The Best of the Week’s News: 

• “This is not how I gave them my son”: 46 days in immigration detention leave lasting toll
   
• Will Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez bring socialism to the Democratic Party?
   
• Trump nominee was the architect of a legal strategy that could bankrupt unions post-Janus. 
   
• Indictments reveal deep Russian infiltrationinto U.S. election infrastructure. 
   
• The cockfighting raid that up-ended a small town
   

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• The tunnel that could break New York 
   
• Kids struggle to survive on their own after ICE takes their parents.
   
• The Army is turfing immigrants serving honorably on their path to citizenship.  
   
• Driver’s license suspensions are modern-day debtor’s prison.
   
• CalOSHA opens a third probe of Tesla’s car factory. 

Sidney’s Picks: 

• Video shows immigrant kids arriving at NYC foster facility without parents.
   
• Immigrant children forcibly drugged in detention, lawsuit alleges.
   
• “Es un avion!” A 3-year-old takes the stand in immigration court.
   
• Tech workers push back against their employers’ collaboration with ICE. 
   
• Wilbur Ross, Vladimir Putin, and the Bank of Cypress

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• New Yorker staff back union drive by huge margin. 
   
• Jails must treat opioid withdrawal, ACLU suit asserts. 
   
• Hundreds of migrant kids, separated from their parents, languish in border stations. 
   
• What happens when a peevish twerp with the attention span of a gnat runs an empire?