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When All Protest Is Terrorism

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On September 8, at least 800 peaceful protesters holding signs that read “I oppose genocide/I support Palestine Action,” were arrested in London’s Parliament Square, some on grounds of supporting an illegal organization under the United Kingdom’s Terrorism Act. The Labour Party administration of Prime Minister Keir Starmer had banned Palestine Action (PA), a group that […]

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“THIS IS WAR”: Some Right-Wing Figures Call for Retribution Following Kirk Killing

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Wednesday’s fatal shooting of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was greeted with widespread grief, horror, and shock by many MAGA and right-wing figures, some of whom counted Kirk as a friend or cited him as an inspiration for their own work. But while many simply expressed their grief for Kirk and his family, and politicians on […]

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Conservative Influencer Charlie Kirk Shot in Utah

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Conservative influencer Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah on Wednesday, officials said. Kirk, 31, was speaking at Utah Valley University in the suburb of Orem, about 45 miles south of Salt Lake City, when he was shot. Videos circulating on social media appeared to show Kirk being struck in the neck while he was sitting […]

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Republicans Want More Pregnant Women in Prisons. A New Book Describes What It’s Like.

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Women are the fastest-growing population of incarcerated people. And if Republicans get their way, more pregnant women will be joining their ranks. That’s because conservatives are behind a growing push to criminalize pregnancy outcomes nationwide, in part by giving full rights to fetuses. And while abortion opponents have long claimed they do not want to […]

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The Most Eye-Popping Parts of Kamala Harris’s New Memoir—So Far

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Kamala Harris is back…with a vengeance. The first excerpt of her forthcoming memoir, 107 Days, about her history-making presidential campaign after President Joe Biden dropped out, published on Wednesday morning in The Atlantic. And it is unexpectedly juicy for Harris, who is typically known to equivocate—and who, until now, staunchly defended Biden’s decision to run […]

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Inside the Hidden Conservative Network Bankrolling an “Ecosystem” of Right-Wing News

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“Now more than ever, the world needs an honest newsroom.” With these words, the little-known Informing America Foundation was awarded the $250,000 Gregor G. Peterson Prize in “venture philanthropy” last December for its “high-quality journalism.” If few had heard of IAF, hinted the nonprofit’s CEO, Debbie Myers, it was by design. “We stay very much […]

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If Donald Trump Was Incapacitated, Would We Know? 

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The president disappeared just long enough for the speculation to begin, and for the press to start asking questions. The year was 1893, and Grover Cleveland had a tumor on the roof of his mouth. Fearing that news of his illness would make him seem weak, Cleveland arranged to have it secretly removed on a […]

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If Donald Trump Were Incapacitated, Would We Know?

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The president disappeared just long enough for the speculation to begin, and for the press to start asking questions. The year was 1893, and Grover Cleveland had a tumor on the roof of his mouth. Fearing that news of his illness would make him seem weak, Cleveland arranged to have it secretly removed on a […]

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The Threat That Could Destroy 20 Years of Progress in the Lower Ninth

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This story was published in partnership with Capital B. Willie Calhoun knows how to live with water. His home, cradled between the Mississippi River and a patchwork of canals, is split by the surging, ever-present current. But it wasn’t always that way in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Before the city’s largest aqueduct, known as the […]

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Being Black in America Almost Killed Me Part 2

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When Trymaine Lee began writing his first book, he didn’t realize that the gun violence he was reporting on was such a central part of his own story. But then he began digging into his family history, only to fully learn about a series of racially motivated murders involving his ancestors. Lee’s book, A Thousand […]

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Democratic Voters Want their Leaders to Stop Running From Zohran Mamdani

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Zohran Mamdani hadn’t been Regina Weiss’ first choice for mayor of New York City. She’d ranked city comptroller Brad Lander number-one on her primary ballot in June, and told me she wished that the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist state assemblymember brought a bit more experience to the job. But Weiss, who volunteers with Indivisible, was happily […]

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Nobody Wants This Dirty Gas Plant. Trump is Forcing It To Stay Open.

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration, citing an ongoing “energy emergency,” has once again saddled a community already overburdened by pollution with a dirty, obsolete power plant it doesn’t want or need. The decision has confounded residents and environmental justice advocates, who called the […]

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