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Pentagon Records Missed Almost Half of Troops’ Domestic Abuse Killings

“Records are important,” said the mother of a woman killed by her Navy colleague. We found nearly twice as many domestic-abuse killings by...

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Daniel Johnson

Hegseth Built a New Pentagon Office for Religion. Military Religious Leaders Wish He Hadn’t.

“What do I tell a soldier who believes an action is immoral, but also believes that God commanded it?” one Army chaplain told The Intercept.

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Austin Campbell

The Spirit of “Party Unity, My Ass” Is Back and Coming for the DSA (and El-Sayed)

Centrist Democrats’ calls to fall in line behind the party’s nominee only ever seem to cut one way — and fall apart when their candidate loses.

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Bodycam: Cop Was Not in Danger When He Fired Shots That Killed 1-Year-Old Kohen Wiley

Mississippi investigators said the shooting was “justified,” but new body camera footage shows the cop firing into the passenger’s side as the...

23.10.2026 6

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Liliana Segura

The Intercept Live in Conversation With Robert Reich

Watch live as Inequality Media co-founder Robert Reich and The Intercept’s Akela Lacy break down the most pressing issues of the midterm elections.

23.10.2026 4

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Giant Crypto Super PAC Funnels Big Money to Former Trump Official’s Firm to Support… Democrats?

The Fellowship PAC routed more than half a million dollars in support of Democrats through a firm co-founded by former Trump crypto adviser Bo Hines.

23.10.2026 20

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Matt Sledge

The Stakes of Brazil’s Presidential Election

“Almost all of the worst ideas in the United States have been intentionally exported to Brazil as a way to make Brazil a worse country that’s more...

23.10.2026 4

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Mamdani’s High-Wire Balancing Act Between ICE and NYPD Can’t Last

The New York City mayor has said he doesn’t want to “normalize” ICE. But the NYPD, led by Jessica Tisch, has other plans.

22.10.2026 4

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Google DeepMind Engineer Resigns in Protest of Pentagon Contract

Sofia Liguori stepped down from DeepMind due to current military contracts — not speculative fears of an AI apocalypse.

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Sam Biddle

Trump’s Obsession With Somalia Isn’t Just Racist. It’s Been Lethal.

Beyond targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Trump administration has killed, arrested, deported, and demonized Somalis at home and abroad.

21.10.2026 6

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Nick Turse

Kohen Wiley’s Family Says Investigators Didn’t Contact Them Before Concluding Cops Did No Wrong

Mississippi has yet to release any support for its claim that a “thorough and impartial” review showed the shooting was “justified.”

20.10.2026 5

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Liliana Segura

Yemenis Unable to Reach Hospital Are Part of the Iran War Death Toll

At least 10 patients with kidney failure near Taiz, a city under a Houthi siege, died because they were unable to get to their dialysis treatments.

20.10.2026 10

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Rachid Mohsen

Mike Rogers Spent $100K on Private Jets and Luxury Travel Last Quarter

The Republican running for Senate in Michigan is directing campaign funds toward chartered flights, a Miami car service, and BMW repairs.

19.10.2026 10

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Jonah Valdez

The Army Wants to Sic AI Agents on Its Enemies. What Could Go Wrong?

Documents obtained by The Intercept show the military is trying to deploy autonomous AI agents to hack its adversaries.

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Sam Biddle

President Apocalypse

While Trump campaigns for a Nobel Peace Prize, his war on humanity’s only home continues unabated.

18.10.2026 8

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Tom Engelhardt

Dems Have an Opportunity to Force an End to the Iran War. Will They Take It?

With Democrats campaigning on ending the war, advocates want them to put their money where their mouth is and risk a lame-duck shutdown.

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Matt Sledge

DHS Was Designed as a Weapon

Rep. Delia Ramirez and writers Rozina Ali and Will Sommer discuss the ICE raid on Ilhan Omar and the years of “counterterror” surveillance that...

16.10.2026 10

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Long After the Maui Fires, Toxic Metals Linger in Residents’ Bodies

The toxic exposures didn’t begin with the flames. Researchers are examining how fires affected a community already harmed by plantation agriculture,...

16.10.2026 20

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Joseph Lee

Lockheed Martin Showered Susan Collins With Cash as F-35 Program Hit Turbulence

Collins received tens of thousands from Lockheed during a two-month period surrounding a critical 2023 watchdog report.

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Noah Hurowitz

Trump Is Targeting Ilhan Omar. Where’s the Elite Media Outrage?

Unlike the raid on John Bolton, the targeting of Omar has elicited zero condemnation from NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post.

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America’s Sordid History of Filming Executions as Entertainment

Hegseth’s plan to livestream an execution was not without precedent — it tapped into a dark and forgotten U.S. tradition.

15.10.2026 10

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Nikita Mazurov

Inside ICE, Officials Question String of Trump Admin “Midterm Panic Moves”

One ICE official said the timing of the raid on Ilhan Omar’s home was “politically motivated.”

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Karl Loftus

Mother Sues ICE Contractor for Jailing Her and Her Baby in a Hotel Room

The lawsuit alleges that the contractor MVM Inc. and the hotel chain Sonesta detained the family for profit.

