Andrea González-Ramírez

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Photo: Ted Shaffrey/AP An immigration judge in Louisiana ruled on Friday that the Trump administration may deport Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist whom the government has targeted for helping lead Columbia University’s Gaza-solidarity student protests last year. Khalil is married to an American citizen and had a green card. The Trump administration has not accused him of any crime, and he has never been convicted of a crime that could put his legal status at risk.

2 weeks ago | thecut.com | Andrea González-Ramírez

Far-right conservatives may not have gotten their wish of ending women’s right to vote just yet, but Congress inched closer to that pipe dream when it passed a bill on Thursday that could make it considerably harder for married women and millions of other Americans to vote. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, also known as the SAVE Act, would make sweeping changes to the voter-registration process and codify an executive order that President Donald Trump signed last month.

2 weeks ago | thecut.com | Andrea González-Ramírez

The Jonathan Majors comeback tour hit a snag this week, after Keke Palmer pulled an interview with the actor and convicted domestic abuser for her podcast, Baby, This Is Keke Palmer. The episode, which Palmer has been teasing for several days, was set to be released on April 8. However, after facing backlash, Palmer and her podcast network Wondery released an episode featuring rapper Kash Doll in its place. Majors’s interview has also been scrubbed from the podcast’s landing pages.

2 weeks ago | thecut.com | Andrea González-Ramírez

Photo: ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images All charges have been dismissed against a 24-year-old woman in Tifton, Georgia who was arrested last month after she lost her pregnancy at 19 weeks, the Tift County district attorney’s office announced on Friday. The case had alarmed reproductive health advocates, who said it was the first time authorities had attempted to use a fetal-personhood law that has been on the books in Georgia since 2019 to bring criminal charges against someone.

2 weeks ago | thecut.com | Andrea González-Ramírez

Photo: Laura Thompson/Shutterstock British police charged comedian Russell Brand on Friday with multiple counts of sexual assault and rape. Prosecutors say the alleged incidents, which involve four women, took place between 1999 and 2005.