Fast-growing Overland Park firm emerges as largest creditor in medical interpreter bankruptcy

An Overland Park company is the largest creditor of a medical translation company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The Conversation

The Constitution promises an interpreter for fair trials – US courts often can’t deliver

In northern Oregon, just before dawn in October 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested and shackled two farmworkers on their way to work. The man and woman were Guatemalan ...
CNN

This interpreter helped migrants navigate immigration court. Then she was detained by DHS

As a courtroom interpreter in Texas’ immigration system, it was Meenu Batra’s job to make sure migrants understood the proceedings of immigration court – the good and the bad. In March, Batra was ...
NPR

A Colorado hospital profits from resolving language barriers

RIFLE, Colo. — Maria Olivo started serving as her mom's interpreter when she was about five or six years old, whether they were at a bank or a doctor's office. They lived in Rifle, Colo., a desert ...
CBS News

Longtime courtroom interpreter detained by ICE says she worked in U.S. legally for decades: "You can't sleep because you're afraid"

Brownsville, Texas — In the Batra family home near Brownsville, Texas, siblings Amrita, Lucas, Aaryan and Jasper are making lunch without their mother, 53-year-old Meenu Batra. "It doesn't feel right ...
The Texas Observer

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport

Update: Meenu Batra was released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention on April 30. A federal judge in Brownsville mandated her release that same day through a temporary restraining order ...
The Source Magazine

The Interpreter of Broken Systems

Josephine Peña Persaud spent her childhood translating the world for her parents. Now, she is writing code to translate the legal system for everyone else. There is a specific kind of silence that ...
GitHub

Open Interpreter

Open Interpreter lets LLMs run code (Python, Javascript, Shell, and more) locally. You can chat with Open Interpreter through a ChatGPT-like interface in your ...
Mother Jones

ASL Interpreters Are Unionizing—And They Say They’re Getting Fired for It

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On a quick break between calls, Kathleen’s co-worker asked her where she could learn ...
cyberpress

New Study Claims GPT-5.2 Can Reliably Develop Zero-Day Exploits at Scale

A recent technical study demonstrates that advanced language models, particularly GPT-5.2, can systematically develop functioning exploits for previously unknown vulnerabilities, raising critical ...
The Conversation

AI translation is replacing interpreters in GP care – here’s why that’s troubling

When a doctor can’t find an interpreter, many now reach for Google Translate. It seems like a practical fix to a pressing problem. But a new study warns this quick solution may be putting refugee and ...