On Wednesday, masked plainclothes immigration officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen on a student visa, outside Tufts University, where she’s studying for a PhD. Video of her arrest, showing her being taken while walking down a street, has gone viral. Ozturk is now being held in a Louisiana detention center.   This comes after a […]

Last week, the US Department of Agriculture announced sweeping plans to increase slaughter line speeds at pork and poultry plants — a move that could further endanger workers who already process animals at a breakneck pace and suffer high levels of injury.  Workers in poultry plants don’t actually kill the chickens — that task is […]

President Donald Trump isn’t a fan of judges who rule against him. During his first term, he famously attacked Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who sentenced his ally and adviser Roger Stone, by saying she was “totally biased” and had “hatred” for both Trump and Stone. Now, Trump has only ratcheted up the attacks on judges. […]

We’re making this story accessible to all readers as a public service. At Vox, our mission is to help everyone access essential information that empowers them. Support our journalism by becoming a member today. These are uncertain times for many immigrants in the US.  There have been reports of individual visa and green card holders […]

By withholding federal funds and threatening investigations, President Donald Trump has tried to bend universities to his will. Now, he’s doing something similar: trying to get states to change their election rules. In an executive order Tuesday, Trump made what amounts to a series of demands on states to change their election laws and policies. […]