CIA Drove Spike in Media Leak Investigation Requests Under Trump

Records released by the Justice Department provide new details about Trump’s campaign against whistleblowers and leakers.

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Drone Whistleblower Daniel Hale Is a Truth-Teller in a Time of Systemic Deceit and Lethal Secrecy

Jeremy Scahill

Hale should be pardoned and released, and the government should pay him restitution.

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CIA Drove Spike in Media Leak Investigation Requests Under Trump

Jason Paladino, Nick Schwellenbach, Ken Klippenstein

Records released by the Department of Justice provide new details about Trump’s campaign against whistleblowers and leakers.

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“A Government That Has Killed People for Less”: Pro-Saudi Social Media Swarms Leave Critics in Fear

Murtaza Hussain

Before he was murdered by Saudi Arabia, Jamal Khashoggi faced online harassment from influencers and bots. Their new targets are worried.

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His Conviction Was Overturned Amid Evidence of Innocence. The Supreme Court Could Throw It All Out.

Liliana Segura

Arizona hopes the court’s conservative majority will do what prosecutors are unable to: send Barry Jones back to death row.

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“Worst of Brazil”: Covid-19 Vaccine Corruption Implicates Top Bolsonaro Allies

Andrew Fishman

A steady trickle of new information from a Senate probe is showing how vaccine shortages are linked to corruption.

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Biden Has Said Pot Prisoners Should Be Free. Now He’s Poised to Send Some Back to Prison.

Tana Ganeva

Reports that the Biden administration will end home confinement for people released during the pandemic have spurred a flurry of activism.

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NYPD Reforms Are Failing, Say Plaintiffs Who Won Landmark Stop-and-Frisk Case

Nick Pinto

In 2013, a federal judge mandated oversight after finding that the NYPD’s racially disproportionate use of stop-and-frisk was unconstitutional.

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Guatemalan Communities Turn Out for Indigenous-Led Nationwide Shutdown

Sandra Cuffe

Guatemala’s attorney general fired a top prosecutor of corruption last week. Now, Indigenous peoples and social movements are calling for both her and the president to resign.

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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Massive wildfires. Devastating floods. Record-breaking heat. This was caused by humans — and we're naming names. We've all seen the headlines: Massive wildfires are blanketing the US and Canada

A Vigilante Shooting Over a Trump Sign Divides Topeka

Sunday, July 25, 2021

Two white men in Kansas shot into a car of Latino teenagers and went home. Almost a year later, neither shooter is in custody. MOST READ Facing Years in Prison for Drone Leak, Daniel Hale Makes His

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I Tried to Make Claims About Election Fraud So Preposterous Trump Fans Wouldn’t Believe Me. It Was Impossible.

Thursday, July 22, 2021

I was acting as Trump and his minions do: free to say anything, no matter how ridiculous, with no basis in observable fact. MOST READ I Tried to Make Claims About Election Fraud So Preposterous Trump

Texas Democrats’ Hail Mary to save voting rights

Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Democratic state legislators from Texas have fled the state to deny a quorum and block sweeping voter suppression legislation. The battle to save voting rights is rapidly coming to a head — and the

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