Coffee workers see the money, thousands score a permanent basic income, an alleged Democratic turncoat feels the heat, and a city adopts radical housing reform.
In an 8-3 decision, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, voted to abandon the universal hepatitis B birth dose recommendation for newborns, ending a decades-old advisement for infants to receive their first dose within 24 hours of birth. The decision cements a longtime goal of the […]
A major immigration crackdown is underway in New Orleans and the surrounding areas of Louisiana, dubbed “Operation Catahoula Crunch” by the Trump administration. According to planning documents, 250 federal agents will aim to make 5,000 arrests over two months. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the operation will target “the worst of the worst,” though the number of arrests being planned suggests that authorities will conduct broad sweeps including those who have no criminal records, as has happened in other immigration crackdowns.
“They’re going to target whoever they can, and as the Supreme Court has unfortunately authorized them, they’re using racial profiling as part of that approach,” says Homero López, legal director for the New Orleans-based organization Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy, or ISLA. “What they’re doing is they’re taking folks out of our community: our neighbors, our friends, our family members.”
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Hamm v. Smith, a death penalty case that will decide whether intellectual disability can be ruled out on the basis of IQ tests alone. Long before he was convicted of murder in 1997, Joseph Clifton Smith was placed in schooling for an intellectual disability. Smith […]