she “engaged in offensive and inappropriate behavior” in violation of the city’s workplace conduct policy but did not sexually harass or retaliate against anyone. On top of the allegations about Her’s behavior, the lawsuit claims that the mayor hired a private public relations firm to discredit Henry after the investigation began, and that St. Paul officials violated the Minnesota Whistleblower Act when they “engaged in a series of retaliatory acts” because of the sexual harassment complaint.

The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.

Sordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down.

Stanford University created one of the world’s first artificial intelligence labs in 1965. Six decades later, the school is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner. The student, Billy Ramirez, said he was “baffled” by the change and later “felt silenced and erased from a representation that was supposed to include me” in an interview with the Stanford Review, a student newspaper, which first reported the AI change. Two classmates, an Asian woman and white man, remained in the new photo, which was displayed on a campus banner, but their faces also appeared to be altered by AI to appear thinner. The students were photographed in 2024 in a dining hall holding plates of noodles and their images were later used to promote the university’s Residential & Dining Enterprises department.

The Trump administration plans to limit the number of refugees admitted to the country to 17,500 mostly white South Africans, the administration told Congress Tuesday.

A trio of new studies shows Minnesota’s universal school meals program is providing a sense of relief to Minnesota families and students who are no longer skipping lunch and worrying less about family budgets.

The construction industry is facing a mental health crisis. In Philadelphia, workers can find more help than ever, but layoffs, long hours, injury, and instability still push many toward the brink.

Frederick County’s sheriff turned his office into a force multiplier for ICE before such collaboration became commonplace. As he again faces voters this year, the harm to immigrant communities is impossible to ignore.

In July 1979, a North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader named Joe Grady summoned two FBI agents to a Waffle House to warn them “about possible violence in the future.” Earlier that month, members of the Workers Viewpoint Organization and local Black residents had forced armed Klansmen to retreat inside a community center where they were screening the hugely controversial movie Birth of a Nation. The euphoric anti-Klan protesters celebrated by stealing their Confederate flag and burning it. That confrontation in the town of China Grove was only the most recent in a string of incidents of leftist harassment that Grady complained had violated the Klan’s constitutional rights. An official memo describing the meeting is one of thousands of pages recently released by the FBI that detail the agency’s handling of one of the most notorious episodes of white supremacist violence in the past 50 years. About three months after Grady’s warning, a caravan of Klan and Nazis, led by a former FBI informant also working with the police, drove into a Black public housing community in Greensboro and opened fire on an anti-Klan march, killing five leaders of the Workers Viewpoint Organization (later renamed Communist Workers Party).

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump administration dismantled the unit handling the inquiry.

The second half of the 20th century was something of a golden age for nuclear technology. Following the atomic devastation of WWII, the world found new, more benign uses for radioactive decay. Power plants, medical treatments, scientific research, and industry all blossomed under a benevolent nuclear glow. But with the nuclear revolution came a significant problem – what to do with all the thousands of tons of radioactive waste generated in the excitement. For Europe, the solution was relatively simple. There was a perfectly good seafloor at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean that, as far as the authorities were concerned, no one important was using. So, between 1949 and 1982, that's where it went – more than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste, totaling more than 150,000 tons, mostly dumped at depths between 3,000 and 5,000 meters (9,840 and 16,400 feet). For decades, no one really knew what had become of them. Now, scientists have descended to the wreckage in a crewed submersible to investigate – and found many of the barrels corroded and degraded, their contents spilling across the seafloor.

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed AB 713, the Opportunity for All Act, blocking a measure that would have opened paid campus employment to undocumented students at UC, CSU and community colleges.

A man has been banned from Oz Comic-Con after allegedly biting one of the artists on Sunday afternoon.

A Venezuelan man shot and wounded by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Sunday was making a DoorDash delivery in North Austin when he was shot, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was released from Dell Seton Medical Center at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday and transferred to ICE custody, attorney Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch told the American-Statesman. As of Sunday evening, his family did not know where he was being held, she said. Garces Perez’s wife, whom Lincoln-Goldfinch identified only as Elizdar, retained the attorney to represent him in his immigration case. Lincoln-Goldfinch said Garces Perez has no criminal history and has lived in Austin for about two years. Elizdar arrived at the hospital and later was joined by Lincoln-Goldfinch after first visiting the scene of the shooting, the attorney said. Hospital staff told them Garces Perez was not there and asked them to leave the property, she said. About two hours later, after Mayor Kirk Watson became involved in trying to help the family obtain information, a hospital attorney called Lincoln-Goldfinch and told her that Garces Perez had been released into ICE custody, she said.

Mangelwurzels are attracting new fans, inspiring a festival and sparking a Somerset craze.

A type of tiger cat, the animal is slender, spotted and smaller than a house cat. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.