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Trump Border Czar: ICE’s Word Is Enough to Prove Someone’s a Gang Member

Hundreds of recently deported immigrants were labeled as gang members despite having no criminal histories.

yesterday 5

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Chris Walker

Trump Revived the Law Used to Intern Japanese Americans, and SCOTUS Let Him

This week the Supreme Court left the door open for Trump to continue invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport people.

yesterday 10

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Camilo Pérez-Bustillo

White House Press Sec Says Trump’s Seriously Considering Deporting US Citizens

White House Press Sec Says Trump’s Seriously Considering Deporting US Citizens

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Tuesday, after President Donald Trump’s quip about wanting to “deport” incarcerated U.S....

yesterday 2

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Chris Walker

Trump-Appointed Judge Says Administration Can’t Block AP From White House Events

Trump-Appointed Judge Says Administration Can’t Block AP From White House Events

A federal judge has placed a block on the Trump administration’s retaliation against The Associated Press (AP) over the organization continuing to...

yesterday 2

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Chris Walker

DHS Announces It’s Surveilling Immigrants’ Social Media for “Antisemitism”

DHS Announces It’s Surveilling Immigrants’ Social Media for “Antisemitism”

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that it is monitoring immigrants’ social media accounts for supposed “antisemitism” — a...

yesterday 2

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Sharon Zhang

UN Chief Says Israel Has Made Gaza Into “a Killing Field”

UN Chief Says Israel Has Made Gaza Into “a Killing Field”

The latest phase of Israel’s genocide in Gaza has made the Strip into “a killing field,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned as...

yesterday 1

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Sharon Zhang

Musk Stands to Get Even Richer as Trump Calls for $1 Trillion Pentagon Budget

Musk Stands to Get Even Richer as Trump Calls for $1 Trillion Pentagon Budget

As federal agencies face crippling cuts and are forced to cut essential services, President Trump has announced he will seek a $1 trillion budget...

yesterday 2

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Amy Goodman

Acting IRS Chief Will Reportedly Resign Over Taxpayer Data Sharing Deal With ICE

Acting IRS Chief Will Reportedly Resign Over Taxpayer Data Sharing Deal With ICE

The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is reportedly expected to resign over a new agreement that would allow the tax agency to...

yesterday 0

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Jake Johnson

White House Freezes Billions in Funds for Cornell and Northwestern Universities

White House Freezes Billions in Funds for Cornell and Northwestern Universities

The White House announced on Tuesday that it has suspended federal funds exceeding $1 billion for Cornell University and about $790 million for...

yesterday 1

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Zane Mcneill

10 Years Ago, Baltimore Cops Killed Freddie Gray. Here’s How the City Rose Up.

10 Years Ago, Baltimore Cops Killed Freddie Gray. Here’s How the City Rose Up.

On the morning of April 12, 2015, at about 8:48 am, a 25-year-old Black man named Freddie Carlos Gray Jr. allegedly made eye contact with a police...

yesterday 2

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Baynard Woods

Millions of People Enrolled in Medicaid Mistakenly Believe They’re Uninsured

Millions of People Enrolled in Medicaid Mistakenly Believe They’re Uninsured

Some Americans who rely on Medicaid to pay for their health care don’t realize their insurance is funded by that very program, which congressional...

yesterday 1

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Anna Claire Vollers

Fetterman Joins GOP in Voting to Confirm Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel

Huckabee once said that he believes there’s “really no such thing as a Palestinian.”

yesterday 20

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Sharon Zhang

Israel Now Occupying Over Half of Gaza After Expanding Bulldozed Buffer Zone

Israel Now Occupying Over Half of Gaza After Expanding Bulldozed Buffer Zone

The Israeli military is now occupying over half of the land area of Gaza after having massively expanded the “buffer zone” spanning the entirety of...

previous day 20

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Sharon Zhang

Trump Promises $1 Trillion for Military Budget — a Record Sum

Trump Promises $1 Trillion for Military Budget — a Record Sum

President Donald Trump on Monday publicly backed an annual budget of roughly $1 trillion for the U.S. military as his administration rushed ahead...

