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FILE - In this July 26, 2017, file photo, a lawmaker studies a district map during a joint select committee meeting on redistricting in Raleigh, N.C. The Supreme Court is getting ready to decide some of its biggest cases of the term. The high court has just 10 opinions left to release over the next week before the justices begin their summer break. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

North Carolina GOP Hides Redistricting Process From State Public Records Law

Schuyler Mitchell

The change, snuck into the state budget at the last minute, will shield lawmakers from scrutiny in a state with a history of partisan gerrymandering.

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 19: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) arrives for a closed-door briefing by intelligence officials about the Discord leaks at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center on April 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old airman in the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested and charged with espionage after sharing classified military documents with a gaming group he belonged to on the internet social app Discord. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Menendez “Appreciated” Meeting With Egypt Dictator Amid Alleged Bribes for Arms Sales

Ken Klippenstein

Sen. Robert Menendez was indicted Friday for taking bribes to approve arms sales to Egyptian strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

A Ukrainian servicemember points towards 30mm incendiary ammunition inside a storage warehouse, in the Donetsk Region of Ukraine on May 22, 2023. Ukrainian military mechanics and armored vehicle crew members of the 214th Separate Special Battalion conduct field tests and repair operations on damaged and captured vehicles following the battalion's combat missions in city of Bakhmut. (Photo by Justin Yau/ Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Deconstructed Podcast

Inside Biden’s Secret Arms Deal

Leaked documents show how the U.S. helped Pakistan get a bailout from the International Monetary Fund through a secret arms deal to Ukraine.

WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 12: Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., arrives for the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on "Oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission" on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, in the U.S. Capitol. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

UAW Files Labor Complaint Against Sen. Tim Scott for Saying “You Strike, You’re Fired.”

Daniel Boguslaw

Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) and Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speak outside the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, September 14, 2023. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

AIPAC Targets Black Democrats — While the Congressional Black Caucus Stays Silent

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 21: A protective vest with identifying markings worn by Border Patrol is seen during a press conference on the actions taken by Border Patrol and Homeland Security agents in Portland during continued protests at the US Customs and Border Patrol headquarters on July 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Protests for Black Lives

Uninvited and Unaccountable: How CBP Policed George Floyd Protests

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is seen on a monitor while testifying during a House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing regarding the 2023 budget request for the Department of Defense, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on May 11, 2022. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Pentagon’s Budget Is So Bloated That It Needs an AI Program to Navigate It

Ken Klippenstein

Podcasts

A Ukrainian servicemember points towards 30mm incendiary ammunition inside a storage warehouse, in the Donetsk Region of Ukraine on May 22, 2023. Ukrainian military mechanics and armored vehicle crew members of the 214th Separate Special Battalion conduct field tests and repair operations on damaged and captured vehicles following the battalion's combat missions in city of Bakhmut. (Photo by Justin Yau/ Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Deconstructed

Inside Biden’s Secret Arms Deal

Deconstructed

Naomi Klein on Conspiracy Culture and “the Mirror World”

Voices

NEW YORK, NY - JULY 29: New Yorkers in need wait in a long line to receive free produce, dry goods, and meat at a Food Bank For New York City distribution event at Lincoln Center on July 29, 2020 in New York City. In addition to unemployment and homelessness, millions of Americans face food insecurity as a result of the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

The Secret History of How the Super-Rich Have Kept the Working Class Out of Work

FILE - Protestors reacts before council members voted 11-4 to approve legislation to fund the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, June 6, 2023, in Atlanta. Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against a proposed police and training facility in the Atlanta area that critics call “Cop City.” The Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, indictment under the state’s racketeering law was released by Fulton County officials on Tuesday, Sept. 5. (Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

Cop City Indictments Threaten Press Freedom Too

Politics

TOPSHOT - (From L) Former Governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson, former Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie, former US Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy, former Governor from South Carolina and UN ambassador Nikki Haley, US Senator from South Carolina Tim Scott and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, take part in the first Republican Presidential primary debate at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Rumble Had Exclusive Rights to Stream Republican Debate — Yet Was Buried in Google Search

TOLEDO, OH - September 19: United Auto Workers seen on the picket line at Stellantis Chrysler Toledo Assembly Plant in Toledo, Ohio on September 19, 2023. Credit: DeeCee Carter/MediaPunch /IPX

Confused Automakers Braced for Strike at the Wrong Plants

Daniel Boguslaw

UNITED STATES - JULY 4: U.S. Senate candidate Angela Alsobrooks marches in the Towson 4th of July Parade in Towson, Md., on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)

Leading Democrat in Maryland Senate Race Once Blamed Murders On Decriminalized Pot

United Auto Workers (UAW) members cheer as cars honk on a picket line outside the Ford Motor Co. Michigan Assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan, US, on Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. The United Auto Workers began an unprecedented strike at all three of the legacy Detroit carmakers, kicking off a potentially costly and protracted showdown over wages and job security. Photographer: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg via Getty Images

UAW Temporarily Loses Twitter Verification as Union Strikes Against Big Three

Ryan Grim, Ken Klippenstein

Justice

Illustration: Clay Rodery for The Intercept

DNA Evidence Sent Anthony Sanchez to Death Row. But Did It Actually Solve the Crime?

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 23: Demonstrators march along Constitution Avenue in protest following a Kentucky grand jury decision in the Breonna Taylor case on September 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. A Kentucky grand jury indicted one police officer involved in the shooting of Breonna Taylor with 3 counts of wanton endangerment. No officers were indicted on charges in connection to Taylor's death. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Most Cops Involved in High-Profile Killings Since 2014 Kept Their Police Licenses

Nurse preparing a butterfly catheter for insertion. (Photo by: SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via AP Images)

Companies Already Ban the Use of Their Drugs for Lethal Injection. Now They’re Blocking IV Equipment.

