Israel
Israeli Leaders Knew Hamas Would Attack a Year Before October 7
Updated 8 October 2026: written warnings from Netanyahu's own security chiefs, reported on the anniversary, and renewed demands for an inquiry. See the end of this article.
Updated 4 October 2026: a reported phone
· 8 min read
Israel
Israeli Leaders Knew Hamas Would Attack a Year Before October 7
Updated 8 October 2026: written warnings from Netanyahu's own security chiefs, reported on the anniversary, and renewed demands for an inquiry. See the end of this article.
Updated 4 October 2026: a reported phone
· 8 min read
ICE
ICE Tells Agents to Hit 3,000 Arrests a Day Before the Midterms
ICE leaders told agents to arrest 1,000 more people a day, reviving a 3,000-a-day goal, as arrests spike from Portland to Fresno weeks before the midterms.
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ICE
Trump Has Grown ICE's Police Deals Twentyfold
ICE now lists 2,639 agreements deputising local police and sheriffs, up from 129 when Trump took office. Most put officers on the street after a 40-hour online course.
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U.S. Politics
Trump Said It Again: "Let Them Hit San Diego. Let Them Hit Los Angeles."
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Trump Regime Shuts Out International Election Observers
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We Built a Public Record of ICE Because They Refuse to Keep One
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Trump's Immigration Goons Have Detained at Least 506 Americans, Including 70 Children
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Trump Mobile Hacked, Thousands of Customers' Home Addresses Leaked
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ICE
Is This Oklahoma Gun Ranch a Secret ICE Training Camp?
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Dozens of Deaths Are Missing From the Only Official ICE Death Toll
At least 90 deaths since 20 January 2025. The government's only official list includes 59 of them.
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ICE
ICE Tells Agents to Hit 3,000 Arrests a Day Before the Midterms
ICE leaders told agents to arrest 1,000 more people a day, reviving a 3,000-a-day goal, as arrests spike from Portland to Fresno weeks before the midterms.
· 3 min read
ICE
Trump Has Grown ICE's Police Deals Twentyfold
ICE now lists 2,639 agreements deputising local police and sheriffs, up from 129 when Trump took office. Most put officers on the street after a 40-hour online course.
· 4 min read
U.S. Politics
Trump Said It Again: "Let Them Hit San Diego. Let Them Hit Los Angeles."
Two days after the first time, he went back to the line in San Antonio: "Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles."
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News
Trump Regime Shuts Out International Election Observers
For the first time since 2002, the OSCE was not invited to watch a U.S. election. The Justice Department is sending a record number of its own monitors instead.
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News
Trump Mobile Hacked, Thousands of Customers' Home Addresses Leaked
A ransomware group says it is still inside the Trump family phone company. The company reportedly told it: "We have no team to handle this."
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U.S. Politics
"Let Them Take Out Los Angeles, San Diego," Says the U.S. President
At a Nebraska rally, the president weighed two American cities against the price of a tank of fuel.
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U.S. Politics
Mitch McConnell Returns to the Senate in a Wheelchair, 17 Years Past Retirement Age
Mitch McConnell returned to the Capitol on Monday in a wheelchair, 92 days after a fall at his Washington home
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U.S. Politics
A Fascist Pedophile Tried to Bribe U.S. Voters
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ICE
The USA Doesn't Want Chinese Technology, Unless It's for ICE
A look into the shock GLOVES being provided to DHS/ICE by Compliant Technologies.
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Iran
U.S. Politics
Trump Said It Again: "Let Them Hit San Diego. Let Them Hit Los Angeles."
Two days after the first time, he went back to the line in San Antonio: "Let them hit San Diego. Let them hit Los Angeles."
· 2 min read
U.S. Politics
"Let Them Take Out Los Angeles, San Diego," Says the U.S. President
At a Nebraska rally, the president weighed two American cities against the price of a tank of fuel.
· 2 min read
Iran
USA Strikes Iran Again, Hitting a Naval Base and a Village
The United States has attacked Iran again. Konarak naval base, on the Gulf of Oman, has been hit by a
· 2 min read
Iran
USA Launches New Attacks on Iran
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Iran
U.S. Strike Forces Evacuation of 211 Cancer Patients From Ahvaz Hospital
Missiles landed around the Shahid Baghaei 2 hospital in Ahvaz, southwestern Iran, late Wednesday, forcing the evacuation of a cancer
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Iran
USA Launches Enormous Wave Of Attacks On Iran After Strait of Hormuz Closure
The U.S. regime resumed bombing Iran on Saturday night, its Central Command confirming strikes that began at 7:15pm
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Iran
IRGC Announces Strait of Hormuz Closed Until Further Notice
The Iranian regime's Revolutionary Guards navy announced early on Sunday that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz
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Iran
The USA Struck About Ninety Targets Across Iran Overnight, Iran Responds With Attacks on U.S. Bases
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U.S. forces bombed Iran for a second consecutive night on Wednesday, hitting roughly ninety
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U.S. Politics
Trump says the truce is over after the USA hits 80 targets in Iran
The ceasefire is over according to U.S. President Trump. The authoritarian said so on Wednesday in Ankara, sitting beside
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Palestine
Palestine
25 Times Israel Massacred Palestinians Before Hamas Existed
Hamas was founded in 1987. Israeli forces had been massacring Palestinians since the day the state was declared. Here are 25 times, a fraction of the record.