previous day 20

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Jake Johnson

Trump White House Is Considering Using Drones to Bomb Cartels in Mexico — Report

Trump White House Is Considering Using Drones to Bomb Cartels in Mexico — Report

An NBC News report published on Tuesday suggests that the Trump administration is considering responding to drug cartels with military force, with...

previous day 20

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Chris Walker

Yemen Strike JD Vance Called “Excellent” on Signal Reportedly Killed a Newborn

Yemen Strike JD Vance Called “Excellent” on Signal Reportedly Killed a Newborn

The strike on Yemen that was celebrated by Trump administration officials in a now-infamous leaked Signal chat killed a newborn baby and charred...

previous day 6

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Sharon Zhang

Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Using Alien Enemies Act for Deportations

Supreme Court Lets Trump Continue Using Alien Enemies Act for Deportations

On Monday evening, the U.S Supreme Court ruled that, at least for now, the Trump administration can continue invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798...

previous day 1

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Chris Walker

Israeli Military Kills Palestinian American Child Living in the West Bank

Israeli Military Kills Palestinian American Child Living in the West Bank

The Israeli military shot and killed a Palestinian child with U.S. citizenship in the occupied West Bank over the weekend. The killing comes as...

previous day 2

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Chris Walker

Trump Administration’s Food Aid Cuts “a Death Sentence for Millions,” WFP Says

Trump Administration’s Food Aid Cuts “a Death Sentence for Millions,” WFP Says

The Trump administration’s latest sweeping cuts to international food aid will kill millions of people across the world if implemented, the UN’s...

previous day 0

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Sharon Zhang

Legal US Resident Languishes in El Salvador Prison After SCOTUS Ruling

Legal US Resident Languishes in El Salvador Prison After SCOTUS Ruling

The Supreme Court has paused a lower court order that instructed the Trump administration to immediately bring back a U.S. legal resident who was “...

previous day 1

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Amy Goodman

Trump Is Trying to Axe Collective Bargaining for 1 Million Federal Employees

Trump Is Trying to Axe Collective Bargaining for 1 Million Federal Employees

On Monday morning, lawyers for six trade unions that represent federal employees went to federal court in San Francisco, seeking a temporary...

previous day 2

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Sasha Abramsky

Colorado House Passes Bills to Protect Bodily Autonomy Amid Federal Threats

Colorado House Passes Bills to Protect Bodily Autonomy Amid Federal Threats

The Colorado House has passed four bills aimed at safeguarding abortion access and transgender rights amid a rising tide of federal hostility....

previous day 2

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Zane Mcneill

History of Hollywood Red Scare Offers Insight Into Trump’s Free Speech Attacks

History of Hollywood Red Scare Offers Insight Into Trump’s Free Speech Attacks

President Donald Trump, now well into his second term, is hell-bent on retribution, threatening journalists, political opponents, judges, academia,...

previous day 1

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Ed Rampell

What Should We Do If Trump Invokes the Insurrection Act?

What Should We Do If Trump Invokes the Insurrection Act?

This story was originally published by Waging Nonviolence . With President Trump constantly flooding the zone, there’s a chance to think ahead...

previous day 1

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Daniel Hunter

Trump Cuts to Federal Health Funding Thwart Cities’ and States’ Measles Response

Trump Cuts to Federal Health Funding Thwart Cities’ and States’ Measles Response

Cities and states fighting a historic measles outbreak find themselves undermined by the Trump administration as they struggle to provide crucial...

previous day 2

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Tim Henderson

Trump Pushes Tariffs by Claiming Prices Are Down and “NO INFLATION” Will Happen

Trump Pushes Tariffs by Claiming Prices Are Down and “NO INFLATION” Will Happen

In a Truth Social post on Monday, President Donald Trump falsely insinuated that his administration’s across-the-board tariffs on dozens of...

monday 5

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Chris Walker

Trump Administration Has Detained Citizens as Part of Mass Deportation Actions

Trump Administration Has Detained Citizens as Part of Mass Deportation Actions

A new report highlights how at least seven U.S. citizens — but likely far more — have been detained, deported or otherwise targeted by the Trump...

monday 4

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Chris Walker

Outrage Grows Over Israel’s Execution of 15 Gaza Medics and Rescue Workers

Outrage Grows Over Israel’s Execution of 15 Gaza Medics and Rescue Workers

Outrage is growing over Israel’s killing of 15 Palestinian medics and rescue workers north of the Gazan city of Rafah in the predawn hours of March...

