The Best of the Week’s News: 

• As the nation grieved the deadliest anti-Latino hate crime in living memory, the Trump administration launched massive immigration raids, separating families and losing track of kids. 
   
• Alexa, stop using child labor!
   
• Summer’s hottest domestic terror defense: Trump Made Me Do It
   
• Lifelong Detroit resident dies of diabetes on the streets of Iraq, a country he’d never even visited, after ICE deported him there. 
   
• El Monte, California passes a $30 minumum wage for rideshare drivers, the nation’s highest! 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• U.S. citizen freed after 23 horrific days in ICE detention. 
   
• The McMindfulness scam
   
• The Road to “No”: Asylum-seekers risk everything to make their case, but the courts are rarely swayed.
   
• Contempt for Consent: A Toronto doctor’s downfall 
   
• Prospective Secretary of Labor’s writings raise eyebrows in the #MeToo era. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigns over lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein, which was exposed by Hillman Prize-winner Julie K. Brown. 
   
• A former federal prosecutor explains how Jeffrey Epstein’s luck finally ran out. 
   
• “I feel like a Ground Zero patient”: People who have lost loved ones to the cult of Qanon speak out 
   
• How Trump’s sheer incompetence doomed his bid to rig the Census. 
   
• The National Education Association, the country’s largest union, affirms the right to abortion at its annual convention. 
   
• It was never about bussing, it was about desegregation. 

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• Meet the women who corroborate E. Jean Carroll’s allegations of rape against the president.
   
• The Supreme Court’s gerrymandering verdict is a disaster for democracy.
   
• The end of the Lordstown GM plant means the end of a struggle for workplace democracy. 
   
• Oregon Republican senators remain in hiding after walking out to thwart a cap-and-trade bill.