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Images of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, former Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Joe Biden, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz are displayed during the first day of the Republican Midterm Convention at the American Airlines Center in Dallas on Sept. 9, 2026....

President Donald Trump has refused to attend the ceremony at Ground Zero marking the 25th anniversary of the Al Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center — reportedly because he wanted to deliver a speech, and the annual event has long barred remarks by politicians. Trump, a native New Yorker who ha...

The grief Emily Taylor had been holding at bay finally washed over her in January. It had been four months since a lone gunman shot Charlie Kirk in the throat at Utah Valley University, killing the conservative commentator in minutes. That winter “was the first time in my entire life that I didn’...

It was a bad week for the Autistici/Inventati collective. On August 26, the State Department announced far-reaching sanctions against the Italian collective, which provides web-hosting services to a swath of the international far left. The U.S. government categorized A/I, as it’s also known, as a...

United Airlines is set to resume the shipment of military hardware to Israel aboard passenger flights, according to shipping data reviewed by The Intercept. The airline, one of the biggest in the world, had halted the practice more than six months ago amid the outbreak of the war on Iran. On Wedn...

Flock Security likes to describe its national private network of cameras and license plate scanners as a public safety boon. “I can think of no greater mission than rescuing our children,” tweeted Flock CEO Garrett Langley, sharing a promotional company video. “Another child rape suspect located ...

For years, animal rights groups and the agriculture industry have played a cat-and-mouse game over drone videos of conditions at major farms. Angry farmhands faced off against activists who flew their drones overhead, with the operators secure in the knowledge that the Federal Aviation Administra...

The Department of Defense asked OpenAI to provide the U.S. military with a special version of its artificial intelligence technology designed to turn down the Pentagon’s requests as infrequently as possible, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. The desire for a custom AI tool with “m...

The acrimonious breakup between Anthropic and the Department of Defense played out largely in public. But despite the high-profile salvos between the artificial intelligence giant and the Pentagon, ostensibly over the ethics of 21st-century warfare and corporate power, their actual falling o...

People outside Turning Point USA’s headquarters commemorate the conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 20, 2025, in Phoenix, Ariz.   Photo: Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images Charlie Kirk will live forever — at least online.  In the year since he was gunned down at an event at Utah...

Twenty-four years after he provided crucial testimony that helped send a man to Texas’s death row, DNA expert William Watson has recanted his opinion and called out Harris County prosecutors — including an assistant district attorney turned true-crime TV star — for distorting his conclusions to w...

Left-wing Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has a proposal to shield her country from Donald Trump’s growing influence over Latin American politics: changing the constitution to bar dual nationals from running for president or governor of any Mexican state. “A Mexican president is Mexican and d...

A quarter century after the September 11 attacks emboldened then-President George W. Bush to launch the “ war on terror ,” many Americans might like to think they’re wiser than the politicians and pundits who unleashed a flood of anti-Muslim hatred and eroded civil liberties through warrantless w...

As fed-up activists target Flock, the AI-powered surveillance camera company is battling back with a massive increase in donations to associations for mayors and other local officials. Since the beginning of 2025, Flock has given 700 percent more to the partisan groups representing mayors, attorn...

During the height of President Donald Trump’s winter immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis, a new AI-driven “alien” targeting app appeared on the phones of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement deportation officers. Created by tech giant Palantir, a CIA-backed firm known for data...

Marc Rowan has a vision for Gaza. “The potential here is tremendous,” he said at a February gathering of President Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace, where Rowan described land devastated by Israeli bombing with a developer’s zeal. “This is not a problem of money or collat...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department took the side of tech giant OpenAI in its court battle with The Intercept and other media companies over the company’s use of others’ creative work to train its artificial intelligence tools. In a federal court filing in New York, the Justice Department...

Rep. Seth Moulton speaks during an election night event on Sept. 1, 2026, in Boston, after losing the Massachusetts’ Democratic primary for U.S. Senate.   Photo: Reba Saldanha/AP Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey comfortably defeated Rep. Seth Moulton in his Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday, ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is launching a new “Doxing Mitigation Initiative” using AI to help ICE personnel keep their identities hidden from the public, according to an email addressed to all agency employees on Monday. The memo, signed by Acting ICE Director David Venturella and l...

Top military officers from a secretive command watched a speedboat cut through the waters of the Caribbean Sea, early last September. A plane above provided live video of the vessel and the 11 men on board. In the early morning hours, Adm. Frank Bradley sought the counsel of his top legal ad...

Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed speaks with reporters at the Michigan Theatre in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Aug. 26, 2026.   Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images It always felt inevitable that Bari Weiss’s tenure at CBS News would see the network devolve into rank Islamophobia — bu...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency tasked with protecting workers from illegal discrimination, inked an unprecedented settlement with a conservative Christian employer association that could have long-term, wide-ranging consequences. The lawsuit that led to the settle...

“We won,” ‌ President Donald Trump declared in March, less than two weeks after launching his war of choice against Iran. Claiming that nation was “very much destroyed and, even, obliterated,” Trump had already promised the conflict would bring peace to the region and, somehow, the globe. “The he...

After Hurricane Helene, a group called Latinos Aventureros covered more than 4,300 miles crisscrossing Western North Carolina, spending 650 volunteer hours delivering food, water, medicine , and other supplies to an estimated 1,700 people. It was a departure from the group’s typical mandate: help...

In the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s war on the left, the U.S. government’s designation of a popular antifascist webhosting provider as a terror group could shutter a swath of radical websites in the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announ...

The WNBA is having a moment. Viewership is up. Attendance for this year’s WNBA All-Star Game surpassed the NBA’s All-Star Game. Games and events can be viewed in a record number of places, from broadcast to cable and streaming. And just this week, Angel Reese of the Atlanta Dream set a single-gam...

