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Mahmoud Khalil Is Suing the White House and Heritage Foundation

Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist who spent months in ICE detention, has filed a federal lawsuit against what he alleges is a “public-private...

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Attack Ad Calls Climate Activist an Oil Investor Because of His 401(k)

William Lawrence, the 36-year-old Sunrise Movement co-founder running a progressive congressional campaign in Michigan, has positioned himself as an...

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A Little Law Gives Hope That Government Can Suck Less and Make People’s Lives Better

When Sam Levine, Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), was eleven, he signed up for a service that...

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Graham Platner Says He’s Out. Now What?

Graham Platner, the scandal-ridden populist Senate candidate from Maine, suspended his campaign Wednesday night. His announcement came two days after...

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ICE Keeps Using The Same Justification For Killing Drivers

On Tuesday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant and a three-decade Houston...

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Trump Can’t Stop Talking About Communists

When Donald Trump gets into a loop, it’s hard to get him out. He’ll just talk in a circle until he’s bored and moves on to the next thing. He...

08.07.2026 7

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DHS Is Spending $1.5 Billion to Block ICE Oversight

The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two privately-run detention facilities from the for-profit prison company CoreCivic, the company...

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Left-Wing Challenger Melat Kiros Upsets 15-Term Incumbent in Colorado

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist, has won the high-profile primary for Colorado’s first congressional district, the Associated Press...

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Gaza Is Costing Democratic Incumbents Their Seats

Two years ago, Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old sociology graduate student at the City University of New York, was sitting in a tent on...

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Trump’s Next ICE Pick: A Trooper Poised to Turn Local Cops Into Deportation Agents

On Saturday, President Trump nominated Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma State Trooper, to serve as the Director of Immigration and Customs...

28.06.2026 10

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Trump’s Sons Stand To Profit From The Critical Minerals Arms Race

Donald Trump’s network of family businesses—and network of US government deals with those businesses—is mind-bogglingly wide. A New York Times...

28.06.2026 10

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Prosecutors Can’t Demand New York Trans Kids’ Medical Records, Judge Says

Yet another Trump administration effort to gain access to trans kids’ private health information has been, for the moment, halted. A district judge...

24.06.2026 10

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Is It Time for Jews To Leave New York?

New York City’s right-wingers, who evidently cannot handle losing elections, are dealing with their anger by once again attempting to fearmonger...

24.06.2026 10

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DHS Still Has a Civil Rights Team. Aliya Rahman Is Testing It.

When Aliya Rahman’s lawyers approached her about filing a complaint with the civil rights office of the Department of Homeland Security, she almost...

23.06.2026 10

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“Willful Neglect”: A New Report on the State of Fatherhood Pulls No Punches

In many countries around the world, it’s Father’s Day, a time to celebrate the contributions of dads. But aside from the inevitable barbeques and...

21.06.2026 10

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Trump Threatens Iran as JD Vance Announces “Great Progress” on Ceasefire

This morning, Vice President JD Vance touched down in Switzerland for the first round of talks with Iran. The stated goal: extending last week’s...

21.06.2026 10

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Report: ICE Caused Humanitarian Crisis in Minnesota

The global NGO Human Rights Watch released a report Thursday alleging widespread human rights violations by the federal government during “Operation...

19.06.2026 10

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Grok Is More Important Than Clean Air, DOJ Says

The federal government intervened Monday in a Clean Air Act lawsuit in which people in Memphis, Tennessee, and Southaven, Mississippi, are suing Elon...

18.06.2026 10

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DOJ’s New ICE Protest Indictment Is Its Most Absurd Yet

In the latest installment of Trump’s campaign against anti-ICE protesters, the Department of Justice has charged 15 Minneapolis-area residents for...

17.06.2026 10

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She Froze After Being Released by ICE. The Medical Examiner Ruled It a Homicide.

Daphy Michel, a 31-year-old Haitian asylum seeker, was found dead of hypothermia at a Pittsburgh bus stop March 2, three days after being released...

15.06.2026 10

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Trump Wants Reporters to Know He’s Very Mad at Netanyahu

Update, June 14, 6:10 pm: Trump announced Sunday evening that his deal with Iran “is now complete.” The president wrote on Truth Social: “I...

14.06.2026 10

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The Oligarchy Attends a Cage Fight

While New Yorkers nurse Knicks-championship hangovers in Donald Trump’s hometown, the president is celebrating his 80th birthday tonight by inviting...

14.06.2026 10

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Trump’s Deportation Machine Is Still Targeting Pro-Palestinian Protesters

An immigration judge has ordered the deportation of Columbia University graduate student Mohsen Mahdawi, who is Palestinian, to Jordan in a legal...

11.06.2026 10

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“I Love Inflation,” Trump Says, As Rates Rise Thanks to Iran War

At a press conference this afternoon, a reporter asked President Donald Trump if he is concerned about inflation rates after new data showed the...

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Trump Told Prosecutors to Target ICE Protesters. A Chicago Jury Wasn’t Buying It.

