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2561 items · updated Nov 4, 2026, 11:04 AM ET
The DOJ has approved nearly half as many applications for a legal aid program in 2026, and local organizations are concerned more immigrants will go without legal help in immigration court.
Source: Borderless Magazine (borderlessmag.org)
GOP attack ads in Texas may be teaching kids the word 'transgender', in a story that mentions Ken Paxton.
Source: The Advocate (advocate.com)
GOP-aligned ads targeting Texas U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico highlight his advocacy for transgender people, upsetting some parents.
Source: them (them.us)
A federal judge limited DHS field operations targeting alleged noncitizen voting in nine states in a Wednesday ruling.
Source: Democracy Docket (news alerts) (democracydocket.com)
Milwaukee ordinance 260642, a substitute ordinance on zoning regulations for family day care homes, passed.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (milwaukee.legistar.com) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
A series of lawsuits has created a new de facto regulatory regime as courts order companies like Meta and Google to change their business practices and pay.
Source: The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Wedgewood Polls admitted it had made up its survey results; some candidates say the faked numbers killed their campaigns.
Source: Politico (politico.com)
The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration in Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D., a stay order involving plans to deport undocumented persons without a hearing to third countries.
Source: SCOTUSblog (scotusblog.com)
The Trump administration's expansion of its global gag rule threatens to derail NGOs' land mine removal work.
Source: Truthout (truthout.org)
U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres pressed HUD Secretary Scott Turner over the agency's retreat from LGBTQ+ housing protections as it shrinks its backlog of discrimination complaints.
Source: The Advocate (advocate.com)
The Trump administration dropped its legal fight over changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which forgives student loans after 10 years of payments.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
The federal government detained and sought to deport students and academics over support for Palestine, and the Supreme Court could soon take up the cases of Mahmoud Khalil and Badar Khan Suri.
Source: SCOTUSblog (scotusblog.com)
A fragile Senate permitting deal has drawn lobbying from oil and gas, mining, renewables and environmentalists, per newly filed lobbying disclosures.
Source: Axios (axios.com)
Mehdi Hasan discusses AIPAC's role in the Michigan midterm race between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers, and Trump's targeting of Ilhan Omar.
Source: Democracy Now! (democracynow.org)
A judge largely blocked D.H.S. homeland security agents from field interviews in nine states, including California, in an effort to find noncitizens registered to vote.
Source: The New York Times Politics (nytimes.com)
University of Georgia students in the toss-up governor's race between Keisha Lance Bottoms and Rick Jackson say affordability beats abortion.
Source: Rewire News Group (rewirenewsgroup.com)
In June, gusts in central New Mexico, a few hours east of Albuquerque, began powering the largest wind farm on the continent, in the biggest renewable energy project in US history.
Source: Vox (vox.com)
Nearly two in three U.S. adults younger than 30 who plan to vote in next month's midterm elections say their main motivation is to oppose President Trump, according to a Harvard Youth Poll.
Source: Axios (axios.com)
TIME reports the U.S. is considering major strikes on Iran after the midterms; Trump previously said the war would end after the November elections in the U.S.
Source: TIME (time.com)
Delaware SB 179, an act to amend Title 11 of the Delaware Code relating to the Delaware Sentencing Guidelines and Accountability Commission, was signed by the Governor on 2026-07-23.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org)