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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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Trump’s secret police

Trump’s secret police

Christian Gläßel and Adam Scharpf write: Since the Pendleton Act of 1883, the U.S. federal government has rested on a simple promise: professionalism, merit-based recruitment, independent oversight. Over time, U.S. federal law enforcement became a global reference point—effective, technically sophisticated, built to serve the law rather than a leader. And it traveled. For decades, officers from across the world sought training through U.S. programs such as the FBI’s National Academy and the Justice Department’s ICITAP. Now that model is collapsing…

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Trump’s concentration camps

Trump’s concentration camps

Tim Dickinson writes: Donald Trump’s brutal ICE detention facilities have been blasted as “concentration camps.” This is a freighted term — summoning more than a century of deplorable history. But experts in the field have no hesitation in using these words to describe the network of facilities that the federal government is using to literally warehouse tens of thousands of immigrants — men, women, and even children — snatched out of their communities by masked federal agents. The activist group…

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War crimes: Strikes hit World Heritage sites in Iran

War crimes: Strikes hit World Heritage sites in Iran

The New York Times reports: In the city of Isfahan, Israeli airstrikes have damaged several of Iran’s most cherished cultural jewels, Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Heritage said. The Ali Qapu Palace and the Chehel Sotoun palace and garden, dating to the 17th-century Safavid dynasty, sustained serious harm, photos and videos released by the ministry show. The blast waves on Monday also sent the turquoise tiles of the iconic Jameh Mosque crashing to the ground, with ministry photographs showing a…

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Hegseth targets the lawyers

Hegseth targets the lawyers

Sarah Fitzpatrick and Missy Ryan write: One of Pete Hegseth’s first actions after taking charge at the Pentagon was to fire top lawyers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force—senior officers who the defense secretary said functioned as “roadblocks” to the president’s orders. The former National Guardsman has a history of hostility toward military lawyers and the legal restraints they impose on the use of military might. They are known as judge advocates general. Hegseth calls them “jagoffs.” This week,…

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U.S. at fault in strike on elementary school in Iran, preliminary inquiry says

U.S. at fault in strike on elementary school in Iran, preliminary inquiry says

The New York Times reports: An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings. The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the…

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