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Dolores Huerta Worried Her Abuse by Cesar Chavez Would Hurt Farmworker Movement

United Farm Workers co-founder and labor activist Dolores Huerta went public Wednesday with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following...

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Tennessee Teens Sue Elon Musk’s xAI Over Child Sexual Abuse Images

Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk’s company xAI over allegations that its artificial intelligence tool Grok undressed photos of them as...

17.03.2026 2

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US Responsible For Killing Iranian Schoolchildren, Investigation Finds. Trump Previously Blamed Iran.

The United States is responsible for killing at least 175 people, many of them children, in a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school...

11.03.2026 6

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New Footage Yet Again Contradicts DHS Claims About Its Killing of a US Citizen

Body camera footage newly obtained by CBS News shows the moments leading up to and after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot US...

07.03.2026 7

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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports

This story contains discussion of suicide. If you or someone you care about may be at risk of suicide, contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by...

07.03.2026 7

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Violent. Anti-Abortion. Anti-Trans. Posts from Trump’s New DHS Pick Preview More of the Same.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, President Donald Trump’s next pick for Homeland Security secretary, consistently uses his social media platforms...

06.03.2026 6

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Kristi Noem Is Out at DHS. Markwayne Mullin Is In.

Kristi Noem’s time as Department of Homeland Security secretary is coming to an end, according to a Truth Social post from President Donald Trump....

05.03.2026 5

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DOJ Is Trying to Convince a Judge That RFK Jr.’s Decisions Are Untouchable

A lawyer for the Justice Department argued on Wednesday that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine decisions are...

05.03.2026 4

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“Downright Disgraceful”: Sen. Gillibrand on Stranded Americans Abroad

Without providing clear guidance on how to do so or how it will help, the United States government is advising Americans abroad to depart immediately...

04.03.2026 7

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Photos: The World Responds to War

As the death toll reportedly rises in Iran and violence spreads through the Middle East, people around the world are responding to the war launched...

28.02.2026 10

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War: US and Israel Launch Massive Attack on Iran

The United States and Israel launched a massive military assault against Iran on Saturday—a steep and sudden escalation following negotiations...

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“They Want Me to Hide or Leave or Disappear”

Avery Rowland starts almost all of her days by posting a TikTok video beginning with “good morning” and, often, explaining the latest...

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Trump May Force Banks to Demand Your Papers. Survivors of Abuse Will Pay.

The Trump administration is considering an executive order that would compel banks to collect citizenship information from customers, new and...

27.02.2026 7

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DHS Abducts Columbia Student From College Housing

Federal immigration agents detained a Columbia University student on Thursday morning after reportedly gaining access to university housing by falsely...

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Trump May Force Banks to Demand Your Papers. Survivors of Abuse Will Pay.

The Trump administration is considering an executive order that would compel banks to collect citizenship information from customers, new and...

26.02.2026 10

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Measles Cases This Year Near 1,000. That We Know Of.

There have been nearly 1,000 confirmed measles cases in the US in 2026 so far, according to new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and...

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Trump’s Favorite Appointee Right Now Is the One Who Didn’t Challenge His Power

President Trump’s favorite Supreme Court justice right now is the appointee who refused to restrict the president’s tariff agenda. After the high...

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Colbert Takes CBS to Task, Again

Late Show host Stephen Colbert once again gave his audience the inside scoop on Tuesday amid the ongoing clash involving him, network executives, and...

18.02.2026 2

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CBS Didn’t Want Colbert to Talk to This Democratic Candidate. He Did It Anyway.

Executives at CBS News made it clear to Late Show host Stephen Colbert: he wasn’t to interview Texas State Representative James Talarico last night,...

17.02.2026 2

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Elon Is Back? (Edit: He Never Really Left.)

Elon Musk, who formally distanced himself from the White House last year, hasn’t stopped trying to influence American politics. Musk took a step...

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Judges Have Rebuked Trump’s Mass Detention of Immigrants Thousands of Times

Hundreds of judges across the nation have ruled over 4,400 times that President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement arm is detaining people...

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US Military Strikes Another Boat in the Caribbean Sea, Killing 3

The United States military killed three more people on Friday in their 39th boat attack in six months, according to a tracker maintained by the New...

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ICE Wanted This Kansas City Warehouse. The People Resisted and Won.

Federal officials from the Department of Homeland Security were eyeing a Kansas City warehouse for one of their next detention facilities for...

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DHS Claims to Be Winding Down in the Twin Cities. Local Leaders Are Still Pissed.

After more than two months of an aggressive—and deadly—occupation of the Twin Cities, top immigration official Tom Homan said during a press...

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“The Tide Is Turning”: Democratic Military Vets Respond to Trump’s Failure to Indict Them

In a critical loss for the Justice Department, a federal grand jury on Tuesday refused to indict Democratic lawmakers who made a video reminding...

