News for April 30, 2025

The Education Department has opened a civil rights investigation into Chicago Public Schools over a program meant to support Black students and staff.

A new NBC News poll says most Americans oppose trans women competing in female sports, even as support is higher among Gen Z and the issue remains tied to Trump administration policy.

Maine lawmaker Laurel Libby is asking the Supreme Court to restore her voting rights after the Maine House censured her for a Facebook post about transgender student sports.

John Reid, Virginia’s Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, says Governor Glenn Youngkin’s team tried to pressure him off the ballot by threatening to spread false lewd photos.

ICE raided an Oklahoma City home during a search for other suspects, and a U.S.-citizen family says the agents wrongly traumatized them and took their belongings.

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia student and green card holder, was released from ICE detention after a federal judge in Vermont said his case raised serious First Amendment concerns.

A judge ordered Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi released on bail while he fights his immigration detention case.

More than 40 Democratic lawmakers are pressing Customs and Border Protection to explain tougher screening and detention tactics at U.S. ports of entry.

The Supreme Court appeared open to letting Oklahoma approve the nation’s first religious public charter school, a case that could reshape the line between church and state.

President Donald Trump backed Massapequa’s fight to keep its Native American school mascot after New York state moved to ban such names and threatened funding.