The grand jury transcripts from the “Broadview Six” case, in which the federal government tried to charge six Chicagoans with felony conspiracy...

10.06.2026 10

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Gwyneth Paltrow Just Goopified Drone Warfare

Despite reaping billions in the weapons industry as cofounder of the military-tech company Anduril, Trae Stephens says he does not believe that...

09.06.2026 10

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How the Flamingo Became a Potent Protest Symbol

It’s not unusual for a protest movement to involve absurd-looking symbols. Unions deploy giant rat inflatables to picket companies using non-union...

08.06.2026 10

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Inside Delaney Hall’s Black Box

Early Saturday morning, a woman whose husband is detained at ICE’s Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, drove nearly two hours to visit him. She was...

07.06.2026 10

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“Can We Make the Protesters Look More Violent?”

Scott Pelley spent 37 years at CBS News, only to be fired last week after coming into conflict with Free Press founder Bari Weiss, who took control of...

07.06.2026 10

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The Delaney Hall Strikers Are Hitting GEO Group Where It Hurts

It has now been almost two weeks since the laborers keeping ICE’s Delaney Hall mega-jail open went on strike—demanding a chance to speak with New...

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Greg Bovino Keeps Posting to Get His Job Back. No One Is Listening.

Greg Bovino, the Nazi-garbed former Border Patrol commander, was ousted in January after CBP and ICE agents during his tenure killed Minneapolis...

30.05.2026 10

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Washington Protesters Convicted of “Conspiracy to Impede” ICE Agents

On a Wednesday afternoon last June, Bajun Mavalwalla II, Jac Archer, and Justice Forral gathered with hundreds of others to protest outside an ICE...

29.05.2026 10

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Elizabeth Warren Has Some Questions for the Private Prison Executive Running ICE

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a few questions for the head of ICE. On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Democrat sent a letter to David Venturella, the new...

28.05.2026 10

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What the Hell Is That Thing

At first, when I saw these photos of curling scaffolding outside the White House, I thought construction was beginning on the Trump Arch. That...

27.05.2026 10

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White House Seeks Gag Order For All Federal Workers

In an attempt to stop federal workers from sharing information with journalists, the Trump administration may soon ask them—all two million of...

26.05.2026 10

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Don’t Want a Data Center in Your Town? You Might Be a Chinese Spy.

Utah political consultant Gabi Finlayson was driving out of a canyon last week when she got the news that she had been accused of being a Chinese...

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There are 50,000 Words in the DNC Autopsy. “Gaza” Isn’t One.

Among the more than 50,000 words in the DNC’s 192-page autopsy of why it lost the 2024 presidential election, here are a few that do not appear even...

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There are 50,000 Words in the DNC Autopsy. “Gaza” Isn’t One.

Among the more than 50,000 words in the DNC’s 192-page autopsy of why it lost the 2024 presidential election, here are a few that do not appear even...

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How Much Are You Spending On the Iran War? $300 and Counting.

The Pentagon estimates that it has spent upwards of $29 billion on weaponry to bomb Iran since February 28, in a war of choice that has killed at...

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Ahead of Louisiana Primary, Trump Calls GOP Sen. Cassidy a “Disloyal Disaster”

As voters in Louisiana head to the polls for Saturday’s primary elections, President Donald Trump is doing all he can to ensure that incumbent...

16.05.2026 10

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Farmers Are Collateral Damage in Trump’s Iran War

It’s planting season, and 70 percent of American farmers can’t afford enough fertilizer to plant all their crops. About a third of the planet’s...

15.05.2026 10

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Trump Taps Former Private Prison Exec to Run ICE

David Venturella, who spent more than a decade as an executive at the private-prison behemoth GEO Group, will be the next acting director of...

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Turns Out, Nobody Wants a Data Center in Their Backyard

A new Gallup poll has found that most Americans would really prefer not to live next door to a data center. For the first time, the polling...

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The President May Settle His Own Lawsuit With Your Money

The DOJ is considering settling Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, which could send about $10 billion taxpayer dollars...

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Trump’s Golden Dome Would Cost $1.2 Trillion

Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense dream might seem like something out of science fiction, but it would cost real dollars, the...

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New York Hospital Faces Criminal Subpoena in Texas Over Trans Youth Care

The Trump administration has sent subpoenas to dozens of hospitals across the nation over the past year, demanding access to information about...

12.05.2026 20

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Legislators Denounce “Appalling and Horrific Treatment” of Mothers in Immigrant Detention

As Mother’s Day approaches, a group of senators are raising the alarm about the “appalling and horrific treatment” of pregnant and nursing...

09.05.2026 20

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“It’s Life Alert or Rent”: Montana Trailer Park Tenants Are on Rent Strike

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,...

08.05.2026 20

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“Counterterrorism” Now Officially Means Targeting Trans People

On Wednesday, the White House released a new “United States Counterterrorism Strategy,” the first such directive since a 2021 Biden-era memo...

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Mr. Wonderful’s Utah Data Center Will Be More Than Twice as Big as Manhattan

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...

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