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Russian immigrants collect firewood delivered by volunteers while waiting to be transported by U.S. Border Patrol agents on March 07, 2024 in Campo, California.

The War on Immigrants

They Flee Russia as Dissidents Seeking Asylum. The U.S. Locks Them Up.

Asylum-seekers are being detained because they come from Russia and Central Asia, immigrants and attorneys told The Intercept.

Republicans Say This Anti-Immigrant Bill Will Protect Victims of Abuse. It Will Do the Opposite.

Jessica Washington

Advocates say the bill will put domestic violence survivors who face false allegations from their abusers at greater risk of deportation.

Which LA Fire Victims Get Money on GoFundMe — and Who Gets Left Out?

GoFundMe campaigns tend to favor the white and wealthy. After the Eaton fire, Altadena’s Black community is fighting back.

The Intercept Briefing

The Broligarchy: The Who’s Who of the Silicon Gilded Age

Rubio Orders State Department to Stop Issuing Accurate Passports to Trans People

Democrats Are Worried About John Ratcliffe’s Role in the 2020 Election. They Should Also Take a Look At His AI Gigs.

A man walks through debris at a mosque damaged by Eaton Fire in Altadena. (Photo by Ringo Chiu / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Disasters Like the LA Fires Always Hit the Poor the Hardest. Trump Wants to Make It Worse.

Podcasts

The Intercept Briefing

The Broligarchy: The Who’s Who of the Silicon Gilded Age

The Intercept Briefing

Building the Deportation Machine for Trump 2.0

Voices

FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2018, file photo, an asylum-seeking boy from Central America runs down a hallway after arriving from an immigration detention center to a shelter in San Diego. A court-appointed committee has yet to find the parents of 628 children separated at the border early in the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Voices

Why My Memories of Being Taken From My Mom at the Border Came Flooding Back

Najenyi Dominguez

Men inspect their home following an Israeli airstrike in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, on January 15, 2025, as the war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement continues. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via AP)

Voices

Gaza Changed the World

Politics

Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order Is Unscientific Nonsense

Natasha Lennard

A pregnant immigrant from Haiti is assisted by her partner (left, center) and another immigrant while having contractions after she crossed from Mexico, with the U.S.-Mexico border barrier in the background, on May 21, 2022 in San Luis, Arizona

The War on Immigrants

The Pregnant Immigrants Fighting Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship

President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump arrive ahead of the 60th inaugural ceremony on January 20, 2025, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Trump becomes the 47th president of the United States in a rare indoor inauguration ceremony. The parade was also moved inside Capitol One Arena due to weather. Photo by Melina Mara/Pool/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)

Biden Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine Stance Made Trump’s Job Easier

Trump’s Executive Orders Are Full of Deadlines. We’re Tracking Them.

Justice

A temporary security fence is seen near the U.S. Capitol building ahead of the presidential inauguration Jan. 13, 2025. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)

I Protested Trump’s First Inauguration. But I’m Not Marching Against Him Today.

Natasha Lennard

The guard tower flanks the sign at the entrance to the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., in Terre Haute, Ind., Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. The facility houses a Special Confinement Unit for male federal inmates who have been sentenced to death as well as the federal execution chamber. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Out for Blood

Biden Commuted Their Death Sentences. Now What?

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators face of with a line of police outside the Stata Center at MIT, Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass. Police detained at least three members of a group of close to 100 demonstrators who held signs criticizing MIT for research they claim was being conducted for Israeli military drones. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Israel’s War on Gaza

MIT Shuts Down Internal Grant Database After It Was Used to Research School’s Israel Ties

Rupert Murdoch talks with the media in London, Friday, July 15, 2011.

The Trump DOJ Loved Leaking, as Long as It Was to Rupert Murdoch’s Newspapers

National Security

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be secretary of Defense, testifies during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill Jan. 14, 2025. (Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images)

Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio Get a Pass on Suffering in Gaza

U.S. Military Service Is the Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out Extremist Violence

Ridge, N.Y.: A drone is seen over Ridge, New York, on Thursday evening, on Dec. 12, 2024.(Photo by Grant Parpan/Newsday RM via Getty Images)

America Gets a Taste of Its Own Medicine: Drone Terror

A demonstrator holds a banner depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu behind bars reading "Accused" during a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians and Lebanon and calling on Spain to cease exporting arms to Israel, in Madrid, on December 15, 2024. (Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO / AFP) (Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

U.S. Defied Spanish Embargo on Arms Bound for Israel by Making Enforcement More Difficult

Natasha Lennard

World

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 27: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at the United Nations headquarters on September 27, 2024 in New York City. World leaders convened for the General Assembly as the world continues to experience major wars in Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, along with a threat of a larger conflict in the Middle East. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Netanyahu Has an ICC Arrest Warrant. Poland’s Promise to Ignore It Would Be a “Grave Mistake.”

President Donald Trump signs an executive order as he attends an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event at Capital One Arena, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington.

Israel’s War on Gaza

Trump Halts Sanctions on Israeli Settlers, Threatens to Seize Assets of War Crimes Investigators

Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025.

Trump Promised a Russia–Ukraine Peace Deal. Where Is It?

Israel’s War on Gaza

A Deal Too Late: Israel Agrees to the Ceasefire It Rejected Months Ago, Thousands More Died

Technology

Washington’s TikTok Ban Hypocrisy: Internet Censorship Is Good, Now

Government Sites Across the U.S. Are Awash in Hardcore Porn

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) and Facebook's Vice President of Global Public Policy, Joel Kaplan (R) chat after leaving a meeting with Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) in his office on Capitol Hill on September 19, 2019 in Washington, DC.

Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral”

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 27: Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk raises his hands as he takes the stage during a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024 in New York City. Trump closed out his weekend of campaigning in New York City with a guest list of speakers that includes his running mate Republican Vice Presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Tesla CEO Elon Musk, UFC CEO Dana White, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, among others, nine days before Election Day. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Voices

My Ban From X Is About One Simple Thing: Elon Musk Controlling the Flow of Information

Jacqueline Sweet

Environment

FILE - This photo taken with a drone shows portions of a Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed the night before, Feb. 4, 2023, in East Palestine, Ohio. Norfolk Southern announced new details Monday, Sept. 18, about its plan to compensate East Palestine residents for lost home values since the fiery derailment disrupted life in the eastern Ohio town in February. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Trump Inauguration Official’s “Phony Charity” Allegedly Pocketed East Palestine Train Disaster Funds

A home burns during the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, on January 8, 2025.

Climate Crimes

LA Budgeted Money For Cop Jobs While Cutting Fire Department Positions. Now the City Is Burning.

Schuyler Mitchell

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 14: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks during a climate event at the White House complex November 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. Biden spoke on his administration’s efforts to address the global climate crisis and the Fifth National Climate Assessment. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

EPA Staffers Demand Biden Release Climate Funds Withheld Over Gaza

TRIANGLE, VIRGINIA - APRIL 22: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on Earth Day at Prince William Forest Park on April 22, 2024 in Triangle, Virginia. Biden, along with Sens. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Edward Markey (D-MA), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), announced a seven billion dollar "Solar For All" program with the Environmental Protection Agency and an American Climate Corps initiative, while commemorating the 54th anniversary of Earth Day, started in 1970 to raise awareness and support for environmental protection. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Biden Makes His Own Attack on Nonprofit Over Palestine