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Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal holds his Academy Award for "No Other Land" at a post-Oscar event in Hollywood, Calif., on March 2, 2025.

Israel’s War on Gaza

Attacks on Hamdan Ballal’s Village Ramped Up After He Won an Oscar

Since the Academy Awards, the “No Other Land” filmmaker’s village in the West Bank has been targeted by Israeli settlers.

Elon Musk walks to the White House after landing in Marine One on the South Lawn with U.S. President Donald Trump on March 9, 2025 in Washington, DC.

DOGE Keeps Trying to Dodge the Freedom of Information Act. So We’re Suing.

DOGE claims it’s not an “agency” that has to comply with FOIA. We don’t buy it — and so far judges haven’t, either.

The Intercept Briefing

Exclusive: As Trump Threatens to Deport Him, Momodou Taal Says It’s “Time to Escalate for Palestine”

A Cornell student suing the Trump administration over free speech — and now facing deportation threats — shares his story on The Intercept Briefing.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services seal is displayed on a mobile phone screen for illustration photo. Krakow, Poland on February 2nd, 2023. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

Trump Wants Immigrants on U.S. Soil to Hand Over Social Media Accounts to Apply for Citizenship

Trump EPA’s Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from Roundup

Schuyler Mitchell

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2025/02/19: An Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) officer. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

He Sued Trump Over Free Speech. Then ICE Demanded He Turn Himself In.

Jonah Valdez, Jessica Washington

Counter protesters attack pro-Palestinian protesters at an encampment set up on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles on May 1, 2024.

Israel’s War on Gaza

Victims of UCLA Mob Attack Sue to “Hold the Aggressors Accountable”

Jonah Valdez, Akela Lacy

Podcasts

The Intercept Briefing

Israel’s “Culture of Cruelty” Inspires the Far Right Worldwide, Says Pankaj Mishra

The Intercept Briefing

The Disappearance of Mahmoud Khalil

Voices

People including students and teachers protest against Rodrigo Duterte and call for justice for Drug War victims, as the former Philippine president is now facing trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) following his arrest, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, on March 14, 2025.

Voices

Trump and Biden Financed Duterte’s Crimes. They Too Should Pay for It.

Bernadette Ellorin, Azadeh Shahshahani

Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general, during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, US, on Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. The Conservative Political Action Conference launched in 1974 brings together conservative organizations, elected leaders, and activists. Photographer: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Voices

Texas Starts Arresting Abortion Providers

Natasha Lennard

Politics

EAGLE PASS, TEXAS - MARCH 05: U.S. Vice President JD Vance (R) speaks as Texas Gov. Greg Abbott looks on during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border at the U.S. Border Patrol Eagle Pass South Station on March 05, 2025 in Eagle Pass, Texas. Vance is visiting the southern border to tour operations and meet with local, state, and federal officials regarding the significant decline in illegal crossings since U.S. President Donald Trump began his second term. The Trump administration has implemented strict immigration policies including a crackdown on illegal migrant crossings and plans for mass deportations. (Photo by /Getty Images)

Texas’s GOP Governor Can Arbitrarily Deny Democrats a Seat in Congress Until Next Year

The War on Immigrants

Columbia Admissions Guidance for Undocumented Immigrants Vanishes From Site

Jessica Washington

Musk Is Firing Federal Workers Who Prevent Bloated Tech Contracts

Jessica Washington

A Drug Enforcement Administration officers walks into a medical clinic in Little Rock, Ark., Wednesday, May 20, 2015. The DEA began wrapping up a multistate crackdown on prescription drug abuse with raids at pain clinics, pharmacies and other locations in the South. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

DEA Insiders Warned About Legality of Phone Tracking Program. Their Concerns Were Kept Secret.

Justice

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - JUNE 01: Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil (C) talks to the press during the press briefing organized by Pro-Palestinian protesters who set up a new encampment at Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus on Friday evening, in New York City, United States on June 01, 2024. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Columbia Apologized to Mahmoud Khalil in May 2024 for One-Day Suspension

A poster taped to a lamppost protesting the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil for leading demonstrations at Columbia University on March 13, 2025 in New York City.

The War on Immigrants

Why Trump Is So Desperate to Keep Mahmoud Khalil in Louisiana

Activists hold a rally and march through downtown to show support for Mahmoud Khalil on March 11, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois.

The Legal Argument That Could Set Mahmoud Khalil Free

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing Executive Orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on February 25, 2025. Photo by Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP Images)

The War on Immigrants

Trump’s New Muslim Ban Poised to Sweep Up Immigrants Already in the U.S.

National Security

Pentagon Keeps Pouring Cash Into Golf Courses — Even As Trump Slashes Government Spending

The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022.

Hey Elon: We Found a Place to Cut More Than $2 Trillion in Wasteful Spending

Emergency crews respond to the crash site near the Potomac River after a passenger jet collided with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) in Arlington, Virginia, US, on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025.

Army Helicopter Accidents Are Occurring at Near Record Rates

Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, arrives to testify during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.

Tulsi Gabbard Refused to Back Down on Edward Snowden. It Could Tank Her Nomination.

World

The body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli airstrike is brought to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 18, 2025.

Israel Violated the Gaza Ceasefire From the Start. Why Won’t the Media Tell You That?

Houthi supporters chant slogans and hold pictures of Abdul Malik al-Houthi, the leader of the Houthi movement, during an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Voices

Trump Reasserts U.S. as the World’s Policeman With Massive Yemen Escalation

President Donald J. Trump delivers his first State of the Union address after his 2024 presidential election to the Joint Session of Congress in Washington DC on March 4, 2025.

Israel’s War on Gaza

Trump’s “Genocidal” Threat to Gaza: If Hamas Won’t Release Hostages, “You Are DEAD”

Israel’s War on Gaza

Support the Occupying Force: The Logic Behind Trump’s Foreign Policy

Technology

LAPD Surveilled Gaza Protests Using This Social Media Tool

President Donald Trump, center, attends the White House Crypto Summit in Washington, Friday, March 7, 2025.

Here’s How Much the Guests at Trump’s Crypto Summit Donated to His Inauguration

The Internal Revenue Service's computer center at Martinsburg in March 30, 1963.

It’s Tax Season — The Perfect Time for Trump to Sell This “Critical” IRS Computing Center

Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop speaks after the Democratic gubernatorial debate at Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J., on Feb. 2, 2025. (AP photo/Mike Catalini)

“Opportunism and Fear”: Crypto Industry Sets Its Sights on Governors’ Mansions

Environment

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency, appears before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump’s EPA Kills Grant to Climate Nonprofit Over Its Support for Palestine

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

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