The news that three U.S. citizen children were illegally removed from Louisiana and flown to Honduras last Friday has swept the nation. President Donald Trump’s administration continues to double down, insisting that the two mothers wanted to take their children with them, despite the deported families’ legal counsel vehemently denying …
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Three U.S. citizen children were illegally removed from Louisiana and flown to Honduras on Friday, their attorneys say, in a story that has swiftly caught national attention. Legal counsel for the two Louisiana families tells Rolling Stone that both mothers say they were not given the option of keeping their …
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A draft executive order outlines the Trump administration’s plans to gut significant parts of the State Department, including ending nearly all of its Africa operations while closing embassies and consulates. The draft additionally proposed eliminating programs that address climate change, human rights and refugee issues, and democracy. The draft, obtained …
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The lawyer working for Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who now leads the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has a history of violence and racist remarks, 10 people who knew him allege. Jeremy Lewin recently became deputy administrator for policy and programs for …
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Last fall, Momodou Taal, a dual Gambian and U.K. citizen working toward a Ph.D. in Africana studies at Cornell University, was facing suspension and the loss of his F-1 student visa because he had attended a pro-Palestine campus demonstration. As he told Rolling Stone at the time, having his legal …
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Saturday Night Live opened by addressing one of the most concerning stories yet of the second Trump administration: top officials discussing war plans in a group chat that mistakenly included a journalist. Rather than texting only the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (Andrew Dismukes), Vice President …
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The Trump administration is revoking students’ immigration status without notifying them or their schools, according to Zeteo. Citing documents and interviews with university officials, Zeteo reported that “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appears to be manually revoking students’ immigration status — an authority typically left to university staff.” Sometimes, ICE …
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Reports that Donald Trump’s top national security officials accidentally shared their Yemen attack plans with The Atlantic in real-time drove the news in official Washington in recent days. But it wasn’t the only damaging leak of information held by the administration this week. Two Trump administration spreadsheets — which each …
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The Trump administration continues to amp up their targeted attacks on international student visa-holders as part of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s “Catch and Revoke” program targeting pro-Palestine activists. Several foreign students have been arrested and detained, pulled off the sidewalk by plainclothes agents, and driven away in unmarked vehicles, …
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The Trump administration deported to El Salvador hundreds of immigrants it accused of being members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang or MS-13, and the deportations may have taken place after a court explicitly ordered they be halted and any planes in the air turn around. On Friday, Trump …
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