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A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive government campaign to detain and demonize dissenters

While TikTok operates in the United States under new ownership, Apple has deployed technical restrictions to block iOS users in the United States from downloading other apps made by the video platform’s Chinese parent organization ByteDance.

Mr. Schwartz had not been shy about sharing the strategy behind his clemency campaign with other inmates, so they knew he had paid multiple people to try to get the job done, according to two people familiar with conversations at Otisville.

According to the department, the determination was made because the sale serves U.S. national security interests. The waiver enables the rapid transfer of defense articles and services to Israel.

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video opens with the graves being dug.

The move comes as President Trump is ratcheting up his rhetorical assault on Cuba’s leadership.

…The administration’s removals to date have included stripping information about climate change, slavery, the civil rights movement, and the mistreatment of Native Americans from national park sites, according to court filings from the National Parks Conservation Association. NPCA sued the Interior Department this month over its decision to remove content from park sites.

March 6, 2026

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The sound of the school nurse’s office door opening. Light reflecting off a stained-glass window. Tearful outbursts and fear of getting on the school bus.

Joel Swanson March 5, 2026

Tensions are rising between US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the US’s approach to the war on Iran, three former US officials and a senior regional official familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted that the U.S. was forced into the war with Iran by Israel while speaking with reporters on Monday. He explained that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had effectively boxed in the Trump administration, taking the decision out of American hands.

GOP Sen. Steve Daines made the last-minute decision to to prevent Democrats from fielding a top recruit for the open Montana seat, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Tl;dr: It went down party lines with the exceptions of Rand Paul & John Fetterman. The two independents, Angus King & Bernard Sanders, caucus with the Dems and voted yea.

Stupid dog, you made me look bad!

Barb, a 74-year-old retired mental health counsellor based in North Carolina, wrote in to the Guardian: “We can be sure that Trump has launched this war for selfish purposes.

Mission? Hostilities? Don’t call it a war, say G.O.P. lawmakers grappling with the political and legal challenges of the operation in the Middle East.

“We can’t afford to keep our hospitals open, but we can afford a billion dollars a day to bomb Iran?”

Hey look everyone! More of that famous populism Trump rode into power on!

Some Democrats aren’t ruling out voting for a multibillion-dollar military infusion, setting up a potential internal clash in the weeks ahead for a party whose political base is aghast at President Donald Trump’s aggression against Iran.

Sounds like another release is in the making. Prime your scripts and scrapers!

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Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) was accused of breaking the hand of Marine veteran and anti-war activist Brian McGinnis.

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US and Ecuadorian forces have launched joint operations to combat drug trafficking, the US Southern Command said on Tuesday, but neither side gave more details.

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The father of a teenage boy accused of killing two students and two teachers in a mass shooting at a Georgia high school in 2024 was found guilty on Tuesday of second-degree murder and other charges.

George Calicut Jr has been in prison for more than 25 years for murder, though there were no witnesses or evidence against him

Sen. Bernie Sanders criticizes Jeff Bezos for opposing a 5% wealth tax on billionaires in an opinion piece by the Washington Post editorial board.

The Bad River Band is fighting to stop Line 5 and protect its watershed. Meanwhile, local sheriffs are already tallying the cost of riot gear.

A congressional investigation estimates broker breaches have cost consumers $20 billion in identity theft. Major brokers now promise to make it easier to opt out of their databases.

In Springfield, Ohio, some Americans have converted their basements and spare bedrooms into shelters for immigrant families who could be targeted in raids.

The Trump administration and its allies in Congress presented a shifting new justification Monday for the U.S. attack on Iran, with House Speaker Mike Johnson suggesting that the White House believed Israel was determined to act on its own, leaving the president with a “very difficult decision.”

Troops have logged more than 110 complaints about such comments with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation.

Shortly after President Donald Trump took office last January, employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture were reportedly instructed to flag and delete any webpages that mentioned climate change — including resources used by farmers to prepare for extreme weather. In response, a group of environmental and agricultural nonprofits sued the agency over the loss of critical information. In May, just days before a scheduled hearing, the USDA announced it would restore its climate webpages. At that point, “we had essentially won,” said Peter Lehner, managing attorney at Earthjustice, the nonprofit law firm representing the plaintiffs. But the negotiations over a legal settlement continued on.

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Several top state and federal offices are up for grabs amid a period of crisis with few if any precedents in the state’s history.

A rash spotted on President Donald Trump’s neck is trending across social media and now his personal doctor is explaining what’s behind it.

Within hours on Friday, the Pentagon blacklisted one AI company for refusing to drop its safety commitments on surveillance and autonomous weapons, then turned around and praised a competitor for signing a deal that supposedly preserved those exact same commitments.

The Associated Press announced Monday that it’s teaming with prediction market Kalshi to make U.S. election results available via the platform.

The machine that all but made the decision itself

Today, DDoSecrets published data about ICE contracts hacked from DHS’s Office of Industry Partnership. The hacker group, Department of Peace, published a statement that included:

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The United States and Israel tend to avoid flying over Iranian airspace so as not to expose themselves to antiaircraft fire, because Iran’s capabilities have been bolstered by Russia since the June war. The US and Israel prefer to fire missiles from jets hovering in neighboring air spaces. The United States claims that the jets were shot down by friendly fire. Either way, two days into the war it appears the US has lost more air assets than they have since its war against Vietnam, fifty years ago. Iran has launched waves of ballistic missiles at Israel. While Israeli military censorship is effective at obscuring the damage caused by the strikes, there have been more reports of casualties than Tel Aviv claims.

Nevada’s ban on taking drugs to end a pregnancy after the 24th week makes it the only state left in the nation that explicitly criminalizes abortions, advocates say, and legislative efforts last year to change that fell flat.

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Thanks to gerrymandering, primaries are typically what decides who actually holds power. So make sure you can actually vote in them.

The paper is here

It looks like a user error with the Amazon Polly text-to-speech system is to blame.

‘You can buy liver or the cheaper cuts of steak that are very, very affordable,’ the Health and Human Services secretary said at a MAHA event

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Donald Trump neither tried to obtain Congressional approval, nor did he pursue a United Nations security council resolution ahead of these actions. And the attack has come in the middle of talks between Tehran and Washington.The facts are clear. This is an illegal war, both in terms of US law and international statutes.

On Wednesday, the government stopped supporting FPDS.gov, an indispensable resource for finding what ICE, the FBI, and every other agency is buying. Its replacement site completely sucks.

Actions by the president and the Pentagon appeared to drive a wedge between Washington and the tech industry, whose leaders and workers spoke out for the start-up.