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How I Got Dragged Into a Putin Disinformation Op

A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and...

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David Corn

How Corporate Influencers Facilitated Trump’s Assault on Climate Research

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Recent attacks on US...

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Sara Sneath

Meet Kristan Hawkins, the “Charlie Kirk of Abortion”

This story is part of the Life After Roe package, appearing this week, which looks at the surprising resilience of the abortion access movement in the...

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Reported By Amy Littlefield

Prosecutors Are Revisiting Allegations of Gang Rape at Cornell

After a week of intensifying public pressure and reporting from Cornell’s independent daily newspaper, prosecutors in New York have reopened a...

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Inae Oh

Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Ads Are Receiving Bipartisan Criticism

President Donald Trump has become the subject of bipartisan pushback after another taxpayer-funded television ad aired during at least two Sunday NFL...

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Alex Nguyen

Irish Soccer Fans Call for Boycotting Matches With Israel

On Sunday afternoon, Ireland is set to play a soccer match against Israel amid widespread public calls and protests in the country to boycott the game...

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Alex Nguyen

Rest Assured: AI Companies Say They’re Investigating Tens of Thousands of Rogue Bot Incidents

OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of incidents where their advanced models bypassed monitors and guardrails,...

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Alex Nguyen

Germany Is Building a Digital Noah’s Ark for US Climate Data

This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a modern five-story building in...

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Christian Schwägerl

Union: CDC Lost a Third of Its Workforce in One Year

A new report by the American Federation of Government Workers has documented a staggering level of staff attrition at the Centers for Disease Control...

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Sophie Hurwitz

Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike

Joe Lonsdale, a cofounder of weapons-tech company Palantir, shared some of his thoughts on America’s AI-assisted warfare at a Reuters-hosted event...

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Sophie Hurwitz

The Art Trump Doesn’t Want and the Artists Left Behind

Last year, arts organizations and cultural institutions across the US received an alarming message: Their federal grants had been canceled. The...

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You’re Paying For Donald Trump’s New Ad

Since Wednesday, the federal government has been airing a taxpayer-funded political advertisement on channels like Fox News promoting the virtues of...

25.09.2026 5

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Sophie Hurwitz

Tim Tebow “Pausing” Christian Seminar Promotion After Our Investigation

Update, September 25: In an emailed response (PDF) to Tebow’s announcement that he planned to pause his relationship with Life Surge, the...

25.09.2026 3

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Kiera Butler

How the Author of a Bestselling Book on Biological War Feels About AI

We’ve been hearing a great deal recently about the specter of AI-driven human extinction. Maybe our misplaced trust in AI intelligence will set off...

25.09.2026 6

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Michael Mechanic

The Video Game Industry Is Brutal. Now It’s Unionizing.

By 6 p.m. Sunday, the union had already run out of the colorful pins representing each bargaining unit—all 7,000 of them—as people kept coming up...

25.09.2026 4

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Alex Nguyen

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Use Flawed Database to Vet Voter Citizenship

The Supreme Court cleared the way on Friday for the Trump administration to use a controversial government program in its aggressive search for...

25.09.2026 6

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Ari Berman

El Niño’s Estimated Death Toll From Extreme Heat Alone: 451,000 by February

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 450,000 people are...

25.09.2026 4

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Damian Carrington

New Yorkers Lined the Streets Against Benjamin Netanyahu’s Visit

In the early months of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the streets of New York were filled with protests. Hundreds of people were arrested, bridges and...

24.09.2026 4

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Sophie Hurwitz

How Russia Is Attacking the Midterms with a Mother Jones Deepfake

A few days ago, an X user called роман—which is Russian for the name “Roman”—posted a purported Mother Jones video that reported that the...

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David Corn

Thousands Rally Against Trump’s Kennedy Center Takeover

President Trump’s mindset when it comes to the Kennedy Center is that of an authoritarian toddler: If he can’t have the toys he wants, he’ll try...

24.09.2026 4

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Sonel Cutler

A Bookseller Confronts a Mysterious Company Hunting His Rarest Books

Brandon Thomas DiSabatino is used to receiving unusual emails. DiSabatino is a poet, author, playwright, and the owner of Conveyor Belt Books, a rare...

24.09.2026 10

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Anna Merlan

Exclusive: Mamdani on Extreme Weather, DoorDash, And Why Trump Likes Him So Much

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Thursday directly linked the climate crisis to everyday issues facing New Yorkers, including commutes and...

24.09.2026 3

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Sophie Hurwitz

The SEC Wants to Scrap a Key Anti-Corruption Rule Targeting Private Equity

Earlier this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission quietly published a proposal to rescind a long-standing anti-corruption measure that...

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Hannah Levintova

Trump to Ballroom Architect: “I Am the Code”

“I am the code.” So said President Trump to the first architect working on the new White House ballroom being built on the ruins of the...

23.09.2026 5

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Alex Nguyen

JD Vance Is Coming For Your Obamacare

The Trump administration is removing about 760,000 people from Affordable Care Act coverage, Vice President JD Vance and Centers for Medicare &...

