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As Mother’s Day approaches, a group of senators are raising the alarm about the “appalling and horrific treatment” of pregnant and nursing...
35-year-old Benjamin Moore has lived in Mountain Meadows Mobile Home Park, outside Bozeman, Montana, since he was 17. This month, for the first time,...
On Wednesday, the White House released a new “United States Counterterrorism Strategy,” the first such directive since a 2021 Biden-era memo...
Kevin O’Leary is best known as “Mr. Wonderful” on Shark Tank, or maybe as the bad guy from Marty Supreme. On Shark Tank, he invests in—or...
The US Department of Agriculture has spent the past week notifying people that the country is (allegedly) overrun by individuals who are fraudulently...
As peace talks with Iran continue to stall, the Trump administration announced on Friday an additional $8.6 billion in fast-tracked weapons sales to...
Donald Trump’s plans to remake parts of Washington, DC, are much bigger—and more expensive—than originally planned. A top Trump fundraiser is...
It’s become a familiar refrain: something awful happens in the world, and a member of the commentariat asks, “Where are the student protests? Or...
Matt Multari has been driving for Amazon—and organizing with the Teamsters—for about a year and a half. His days are mostly spent delivering...
For the first time since the US began bombing Iran two weeks ago, our military leadership testified before a congressional committee today. The main...
On Monday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments over Bayer AG’s efforts to shut down the thousands of lawsuits alleging its product Roundup, a...
At 11:00 PM Sunday night, Donald Trump endorsed a conservative influencer’s suggestion that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should be...
The US Department of Justice announced Friday that it plans to revive the firing squad as a method of killing in federal capital cases. In a 52-page...
Until yesterday, it looked like Maine would enshrine the country’s first state-level hyperscale data center moratorium into law. But late on Friday,...
The Justice Department this week announced criminal charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleging that the longtime civil rights watchdog...
When Nazir Khan picked up the phone on Wednesday, he was a bit delirious. Hours earlier, he’d had his first bites of food after a twelve-day hunger...
The US Army announced this week that it has successfully 3D-printed a drone-based warhead prototype, and successfully used that weapon to make...
Laura Spivak, an organizer with Washington County Indivisible, has spent the past few months trying everything to stop the construction of an ICE...
Voters are anxious about losing their jobs to artificial intelligence, and key players across the political spectrum have started to notice. Now, the...
Two lawmakers—Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales—resigned from office last week amid unrelated House Ethics Committee investigations over alleged...
The Trump administration has officially begun the process of repaying up to $175 billion in illegally collected tariffs, following a February Supreme...
On Sunday afternoon, Palantir, the defense-tech company that sells software to clients like ICE, the US military, and the Israeli military,decided to...
The Department of Homeland Security just rolled out a new website for its city-occupying task forces that looks, more than anything, like a vibe-coded...
President Trump signed an executive order on Saturday calling for the acceleration of research on certain psychedelic drugs as treatments for...
The AI infrastructure reckoning has until recently stayed local, its battles fought in the relatively puny arenas of town council and zoning...
About a quarter of Americans suffer from seasonal allergies. And researchers at the nonprofit Climate Central say that if you’re feeling snifflier...
On January 13, Aliya Rahman was on her way to a doctor’s appointment when ICE agents smashed the glass out of her car windows at a Minneapolis...
Each summer, about 300 American scientists—mostly climate scientists, with a smattering of biologists and geologists—make the long trip up to...
Sophie Hurwitz
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Proposed rollbacks would open the door to more oil and gas drilling, as well as logging and mining.
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tuesday was a great day at the...
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Over two years of nearly incessant...
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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. People in affluent countries around...
Many of the young plaintiffs have taken part in similar lawsuits before, and won key victories in Montana and Hawaii.
On Thursday, April 24th, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was halfway through a tour of the East Coast, speaking to large audiences...
Mohsen Mahdawi, the Palestinian student at Columbia University who was arrested on April 14 at his naturalization interview in Vermont, was released...
On April 11, the Trump administration sent Harvard University a sweeping set of demands—among them that the university report international students...
A Louisiana immigration judge ruled Friday that recent Columbia graduate and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported—even though Khalil...
On Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge in New York’s Northern District heard opening arguments in the case of Momodou Taal v. Trump. Neither party...
The ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, instituted in mid-January, was always shaky. It could even be argued it never fully existed. Sixteen...
Kareem Tabsch, co-founder of Miami Beach’s O Cinema, loves his hometown. He’s made an award-winning movie about Miami Beach’s historic Jewish...
Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia graduate who is Palestinian, was detained by the Department of Homeland Security almost one week ago. Since then,...
Early this week, as Columbia students scrambled to respond to the United States government’s arrest of recent graduate Mahmoud Khalil, a series of...