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News Turkish Man Arrested in U.K. on U.S. Charges of Financing Hamas Through a Charity
Mohammad Yousef Hasna, 45, of Istanbul, was arrested in the United Kingdom on July 31, 2026, and ordered held pending extradition on U.S. charges of conspiring to provide material...
News Johanna Fernández, Historian of the Young Lords and Champion of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Dies at 55
Johanna Fernández, the historian who gave the Young Lords their definitive history, pried a million pages of NYPD surveillance files out of the city's archives, and spent two decad...
News United States v. Hemani: The Supreme Court Limits the Federal Drug-User Gun Ban
On June 18, 2026, a unanimous Supreme Court held in United States v. Hemani that the government could not constitutionally prosecute Ali Danial Hemani under the federal ban on gun...
News ICE Detains Colombian Activist Beto Coral as His Allies Allege Political Retaliation
Franklin "Beto" Coral Garrido — a Colombian attorney, former congressional candidate, and one of the most visible online supporters of President Gustavo Petro — was arrested by U.S...
News The Broadview Six: A Federal ICE-Protest Conspiracy Case Collapses Over Grand-Jury Misconduct
A rare federal conspiracy case against six Chicago-area anti-ICE protesters — among them congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh — collapsed in 2026 after grand-jury transcripts sh...
News After 18 Years, Marius Mason Walks Out: Last Green Scare ELF Political Prisoner Released to Detroit Halfway House
After 18 years inside the Federal Bureau of Prisons on one of the longest sentences any Green Scare defendant received, environmental and anarchist political prisoner Marius Mason...
News "Albanese Has Done Nothing More Than Speak": Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Sanctions on UN Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
A federal judge in Washington has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's IEEPA sanctions against the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territory...
News Trump's New Counterterrorism Strategy Designates Antifa and Left-Wing Networks Among 'Major' Terror Groups
On May 7, 2026, the White House released the first counterterrorism strategy of President Trump's second term, classifying left-wing networks — including Antifa — among three 'majo...
News Nothing Burned, Three Indicted: Georgia Attorney General Charges Cop City Protesters for 2022 Action
Days before his gubernatorial primary, AG Chris Carr unveils new "arson" charges against three out-of-state Stop Cop City defendants — for an action where, organizers say, no struc...
News DOJ Fires the Immigration Judges Who Ruled for Pro-Palestine Activists
On April 10, 2026 the Justice Department fired six immigration judges — including the two whose rulings had blocked the Trump administration from deporting Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohse...
News Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys
The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to priso...
News DOJ Working Group Targets Prosecutors Behind Biden FACE Act Cases
The Justice Department released a long-awaited report arguing that the Biden administration had egregiously weaponized a law that has historically been used to prosecute people who...