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How a Violent, Warrantless ICE Raid Devastated a Memphis Family

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A few weeks before Christmas, six siblings huddled around a phone in their mom’s bedroom to talk with their dad and grandpa, who’d just been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Memphis. Camila, 16, the oldest girl, seemed tense as she sat next to Saraya, 13. Their grandpa tried to lighten the mood, at […]

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They Want to Tell You a Kid With a Spider-Man Backpack Is Evil

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Anyone with a child in the spitting distance age of a preschooler is likely to be familiar with Spidey and His Amazing Friends, the 2021 animated TV series that follows grade-school versions of Peter Parker, Miles Morales, and Gwen Stacy as they take on baddies across New York City. Their kiddo fans might even break […]

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No, Antidepressants Do Not Cause Mass Shootings

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As US health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn a lot of attention for promoting pseudoscience and disproven theories, especially on vaccines. He is using that playbook on another major public health issue: gun violence, which remains the leading cause of death for kids in America. When it comes to school shootings and other mass […]

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Federal Judge Nixes Rule That Enabled Clearcutting in the Name of Taming Wildfires

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A niche rule established by the US Forest Service to justify the clearing of tens of thousands of acres of forest in the name of reducing wildfire risk was unlawfully created and applied, the Oregon US District Court found […]

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Top Trump Official Says FBI Won’t Investigate Killing by ICE Agent

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In an interview on Fox News Sunday, US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Shannon Bream that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is not, nor are they planning to, investigate Jonathan Ross—the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and killed Renée Nicole Good in her car in Minneapolis earlier this month.  “We don’t just […]

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Minnesota US Attorney’s Office Is Bracing for a New Wave of Resignations

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More resignations of federal prosecutors are expected at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota amid ongoing frustration over the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of Renée Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.“I have heard there may be more people leaving, people I would consider senior and respected career prosecutors,” said Anders Folk, […]

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How Trump Is Using Violent Tragedies to Divide America

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Once again, the response was quick, fuming, and filled with falsehoods. On January 7, about five hours after a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis fatally shot a woman in her SUV, President Donald Trump addressed the reckless killing in a social-media post: The victim, he said, “violently, willfully, and viciously ran over […]

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America’s New Era of Violent Populism Is Here

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A year ago this month, President Donald Trump granted clemency to nearly 1,600 people responsible for the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. When Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political science professor who studies domestic political violence, heard about the pardons, he says he immediately thought it was “going to be the worst […]

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An Expert Weighs in on Hurdles to Suing the ICE Officer Who Fatally Shot Renée Good

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If the ICE officer who shot and killed Renée Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week is not prosecuted criminally, or even if he is, can he also be sued? Legal experts have different takes. Last week I spoke with a police misconduct attorney in Minnesota who seemed hopeful about the odds that Good’s family might […]

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Scenes of Escalating Violence, Chaos, and Resistance in Minneapolis

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Minneapolis remains on edge after the ICE killing of Renée Good last Wednesday. As ICE and Border Patrol operations intensify—Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that “hundreds more” agents are being sent to the city—residents continue to spill into the streets, filming, heckling, and tracking federal vehicles, block by block. Following this drama closely […]

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Protesters Decrying the Killing of Renée Good Know What They Saw with Their Own Eyes

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In the immediate aftermath of the ICE killing of Renée Good in Minneapolis last week, the Trump administration smeared her as a “domestic terrorist,” claiming that she had weaponized her vehicle. They labeled Good a “violent rioter” and insisted every new video angle proved their version of the truth: Good was a menace and the […]

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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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