Pro-Palestine International Students Have Won in Court. Why Hasn’t Mahmoud Khalil Won His Freedom?
Most of the student activists targeted for deportation by the Trump administration for their pro-Palestine speech have beaten back their...
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Florida Might Make Its Own Spy Squad. Muslims Think They Have a Pretty Good Idea Who’ll Be Targeted.
Under a bill gaining traction in its state legislature, Florida could soon have its own spy squad. The spooks operating...
Nonprofit Coalition Asks Courts to Prevent Coercive Federal Investigation Tactics
Seventeen nonprofit organizations, led by The Intercept’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, filed an amicus brief today urging the U.S. Court...
Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us
The library is seen through a window at the Rensselaer County Jail in Troy, N.Y., Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Photo: Lori...
Leakers Helped Destroy Deportation Case Against Tufts Student
Rümeysa Öztürk, a doctoral student at Tufts University, arrives at Boston Logan International Airport following her release from federal custody...
Texas “Antifa Cell” Terror Trial Takes On Tough Questions About Guns at Protests Against ICE
A group of activists gathered outside the Prairieland Detention Center near Dallas last July 4 with fireworks and plans to...
Trump Calls His Enemies Terrorists. Does That Mean He Can Just Kill Them?
“Terrorist” is the word that the Trump administration employs to describe the victims of its most egregious acts of state...
The Farcical Case Against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for Protest Reporting
Journalist Georgia Fort, right, and Minnesota State Senate candidate Jamael Lundy hold leave the Federal Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn., on...
Even the Top Prosecutor in Minneapolis Doesn’t Know the Identity of the Agents Who Killed Alex Pretti
In the two months Minnesota has been under siege by federal agents, immigration officers have shot and killed two U.S....
New Legal Documents Show Marco Rubio Targeted Students for Op-Eds and Protesting
New documents unsealed Thursday as a part of litigation brought by The Intercept and other news outlets reveal a critical...
Israel Accuses Zohran Mamdani of Antisemitism for Reversing Orders Adams Gave Under Indictment
The Israeli government and its allies are coming for the new mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, over his decision...
StopAntisemitism Takes Credit for Getting Hundreds Fired. A Music Teacher Is Suing.
When Oregon music teacher Susan Lewis logged onto a Zoom meeting with her boss one afternoon in August 2024, she...
The Brand-New Pentagon Press Corps Is Gaga for Hegseth
Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson conducts a press briefing at the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., on Dec. 2, 2025. Photo: U.S. Navy...
White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List
President Donald Trump has shattered the limits of executive authority by ordering the summary executions of individuals he deems members...
“Trump Has Appointed Himself Judge, Jury, and Executioner”
In September, The Intercept broke the story of the U.S. military ordering an additional strike on an alleged drug boat...