15.10.2026 10

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Aura Bogado

Reflecting on the Trump Era

Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation should have been an easy lift. But it quickly became a monument to failure.

14.10.2026 10

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Nick Turse

An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued.

Cases in Arkansas and California show how desperately we need a federal law against lawsuits intended to chill free speech.

13.10.2026 50

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Don’t Stop at ICE, Says Progressive Dem: Abolish the Department of Homeland Security

Rep. Delia Ramirez is bringing a bill to eliminate DHS a day after the raid on Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home.

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Jessica Washington

ICE Raid on Ilhan Omar Shows How Dangerous Two Years of Flailing Trump Could Get

With his popularity tanking and his grip on power growing tenuous, Trump is becoming a decrepit tyrant — and the checks to stop him are failing.

12.10.2026 10

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Susan Collins-Aligned Super PAC Buys Attack Ads in Portland... Oregon

The group Defending Main Street, long associated with Susan Collins, spent thousands attacking Troy Jackson in the wrong state.

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Noah Hurowitz

Trump Wanted Minneapolis 15 Case to Be Another Prairieland. Instead, Twin Cities Rallied Behind Anti-ICE Activists.

The mainstream of Minnesota’s left-of-center politics — including unions, the backbone of Democratic power — are behind the radical left.

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Matt Sledge

Pentagon Finally Counts an Iran War Death — Six Months Late

After months of questions from The Intercept, the U.S. military finally acknowledged the March death of Maj. Sorffly Davius.

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Nick Turse

A C-Section in Shackles: A Palestinian Woman’s Harrowing Birth in Israeli Detention

Dana Joudeh was denied proper food and medical care throughout her pregnancy in an Israeli prison. She gave birth to a premature baby surrounded by...

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Aseel Mousa

ICE Shooting in NYC Inflames Mamdani’s Policing Problem

After ICE shot a young father in Manhattan, New Yorkers asked the mayor to protect them from his police department and federal agents alike.

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Akela Lacy

Where Are the Iran War Protests?

Despite a wildly unpopular war with Iran, a mass protest movement for peace hasn’t materialized — at least in the ways we’ve been taught to recognize.

09.10.2026 10

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Frida Berrigan

Prediction Markets Have a Lock on the Midterms

As Kalshi and Polymarket dodge state regulations, prediction markets are upping the ante on next month’s elections.

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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says

A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.

08.10.2026 20

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Noah Hurowitz

Pete Hegseth’s Military of the Future: Defined by AI and an Utter Lack of Oversight

In announcing Project Meridian and a new Autonomous Warfare Command, War Secretary Pete Hegseth is inviting conflicts of interest.

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Nick Turse

Armed Border Agents Arrest Protesters, Bulldoze 200-Year-Old Tree to Build Border Wall

Despite at least 10 arrests and the destruction of the tree at the center of the protest, the standoff continues.

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Feds Charged Activists Just Before Major Anti-ICE Protest in a Tiny Vermont Town

Authorities are taking unprecedented steps to charge protesters in a sleepy Vermont town that hosts an ICE intelligence and targeting center

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C. Frances

He Confessed to an Afghanistan War Murder. The U.S. Military Promptly Closed the Case.

A veteran walked into a California police station to make a horrifying confession.

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Nick Turse

Antisemitism Law Helped Get a Professor Fired for Free Speech, Lawsuit Says

A hardline anti-Islamic Republic group went after a tenured professor for comments about Iran. When that didn’t work, they cited tweets about Israel...

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Noah Hurowitz

The U.S. Military Struggles to Protect Its Bases Amid Failing Iran War

From Jordan to Kuwait to the United Kingdom, U.S. outposts are increasingly vulnerable to attack.

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Nick Turse

The Key Witness Against Richard Glossip Just Returned to Court. It Didn’t Go Well.

Decades after blaming Glossip for his own actions, Justin Sneed is less credible than ever — and prosecutors know it.

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Liliana Segura

Susan Collins’s Committee Bought Trucks the Army Didn’t Want. Then Campaign Donations Poured In.

Appropriations committee members saw an influx of campaign contributions after steering $345 million to a military contractor.

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Matt Sledge

Public Radio Station Forced to Call Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America”

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is rolling over to Trump and his acolytes in the state, rather than stand up for editorial independence.

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Mahmoud Khalil: “We Can’t Afford to Stay Silent”

Taken by ICE last year for protesting Israel, Khalil speaks on how his fight is bigger than whether he gets to stay in this country.

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Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

A Eugene-based publication requested records about a cop accused of misconduct. The city slapped it with a prohibitive fee.

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The Pentagon’s Secret Budget

Trump’s proposed budget hides $1 trillion in military spending from the public by spreading it across disparate government agencies.

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David Vine

ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care

Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees.

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Tanvi Misra

Fetterman Sole Dem Against Investigating His Constituent’s Killer

Despite support from other Democrats, the Senate voted 51-47 against a resolution to force U.S. probes on killings of Americans in the West Bank.

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Matt Sledge

Inside the Business of Trump’s Third-Country Deportations

As the Trump administration fights to keep deporting immigrants to countries where they have no connections, we studied the system that profits from...

29.09.2026 20

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