monday 4

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Amy Goodman

In Op-Ed From ICE Jail, Mahmoud Khalil Blasts Columbia’s Complicity Under Trump

In Op-Ed From ICE Jail, Mahmoud Khalil Blasts Columbia’s Complicity Under Trump

In an op-ed dictated to his attorney from a detention facility in Louisiana, Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil late last week condemned...

monday 1

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Jake Johnson

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Ploy to Further Consolidate Power, Says Sen. Chris Murphy

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Ploy to Further Consolidate Power, Says Sen. Chris Murphy

Analysts puzzling over the bizarre formula the Trump administration used to calculate its country-by-country tariff rates are wasting their time,...

monday 5

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Jake Johnson

New York Public Schools Uphold DEI Policies Despite Federal Threats

New York Public Schools Uphold DEI Policies Despite Federal Threats

New York state leaders have rejected the Trump administration’s directive to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in public...

monday 2

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Zane Mcneill

Trump Assumes Unheard-of Powers in Ordering Federal Overhaul of Elections

Trump Assumes Unheard-of Powers in Ordering Federal Overhaul of Elections

In one of his many bold, sweeping and likely unconstitutional gestures, President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order that purports to...

monday 5

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Tyler Walicek

Nearly 40% of Those in Mike Johnson’s District Rely on Medicaid as He Eyes Cuts

Nearly 40% of Those in Mike Johnson’s District Rely on Medicaid as He Eyes Cuts

MANSFIELD, Louisiana — When Desoto Regional Health System took out $36 million in loans last year to renovate a rural hospital that opened in 1952,...

monday 6

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Phil Galewitz

Boards and Administrators Won’t Defend Higher Ed From Trump. It’s Up to Us.

Boards and Administrators Won’t Defend Higher Ed From Trump. It’s Up to Us.

In 2023-2024, students in solidarity with Palestine launched the largest campus movement in the U.S. since the anti-Vietnam War protests, and...

monday 6

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Jennifer Ruth

USDA Is Letting Grantees Nix DEI and Climate Language From Clean Energy Projects

USDA Is Letting Grantees Nix DEI and Climate Language From Clean Energy Projects

This story was originally published by Grist . Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Jim Lively wants to install rooftop solar panels on his...

06.04.2025 7

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Ayurella Horn-Muller

Underfunded HBCUs Ponder Future Amid Trump’s Education Cuts

Underfunded HBCUs Ponder Future Amid Trump’s Education Cuts

The nation’s historically Black colleges and universities, known as HBCUs, are wondering how to survive in an uncertain and contentious educational...

06.04.2025 4

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Robbie Sequeira

Democrats Sound Alarm Over Mass Layoffs Linked to Trump’s Tariffs

Democrats Sound Alarm Over Mass Layoffs Linked to Trump’s Tariffs

Congressman Ro Khanna is raising the alarm over mass layoffs in the U.S. economy resulting from the failed economic policies of President Donald...

06.04.2025 70

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Jon Queally

Resistance Grows as Proposed Cuts Threaten Health Care for Over 79 Million in US

Resistance Grows as Proposed Cuts Threaten Health Care for Over 79 Million in US

Kelly Smith, a 57-year-old New York City resident, is part of the Nonviolent Medicaid Army (NVMA), a growing national movement of poor people who...

06.04.2025 20

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Eleanor J. Bader

Cuts to Biomedical Research Will Cost Lives, Scientific Breakthroughs & Careers

Cuts to Biomedical Research Will Cost Lives, Scientific Breakthroughs & Careers

In 2011, I, Deepti Pradhan, was diagnosed with breast cancer. A year of surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation followed, leaving lasting effects. In...

06.04.2025 3

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Deepti Pradhan

Protesters Demand End to Trump-Musk Power Grab in Nationwide “Hands Off” Marches

Protesters Demand End to Trump-Musk Power Grab in Nationwide “Hands Off” Marches

In communities across the United States and also overseas, coordinated “Hands Off” protests are taking place far and wide Saturday in the largest...

06.04.2025 3

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Common Dreams Staff