Another Assassination Attempt, More Fertilizer for Conspiracy Theories
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner last weekend became the site of the third failed attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump....
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OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us
OpenAI claims it has accomplished what Anthropic couldn’t: securing a Pentagon contract that won’t cross professed red lines against dragnet...
Zohran Mamdani Kept Columbia Student in New York — Then Phoned With Trump to Secure Her Release
A Columbia student detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday morning has been released from federal immigration custody....
Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant
At first, Steven Saari said, federal immigration agents seemed to think he was one of them. Saari, a Marine Corps...
Welcome to the Jade Helm Presidency
A panic pervades the internet: terrified talk of troops in American cities, federal shock troops brutalizing citizens and neighbors, the...
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....
Dan Goldman Supported Warrantless Spying on Americans. Now His Primary Opponent Is Hitting Him for It.
The House was debating a powerful National Security Agency spying program when Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., rose to side against...
Episode Seven: Dirty Information
In 2004, New York narcotics officers raided Alberta Spruill’s home, shattering her door and detonating a flash grenade. Spruill, a...
Episode Five: What Fourth Amendment?
In June 2010, Las Vegas police conducted a no-knock raid on Trevon Cole’s apartment, where he lived with his nine-months-pregnant...
An NYPD Camera Points Directly Into Their Bedroom. They’re Suing the City Over It.
On a quiet street in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, a camera owned and operated by the New York City Police Department...
Trump’s War on Drugs
From Afghanistan to Iraq, the United States has long used drone strikes to take out people it alleges are terrorists...
Episode One: Dirty Business
In 2006, a 92-year-old Atlanta woman was gunned down in her own home by police during a drug raid. The...
Introducing Collateral Damage
Collateral Damage is a new investigative podcast series examining the half-century-long war on drugs, its enduring ripple effects, and the...
Alex Karp Insists Palantir Doesn’t Spy on Americans. Here’s What He’s Not Saying.
In an exchange this week on “All-In Podcast,” Alex Karp was on the defensive. The Palantir CEO used the appearance...
ICE Hunts Down Immigrants by Spying on Their Wire Transfers
Court records confirm what civil liberties advocates long warned would happen: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using sensitive data about...
