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He’s Running to Fill Jasmine Crockett’s House Seat From Her Left. He’s Also Her Pastor.

Justice Democrats is endorsing Frederick Haynes III, seeing him as their best shot to add a new Squad member from Texas.

The War on Immigrants

Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants

ICE agents dropped customized ace of spades playing cards, recalling a practice by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) seal hangs inside a hearing room at the headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. The Trump administration wants to cut fiscal year 2021 spending on the Labor Department, National Labor Relations Board, and EEOC, reviving previous belt-tightening bids that have not been approved by Congress. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

EEOC Quietly Hired Lawyer Who Crusaded for Cases of Discrimination Against Men — Including His Own

Benjamin North, who had faced a college allegation, said discrimination against men pervaded the handling of campus sexual assault claims, including his own.

Voices

Judge Censored an ICE Agent’s Face Over “Threats.” His Info Was a Google Search Away.

Voices

An Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill With a Cruel New Twist

Natasha Lennard

Chilling Dissent

Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency

Posters displaying images of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in south Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026.

Chilling Dissent

Trump Calls His Enemies Terrorists. Does That Mean He Can Just Kill Them?

Podcasts

The Intercept Briefing

Even the Top Prosecutor in Minneapolis Doesn’t Know the Identity of the Agents Who Killed Alex Pretti

The Intercept Briefing

Protests and Power Plays: From Tehran to the Arctic Circle

Voices

US First Lady Melania Trump attends the world premiere of Amazon MGM Studios' "Melania" at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on January 29, 2026. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

Voices

“Melania” Is as Vacuous as Its Subject

Katherine Krueger

Journalist Georgia Fort, right, and Minnesota State Senate candidate Jamael Lundy hold their hands to their hearts as they are greeted by family and supporters leaving the Federal Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn., on Friday, January 30, 2026.

Voices

The Farcical Case Against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for Protest Reporting

Politics

A border patrol agent aims a munition launcher at a crowd of people near the intersection of 27th Street and Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis after a federal officer shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. (Ben Hovland/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing.

Austin Campbell

Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York, during a Bloomberg Television interview at City Hall in New York, US, on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. Mamdani is amping up pressure on Governor Kathy Hochul to hike taxes for the richest residents and corporations, asking the state to send billions more in aid to New York City as he faces mounting budget holes. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Israel’s War on Gaza

Zohran Mamdani Wants NYC to Divest From Israel — But New Comptroller Pledges to Buy War Bonds

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 28: White House Border Czar Tom Homan talks to reporters after a television interview outside the West Wing of the White House on August 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. Homon continued to defend President Donald Trump's aggressive mass deportation policy and said that he is working to re-deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and then returned to the U.S. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

While Minnesotans Rejoice Over Greg Bovino’s Ouster, His Replacement Is a Deportation Hard-Liner

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 22: Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino speaks during a press conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal on January 22, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bovino, joined by ICE Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations Marcos Charles, addressed ongoing immigration enforcement operations in the state. The Trump administration has sent a reported 3,000 federal plus federal agents into the area, with more on the way, as they make a push to arrest undocumented immigrants in the region. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

Read the Report on Alex Pretti’s Killing — and the Bizarre Q&A CBP Gave Congress First

Jessica Washington

Justice

An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration

An aerial view of the burial in mass graves of 111 Palestinians who died due to Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, the occupied Gaza Strip, on Nov. 22, 2023.

Israel’s War on Gaza

Israeli Military Found Gaza Health Ministry Death Toll Was Accurate. Will These Deniers Admit It?

CHICAGO - CIRCA 1940: Musician Woody Guthrie plays guitar with an unidentified man and woman on either side as a group of people look on in photographer Stephen Deutch's apartment in circa 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Stephen Deutch/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

Woody Guthrie Sang Against Dehumanizing the Immigrants Killed in a Plane Crash. ICE Is Doing It All Over Again.

ANSON, TEXAS - MAY 13: In an aerial view, the entrance to the Bluebonnet Detention Center is seen on May 13, 2025 in Anson, Texas. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has begun transferring illegal immigrant detainees to the Bluebonnet Detention Center after U.S. District Judge Wesley Hendrix readily offered the facility to the Trump administration under the Alien Enemies Act. Recently, the Trump administration has asked SCOTUS for permission to resume deportations after an injunction was issued last month which halted deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

ICE Arrested Father Who Cared for His Ill Son — Then Denied His Request to Attend Son’s Funeral

National Security

US Lieutenant General Joshua M. Rudd testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee about Examine the Nomination to be Director of the National Security Agency during a hearing, today on January 29, 2026 at Dirksen SOB/Capitol Hill in Washington DC, USA. (Lenin Nolly/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Controversial Warrantless Spying Law Expiring Soon and Trump Officials Are Silent On It

The Louisiana National Guard, military police, and Louisiana law enforcement agencies patrol the French Quarter along Bourbon Street and intersecting streets as part of a National Guard deployment for New Year's celebrations in New Orleans, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025.

