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The truth about Israel’s military justice system has been set free

The truth about Israel’s military justice system has been set free

Michael Sfard writes: The renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking discovered that a black hole, the celestial object that swallows everything around it and from which, seemingly, nothing that enters ever escapes, nevertheless emits a certain level of electromagnetic radiation. As is customary in the exact sciences, the phenomenon was named after the scientist who discovered it; in this case, “Hawking radiation.” Sde Teiman, the Israeli military base-turned-detention facility for Palestinians, which includes a hospital compound for prisoners, has functioned since early…

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As Kansas found, requiring proof of citizenship can end up disenfranchising thousands of eligible voters

As Kansas found, requiring proof of citizenship can end up disenfranchising thousands of eligible voters

The New York Times reports: As President Trump digs in on his demand that senators pass a strict voter identification bill, lawmakers debating the potential impacts of the Republican-backed SAVE America Act might look to one place that already tried it — Kansas. In 2013, Republicans in that state passed legislation so similar it bore a nearly identical name — the Secure and Fair Elections, or SAFE, Act. It, too, aimed to root out voting fraud by noncitizens. As voters…

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Trump has detained the parents of more than 11,000 U.S. citizen children

Trump has detained the parents of more than 11,000 U.S. citizen children

By Jeff Ernsthausen, Mario Ariza, McKenzie Funk, Mica Rosenberg and Gabriel Sandoval This story was originally published by ProPublica The baby needed somewhere to go. So in the frantic hours before officers took her parents away to immigration detention, her mom turned to their pastor and his wife. As squad cars waited outside the family’s Lakeland, Florida, trailer home, she gave them a crash course in how to care for the 4-month-old. Briany, with her plump cheeks and full head…

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Trump’s ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News

Trump’s ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News

Brian Stelter reports: “Linda from Arizona,” a caller on a conservative talk radio show, might deserve the credit or blame for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deploying to airports across the United States today. The caller said on “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show” last Friday, “I think I have a solution to the TSA problem.” She said, “We need to bring in ICE agents.” “It’s kind of a brilliant idea,” co-host Clay Travis said. About 24 hours…

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California sheriff running for governor seizes more than a half million ballots from 2025 election

California sheriff running for governor seizes more than a half million ballots from 2025 election

The Associated Press reports: A California sheriff running for governor has seized more than half a million ballots cast in a November special election from county election officials, saying he’s investigating a ballot count discrepancy. County elections officials have disputed the claims by Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, called Bianco’s move unprecedented and says it is designed to sow distrust in elections. Bianco held a news conference Friday saying his office…

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Bags of shredded documents at New York jail after Epstein’s death, officer tells FBI

Bags of shredded documents at New York jail after Epstein’s death, officer tells FBI

Miami Herald reports: Less than a week after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, something was afoot inside an office where the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ After Action Team had set up a probe into what had happened to their most high-profile inmate. The FBI was told that there were people shredding documents. Bags of them. An inmate at the jail was ordered to take the bags of shredded material to…

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Cesar Chavez can no longer be called heroic. But the movement he led can be

Cesar Chavez can no longer be called heroic. But the movement he led can be

Geraldo L. Cadava writes: For many Latinos, Cesar Chavez seemed like a saint. There have in fact been efforts to canonize him. I lived in Los Angeles for a summer when I was an undergraduate, and I frequently drove down Cesar E. Chavez Avenue. Just about every institution I’ve belonged to has named something after him. In Tucson, I’ve met with University of Arizona professors in the Cesar E. Chavez Building. At Northwestern, where I am now a professor, a…

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New data shows where ICE has been most active this year

New data shows where ICE has been most active this year

The New York Times reports: The pace of ICE arrests nationwide has topped 1,100 per day on average in 2026, far higher than the rate last spring of roughly 600 arrests per day, despite a slight dip in recent weeks. New data analyzed by The New York Times reveals that the pace of these arrests has varied across the country in sometimes surprising ways. Some places that did not have high-profile ICE operations this year, such as Florida and San…

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Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski

Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski

NBC News reports: More than a year ago, The GEO Group founder George Zoley asked for a meeting with Corey Lewandowski, a close ally of President Donald Trump who had just started a powerful position as a top adviser to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. As a titan of the private prison industry, GEO Group stood to benefit from Trump’s mass deportation agenda, which would require the federal government to spend tens of billions of dollars to transport, detain, monitor…

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Twin Cities residents to receive Profile in Courage Award from John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

Twin Cities residents to receive Profile in Courage Award from John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

MPR News reports: The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced Thursday that it’s awarding one of its 2026 Profile in Courage Awards to the “people of the Twin Cities of Minnesota” for their actions during the federal immigration enforcement surge. The foundation said it chose to honor Twin Cities residents “for risking their lives to protect their neighbors and immigrant community members from an unprecedented federal law enforcement operation, peacefully defending the human rights and values that serve as the…

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Epstein and his academic friends bonded through male supremacy

Epstein and his academic friends bonded through male supremacy

Lydia Wilson writes: When I read through many of the email threads between [John] Brockman [host of Edge], Epstein and various intellectuals, what was most jarring wasn’t the crude codes about women and sex that wouldn’t have been out of place in messages between teenage boys — the mass media coverage had to some extent prepared me for this boorish childishness of successful men. What unsettled me was, in fact, the familiarity of how these men were speaking to each…

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The Trump administration’s ‘disturbing’ new legal strategy to prosecute border crossers is taxing courts and testing the law

The Trump administration’s ‘disturbing’ new legal strategy to prosecute border crossers is taxing courts and testing the law

By Agnel Philip, Abe Streep, Perla Trevizo and Pratheek Rebala This story was originally published by ProPublica Jose Omar Flores-Penaloza was willing to admit that he had entered the United States illegally. He was ready to be deported, according to his attorneys. But federal prosecutors would not let him go last spring without making him answer for another crime — one he had never heard of. Weeks earlier, President Donald Trump, to address what he called a national emergency, ordered…

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Gamblers betting on Polymarket vowed to kill a journalist who wouldn’t rewrite an Iran missile story

Gamblers betting on Polymarket vowed to kill a journalist who wouldn’t rewrite an Iran missile story

Emanuel Fabian, a reporter for The Times of Israel, writes: On Tuesday, March 10, a massive explosion shook the city of Beit Shemesh, just outside Jerusalem, in yet another Iranian ballistic missile attack during the ongoing war. Rescue services scrambled to the scene in search of possible casualties, though as it turned out, the projectile had struck a forested area just outside the city, around 500 meters from homes. On The Times of Israel’s liveblog that day, I reported that…

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Deportees sent by Trump to infamous Salvadoran megaprison are still stuck a year later

Deportees sent by Trump to infamous Salvadoran megaprison are still stuck a year later

The Washington Post reports: Brandon Sigaran Cruz was only 9 when his parents brought him and his brother to the United States, far away from the gangs recruiting young boys in the elementary schools of El Salvador. The next time he set foot in his native country was more than a decade later, on March 15 of last year, when the Trump administration deported the 21-year-old alongside more than 260 migrants to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, an…

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Wearing all black at protests makes you guilty of terrorism, prosecutors tell jury

Wearing all black at protests makes you guilty of terrorism, prosecutors tell jury

The Intercept reports: Federal agents raiding the home of two alleged antifa “operatives” seized a telling piece of evidence, a defense attorney said during closing arguments in a landmark trial Wednesday. A printing press. That printing press was never presented to jurors. Still, the government has kept it locked away because it hated the pamphlets and zines it published, lawyer Blake Burns said. Burns represents Elizabeth Soto, one of nine defendants whose fates were in the hands of jurors as…

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This DHS official oversees the security of federal elections. He wants to ban voting machines

This DHS official oversees the security of federal elections. He wants to ban voting machines

By Doug Bock Clark This story was originally published by ProPublica In his top post at the Department of Homeland Security, David Harvilicz sets policy on protecting the nation’s elections infrastructure, including voting machines. He’s also the co-founder of a company with James Penrose, who helped hatch debunked conspiracy theories blaming hacked voting machines for Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. Penrose assisted in a push to seize voting machines to overturn Trump’s defeat. On social media, Harvilicz…

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