Headlines December 22, 2025 from Democracy Now!
ACLU Sounds Alarm over Surge of Deaths of Immigrants Jailed by ICE
Dec 22, 2025





An MIT professor was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Authorities have opened a homicide investigation into the killing of 47-year-old Nuno Loureiro, who was the director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. In January, President Biden had awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers to Loureiro.


“The community of Leavenworth has made it clear multiple times that ICE and CoreCivic are not welcome to wreak the havoc of federal immigration enforcement here,” Kubic said, “and local and state leaders do not have to give in.”