Trump Has Already Spent $500 Million Deploying Troops to U.S. Cities

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 15: U.S. Army Lt. General Joshua Rudd testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee Confirmation Hearing on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2026 in Washington, DC. The Senate Armed Services Committee gathered Thursday to confirm Army Lt. Rudd to be general and Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service/ Commander, United States Cyber Command; and Marine Corps. Lt. Gen. Donovan to be general and Commander, United States Southern Command. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Army General Tapped to Lead NSA Said He Doesn’t Know Much About the Biggest NSA Controversy

Military personnel from the German armed Forces Bundeswehr board Icelandair flight leaving Nuuk airport for Reykjavik on January 18, 2026 in Nuuk, Greenland.

While Threatening Greenland, Trump Also Threatens Iceland

World

Screenshot from a video posted by President Donald Trump on TruthSocial on Oct. 14, 2025 showing an attack that killed Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo.

Families of Boat Strike Victims Sue U.S. for “Manifestly Unlawful” Killings

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 5: Opponents of the United Statesâ military operation and supporters of Venezuelaâs President NicolÃ¡s Maduro gather outside the Manhattan Federal Court in New York, United States as he appears in federal court on drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges following his capture and transfer to the United States, on January 5, 2026. U.S. authorities arrest Maduro after a military action in Venezuela earlier this month, and he pleads not guilty to the charges in Manhattan. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voices

It Always Comes Back to Our Failed War on Drugs

RAFAH, GAZA - MAY 28: A Palestinian woman carries her child as she mourns near makeshift tents after the Israeli shelling of a refugee tent encampment in al-Mawasi area west of Rafah killed at least 21 Palestinians, including children on May 28, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. At least 21 people were killed on Tuesday in Israeli shelling of a refugee tent encampment in al-Mawasi area west of Rafah, in the third such attack on areas designated by Tel Aviv as a "safe zone" in the last 48 hours, the Rafah Emergency Committee said. (Photo by Jehad Alshrafi/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voices

Plans Call for “New Rafah” Built in Israel’s Image — Without Palestinians

Séamus Malekafzali

The Royal Danish Navy Thetis-class warship HDMS Vaedderen sails past sea ice off the coast of Nuuk, Greenland, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025.

Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland

Technology

A finger hovers above an iPhone displaying an image of a fingerprint on February 18, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

Apple CEO Tim Cook departs a business leaders reception with President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2026.

Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti

TOPSHOT - A man walks past the Google signage outside the US tech giant's Ananta office in Bengaluru on January 5, 2026. (Photo by Idrees MOHAMMED / AFP via Getty Images)

Google’s AI Detection Tool Can’t Decide if Its Own AI Made Doctored Photo of Crying Activist

A printer and a sheet of paper.

FBI’s Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on You

Environment

People demonstrate during a protest against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park, California on March 1, 2025. The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) estimates 1,000 US National Park Service employees who were on one-year probationary periods were laid off. About 3,400 employees of the US Forest Service were among the cuts too, according to multiple US media reports. The cuts were part of the work of the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire Elon Musk, as part of a declared effort to reduce public spending by dismantling the federal bureaucracy. (Photo by Laure Andrillon / AFP) (Photo by LAURE ANDRILLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Admin “Deliberately” Tanking Morale to Get Parks Staff to Quit, Official Says in Leaked Tape

A serpentine river near Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska on September 11, 2022.

Climate Crimes

Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies

The new US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shakes hands with US President Donald Trump after a swearing in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

MAHA Slams “Corporate Capture” by Food and Pharma Giants — While Trump Strips Regulations

Jessica Washington

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 29: Members of the Sunrise Movement are arrested as they protest outside the Senate office of Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Capitol Hill on July 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Sunrise Movement, a climate change political action group, held signs accusing Vance of being in the pocket of big oil companies. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

Sunrise Movement, Founded to Fight Climate Change, Pivots to Fighting Trump