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TENERIFE, SPAIN - MAY 10: American citizens (Dressed in blue) are evacuated in a small boat from the MV Hondius after docking in the Granadilla Port on May 10, 2026 in Tenerife, part of the Canary Islands, Spain. The cruise ship MV Hondius, which had three passengers die from Hantavirus last month and eight more reported cases, is expected to arrive on Sunday May 10 in Tenerife, where the remaining passengers will be repatriated to their respective countries. At a press conference this week, representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasized the outbreak of this rare virus did not constitute a pandemic, but it has stirred anxieties in the Canary Islands and elsewhere. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

CDC Didn’t Tell New York About Resident on Hantavirus-Plagued Cruise

Jacqueline Sweet, Noah Hurowitz

There’s no indication that the New Yorker had imminent plans to return to the U.S. But public health experts said the city and state still should’ve been informed.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, left, and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller attend a bilateral meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, May 14, 2026.

Internal Pentagon Report Reveals Hegseth Is Willfully Putting Civilians in Danger

A damning Department of War report finds that the Pentagon didn’t fully implement any required civilian harm mitigation measures.

The Intercept Briefing

“We Will Find You and We Will Kill You”

The Trump administration’s new counterterrorism strategy turns its political enemies into enemies of the state.

Chilling Dissent

How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk

Nick Turse, Jessica Washington, Noah Hurowitz

Richard Glossip exits a detention facility alongside his wife Lea Glossip after being granted bond while awaiting retrial Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Oklahoma City.

Trials of Richard Glossip

“It’s Overwhelming But It’s Amazing”: Richard Glossip Released From Jail After Three Decades

Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith

NYU Langone, hospital, medical, building, healthcare.

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DOJ Escalates War on Trans Youth Healthcare With Criminal Subpoenas

Natasha Lennard

Scott Wiener debates Saikat Chakrabarti for San Francisco's Congressional District 11 seat at the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco, on Tuesday, March 31, 2026. The seat became available upon the announced retirement of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, and the district will get its first new Congressional representative since 1987. (Photo by Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Midterms 2026

This California Congressional Hopeful Opposes a Billionaire Tax. So Do His Tech CEO Backers.

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The Intercept Briefing

The Supreme Court Ends Multiracial Democracy as We Know It

The Intercept Briefing

Another Assassination Attempt, More Fertilizer for Conspiracy Theories

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Dodging FOIA Could Now Mean Arrest and Strip Search, Depending on Who’s Asking

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 21: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks at a press conference with FBI Director Kash Patel following the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for money laundering, at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC on April 21, 2026.

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Big Finance Might Be Dooming the SPLC — Even Before Its Day in Court

Iran

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth shakes the hand of United States Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, during a Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense Budget Hearing for the Department of Defense in the Rayburn House office building, on Tuesday, May 12, 2026.

Hegseth Asks for More Money as Iran War Costs Skyrocket

Hegseth Clings to Phony Ceasefire to Help Trump Evade War Powers Pressure

U.S. sailors prepare to stage ordnance on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on Feb. 28, 2026 at sea.

Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up”

These Middle Eastern News Sites Are Actually U.S. Government Propaganda Operations

Midterms

Rep. Todd Warner, R-Chapel Hill, arrives to the House chamber wearing a Trump flag for a special session of the state legislature to redraw U.S. Congressional voting maps Thursday, May 7, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Tennessee GOP Moves to Decimate Black Voting Power After Supreme Court’s Blessing of Jim Crow

Natasha Lennard

The Supreme Court Ends Multiracial Democracy as We Know It

Hasan Piker Is the Democrats’ New Man on the Trail, Whether They Like It or Not

Devin Thomas O’Shea

PORTLAND, MAINE - MAY 1: U.S. House candidate from Maine Matt Dunlap (L) and U.S. Senate candidate from Maine Graham Platner (C) cheer during a May Day rally organized by local unions, on May 1, 2026 outside City Hall in Portland, Maine. Platner joined the Maine Service Employees Association SEIU 1989 demonstration to honor the labor rights movement as he campaigns to be the Democratic nominee ahead of the June primary. (Photo by Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)

Maine Dems to Vote on Condemning DCCC Interference in House Primary

Justice

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 22: Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil marches with supporters after he was released from ICE detention during a rally outside of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan on June 22, 2025 in New York City. Khalil was released Friday evening from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Jena, Louisiana, after U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz issued an order granting his release on bail. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

FBI Quietly Closed a Probe Into Mahmoud Khalil While He Was in ICE Detention

John Sarcone, acting U.S. Attorney for Northern New York, leaves Manhattan federal court in New York, on Dec. 4, 2025.

