Severely ill ICE detainees targeted for imminent deportation in Florida, advocates say
Flights to unknown countries in Africa are scheduled as early as Wednesday, relatives detailRelatives of gravely ill detainees at two Florida immigrat...
America's historic preservation law is in peril, advocates say. Here's what's at stake
Congress and a federal agency are threatening to weaken the country's historic preservation law, fueling a backlash that critics say is as fiery as th...
Civil rights advocates plan to send thousands of observers to midterm polling places
For many election cycles, civil rights groups and political parties have fanned out to monitor polling places, but the charged midterm environment has...
Women with PMOS should get subsidised weight loss drugs, advocates say
With GLP-1s to treat the condition not specifically approved by the TGA, patients are being prescribed them off-labelGet our breaking news email, free...
Coalition’s migration plan risks breaching India free trade agreement and damaging economy, advocates warn
Angus Taylor’s drastic cuts to graduate visas aim to end a citizenship pathway, but universities body says changes will make Australia less competitiv...
Trump’s executive order on recreational fishing is a ‘giveaway of fish and ocean ecosystem’, advocates warn
Federal agencies told to prioritize recreational fishing and to reconsider scientific standards as well as regulationsDonald Trump’s latest fishing or...
Press freedom advocates alarmed by $300,000 defamation verdict against Louisiana newspaper
Experts say ruling could undermine the ‘actual malice’ standard and make publishers more wary of critical reportingA $300,000 jury verdict won recentl...
Trump EPA is manipulating safety data around a highly toxic flame retardant, advocates allege
Widely used chemical TBBPA may present a danger to US public, and especially children, independent research findsThe Environmental Protection Agency i...
Trump EPA aims to exempt datacenters from disclosing air pollution, advocates warn
Trump administration proposes new rule to dismantle requirement for datacenters to publicly report air pollutionA new rule proposed by the Trump admin...
Privacy advocates call on Maryland to investigate data brokers
Maryland has one of the strictest data privacy laws in the country. But privacy advocates allege data brokers are violating the law by selling data to...
ABC changing editorial policy after Rinehart furore prompts concerns of overreach from academics and advocates
Managing director says guidelines will ensure no individual will ‘be the subject of comedy that is violent in its description in our programming’Get o...
A record number of First Nations people died in NSW prison custody last year. Advocates fear this year will be worse
Exclusive: Karlene Whitton says her son Matthew Roberts took his own life three months into his jail term. ‘I keep picturing it every night’Warning: T...
US push to defund ‘DEI bike lanes’ will make roads less safe, advocates say
Trump administration boasts of cutting $1.73bn already allocated for cycling improvements to city streetsSign up for the Breaking News US newsletter e...
Climate and rock art advocates take on Woodside’s ‘carbon bomb’ WA gas project in federal court
Albanese government’s approval of North West Shelf gas extension being challenged by the Australian Conservation Foundation and Friends of Australian ...
In private call, Education Dept. tried, but failed, to reassure disability advocates
The disability community has long worried about what would happen if special education oversight moved from the Education Department to another agency...
Advocates demand inquiry into Florida’s recently closed Alligator Alcatraz detention center
Environmentalists and immigrant-rights advocates demand accounting of damage done by notorious Everglades facilityWhile they welcome the recent closu...
Surging pokies revenue proves NSW Labor has failed to reduce gambling harm as promised, advocates say
State budget suggests Minns government is addicted to pokies revenue, with tax take predicted to jump from $1.6bn to $2.2bn annually within four years...
Prediction markets surge in US as public health advocates call for support to combat gambling
Platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket operating in areas with limited resources for people with gambling problemsPublic health resources across the US ...
DOJ memo stokes fear among disability advocates of a return to institutionalization
The Justice Department's opinion challenges civil rights protections that have long treated the institutionalization of disabled Americans as a last r...
People with cancer or HIV could lose Medicaid under new work rules, advocates say
Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick...
NT laws to allow police to hold young people for 48 hours will be ‘funnelling Aboriginal children into prisons’, advocates warn
Police will be able to question children without an adult present and hold them after being charged under draft laws introduced by the CLPGet our brea...
Crisis of First Nations children in care will worsen under NT child protection reforms, advocates warn
Legal and child advocates have criticised the changes, which include eroding the Aboriginal child placement principle, as ‘dangerous, ignorant and wro...
Advocates decry Trump’s plan to open 24m acres of federal lands to cattle grazing
Opponents say administration’s plan prioritizes big agriculture at expense of wildlife and protected speciesNew legal action aims to head off a Trump ...
Health advocates warn government’s claims of baby formula safety contradict data
Independent scientists who reviewed the results said most samples were contaminated with Pfas or phthalatesThe Trump administration announced earlier ...
Kumanjayi Little Baby: Advocates say five-year-old’s death ‘should not be politicised’ as hundreds gather at vigils
Crowds were invited to stand in silent solidarity with the family of the Warlpiri girl who was allegedly murdered in Alice Springs last weekWarning: T...
