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DOGE’s Pentagon Budget Cuts Don’t Touch Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boasts he’s nixing contracts and grants amid DOGE’s cost-cutting campaign. But those trims won’t hit SpaceX. The...

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Nick Turse

Google Is Helping the Trump Administration Deploy AI Along the Mexican Border

Google is part of a Customs and Border Protection plan to use machine learning for surveillance, documents reviewed by The Intercept reveal. The...

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Sam Biddle

Police Across the Country Are on High Alert Over Tesla Protests

Intelligence reports warn law enforcement about “acts of violence against electric vehicles” and the danger of battery fires. The post Police...

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Matt Sledge

Trump Just Pardoned ... a Corporation?

In what may be an American first, President Donald Trump pardoned a company sentenced to $100 million in fines for breaking money laundering laws....

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Matt Sledge

Pro-Israel Group That Attacked UPenn Was Funded by Family of UPenn Trustee

The University of Pennsylvania has been a target of Canary Mission, a pro-Israel “blacklist” group. Turns out the call was coming from inside the...

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Eli Clifton

This Is Not About Antisemitism, Palestine, or Columbia. It’s Trump Dismantling the American Dream.

I accompanied one of the students who fled Trump’s crackdown. It gave me clarity on what’s at stake. The post This Is Not About Antisemitism,...

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Allie Wong 

Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters

Objections from a top immigration official that none of the protesters were convicted of crimes were overruled amid political pressure. The post...

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Hanno Hauenstein

The Arson Evidence Doesn’t Hold Up. Florida Is About to Convict Her for Murder Anyway.

Florida prosecutors say Michelle Taylor used gasoline to set a fire that killed her son. Top forensic chemists say they’re wrong. The post The...

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Liliana Segura

In Trump’s America, You Can Be Disappeared for Writing an Op-Ed

The Trump administration’s detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk rests on an opinion article she wrote in 2024, her lawyers said in a filing....

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Jonah Valdez

GOP Leaders Said Don’t Do Town Halls. This Indiana Republican Did — and Got an Earful.

“Do your job!” the crowd chanted, urging Rep. Victoria Spartz, one of the most outspoken DOGE supporters, to rein in Elon Musk. The post GOP...

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Matt Sledge