23.09.2026 8

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Sophie Hurwitz

As Trump Banned News Outlets, His Own Media Company’s Stock Shot Up

Something strange occurred recently: The stock price of Donald Trump’s beleaguered media company shot up. What happened? While the cause isn’t...

23.09.2026 6

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Russ Choma

What World Is Melania Living In?

First Lady Melania Trump appeared on Fox and Friends on Wednesday to defend her husband’s second term despite his abysmal approval rating stemming,...

23.09.2026 5

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Newsom Vetoes Bill That Would Ban Extraditions for Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care

When Louisiana authorities tried to extradite a California doctor last winter for sending abortion pills to women in their state, Gov. Gavin Newsom...

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Nina Martin

Loyalists Only, Please. Why Trump Surrounds Himself With True Believers

President Donald Trump’s second term has often felt like an exercise in mass distraction. As soon as he’s directing people to pay attention to one...

23.09.2026 10

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The Party’s Over. But Trump’s America 250 Anniversary May Never End.

The Trump administration says it plans to shut down Freedom 250, the quasi-private organization it used to take over the country’s 250th anniversary...

22.09.2026 10

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Dan Friedman

Trump Threatens to “Annihilate” Iran and Its People in UN Address

President Trump’s rambling, combative speech Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly saw him return to his most serious quagmire yet—the...

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Alex Nguyen

The Trump Administration’s Hard-On for AI, Explained

In recent weeks, a fresh crop of people connected to the artificial intelligence industry have emerged to warn that AI is possibly going to kill us...

22.09.2026 10

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Anna Merlan

Time to Revisit Trump-Russia Collusion

A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and...

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David Corn

Sickened Coal Miners Plead for Their Black Lung Benefits as Cases Surge

This story was originally co-published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For 38 years, Josh Armes...

22.09.2026 7

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Michael Sainato

Trump’s Desperate for TV Cameras Until They Tell the Truth

President Donald Trump, who loves a media hit, may no longer get his moments of glory on television after major news networks ABC, CBS, Fox News, and...

21.09.2026 10

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Alex Nguyen

Which Side Is Ed Sheeran On?

Ed Sheeran opened his Philadelphia show Saturday night by admitting to “making mistakes”—maybe not quite the apology some people were hoping...

20.09.2026 10

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Alex Nguyen

Trump Wants to Make His Triumphal Arch a Killing Machine

President Donald Trump said that he plans to make his proposed 250-foot arch in Washington, DC, a “top grade military complex” that holds large...

20.09.2026 10

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Alex Nguyen

In Rare Move, Democrats Try to Block a Sale of Bombs to Israel

The top Democrats on the House and Senate foreign affairs committees this week announced their intent to block a $2.8 billion sale of 60,000 one-ton...

19.09.2026 10

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Sophie Hurwitz

What to Know About Trump’s New “Infinite” Greenland Deal

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that the United States has reached an agreement with Denmark and Greenland to give the US “permanent...

19.09.2026 9

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Sophie Hurwitz

These Black Los Angeles Residents May Soon Receive Environmental Reparations

This story was originally published by Capital B and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As a child in the 1950s and ’60s,...

19.09.2026 9

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Adam Mahoney

Did My IUD Make My Depression Worse?

After Mother Jones senior reporter Julia Lurie had her IUD removed, she was surprised to find that she felt happier and calmer than she had in years....

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It’s the End of the World as Chat Pile Knows It

I grew up in a highly insular environment, never knowing—let alone interacting with—the outside world, in part due to my family’s history with...

18.09.2026 10

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Alex Nguyen

What Else Is the Pentagon Hiding From Us?

More US military personnel have reportedly died during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has shared publicly, the latest and most serious...

18.09.2026 10

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Alex Nguyen

The Kennedy Center Is Just Trump’s Latest Hostage

Donald Trump has in lurched, in short order, from would-be savior to abductor of the Kennedy Center, replacing vows to restore the facility’s...

18.09.2026 10

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Reported By Dan Friedman With Video By Sonel Cutler

“Near a Breaking Point:” Trump Is Failing Firefighters in an Intense Burn Season

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Firefighters battling enormous...

18.09.2026 10

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Gabrielle Canon

Microplastics in Soil Act Like a Tiny “Trojan Horse” for Delivering Toxins

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Microplastics act like a...

17.09.2026 10

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Pippa Neill

Is Meta Using Disabled People to Promote Its Glasses?

In July, Meta published a press release saying that it would issue $2 million worth of grants to 30 organizations that would test ways its AI glasses...

17.09.2026 10

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Julia Métraux

Trump’s Friends Are Already Signing Deals to Take Venezuela’s Oil

“It’s a milestone deal in making the Western Hemisphere the center of the global energy system,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on...

17.09.2026 10

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Alex Nguyen

Killer AI Is Already Here. We’re Using It in Iran.

More than 60 percent of Americans believe it’s at least moderately likely that artificial intelligence will kill us all, according to a Politico...

17.09.2026 10

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Sophie Hurwitz

Cory Mills’ Career Imploded. Then His Grenade Factory Exploded.

Last month, Cory Mills’ career in Congress imploded when the Florida Republican lost his primary by 13 points. Now part of a weapons facility...

17.09.2026 10

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Noah Lanard