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AIPAC, AI, Crypto and Gambling Are Hiding Their Big Election Spends

Intercept staffers break down the latest election news and the front groups fueling the midterms.

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Corporate Interests Paid for Haley Stevens' Trip to Portugal — and Her Campaign Ads

Center Forward sent Stevens — and her mom — to a banking and crypto conference. Now it's spending millions on ads in Michigan.

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Jonah Valdez

DNC Autopsy of 2024 Loss Doesn’t Mention Gaza or Israel at all

Commissioned from an outside consultant, the 192-page report on why Democrats lost doesn't address a key source of disillusionment with the party.

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Noah Hurowitz

ICE Recruitment Tweets Are So Racist That Cops Feared They Could Incite Neo-Nazi Violence

A newly uncovered police bulletin warns that white supremacists may interpret ICE social media content as a call to violence.

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Matt Sledge

Ahmadinejad Is Still Bad for Iranians — and Still Great for Israel

A bombshell report shows how Israel and the U.S. never really cared about freeing the Iranian people.

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Voices

False Testimony Sent Tony Carruthers to Death Row. Tennessee Is About to Kill Him.

Carruthers’s murder conviction hinged on the claims of paid informant, who has repeatedly recanted his testimony.

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Liliana Segura

The End of the Voting Rights Act Isn’t Just a “Black Problem”

Preserving racial hierarchy remains one of most animating impulses in American political life.

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Ebola Outbreak Rages After Trump Gutted Global Health Safeguards

“The outbreaks of Ebola and hantavirus in the past two weeks show why international threats need an international response.”

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Nick Turse

Thomas Massie Loses His Seat in a Win for Trump — and AIPAC

The race was widely viewed as a referendum on the president. It was also a test of the pro-Israel lobby's power.

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Matt Sledge

Pennsylvania Primary Results: Philadelphia Voters Could Send the Next Squad Member to Congress

Progressives including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez united around Chris Rabb in the tight four-way race.

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Akela Lacy

Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization” Fund Is a Handout to His Hardcore Supporters

Putting January 6 rioters on the dole is a new kind of corruption — and it definitely won’t help the American working class.

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Xavier Becerra Pushed to Inflate a Black Man’s IQ to Execute Him as California AG

Becerra, a front-runner for California governor, has a history of blocking police accountability measures and seeking to uphold the death penalty.

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Akela Lacy

Who’s Spending in Your Congressional Election? We Tracked the Front Groups Fueling the 2026 Midterms.

Murky political spending groups tout innocuous causes like “jobs,” “democracy,” and “electing women.” Here’s a guide to who’s really behind them.

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Matt Sledge

A “Scheme” Against Dobbs: SCOTUS Dissent Hints at Next Phase of Abortion Rights Fight

Justice Clarence Thomas argues the Comstock Act, passed in 1873, prohibits the mailing of abortion medication.

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Jessica Washington

CDC Didn’t Tell New York About Resident on Hantavirus-Plagued Cruise

There’s no indication that the New Yorker had imminent plans to return to the U.S. But public health experts said the city and state still...

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Jacqueline Sweet

Internal Pentagon Report Reveals Hegseth Is Willfully Putting Civilians in Danger

A damning Department of War report finds that the Pentagon didn’t fully implement any required civilian harm mitigation measures.

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Nick Turse

“We Will Find You and We Will Kill You”

The Trump administration’s new counterterrorism strategy turns its political enemies into enemies of the state.

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How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk

The Intercept annotated the White House document to show how the U.S. government is bringing its war on terror home.

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Nick Turse

DOJ Escalates War on Trans Youth Healthcare With Criminal Subpoenas

We already know how high the stakes are for patients and their families — and rolling over now could hurt all of medicine.

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Voices

Richard Glossip Set For Release From Jail After Three Decades Behind Bars

After nine execution dates, three last meals and a Supreme Court ruling in his favor, Richard Glossip should soon walk free.

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Liliana Segura

Scott Wiener Opposes a California Billionaire Tax. So Do His Tech CEO Backers.

Crypto executive Chris Larsen has spent millions fighting billionaire tax measures, and he’s the largest individual donor to a PAC backing Wiener.

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Jonah Valdez

Miami Beach Official Hired Billboard Truck to Call Pro-Palestine Activists “Jew Hater,” Lawsuit Alleges

City Commissioner David Suarez is accused of hiring the trucks to single out members of the activist group Jewish Voice for Peace.

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Noah Hurowitz

FBI Tip Claimed Mahmoud Khalil Called for “Violence on Behalf of Hamas” Two Days Before ICE Arrest

The FBI probe was promptly closed and found Khalil did not “warrant further investigation.” The Trump administration kept calling him a threat.

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Akela Lacy

Hegseth Asks for More Money as Iran War Costs Skyrocket

War Secretary Pete Hegseth was on Capitol Hill Tuesday to defend the Pentagon’s $1.5 trillion budget request.

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Nick Turse

7 Examples of Gaza Media Coverage That Prove Pro-Israel Bias

U.S. media outlets were crucial in helping Israel sell the Gaza genocide to the American public.

