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“Authoritarian”: Trump Sending Troops to Another American City

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President Donald Trump is making good on his promise to invade more American cities. On Saturday, Gov. JB Pritzker (D-Ill.) announced that the Trump administration planned to deploy 300 National Guard troops to Illinois “against our will.” Gov. Pritzker added that Department of Defense officials had told him that if he did not call up […]

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ICE Will Be “All Over” the Super Bowl

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In the latest reminder that nowhere is safe, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to “be all over” the Super Bowl, according to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “They suck and we’ll win and God will bless us,” said a government official to a podcaster. Noem made the announcement on podcaster Benny Johnson’s show […]

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Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

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This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Just west of Fort Qu’Appelle in Saskatchewan, the Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation is working across the US border to revive centuries-old trade routes as part of a new Indigenous-governed trade corridor.  Trucks from the First Nation could soon be […]

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Judge Says DOJ May Be Vindictively Prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia—the immigrant whose deportation to a Salvadoran prison in March caused national outrage—has taken a new turn. On Friday, a federal judge found that the Trump administration may be pursing charges against him out of vindictiveness. Now, the judge is allowing evidence gathering and a hearing to determine if the […]

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The Supreme Court Just Took Legal Status from 300,000 Venezuelans

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The Supreme Court’s Republican appointees on Friday let the Trump administration end the legal status of 300,000 Venezuelan immigrants who were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a type of humanitarian relief for people whose home countries are in crisis, even as this group’s case continues to wind through the courts. The order is extraordinary—not least […]

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Climate Scientists Raise a Middle Finger to Trump’s Censorship Efforts

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Researchers across the United States and the world who raced to protect climate data, public reports and other information from the Trump administration’s budget cuts, firings, and scrubbing of federal websites are launching their own climate information portals. […]

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Russ Vought Is Trump’s Shutdown Hero. His Neighbors Think His Work Is “Abhorrent.”

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On Thursday night, President Donald Trump shared a music video on Truth Social. In it, an AI-generated Russ Vought—Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget and a Project 2025 mastermind—is the grim reaper, carrying a scythe along a hallway lined with portraits of Democratic leaders. Vought, the video’s soundtrack explains, “wields the pen, […]

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The “War-Ravaged” Portland Only Exists in Trump’s Head

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First it was Los Angeles. Then, Washington, DC. Then, Memphis. Now, Portland, Oregon, is in President Donald Trump’s sights—just the latest Democratic city facing increased militarization. Last week, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social he was authorizing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth “to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland” from what he […]

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For Furloughed Workers, Trump’s Partisan Shutdown Jabs Are Just the Latest Slight

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In the past, for veteran federal employees, the weeks leading up to a potential shutdown situation have always involved a flurry of emails and meetings in preparation for a winding down of their agency. That, at least, has been the experience of an employee I spoke with at the National Institutes of Health (my former […]

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America’s First Attempt to Tackle Climate Relocation Sparks Regret

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This story is from Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action. Sign up for Floodlight’s newsletter here.  Leaving the tight-knit community his family had called home for five generations along the Louisiana coast was one of the hardest things Chris Brunet has had to do. But three years ago, he felt […]

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Sam Bankman-Fried and the Multibillion-Dollar Drama Over FTX’s Ruins

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Sam Bankman-Fried nervously sheds his dark brown prison jumpsuit to reveal athletic shorts and a loose-fitting gray T-shirt. “There’s this extremely dumb cat and mouse game where, for reasons no one has ever bothered to articulate, between the hours of like 6 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays, the only clothing we’re allowed to wear […]

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Taking Stock of the Roberts Court at 20—and the Shadowy Forces That Built It

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Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court for 20 years now. In that time, his Republican-appointed majority has completely transformed America and its politics, with many of its most destructive opinions written by Roberts himself. Some effects are already visible in our everyday lives, others are only now coming into focus.  “This is […]

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