Lauren Gill, Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo, of the Semilla party, addresses the crowd at his close of campaign event in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Wednesday, Aug.16, 2023. As the second round of the Guatemalan Presidential elections on August 20th nears, Arevalo, a leftist dark horse candidate, and son of the first democratically elected president in Guatemalan history, leads the polls. He faces Sandra Torres, of the UNE party, a former first lady convicted of corruption but who still commands the loyalty of many rural Guatemalans, due to her social programs that have provided food and other needs in areas traditionally ignored by previous presidents. Photographer: Victor J. Blue

Guatemalans Guarded the Memory of Democracy Through Years of War and Corruption. Now They See an Opening.

National Security

A Ukrainian servicemember points towards 30mm incendiary ammunition inside a storage warehouse, in the Donetsk Region of Ukraine on May 22, 2023. Ukrainian military mechanics and armored vehicle crew members of the 214th Separate Special Battalion conduct field tests and repair operations on damaged and captured vehicles following the battalion's combat missions in city of Bakhmut. (Photo by Justin Yau/ Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

U.S. Helped Pakistan Get IMF Bailout With Secret Arms Deal for Ukraine, Leaked Documents Reveal

Ryan Grim, Murtaza Hussain

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 26: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) looks on during a news conference after a lunch meeting with Senate Republicans U.S. Capitol 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. McConnell froze and stopped talking at the microphone and was escorted back to his office. He later returned to the news conference and answered questions. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Pentagon-Funded Study Warns Dementia Among U.S. Officials Poses National Security Threat

Ken Klippenstein

UNITED STATES - MARCH 16: Gen. Michael Langley, USMC, Commander, U.S. Africa Command, arrives for the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the U.S. Central Command and U.S. Africa Command in Review of The Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 2024 and The Future Years Defense Program, in Dirksen Building on Thursday, March 16, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Pentagon Misled Congress About U.S. Bases in Africa

Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, listens during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, May 10, 2021. The Colonial fuel pipeline that was crippled by a ransomware attack late Friday hasn't suffered damage and can be brought back online "relatively quickly," a White House official said today. Photographer: Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Top Biden Cyber Official Accused of Workplace Misconduct at NSA in 2014 — and Again at White House Last Year

Noah Kulwin, Sam Biddle

World

FILE - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the PLO executive committee and a Fatah Central Committee at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 12, 2021. Palestinian political factions on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, raged against dozens of Palestinian academics who had criticized Abbas' recent remarks on the Holocaust that have drawn widespread accusations of antisemitism. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Mahmoud Abbas Holocaust Controversy Spotlights Deep Disillusion With Palestinian Authority

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, QATAR - AUGUST 20: In this handout image Afghan Special Immigrants walk through the in-processing building, August 20, 2021 at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar. Soldiers help process Special Immigration Applicants seeking relocation to the United States. (Photo by Sgt. Jimmie Baker / U.S. Army via Getty Images)

The Biden Administration Is Keeping Thousands of Afghans in Limbo Abroad

Vice Pulled a Documentary Critical of Saudi Arabia. But Here It Is.

Russian Foreign Ministry building is seen behind a social advertisement billboard showing Z letters - a tactical insignia of Russian troops in Ukraine and reading "Victory is being Forged in Fire" in central Moscow on October 13, 2022. Five Russians drafted to fight in Ukraine, as part of the "partial" mobilization ordered in September, died after joining the army, authorities said, as similar announcements have multiplied in recent days. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Hacked Documents Reveal Russia’s Contracts for Cuban Mercenaries in Ukraine

Technology

New York Times Doesn’t Want Its Stories Archived

DDoSecrets censorship

Tech Companies and Governments Are Censoring the Journalist Collective DDoSecrets

U.S. Spy Agency Dreams of Surveillance Underwear It’s Calling “SMART ePANTS”

Ken Klippenstein, Daniel Boguslaw

Meta Overhauls Controversial “Dangerous Organizations” Censorship Policy

Environment

Barges carry coal along the Mississippi River, on the banks of Ascension Parish. This area, along the Mississippi between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, is widely known as "cancer alley" as it is so burdened with polluting industry.

Louisiana Rushes Buildout of Carbon Pipelines, Adding to Dangers Plaguing Cancer Alley

Air conditioner units at a building in Shanghai, China, on Friday, June 23, 2023. Extreme weather is already promising a fresh test of the electricity grid just months after heat waves and drought throttled hydropower and triggered widespread power shortages. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Brief History of China’s Global Warming Hoax, From 1863 to Right Now

FILE - In this March 17, 2017 file photo, Canyon Mansfield holds the collar of his dog, Casey, who was killed March 16 by a cyanide-ejecting device placed on public land by federal workers to kill coyotes near his home in Pocatello, Idaho. The cyanide device, called an M-44, is spring-activated and shoots poison that is meant to kill predators. Federal officials have agreed to stop using predator-killing cyanide traps on Colorado public lands amid pressure to ban the devices nationwide after one injured an Idaho teenager and killed his dog. (Jordon Beesley/Idaho State Journal via AP, file)

Secretive Federal Agency’s Days of Killing Pets With Poison Bombs May Finally Be Ending

An action outside of the Covanta incineration facility in Chester, PA hosted by Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL) and Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) on June 10, 2023. This is part of EQAT's Never Vanguard campaign, highlighting the dirty investments in polluting facilities in Chester and along the Delaware River, explaining the human cost of putting profit over people and the planet. Emily Whitney for The Intercept

Energy Company Plotted Gas Plant in Small Pennsylvania Town — But No One Told Residents