When police in Kent, United Kingdom, arrested American peace activist Max Geller in 2021 for chaining himself to a van parked in front of an Israeli-owned weapons factory, he knew he might be jailed and face charges for his protest.  What he didn’t realize was that he could be hit with U.S. ...

Two months after Iris Dayana Monterroso Lemus lost her son to a stillbirth last year while detained by U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration issued a public response to her allegations that she did not receive prenatal care. “This reporting is absolutely FALSE,” said...

A view of the sunrise over a cottonwood tree where locals are protesting Trump’s border wall in Lochiel, Ariz., on Aug. 10, 2026.   Photo: John Washington Of the more than $170 billion that President Donald Trump secured for his border regime in the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” nearly $50 billi...

Shortly before midnight on August 4, Israeli settlers arrived at the home of Loui Abu Ridi, a Palestinian American, in the village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank.  By then, settlers had already been attacking the house for months. The Abu Ridi family had hired contractors to install an a...

Drone warfare, for many years, meant mostly one thing: a U.S. Predator drone, a missile-armed winged lawnmower in the sky, stalked a single target and then assassinated him. Or someone, at least. Top-secret Pentagon documents showed that 90 percent of those killed during one campaign in Afghanist...

A trio of conservative and libertarian-leaning groups have asked a federal judge to force the disclosure of confidential files about undercover agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement infiltrating left-wing protest groups in Minneapolis. The Cato Institute, the Foundation for Individ...

The U.S. military revealed that an additional 60 service members have been injured in the Iran war, lifting the official toll to 776 troops wounded or killed. Some 345 of these casualties have occurred since July 7, after a second ceasefire imploded . As the numbers of dead and wounded troops hav...

This story was reported and produced by Injustice Watch, a nonprofit newsroom in Chicago that investigates issues of equity and justice in the court system. Sign up here to get their weekly newsletter . Minutes after Riverton police officer Brad Herzog ran 31-year-old Daniel Torrez Perez’s name t...

U.S. Central Command maintains a secret directory of journalists who have been blacklisted by the press office, according to an official with CENTCOM public affairs. The disclosure comes amid a failed war in Iran , a “ cover-up ” of U.S. casualties from that conflict, and repeated refusals by CEN...

In my youth, pop culture told me that the Cold War would end in one of two ways: a Soviet–Cuban invasion that would necessitate my taking to the hills and fighting a guerrilla war against the Communists, à la “ Red Dawn ,” like a young Patrick Swayze; or riding out an atomic winter after a full-s...

Retired Army Lt. Col. Alex Vindman, a Florida Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, at a primary night watch party on Aug. 18, 2026, in Oakland Park, Fla.   Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images Alexander Vindman lost to Angie Nixon in the Florida Democratic senatorial primary on Tuesday, marking a lon...

It’s been nearly three years into Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians, and still no step closer to its end. Since the latest “ceasefire” began in October 2025, Israel has continued to bombard Gaza and has killed more than 1,200 people , United Nations experts reported earlier this month....

A state attorney general challenging the controversial mega-merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery is under attack from a newly created mystery nonprofit accused of being an “astroturf” front group. The group sent text messages in recent days calling on Californians to press...

Taken from the southern Lebanese village of Zawtar al-Gharbiyah, this photo shows smoke billowing from the site of an Israeli controlled explosion in the village of Bani Hayyan on Aug. 13, 2026.   Photo: Ammar Ammar/AFP via Getty Images Earlier this month , Roman Gofman, the new director of ...

When Daniel arrived in the U.S. about two decades ago, he came on a legal tourist visa. Once here, having fled his home country in South America, he filed an asylum application. A judge, however, eventually denied his claim. Then 11 years ago, he married his partner, a U.S. citizen. Together, the...

Fiction The Devotion of Suspect X , Keigo Higashino (2005) This is one of those books that stays with you long after you finish it. The hit from Japanese mystery writer Keigo Higashino, who died last month, puts a dark twist on a story about loyalty and the obligations that come with it. This was...

Mohammad Ali Kialha’s first hours were all he knew of peace. He was born on February 26 in Iran’s capital, Tehran. Two days later, President Donald Trump began his war on that country. “Bombs will be dropping everywhere,” Trump wrote on social media on February 28. That day, the U.S. attacked the...

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents appear to have worked directly with government officials in Iran to deport over 100 Iranian nationals as the United States prepared to bomb their home country, according to a newly released trove of internal emails from ICE. In the process, immigration ...

The conventional thinking for Democrats hoping to win in Florida is to be tough on Cuba, friendly to Israel, and careful to avoid appearing too liberal. It’s a tactic aimed at courting powerful voting blocs, and one that helped Rep. Jared Moskowitz take office in the land of sunny skies and low t...

The parking lot outside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto, Calif. on May 27, 2026.   Photo: Jill Connelly/AP Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias . He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming...

Organizers in Minneapolis long suspected they were being surveilled by the federal government during the height of the winter protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It was not until a court filing on Thursday, however, that the youth-led Sunrise Movement and other groups learned th...

The stunning momentum of the insurgent left hit a roadblock this week when democratic socialist Francesca Hong narrowly lost her primary race for Wisconsin governor to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, a moderate who garnered significant support from establishment Democrats.   “...

Cornell University is reneging on its pledge to help two graduate students avoid immigration detention by threatening to cut their funding if they don’t return to the United States, where the Trump administration has targeted them for possible deportation over their participation in a pro-Palesti...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Sept. 15, 2025.   Photo: Nathan Howard/POOL/AFP via Getty Images In July 2020, Aluf Benn, the editor of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, interviewed a 92-year-old ret...