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Investigation
Mapping All Territory Illegally Held by Israel
Beyond its 1949 lines, Israel holds 5,777 km² in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Syria: 28 per cent on top of the state itself. We mapped all of it from UN, Israeli military and independent data.
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Israel
Israeli Leaders Knew Hamas Would Attack a Year Before October 7
Updated 8 October 2026: written warnings from Netanyahu's own security chiefs, reported on the anniversary, and renewed demands
· 8 min read
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran's Statement Failed to Address the Issues He Caused
Musicians and celebrities at Ed Sheeran's level are not bystanders to politics, they have been remarkably effective in
· 5 min read
Palestine
Ed Sheeran Chose Profit Over Palestine
On 4 September, opening for Ed Sheeran in front of 89,000 people at MetLife Stadium, Macklemore said two words,
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Gaza
Israel Hired a Gang to Kidnap a Gaza Policeman
At around 10:20 Tuesday morning, ten or so armed men rode into the al-Katiba area of western Gaza
· 7 min read
Gaza
Hamas agrees to disarm, Israel rejected the plan
Donald Trump announced on Thursday evening that his Board of Peace had reached what he called a historic agreement for
· 2 min read
Palestine
Palestinian President writes to world leaders as Israeli soldiers and settlers burn West Bank
Mahmoud Abbas sent letters on Sunday to Arab and allied heads of state, the European Union, the secretary-general of
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Gaza
Israeli Attack Kills the Police Commander of North Gaza
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ICE
ICE
ICE Tells Agents to Hit 3,000 Arrests a Day Before the Midterms
ICE leaders told agents to arrest 1,000 more people a day, reviving a 3,000-a-day goal, as arrests spike from Portland to Fresno weeks before the midterms.
· 3 min read
ICE
Trump Has Grown ICE's Police Deals Twentyfold
ICE now lists 2,639 agreements deputising local police and sheriffs, up from 129 when Trump took office. Most put officers on the street after a 40-hour online course.
· 4 min read
News
Trump's Immigration Goons Have Detained at Least 506 Americans, Including 70 Children
About 20 children were handcuffed or zip-tied. Around a dozen citizens were deported. DHS says it is "NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake."
· 2 min read
News
North Carolina Now Requires State Police to Work for ICE
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News
Renee Good's Family Sues Her Killer and Trump Officials Under the Ku Klux Klan Act
The complaint names Miller, Noem, Homan and the officer who shot her, and accuses them of a conspiracy against people who watched ICE.
· 2 min read
ICE
Dozens of Deaths Are Missing From the Only Official ICE Death Toll
At least 90 deaths since 20 January 2025. The government's only official list includes 59 of them.
· 9 min read
ICE
ICE Shot Him in the Back. Now He Is Charged With Assaulting His Attacker.
Updated 4 October 2026: a judge has refused him bond, the bullet has been removed, and ICE has changed its
· 5 min read
ICE
The USA Doesn't Want Chinese Technology, Unless It's for ICE
A look into the shock GLOVES being provided to DHS/ICE by Compliant Technologies.
· 6 min read
ICE List
We borrowed from dating apps to identify ICE agents
The ICE List opened a public beta today of a ICE Watch web app, a mobile web tool that asks
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Handling of rape allegations at Cornell shows why so many assaults go unreported – victims don’t trust the institutions that are supposed to help them
The drinking, drugging and sexual assault culture on American college campuses is once again attracting national attention.
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The Conversation
AI is changing pilgrims’ journeys, but sacred journeys have always adapted to new technology
In 2025, two scholars of religion decided to make a multiday pilgrimage along the Kumano Kodō trail – an ancient route in Japan connecting Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples – guided by an artificial intelligence assistant.
· 6 min read
The Conversation
What the law says about armed officers at polling places
After high-level Trump administration officials said they might send armed officers to the polls during the upcoming midterm elections, and after months of administration efforts to wrest control of some aspects of voting from state officials and limit how people vote, there’s a…
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The Conversation
Why the assault weapons debate is a culture debate
In June 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear appeals of two lower court rulings that challenged assault weapons restrictions. The high court will decide whether the Second and 14th amendments protect the right to possess semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15.
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The Conversation
Armed poll watchers: New Jersey’s 1981 racist voter intimidation campaign is a cautionary tale ahead of 2026 midterms
In the history of voter suppression in the United States, including attempts to stop Black and Latino people from voting, Republican tactics in the 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial race stand out.
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The Conversation
These state supreme court races could decide abortion access and trans rights
In the heated news coverage of what’s at stake in the 2026 midterms, state supreme court races are drawing relatively little attention. Yet these are highly significant elections.
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Flu season is near – here’s a guide to available vaccines
The number of people sick with flu is starting to increase across the United States, with health authorities warning that in some western regions of the country, the 2026-27 flu season may be off to an early start.
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Gaza
- Children killed20,179
- Women killed12,500
- Injured175,098
- Journalists and media workers killed262
Sudan
- Expert estimates of the true toll150,000 to 400,000
- Forced from home15 million+
- Day of the war1,263
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