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A Judge Ordered Her Return After a Wrongful Deportation. Now Comes the Hard Part.
4+ hour, 1+ min ago (426+ words) Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, left, kisses her daughter Damaris Bello after being reunited. Mother Jones illustration; Courtesy Courtesy Damaris Bello "There were some moments where it was even hard for me to breathe," Estrada Ju'rez said during a video…...
The federal database that could upend the midterm elections
4+ hour ago (1166+ words) New Yorkers wait to cast their votes on November 2, 2025. Stephanie Keith/Getty President Donald Trump and the election conspiracy theorists he surrounds himself with are determined to exclude people from voting in the 2026 election based on one database: the Department…...
How your data is powering Trump's surveillance state
31+ min ago (807+ words) If somebody'a police officer, a prosecutor, an FBI agent'were to get ahold of all this data, they'd be able to sketch out a pretty complete picture of my daily life. In most cases, I probably wouldn't even know that my…...
Even some Republicans are against Trump's violence in Iran
20+ hour, 26+ min ago (557+ words) President Donald Trump departs after speaking with reporters about the war in Iran in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP Even Republicans are joining congressional Democrats in calling for…...
A landslide in Wisconsin will make it much harder for MAGA to steal elections
20+ hour, 57+ min ago (560+ words) Tuesday's Wisconsin Supreme Court election received far less attention than a similar contest a year ago, when Elon Musk spent $25 million trying to flip the balance of power on the court. Back then, the world's richest man'who, at the time,…...
How chatbot ads distort reality
23+ hour, 24+ min ago (288+ words) The sheer cognitive dissonance'hearing a song so deeply human, so personal and reflective, used to advertise a chatbot'was unsettling. What was it doing in a commercial for a technology that I fear is only good for alienating us from ourselves?...
Trump's Iran War Is Tearing Apart His Catholic'Evangelical Coalition
23+ hour, 43+ min ago (939+ words) Kiera Butler18 minutes ago Last week, in a prime-time speech that was confused and discursive even by his own standards, President Donald Trump attempted to justify the current war in Iran. US attacks, he assured the American public, were "an investment…...
The Trump administration's latest target: This woolly American icon
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (1729+ words) An American Prairie bison herd at sunset. Amy Toensing/Getty/Inside Climate News The American buffalo'those ornery, hairy prairie beasts that reign as the official mammal of the United States'have joined wind turbines, electric cars, and climate researchers in the…...
Minnesota's attorney general isn't backing down
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (472+ words) I am not going to abandon my post in the middle of this Trump onslaught," says Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. Justin Sullivan/Getty Earlier this year, parts of Minneapolis resembled a war zone. The Minnesota city had become the…...
We asked the White House if Trump was considering nuking Iran. Its response was chilling.
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (570+ words) On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump began a post on his social media platform Truth Social by writing, "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." Trump continued in the post, "I don't want that to…...