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Adam Johnson

Israeli Real Estate Expo Advertising West Bank Settlements Returns to NYC

The controversial event and the NYPD’s response to resulting protests present a test for Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

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Noah Hurowitz

A Trump U.S. Attorney’s Professional Misconduct Must Be Kept “Private and Confidential”

A legal disciplinary panel won’t disclose any details about its inquiry into John Sarcone, a Trump loyalist in New York.

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Matt Sledge

Dodging FOIA Could Now Mean Arrest and Strip Search, Depending on Who’s Asking

The DOJ is now treating evading a records request as a crime, a stunning act of hypocrisy from the Trump administration.

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Big Finance Might Be Dooming the SPLC — Even Before Its Day in Court

Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are tamping down on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s donations as the government’s de facto censors.

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Tennessee GOP Moves to Decimate Black Voting Power After Supreme Court’s Blessing of Jim Crow

With the Supreme Court blessing racial gerrymandering, Tennessee’s GOP rushed to eliminate the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

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Amid Hantavirus Panic, the Ivermectin Super Fans Are Back

Those who cheered ivermectin as a Covid-19 treatment are now making unsubstantiated claims about its use against hantavirus.

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Austin Campbell

The Supreme Court Ends Multiracial Democracy as We Know It

As Tennessee eliminated its only majority-Black district, Ari Berman and Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson explain how SCOTUS enabled the...

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Hasan Piker Is the Democrats’ New Man on the Trail, Whether They Like It or Not

Insurgent candidates like Bush are tapping Piker as a campaign surrogate — but they still face an uphill battle to winning.

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Maine Dems to Vote on Condemning DCCC Interference in House Primary

National Democrats put their weight behind a candidate in Maine's hotly contested House race just weeks before the primary. Locals are pissed.

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Noah Hurowitz

Lawyer on EEOC’s New York Times Lawsuit Has History Battling Discrimination Against Men

A former EEOC chair said, “They’re putting out their best facts in this complaint, and the facts are pathetic.”

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Bryce Covert

She Opposed His Plan for a Blockchain City. Now He’s Bankrolling Her Primary Opponent.

A crypto mogul gave $2.5 million to a candidate running against state Sen. Nicole Cannizzaro in the Nevada attorney general race.

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Matt Sledge

Hegseth Clings to Phony Ceasefire to Help Trump Evade War Powers Pressure

War Secretary Pete Hegseth insists “the ceasefire is not over,” despite renewed combat between U.S. and Iranian forces.

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Nick Turse

Mamdani Condemns NYC Expo Promoting Property Sales in Israeli West Bank Settlements

Past real-estate expos that included illegal Israeli settlements have come under scrutiny for discrimination — and led to violent confrontations.

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Noah Hurowitz

Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Archaeological Site to Make Room for a Second Border Wall

DHS was in talks with the wildlife refuge that hosts the ancient site to make sure it was protected, a local archeologist said.

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Adam Federman

Clavicular and the Right-Wing Project to Radicalize Young Men

The popular streamer offers easy answers for why the world has left young men feeling unhappy and alone.

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Voices

Portland AI Company Ships Targeting Tech to Israeli Drone Maker

Sightline Intelligence specializes in video processing and claims its AI can separate civilians from militants.

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Noah Hurowitz

Trump’s Killing Spree Isn’t Stopping the Flow of Drugs Into the U.S.

The Trump administration falsely claims that boat strikes target fentanyl and have halted 97 percent of cocaine shipments to the U.S.

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Nick Turse

Never Apologize

James Comey, Zohran Mamdani, and the lost art of doubling down.

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Voices

Graham Platner Handed Centrist Dems a Bruising Defeat in Maine

After throwing their support behind Gov. Janet Mills, party leaders are left doing an about-face on the insurgent candidate.

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Voices

Musk Warns of Killer AI — While He and the Rest of Silicon Valley Cash In on AI That Kills

In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Elon Musk evoked a “Terminator” scenario. He said nothing about the people AI is already killing.

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Sam Biddle

Another Assassination Attempt, More Fertilizer for Conspiracy Theories

Rep. Jamie Raskin responds to his Dana Bash interview, plus journalist Mike Rothschild on the world of political conspiracies.

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FBI Redirected Thousands of Workers to Target Immigrants Under Trump's Deportation Push

Over 9,000 FBI personnel were assigned to immigration after Trump returned to office — a massive diversion that experts warn could put national...

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Akela Lacy

Democratic Leaders Wanted to Control the Maine Senate Race. Their Pick Just Dropped Out.

Janet Mills dropped out of the Senate race against Graham Platner, despite the establishment’s longtime support for the Maine governor.

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Akela Lacy

Ron Wyden Is Pissing Off the NSA’s Biggest Backers. Tom Cotton Warns There Will Be “Consequences.”

Debate over a secret court opinion involving the Trump administration’s use of data collected by the NSA turned personal.

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Matt Sledge

Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Archeological Site to Make Room for a Second Border Wall

DHS was in talks with the wildlife refuge that hosts the ancient site to make sure it was protected, a local archeologist said.

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Adam Federman