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With many votes still to be counted in California and little certainty in most of Tuesday’s closest-watched primary elections, one early pattern is taking shape: Progressive candidates for Congress across the state are failing to top their more moderate Democratic opponents. In the race for Rep. ...

A former U.S. Army combat surgeon with backing from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, streamer Hasan Piker, and an anti-AIPAC super PAC won a New Jersey primary on Tuesday despite last-minute negative attacks. Adam Hamawy beat a crowded field of Democrats in the state’s 12th Congressional District. ...

The United States is feeding Pentagon propaganda to internet users in Latin American countries using a new AI-laden content mill, an investigation by The Intercept has found. La Tilde quietly began development early this year and appears to still be a work in progress, pitching itself as a modern...

Americans speaking out against artificial intelligence data centers on social media are falling under police surveillance, a confidential law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Intercept reveals. A fusion center in Philadelphia combed through spicy internet comments from AI critics and conclude...

A New York state oversight board raised ethics concerns about a trip by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to Israel that a local pro-Israel Jewish group sponsored. The revelation comes amid renewed scrutiny of DiNapoli’s spending spree on Israel Bonds , a financial instrument that directly funds the...

Kareem’s father was furious when he heard the rumors circulating in Ramallah about the sexuality of his 22-year-old son. “My dad aimed his gun towards me,” Kareem recalled, “and said that if he ever finds out that I’m gay, he would ‘rest a bullet between my eyes.’” Kareem, whose name has be...

For three decades, Richard Glossip lived on concrete. First at the Oklahoma County jail, after his arrest for murder in 1997, and then in the underground bunker housing death row inmates at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. As with the rest of his surroundings, he eventually got used to the hard, ...

There are two democratic socialists running for mayor in Los Angeles, but many West Coast leftists are already feeling the crush of defeat.  Rae Huang and Nithya Raman have each, at varying times, been hailed as Southern California’s analogue to Zohran Mamdani. Yet when the rallies and canva...

Guards at a New Jersey immigrant detention center are retaliating against detainees for nonviolent protests over poor conditions, including a hunger and labor strike, according to relatives and members of Congress. Staff at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Delaney Hall Detention Facilit...

Police officers stand outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 25, 2022.   Photo by Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images If there’s one thing we know about the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 children and two teachers dead, it is this: The police failed to ...

Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary has been making the media rounds defending the 40,000-acre data center project he’s backing in northern Utah. Dismissing residents’ concerns over the environmental impacts and water demands of the proposed project in the drought-stricken Great Salt Lake region, O’Leary ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner on a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour stop at the Collins Center for the Arts on the University of Maine campus on May 24, 2026 in Orono, Maine.   Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images One of the most enduring points of contention bet...

A company run by former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, hired by the Israeli government to push pro-Israel views on a major conservative media network, has directed $13 million from Israel to several Republican digital strategy firms and allies, according to a previously unreported document...

The military contractor responsible for a Southern California chemical leak that forced as many as 50,000 people to evacuate their homes over the weekend manufactures parts of F-35 fighter jets likely bound for Israel, The Intercept has learned. The Garden Grove, Calif., GKN Aerospace plant, whos...

The Sunrise Movement is leaning into its roots in climate activism with a congressional endorsement of Saikat Chakrabarti , the former chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and one of the architects of the landmark environmental legislation known as the Green New Deal.  Th...

White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka was on a mission. He wanted someone dead, and he knew who could make it happen. It was eight days after Donald Trump took office for a second time, and Gorka, the senior counterterrorism director on President Trump’s National Security Counci...

The Trump administration’s aggressive diplomatic and military engagement in the U.S.’s backyard — dubbed the Donroe Doctrine — has led to more violence in the Americas, increased impunity by local security forces, and heightened danger from cartels in the Western Hemisphere, according to a new an...

The number of U.S. casualties in the Iran war ticked higher on Tuesday, hours after American military forces conducted what U.S. Central Command called “self-defense strikes” in southern Iran. Official Pentagon statistics put the current casualty toll at 423, an increase of three wounded from the...

A judge Issued what appears to be the first-ever sanction against the private prison giant CoreCivic for destroying video evidence in a case alleging wrongful death of a man who died by suicide in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. The sanction came shortly before a trial was slate...

Republican Rep. Thomas Massie was decisively ousted on Tuesday night in his Kentucky primary, a win for President Donald Trump, who had launched an all-out attack on the congressman for his role in pushing for the release of the Epstein files. But in Pennsylvania, the left had a lot to celebrate....

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., flashed a smile alongside her mother, Maria Marcotte, as the pair took a selfie from an international terminal of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.  “Lisbon, here we come!” Marcotte, a retired advertising executive, captioned her Instagram post on June 16, 2024.&...

A comprehensive analysis of the 2024 presidential campaign commissioned by the Democratic National Committee fails to mention the party’s position on Israel’s genocide in Gaza, prompting harsh criticism from Arab American members of the party. The 192-page report, authored by a Democratic strateg...

Colorado law enforcement officials warned their counterparts across the country that social media posts by the Department of Homeland Security recruiting for ICE contained so many white supremacist themes that they could endanger the public, according to internal records obtained by The Intercept...

Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad holds a press conference after registering as a candidate for Iran’s 2021 presidential elections on May 12, 2021, in Tehran.   Photo: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images The bombshell New York Times report that the U.S. and Israel hoped to install former Pre...

Earley Story will never forget the name Alfredo Shaw. As a longtime employee at the Shelby County Jail in downtown Memphis, Story had seen the young man come in and out of the detention facility known as 201 Poplar since the 1980s. Shaw acted cocky, but there was fear in his eyes. Story, a devout...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks with other members of the Congressional Black Caucus on the Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on April 29, 2026.   Photo: Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images Within days of the Supreme Court’s rul...

