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Though the Trump administration has declared a crusade to remove “criminal illegal immigrant killers, rapists, gangbangers, and other violent criminals” from the United States, immigrants who are farm workers, expectant parents, recent high school graduates and newlyweds have found themselves swept up in raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Families and friends have increasingly turned to fundraising platforms such as GoFundMe, looking for help with legal fees, living expenses, travel costs and medical bills as loved ones — often primary breadwinners — are detained, deported or await immigration hearings, sometimes hundreds of miles from home.

Militant leftists and Proud Boys clashed on a soccer field in a public park in western Kentucky over the Fourth of July weekend, escalating to members of the two opposing groups drawing firearms, according to video and a police incident report.

The armed confrontation took place on July 5 after antifascist protesters assembled in a parking lot at Thompson Berry Park in Owensboro, Kentucky, and walked towards a double chain-link fence separating the park from the backyard of a private residence where the Proud Boys were gathering.

As the Senate staged a voting marathon on amendments to President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” ahead of the July 4 holiday, legislators, academics and physicians warned of the devastation the mega-spending package could cause people reliant on Medicaid.

At least three in four losing coverage would be due to Medicaid cuts in the bill, creating “stress and angst related to having gaps in coverage,” Adrianna McIntyre, an assistant professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told Raw Story.

Just three days after President Donald Trump unleashed a record-breaking flurry of 26 Inauguration Day executive orders, professors at the nation’s largest historically Black college began learning their research funding was threatened, prompting exasperation and concern.

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Raw Story through a North Carolina Public Records Law request reveal how administrators and faculty at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, N.C., navigated the cultural hot button issues addressed in Trump’s executive orders — from DEI to immigration — in an attempt to keep federal funding and protect students.

Last October, after Hurricane Helene devastated swathes of the U.S. southeast, a surge of misinformation stoked by right-wing public figures fueled open hostility towards the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in affected states.

On the national stage, figures including Donald Trump, the then-GOP presidential nominee, claimed the Biden administration was not helping Republican areas. In remote hollers of western North Carolina, bands of men appeared, equipped for war, asking questions of official responders.