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Backlash to Flock cameras and AI systems is exploding after scandals, including police using the tech to stalk women.
Congress needs a new human rights mandate after deadly abuses by the Trump administration, progressives say.
Privacy groups are pushing Big Tech to notify users about federal surveillance after anonymous ICE critics were exposed.
Trump’s assault on refugees is coming for Afghans left stranded in Qatar since the 2021 U.S. withdrawal.
Doxxed by Canary Mission and jailed by ICE, Salah Sarsour calls on his Wisconsin community to challenge injustice.
“Democrats chose genocide over winning in 2024,” one Palestinian rights advocate said. "When does this stop?”
The right attacked Biden for “jawboning” social media. Now Trump is doing it explicitly to control cable news.
Scientists are linking deadly heat waves, like the record-breaking heat dome, to pollution from fossil fuel companies.
The Trump administration’s housing agenda targets immigrant families and the nation’s poorest renters.
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal served alongside US troops. He died one day after ICE arrested him in front of his children.
A 59-year-old Iranian with chronic health conditions died in ICE custody just as the US-Israeli war on Iran began.
Two more deaths in ICE custody were reported this week, including a refugee who died after an untreated toothache.
With Qatari liquified natural gas off the market, US gas exporters are primed to profit, says an energy expert.
The number of people held at the notorious Dilley immigration jail has nearly tripled since October.
A FEMA whistleblower is calling for the agency, which Trump has threatened to phase out, to become independent again.
ICE is incarcerating a record 73,000 people in dangerous and increasingly deadly immigration jails.
The families of two men killed on a small boat targeted by the US military filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week.
Immigrant rights activists and elected officials are calling to shut down Camp East Montana.
Two Democrats announced a bill to abolish ICE prisons as Congress votes to keep funding Trump’s anti-immigrant blitz.
At least 32 people died in ICE jails in 2025, and four more have already died in ICE custody this year.
Trump's proposal to ban institutional investors from buying homes won't make up for damage of tariffs and deportations.
US immigration agents have now shot 11 civilians in cars in four months.
Trump’s invasion of Venezuela fuses the “war on drugs” with the “war on terror.”
The battle to build new data centers has pitted communities across the country against Silicon Valley.
US households paid $124 more on natural gas in the first nine months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024.
An executive order declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction could remove supports that keep people alive.
FEMA workers say the agency is being gutted under Trump, putting disaster victims at risk.
Budget slashing and staff cuts have made states vulnerable to Trump's efforts to dismantle the EPA.
Before ICE descended on New Orleans, GOP lawmakers made it a crime to interfere with immigration enforcement.
The tech giant could face legal liability for aiding and abetting “atrocity crimes” in Palestine, legal groups say.
Leaders at the AI company are scrambling to pacify concerns that the bubble around their company could soon burst.
“What is being pushed by the corporate wing of the party is increasingly unattractive to voters,” said an organizer.
Critics say Trump is exploiting the federal shutdown to unilaterally slash the safety net and cause unnecessary pain.
The Take Back Tesla campaign is urging shareholders to reject Musk's proposed $1 trillion compensation package.
A city commissioner pledges to leave “no stone unturned” in the city's fight to slow ICE abductions.
Republicans are already smearing the protesters, but their intimidation tactics are out of touch with reality.
Nine tenants organized by the Debt Collective are refusing to pay back rent, hoping to inspire others to do the same.
ICE demanded Meta hand over personal information attached to Instagram accounts that track immigration raids.
A push to repeal the Roadless Rule that protects the few ecosystems that remain truly wild faces mass public opposition.
The Trump administration is on the defensive as educators demand action to protect students from immigration police.
Oil and gas companies could gobble up billions in tax credits if lawmakers don't act, warn the authors of a new report.
Democrats see RFK Jr. as a weakness in Trump’s cabinet — and a clear and present danger to public health.
Michael Bloomberg and anti-DEI pundit Bill Ackman are just two of the many billionaires showering cash on Cuomo.
Critics say Trump is putting Abrego Garcia “through literal hell” and that efforts to deport him amount to a power grab.
Residents of steel communities say fence-line monitoring for dangerous air pollution must be mandatory.
Exposure to toxic silica dust is driving an increase in black lung cases among miners across Appalachia.
Media conglomerates are pushing to eliminate rules that limit consolidation of local TV stations.
Energy Transfer is battling a federal pipeline safety agency after being fined $2.5 million for a deadly accident.
“When you can’t win fairly, you cheat, and that is exactly what this is,” a civil rights advocate said of Trump’s ploy.
By firing all 17 members of the CDC’s vaccine panel, RFK Jr. has imperiled vaccine access in the US, critics say.