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She Quit Her Job to Fight for Her Father’s Freedom—and for Everyone Else Inside Alligator Alcatraz

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On a recent Sunday afternoon, Arianne Betancourt stood across the road from the infamous Alligator Alcatraz immigrant detention camp that opened last year in Florida by the Everglades. Her 54-year-old Cuban father, Justo Betancourt, is among the roughly 1,500 immigrants detained there.  Before her father’s arrest, Betancourt, a 33-year-old Miami native, spent her days guiding […]

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Florida Continues Its Execution Spree Despite Problematic Track Record

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This story is published in partnership with The Florida Trib. In a small, piercingly bright room inside a state prison in northeast Florida, Frank Walls was strapped to a gurney and injected three times: first with a sedative meant to render him unconscious, then a paralytic to prevent any visible movement, and finally potassium acetate […]

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Trump Plans to Repeal the Finding That Lets the EPA Regulate Climate-Warming Emissions

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will roll back the mechanism allowing the government to regulate planet-heating pollution, the White House press secretary has told reporters. “President Trump will […]

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Pam Bondi Refuses to Apologize to Epstein Survivors

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The House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on oversight of the Justice Department devolved into insults and chaos on Wednesday. One telling example: whether Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Trump administration would apologize to survivors who were named, unredacted, in the department’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation files. Among the documents released late last month, the Justice Department […]

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Trump’s Lust for Greenland’s Rare Earth Minerals Faces Harsh Arctic Realities

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump has been voicing interest in exploiting Greenland’s mineral wealth since his first term in office, when he started talking about possibly seizing the autonomous territory. His threats of a hostile takeover have eased, but amid the focus on […]

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Tens of Thousands of New Mothers Have Been Flagged to Police Over Unreliable Drug Tests

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This article was published in partnership with the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. Ayanna Harris-Rashid was sitting up in bed, her newborn son latched to her breast, one hand scrolling on her phone, when the police called. She was wanted on a felony charge of child neglect. Harris-Rashid […]

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How to Get Away With Anything

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In medieval England, there was no law if your pockets were deep. Crimes had fixed costs: A couple of hundred gold coins got you off the hook if you killed a poor man; 2,000 if you killed a rich one. America’s founders imagined a different way forward. In their debates about the pardon power, Edmund […]

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What a Former Undercover FBI Agent Sees in the Pretti Shooting Videos

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Videos of the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents last Saturday ricocheted around the world, allowing ordinary viewers to see for themselves, second by second, how the deadly skirmish unfolded. The video evidence from the scene immediately shredded the Trump administration’s claims, which smeared Pretti as a “domestic terrorist” and a “would-be assassin.” But […]

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From Prison to a Preschool

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This story was co-published with The 74, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on education in America. It was January 2022, and Rhian Allvin was in search of a space that could bring her vision to life.  The early childhood leader had just finished up her nearly decade-long tenure as CEO of the National Association for […]

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In Scathing Ruling, Federal Judge Orders Release of Liam Ramos From Detention

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A federal judge on Saturday ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos from an immigration detention facility outside San Antonio. Ramos, in the blue bunny hat and Spider-Man backpack, who became another symbol of the cruelty of ICE agents, was detained by federal agents earlier this month in a suburban Minneapolis neighborhood—an incident that […]

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Trump’s Minions Are Pressuring Prosecutors to Charge ICE Protesters Based on Scant Evidence

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More federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned or are preparing to do so, in part because the Trump administration has asked them to file criminal charges against anti-ICE protesters without appropriate evidence, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The prosecutors, at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, have been deluged with allegations […]

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Federal Prosecutors in Minnesota Are “Demoralized and Pissed”

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More federal prosecutors in Minnesota have resigned or are preparing to do so, in part because the Trump administration has asked them to file criminal charges against anti-ICE protesters without appropriate evidence, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. The prosecutors, at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, have been deluged with allegations […]

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