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JD Vance Booed at Winter Olympics Amid Anti-ICE Protests

Vice President JD Vance, standing alongside Second Lady Usha Vance, was met with a chorus of boos at Friday’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony in...

07.02.2026 5

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The President’s Lawyers Submitted False Information About a “Law & Order” Plot to the Supreme Court

President Donald Trump’s legal team submitted false information to the Supreme Court in his ongoing legal battle against author E. Jean...

07.02.2026 4

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Trump Posts Video That Depicts Obamas as Apes

Late Thursday night, President Donald Trump shared a video on Truth Social that depicts former President Barack Obama and former first lady...

06.02.2026 4

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Illinois Representative Asks God to Get Trump to “Do What Is Right”

During his address to God at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, Rep. Jonathan Jackson, a democrat from Illinois, called on President Donald...

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700 Immigration Officers Are Leaving Minneapolis. The Rest Will Depend on “Cooperation.”

President Trump’s Border czar, Tom Homan, announced Wednesday that the Trump administration will remove 700 federal immigration officers from...

04.02.2026 9

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Trump’s SNAP Rules Are About to Imperil Food Access for Millions

Veterans, people aging out of foster care, and parents of teenagers are just a few of the groups who will face dire consequences from work...

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In Scathing Ruling, Federal Judge Orders Release of Liam Ramos From Detention

A federal judge on Saturday ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos from an immigration detention facility outside San Antonio. Ramos, in...

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Get Out of Our Cities: Another Nationwide Uprising Against ICE

Many thousands of protestors across hundreds of demonstrations around the country on Friday once again took to their streets to tell President Donald...

01.02.2026 20

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Don Lemon’s Arrest Escalates DOJ Crackdown on Black Journalists and Activists

Don Lemon, the prominent journalist and former CNN anchor, was arrested by federal agents Thursday in Los Angeles on charges that he violated a law...

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Students Walk Out Across the Country to Protest ICE

Students at the University of Minnesota, united with hundreds of groups across the country, are imploring people, young and old, to join a general...

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What Women Said “Melania” Director Brett Ratner Did to Them

In 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement, six actresses told the Los Angeles Times that a prominent Hollywood director was sexually violent...

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Trump Is Still Posting About Arresting Obama and Prosecuting Election Workers

Amid multiple national crises, President Donald Trump spent Thursday morning posting—not for the first time—about how his predecessor Barack Obama...

29.01.2026 2

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Why the Next “No Kings” Could Be the Biggest One Yet

Ezra Levin, the co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, one of the many groups behind the nationwide “No Kings” protests, describes...

28.01.2026 10

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Some Conservatives Veer Off Party Line After DHS Agents Kill Another US Citizen

It didn’t take long for the Trump administration to blame 37-year-old Alex Pretti for his own death after a federal immigration agent shot and...

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Nurses Union Calls ICE Agents “Public Health Threat” After Alex Pretti Killing

The nation’s largest union of registered nurses fervently renewed their demand to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and cease current...

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Hundreds of Businesses Join General Strike Against ICE

A breakfast restaurant, a bike shop, and a brewery: these are some of the hundreds of businesses across Minnesota closing their doors Friday as part...

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ICE Detained a 5-Year-Old Minnesota Boy and Used Him As “Bait”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a 5-year-old on his way home from school on Tuesday and used him as “bait” to knock on his...

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ICE Detained a 5-Year-Old Minnesota Boy and Used Him As “Bait”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained a 5-year-old on his way home from school on Tuesday and used him as “bait” to knock on his...

22.01.2026 20

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Clergy Are Raising Holy Hell About ICE

Over 2,000 clergy members from around the country signed onto a letter to Congress, demanding an investigation into ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s...

22.01.2026 6

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More Immigrants Detained by ICE Recount Harsh and Cruel Treatment

As the Trump administration’s deportation campaign continues to bring fear and upheaval to Minneapolis, more immigrants are sharing their stories of...

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Top Trump Official Says FBI Won’t Investigate Killing by ICE Agent

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Shannon Bream that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is not, nor...

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ICE’s Tear Gas Sent a 6-Month-Old to the Hospital, the Latest in an Alarming Pattern

A mother in Minneapolis rushed to perform CPR on her 6-month-old baby on Wednesday night after federal immigration agents deployed a flash bang and...

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A Federal Agent Shot Another Person in Minneapolis. Then Trump Threatened the Insurrection Act.

The Trump administration’s offensive against immigrants in Minneapolis—and those who seek to help them—continued to intensify Wednesday night...

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Sen. Patty Murray: GOP Abortion Pill Hearing Is “Really About” a Nationwide Ban

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) decried Republican efforts to discredit medication abortion in an interview Wednesday with Mother Jones, saying that...

15.01.2026 20

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Josh Hawley Asked “Can Men Get Pregnant?” 11 Times at Abortion Hearing

At the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions’s abortion pills hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri spent the whole...

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