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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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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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What Is a Far-Right Ideologue Going to Do With the U.S. Institute of Peace? 

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In February, President Trump included the U.S. Institute of Peace in an executive order targeting federal entities he deemed “unnecessary” and which he planned to cut as much as he legally could. In March, the USIP’s Washington D.C. offices were invaded by armed private security as part of a brute force takeover by Elon Musk’s […]

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Brazil’s Key MAGA Ally Linked to Massive Fraud Scheme Involving Jailed Chinese Billionaire

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This article is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Agência Pública.  On July 16, Paulo Figueiredo, a Brazilian right-wing influencer and grandson of a former military dictator, stood in front of the White House. At his side was Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian ex-president who is on trial for an alleged coup […]

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ICE Arrested These Immigrants in San Francisco and Sent Them 2,400 Miles Away—to Hawaii

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This story was originally published by Mission Local, a nonprofit newsroom covering San Francisco. You can donate to them here. At least two people arrested by federal immigration officers last Thursday at immigration court in San Francisco have been flown to Hawaii, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They are now being held in the Federal Detention Center Honolulu, a federal prison, […]

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The Hague Just Upped the Stakes on Trump’s “Drill Baby, Drill” Agenda

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Tuesday’s landmark advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate change came as residents of some island nations are already “scraping barnacles off our grandfathers’ graves” as sea-level rise accelerates, said Julian Aguon, an Indigenous human rights lawyer and writer […]

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“Walking Corpses”: Israel’s Blockade of Aid Starves Gazans, Aid Groups Say

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Two months ago, a coalition of aid groups warned that Israel’s war on Gaza—and restrictions on food entering the strip—would cause mass starvation in Gaza imminently. Now, it has arrived, according to officials and aid groups. On Wednesday, more than 100 aid groups issued a statement outlining just how dire the situation has become for […]

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Six Months in, Trump Has Made American Life Immeasurably Worse

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Sunday marked six months of President Donald Trump’s return to office. To celebrate, he and top Republicans kicked the hagiography into full gear. “Today is Six Month Anniversary of my Second Term. Importantly, it’s being hailed as one of the most consequential periods of any President,” Trump claimed in a Truth Social rant. House Speaker […]

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ICE Agents Keep Snatching Asylum Seekers Immediately After Their Court Hearings

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This story was originally published by Mission Local, a nonprofit newsroom covering San Francisco. You can donate to them here. Three asylum-seekers were arrested Friday directly after court hearings at San Francisco immigration court, continuing a weeks-long pattern of federal agents waiting just outside courtrooms and arresting people as they step into the halls.  Mission Local saw all three arrests, which took […]

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For Women Seeking Asylum in the United States, Things Are About to Get Harder

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The Trump administration is making it much more difficult for women fleeing gender-based violence in other countries to immigrate to the United States. On Friday, the Board of Immigration Appeals, which is part of the Justice Department, determined that a person can’t seek asylum for persecution based on their sex alone—or sex and nationality. “It’s […]

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The State Department Guts Its Office Combating Human Trafficking

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As President Donald Trump takes a beating from his own MAGA crowd for his handling of the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased pedophile and sex trafficker, his State Department pulled a surprising move: It decimated its office combating human trafficking. As part of a downsizing, the Trump administration on Friday cut 1,353 positions at […]

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ICE Agents Are Harassing the Courthouse Volunteers Who Assist Besieged Immigrants

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The recent, nationwide phenomenon of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents showing up at federal courthouses to arrest undocumented people after their immigration hearings has inspired an outpouring of volunteers who come to observe the hearings and assist the immigrants and their families. ICE personnel in Sacramento, California, clearly aren’t happy about this. Volunteers say […]

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