New U.S. Report on Israel’s Human Rights Abuses Is 91 Percent Shorter
The United States published its annual report on Israeli human rights abuses on Tuesday. Last year, the State Department published...
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Trump Orders State Department to Overlook International Human Rights Abuses
The State Department is gutting its human rights reporting by excising information detailing abuses by foreign governments from the department’s annual...
Trump to host Armenia, Azerbaijan leaders ahead of peace pledge as White House eyes Nobel Peace Prize
President Donald Trump will host the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Friday as he looks to secure one more...
An Unexpected Path to Hold War Criminals Accountable
Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Capitol to meet with U.S. lawmakers on July 9, 2025, in Washington, D.C.Photo: Samuel Corum/Sipa...
The Week the World Woke Up to the Genocide in Gaza
After 22 months of Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza, something changed in the last week. Israeli human rights groups...
Pentagon: U.S. Counterterrorism Efforts Have Failed Africans
The Intercept has been chronicling the U.S. military’s futile counterterrorism efforts on the African continent for the last decade. We...
Migrant crossings through long-troubled Darién Gap plummet to near zero amid Trump crackdown
Panama’s notorious Darien Gap, once a treacherous corridor for tens of thousands of U.S.-bound migrants, including dangerous criminals, is now...
Trump Prepares to Revoke Lifesaving Abortion Care for Veterans
President Donald Trump appears poised to institute an abortion ban for hospitals run by the Department of Veterans Affairs —...
Iran’s Africa activities pose ‘significant threats to US national security’
The State Department and the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have joined a chorus of analysts this week...
Trump Admin Prepares to Kick Mixed Immigration Status Families Out of Public Housing
President Donald Trump appears to be quietly reviving a plan from his first term that would kick families of mixed...
State Cops Quietly Tag Thousands as Gang Members — and Feed Their Names to ICE
Police gang databases are known to be faulty. The secret registries allow state and local cops to feed civilians’ personal...
Executive Lawlessness: Leah Litman on the Supreme Court Enabling Presidential Overreach
During Donald Trump’s first term, the Supreme Court made some effort to check his power. But that era is over....
Russia revels in Oval Office spectacle after Zelenskyy spars with Trump, Vance
Russia is loving the Oval Office spectacle that took place yesterday with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump and...
Zelenskyy not yet signing US economic agreement ‘short-sighted,’ White House official says
A senior White House official reportedly criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's decision not to sign a proposed agreement to give...
Israeli military experts weigh in on Trump’s ‘all hell’ threat to Hamas and what it could look like
TEL AVIV, Israel — As the first phase of the fragile Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement nears completion, Israel is mulling its...
