ICE Detention of USF Professor Draws Protests and Demands for Her Release
Democracy Now!'s November 13, 2026 headlines roundup covers protests demanding the release of Ann Lawani, a Nigerian-born University of San Francisco professor and nurse whom ICE detained nearly two months earlier and is holding in Basile, Louisiana, plus Chris Van Hollen's challenge to Chuck Schumer for Senate majority leader, a Sunrise Movement sit-in at Schumer's office, Jensen Huang's resignation from Nvidia, and a Microsoft outage. It also reports Iranian and Houthi attacks, deaths in Gaza and a 49-nation call for Israel to ease restrictions, ICE jail deaths and hunger strikes, and the deadly Brooklyn building collapse.