A Trump U.S. Attorney’s Professional Misconduct Must Be Kept “Private and Confidential”

CIUDAD JUAREZ , MEXICO - FEBRUARY 3: An aerial view of the construction of a second 12-meter-high metal barrier behind the existing border wall between Ciudad Juarez and New Mexico, built to prevent migrants from illegally entering the United States at Santa Teresa area in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on February 03, 2026. This ongoing second wall construction is part of the border wall expansion project announced by Kristi Noem. (Photo by Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump Bulldozed a 1,000-Year-Old Archaeological Site to Make Room for a Second Border Wall

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, center, and his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura, left, arrive at the federal courthouse Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026, in Nashville, Tenn.

Who Decided to Indict Kilmar Abrego Garcia Over a Years-Old Traffic Stop?

War on Gaza

Miami Beach Official Hired Billboard Truck to Call Pro-Palestine Activists “Jew Hater,” Lawsuit Alleges

We Analyzed Thousands of News Articles: Here’s the Proof of Pro-Israel Bias in Mainstream Media

NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES - MAY 05: Pro-Palestinians gather at a 'Stop the Sale of Stolen Palestinian Land' protest against 'Great Israel Real Estate' event for Palestinian land sale at the Park East Synagogue in Manhattan on Tuesday, May 05, 2026, in New York City. The NYPD tightened security on E. 67th and E. 68th Streets and set up a perimeter that extended for blocks around the Park East Synagogue. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israeli Real Estate Expo Advertising West Bank Settlements Returns to NYC

Mamdani Condemns NYC Expo Promoting Property Sales in Israeli West Bank Settlements

Unmasking ICE

Protesters walk past a screen reading "arrest and charge Jonathan Ross", the ICE officer, named in US media as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who fatally shot Renee Good, as they march from Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis against ICE and the fatal shooting of Good, calling on federal authorities to leave the city and demand accountability, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 10, 2026. A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good on the streets of Minneapolis on January 7, leading to huge protests and outrage from local leaders who rejected White House claims she was a domestic terrorist. (Photo by Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

Government Ordered to Turn Over Files on ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good

Noah Hurowitz, Austin Campbell

WASHINGTON, DC August 25, 2025:

US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth and US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem during the signing of Executive Orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday August 25, 2025.

(Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Pentagon Implores Civilian Workers to Join ICE “Volunteer Force”

Noah Hurowitz, Austin Campbell

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - FEBRUARY 5: Protesters, mostly students targeted by ICE and demanding more protections, were arrested by New York police for engaging in civil disobedience by blocking a road outside Columbia University on February 5, 2026, in New York City, United States. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Zohran Mamdani Kept Columbia Student in New York — Then Phoned With Trump to Secure Her Release

Federal agents detain a protester in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 3, 2026. A US judge on January 31, 2026 denied Minnesota's bid to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to suspend its sweeping detention and deportation operation in the state that has left two US citizens dead and fueled massive protests. Masked and heavily armed federal agents have swept through Minnesota communities seeking undocumented migrants, detaining thousands and shooting dead two US citizens in the process. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images) / ALTERNATE CROP

Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant

Austin Campbell

Chilling Dissent

The New York Times building on May 6, 2026, in New York City.

Lawyer on EEOC’s New York Times Lawsuit Has History Battling Discrimination Against Men

“We Knew They Were Paying Informants”: SPLC Donors Reject Trump DOJ Fraud Claims

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 21: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Kash Patel speaks alongside Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche during a news conference at the at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice building on April 21, 2026 in Washington, DC. Blanche and Patel held the news conference to announce charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center in which they allege the organization funneled over $3 million dollars towards white supremacist and extremists groups.

Kash Patel Is Using MAGA’s Favorite Tool to Muzzle the Free Press

Renea Gamble faced misdemeanor charges in a trial at the Fairhope Civic Center in Fairhope, Ala., on April 15, 2026, after being arrested at a protest while dressed as a penis.

The Short and Ridiculous Trial of a Protester Arrested in an Inflatable Penis Costume