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March 20, 2026
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 363 pregnant, postpartum, or nursing women between January 1, 2025, and February 16, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in response to a request from US senators.
A woman is detained by US federal agents after exiting a court hearing in immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City, on September 3, 2025.
March 20, 2026
I was in Liberia in January and met a mother who supports her four children making concrete blocks. But her earnings are not enough to pay the registration fees charged by public schools. One daughter has already dropped out, and her 7-year-old son has never set foot in a classroom. “When I have the money, I will send him,” she told me. “Education is the best gift you can give your children.”
A junior high school classroom in Bong County, Liberia, January 2026.
March 20, 2026
Israeli forces on the evening of March 18, 2026, attacked South Pars Gas Field in Iran: one of the most important sources of natural gas for Iran’s domestic energy consumption, including home heating.
Qatar Energy's liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar, March 2, 2026.
March 19, 2026
Bahraini authorities have arrested dozens of people for exercising their right to peaceful expression amid the conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran, seeking the death penalty in some cases.
Smoke rises after an Iranian drone was intercepted over the Bahrain Financial Harbour towers, which houses the Israeli embassy, amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, in Manama, Bahrain, March 6, 2026.
March 19, 2026
Tanzanian security forces cracking down on protests during and after the country’s disputed 2025 general elections killed and injured people who were not participating in those demonstrations.
Tanzanian riot police in Dar es Salaam.
March 18, 2026
This Ramadan, as I sit down with a hot bowl of lentil soup and freshly made Uyghur noodles to break my day-long fast, I try very hard not to think about my father, thousands of miles away, in a prison, and what he does not get to eat, and if he even knows it is his favorite time of the year.
A mosque in Kumul, Xinjiang, China, during Eid Al-fitr prayer, July 2016.
March 18, 2026
In Mississippi, 38 percent of residents are Black yet there are no Black statewide elected officials. The last time a Black person held statewide office in Mississippi was during Reconstruction, more than 140 years ago. This is the result of a political system built to ensure that demographics do not translate into political representation.