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Melania Trump’s Weird, Vague Letter to Putin

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First Lady Melania Trump tends to be seen more often than she is heard. But when she does speak, it’s often hard to forget. Take, for example, her infamous profanity-laden tirade against having to decorate the White House for Christmas, per tradition, and criticism for being “complicit” in the policy of separating immigrant families during […]

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After Maui’s Fires, Native Hawaiian Families Face a New Threat: Foreclosure

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As a Native Hawaiian teenager growing up in West Maui, Mikey Burke couldn’t wait to leave. “All my life, I thought I was bigger than this town, bigger than the village, and I was going to go somewhere and make something of […]

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As Feds Flaunt Trump’s Takeover, DC Pushes Back

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In a small park in northwest Washington on Friday, a group of what appeared to be eight federal agents posed for a picture in front of an anti-ICE banner. Then they tore down the sign and departed with it. In its place they appeared to have left a dildo. We can’t be sure how much […]

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The Trump-Putin Summit Was a Win for Russia

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During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would end the Russia-Ukraine war in the first 24 hours of his presidency. Eight months in, he has left a summit with President Vladimir Putin without a deal. Trump went into Friday’s meeting in Anchorage with the goal of securing a ceasefire, telling reporters on Air […]

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What Police Weren’t Told About Tasers

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Kansas City police Officer Matt Masters first used a Taser in the early 2000s. He said it worked well for taking people down; it was safe and effective.  “At the end of the day, if you have to put your hands on somebody, you got to scuffle with somebody, why risk that?” he said. “You […]

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Puerto Rico’s Transition Care Ban Is Driving Trans Kids Into Exile

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“People are scared out of their minds,” Dr. Miguel Vázquez Rivera tells me. The psychologist and executive director of the True Self Foundation, an LGBTQ advocacy nonprofit in Puerto Rico, says that he has seen a rise in clinical “anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation” in transgender people across the island after Puerto Rico’s total ban […]

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Fossil Fuel Producers Derail Global Agreement to Combat Plastic Waste

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Global talks on curbing dangerous plastics pollution ended early Friday without agreement on a comprehensive treaty. Divisions over whether to mandate enforceable limits on plastic production were too deep to bridge. “I believe that everybody is very disappointed. However, […]

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Anti-Vaxxers Are Making Excuses for the CDC Shooter

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When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on Scripps News this week to address the tragic CDC shooting, he began by condemning the violence that had occurred four days earlier, when shooter Patrick Joseph White fired over 180 rounds into CDC buildings in Atlanta, Georgia. White broke approximately 150 windows and […]

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Government Documents Show Police Disabling AI Oversight Tools

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In April 2024, the American police tech firm Axon, which leads the market for police body cameras, released a tool it billed as “revolutionary”: Draft One, an AI-powered software package that would turn body camera footage and audio into intelligible police reports. Once best known for developing the Taser, Axon has transformed into a $50 […]

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The Democratic Socialists of America Want to Win

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Last month, energized by growing membership and recent electoral victories—including Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral primary win—the Democratic Socialists of America convened in Chicago. The disagreements were the usual for the group: the needs of electoralism pitted against the goals of radicalism. But, overall, the goal was the same. DSA wants to win. Building […]

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The Official Voice of the US Government Is Cruel, Gross, and Weird. What Is That Doing to Us? 

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In March, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested a woman they accused of drug trafficking and entering the country illegally. Standing in a parking lot, they photographed her, weeping, eyes half-closed in anguish, her arms cuffed behind her back. And then—in a cruel innovation specific to the Trump administration—the White House’s official Twitter account […]

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Tribal Nations Scramble to Save Clean Energy Projects

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Cody Two Bear, who is Standing Rock Sioux, served on his tribal council during the Dakota Access pipeline protests in 2017. Growing up in a community powered by coal, the experience was transformative. “I’ve seen the energy extraction that has placed […]

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