The leading progressive candidate to replace longtime Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi in Congress is opposing a pair of wealth taxes on the ballot in his state and district: a one-time statewide tax on California billionaires and a local San Francisco tax on the city’s wealthiest businesses and co...

A city official in Miami Beach, Florida paid thousands of dollars to hire billboard trucks with text attacking specific members of an anti-Zionist Jewish group, according to a new filing in federal court. David Suarez, a city commissioner for Miami Beach, is accused of hiring the trucks to drive ...

A recently released FBI file shines new light on the days immediately leading up to the arrest of then-Columbia University student and Palestinian rights activist Mahmoud Khalil. On March 6 of last year, two days before unidentified officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement abducted and a...

Despite a ceasefire that has been in effect for more than a month, the cost of the U.S. war with Iran keeps spiking higher, a senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday. Two weeks ago, the Pentagon claimed the war had cost $25 billion, a figure that analysts said was likely a gross undercount. In t...

Ask anyone who has followed news about Gaza with even a smidgen of critical thinking, and they will tell you: Media organizations are biased against Palestinians — and systematically favor Israel.  It’s easy to say but harder to prove. Doing empirical analysis that shows these biases is time...

An ethics watchdog found that a Trump administration-appointed former U.S. attorney committed professional misconduct in response to allegations that included retaliating against a newspaper for negative coverage. But details about John Sarcone’s case have been deemed “private and confidential” —...

A controversial real estate expo that advertises properties for sale in the occupied Palestinian territories returned to New York City on Monday, less than a week after a previous event drew dueling protests on the Upper East Side . The “Great Israeli Real Estate Event” took place Monday evening ...

David Morens leaves the U.S. District Court following his arraignment on felony charges alleging he concealed communications related to virus research from Freedom of Information Act requests, on May 8, 2026, in Greenbelt, Md.   Photo: Heather Diehl/Getty Images Armed federal agents recently...

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks at a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel following the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for money laundering, at the Justice Department in Washington on April 21, 2026.   Photo: Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images The Sout...

Republican Tennessee state Rep. Todd Warner arrives to the House chamber for a special session of the legislature to redraw congressional voting maps on May 7, 2026, in Nashville.   Photo: George Walker IV/AP The ink had barely dried on the Supreme Court’s ruling to gut the Voting Rights Act...

Within days of reports of a rare Andes hantavirus outbreak, political figures and prominent Covid-era ivermectin advocates once again began promoting the drug as a potential treatment — even as infectious disease experts say there is no clinical evidence supporting its use against hantaviruses. F...

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt a fatal blow to the Voting Rights Act, triggering a new wave of redistricting fights in the midst of midterm primary elections. Last week, the court struck down a Louisiana congressional map with a second majority-Black district. The decision requires there to be evid...

Hasan Piker, the Twitch streamer and political commentator, appeared at a May Day rally on May 1 in St. Louis to support Cori Bush’s congressional run.   Photo: Tristan Beatty In a letter to Twitch and Amazon, New York Democratic Rep. Richie Torres once slammed Hasan Piker, the popular polit...

Locals in Maine are bridling at the decision by a powerful Washington Democratic group to throw its weight behind one candidate in the contested primary race for the House seat in the state’s 2nd Congressional District. On Monday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee issued a coveted e...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a key achievement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the federal agency tasked with protecting American workers from employment discrimination, sued the New York Times on behalf of a white man claiming the company discriminated against him based on hi...

Five years ago, a Nevada state senator helped kill a crypto tycoon’s vision of a blockchain city in the Reno desert. Now, that lawmaker is running for higher office, and the crypto mogul is bankrolling her primary opponent to the tune of millions. The battle playing out in the state attorney gene...

A roving real estate expo for land sales in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories held an event at a New York synagogue on Tuesday, drawing a rebuke from Mayor Zohran Mamdani over the potential for land sales that violate international law. The Great Israeli Real Estate Event — a showca...

The Trump administration is tying itself in knots, clinging to a ceasefire with Iran that now remains in name only. On Monday, President Donald Trump said Iran would be “ blown off the face of the earth ” if it attacked U.S. ships guiding vessels through the Strait of Hormuz as part of Trump’s il...

  Photo illustration: The Intercept / Screenshots: Clavicular Braden Peters, better known online as Clavicular, did not become famous by offering young men discipline in any ordinary sense. He became famous by selling them “ascension”: the promise that a better face, leaner body, harsher jaw...

A company in Portland, Oregon, that specializes in AI targeting for drones has made significant shipments of materials to military contractors in Israel, according to cargo data reviewed by The Intercept. The shipments raise the possibility that a boutique Pacific Northwest tech firm has helped t...

The trial of Renea Gamble had been underway for almost two hours when Marcus McDowell, the city attorney of Fairhope, Alabama, called a surprise witness. “I call the gentleman in the red shirt,” he said, pointing toward a long-haired man in the second row. It took a moment to realize that he was ...

Amid a fragile ceasefire in the U.S. war on Iran, the Pentagon is playing a numbers game with American casualty statistics, adding and subtracting from the count as questions about the human toll mount. On the day the ceasefire between the Trump administration and Iran took effect, the tally of U...

Two U.S. officials who died in Mexico on Sunday worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, two sources told The Intercept. They are among the first known fatalities of President Donald Trump’s expanding drug war in Latin America. The American personnel died in a vehicular crash in the mountains ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on the hunt for parking in Lower Manhattan — but they’re not just circling the block waiting for a spot to open up. Instead, they’re looking to rent out a whole parking lot. ICE put out a call for information from parties interested in securing a contra...