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Homeland Security agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home in Washington, DC, on Monday morning.

Joining the fight against our erasure helps Native communities defend our right to be seen, heard, and counted.

Tech leaders have been working with the administration to integrate AI into health care and medical record systems.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of several religious institutions taking a stance on the initiative.

“The FCC simply cannot ignore the laws Congress makes,” said one of the advocates behind the motion.

As the Trump administration guts disaster aid, it’s time for an extreme weather superfund paid for by fossil fuel firms.

The word “ceasefire” entered the news on October 11, 2025, but it has still not entered our lives as a reality.

The top 6 groups had spent more than $60 million each as of October 5.

The election was a referendum on the union’s new direction, pursuing bold contract fights and new organizing campaigns.

Ten years after the Standing Rock protests captured national attention, the tribe is still fighting the project.

Israel Katz says Israel will forcibly displace 1 million Gazans if “even one Israeli soldier” is abducted.

The administration is pursuing numerous strategies to manipulate data, neutralize safeguards, and disenfranchise voters.

The administration announced the sanctions just hours after Navi Pillay, who was formerly the UN’s human rights chief and an ICC judge, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Last year, Pillay led the independent UN commission that declared genocide in Gaza.

Trump administration officials, facing numerous allegations of war crimes in its actions ranging from Iran to Cuba, issued punishing sanctions against the ICC that threaten the future of the entire body and its work to hold war criminals and genocidaires to account.

Among other items, the memo seeks to loosen regulations on potential companies that venture into commercial space travel, and directs federal agencies to “incentivize co-development of space transportation infrastructure with private sector partners.”

According to the most recent financial disclosures from Trump, the president purchased bonds from SpaceX worth up to $5 million on August 18. Two days later, Trump issued a memorandum announcing the purported launching of “the golden age of space transportation.”

Pillay’s long career in international human rights law includes work as a defense attorney for anti-apartheid activists and the U.N.’s high commissioner for human rights from 2008 to 2014. War crimes prosecutor Reed Brody called the award “a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump.”

The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, the South African jurist who led the United Nations commission of inquiry that concluded that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza.

A cohesive life-affirming agenda rejects not only executions, but also the inherent violence of incarceration, policing, deportation, imperial wars, and military aid to genocidal forces.

Conversations have focused on the exceptional circumstances of the attempted killing. However, this is an important moment to recognize the depths of brutality in which this country wallows, such that the killing of a person by their own government only makes front page news when it is “botched.”