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TSA Is Forwarding Names, Photos, and Flight Details to ICE

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The Transportation Security Administration is forwarding passenger lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement in order to detain and deport travelers while denying them the chance to challenge the process, according to documents obtained by the New York Times. A Times report Friday revealed that information furnished by TSA provided the basis of ICE’s high-profile detention […]

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Scientists Find Polar Bear Genes Behave Differently According to Climate

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Changes in polar bear DNA that could help the animals adapt to warmer climates have been detected by researchers, in a study thought to be the first time a statistically significant link has been found between rising temperatures and […]

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How a News Desert in South Texas Allows Misinformation to Flourish

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Karen Gleason, a veteran reporter, lit a cigarette as she steps out of her white sports car into the sweltering dry heat of the South Texas summer. It took her a few minutes to reach the border wall then recently expanded by Gov. Greg Abbott to deter migrants from Central America. The wall, despite having […]

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Lessons From Trump’s “War” on Chicago

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Chicago has been one of the latest stops on the Trump administration’s deportation tour. “Operation Midway Blitz” started in September and, for months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents have been roaming the streets and detaining hundreds of people. This week on Reveal, host Al Letson and producer Ashley Cleek visit Chicago to […]

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Scoop: New Justice Department Voting Rights Chief Had Prior Job Suspension for Ties to Election Deniers

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A former Los Angeles County district attorney who was put on administrative leave in 2022 after he based a prosecution around tips from a right-wing group that has promoted election fraud conspiracy theories is now the top voting rights official at the Department of Justice, according to a legal filing reviewed by Mother Jones. Recently, […]

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Inside the Last Minute Fight on Legislation for Victims of Coerced Debt In New York

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When Gina got a call that she owed money to a car financing company, it didn’t make sense. At the time, she did not have a driver’s license. In fact, she did not even know how to drive. But, the debt collector explained, her name was on the document. Gina came to New York City […]

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Trump’s HUD Accuses Boston of Engaging In “Redlining” Against White People

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Thursday that it is opening an investigation into Boston’s housing policies, accusing the city of discriminating against white people.  “No person or entity—the City of Boston included—is permitted to violate civil rights protections in the name of ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,’” Craig Trainor, the assistant secretary for […]

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The Man Who Broke Offshore Wind

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This story was originally published by Canary Media and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. David Stevenson stood in a circle of friends and colleagues in an Orlando, Florida, hotel lobby. Everyone but him wore a lapel pin that read ​“I ♥ Fossil Fuels.”  “You want one?” asked a conference attendee, offering me the […]

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This Young Soccer Squad Has Never Faced a Rival Like Donald Trump

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When I first encountered 21-year-old Dilan Pinzón back in April, he was sitting on the sidelines of a soccer field in Oakland, California, clad in cleats and a blue jersey, pondering his team’s fate. It was the third game of the season for Soccer Without Borders Academy, which hadn’t won a single match it played […]

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Trump Is “Basically Shutting Down the Legal Immigration System”

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Not long after the shooting of two members of the National Guard in Washington D.C., Elora Mukherjee found herself contacting her clients with bad news. Mukherjee, the director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School, needed to tell several asylum seekers that their applications had been put on hold—indefinitely. “These policies don’t just […]

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Indiana Republicans Just Defied Trump’s Pressure Campaign to Rig Their Congressional Maps

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In an extraordinary rebuke to Donald Trump on Thursday, the Indiana state Senate rejected a gerrymandered congressional map relentlessly pushed by the president and his allies that would have given Republicans a lopsided 9-0 advantage in the state’s House delegation by eliminating the seats of two Democratic members of Congress. The final vote was 31-19 […]

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We’d Never Deport Veterans, Noem Says in Earshot of Deported Veteran

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In a contentious hearing that featured Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem telling Democratic committee members they should “all be fired,” House representatives repeatedly attempted to call attention to federal agents detaining non-criminal immigrants and US citizens. The secretary held the party line: she, and the Trump administration, were simply keeping Americans safe from threats. […]

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