A Washington Post exclusive details how Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave an order on the first Caribbean boat strike, saying to leave no survivors. “As two men clung to a stricken, burning ship targeted by SEAL Team 6, the Joint Special Operations commander followed the defense secretary’s order to leave no survivors,” write Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima. “The longer the U.S. surveillance Read More…
Hate crimes have surged nearly 20 percent during the administration of President Donald Trump, according to a new FBI report on hate crime statistics. The report also shows that hate-motivated murders, largely committed by white supremacists, spiked to their highest number in 28 years. The FBI’s annual reports on hate crime statistics show that hate crimes Read More…
**“We’re at an inflection point in history right now and it’s frightening,” said one former senior DHS official. When Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers stormed through Santa Ana, California, in June, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system. Recordings of those calls, obtained by ProPublica, captured some of the terror residents felt as they Read More…
*** Home Depot crucially has recently rejected claims that it has coordinated with ICE to allow the raids at the company’s stores, writing on X in response to a user accusing them of being involved with the operations: “This is untrue—we aren’t coordinating with ICE.” Protesters, however, argue that the company has failed to protect staff Read More…
President Donald Trump sought to revive a $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN over its use of the phrase “The Big Lie” in reference to his 2020 election fraud claims. However, a federal appeals court has rejected the effort, with the 11th Circuit affirming the case’s dismissal. The court ruled that CNN’s choice of words is protected opinion Read More…
We examined the injustices of prison labor nationwide — and lay the foundation for a more equitable path forward. Our nation incarcerates more than 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons, and two out of three of these incarcerated people are also workers. In most instances, the jobs these nearly 800,000 incarcerated workers have Read More…
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