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In case you missed it, read our investigation and explore our database of all incidents where citizens were detained:

Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández credited our reporting as the catalyst for the Justice for Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Act. We revealed that 500+ U.S. citizens have been detained in warrantless arrests since Trump returned to office.

🚨Ex-GOP political strategist Steve Schmidt has called for the “immediate removal” of Donald Trump’s son-in-law from “every diplomatic assignment” following an explosive report alleging that Jared Kushner secretly had access to roughly $1.75 billion in Gulf money while serving in the White House.

👀 More on the ad work Ben Yoho’s Strategy Group was responsible for: youtube.com/shorts/96R4v...

The Crimes Davey Hearn Claims Jeanine Pirro May Have Committed emptywheel.net/2026/10/24/t...

Wait until you see how Venezuela conned Trump into a deal that cannot produce 65B barrels of oil for the US ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/venezue...

Trump said he had to takeover Greenland to keep China and Russia out. And then he snuck Russia onto the North Slope. Literally just ... inviting them in. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

"There is no evidence the French protests have anything to do with immigration. There has been Islamist violence over the years...That’s not what’s happening and no desperate eagerness by Republicans to hijack protests for their flailing campaigns can change that." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-real-l...

"It was abundantly clear that without my intervention, the possibility to bring humanitarian aid into the city and to evacuate the elderly would be impossible.”

Interesting... 🤔

The pro-Israel group is dropping some of its most visible campaign tactics but keeping the ability to spend heavily as backlash grows over its role in Democratic races. ground.news/article/aipa...

Staff working for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth damaged a historic globe used by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower during World War II while moving it to Hegseth’s Pentagon office in February, three U.S. officials told NBC News.⁠⁠ ground.news/article/pent...

President Donald Trump’s new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, was fired Friday after five days in the role, according to The New York Times. Her dismissal came hours after Trump said he had urged her to reconsider the position.⁠ ground.news/article/trum...

Researchers in Australia estimate that annual dementia diagnoses worldwide will more than double from 11.4 million in 2023 to 24.7 million by 2050.

President Donald Trump is weighing whether to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, a former Army major convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009. CNN reported that Trump told advisers he had not known Hasan was paralyzed from the waist down.⁠ ground.news/article/trum...

Trump announced Friday that Russia had agreed to supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the U.S. and global markets following a discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin.⁠ ground.news/article/trum...

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New Canadian tariffs will target U.S. steel, dairy, appliances, farm equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics, matching duties announced by President Donald Trump’s administration on Canadian imports.⁠ ground.news/article/cana...

Take-Two is seeking subpoenas that would require Microsoft and Discord to provide information tied to leaks of Grand Theft Auto VI footage, according to Kotaku. ground.news/article/take...

Marijuana smoking is at a record high. Cigarette smoking is at a record low: • 17% of U.S. adults smoke marijuana, up from 7% in 2013 • 11% smoke cigarettes, down from a 45% peak in 1954 Source: @gallup.com

A federal judge blocked an Ohio law requiring documentary proof of citizenship for people registering to vote at motor vehicle offices. ground.news/article/us-j...

🟥 Blindspot for the Right: July was the hottest month on record for the contiguous U.S., with temperatures averaging 76.9 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NOAA data dating to 1895. The mark edged out July 1936 and July 2012.⁠ ground.news/article/july...

Thousands of lawsuits accusing Instagram, TikTok and other social media platforms of encouraging addictive use can move forward after a federal appeals court rejected efforts by their parent companies to block the cases.⁠ ground.news/article/us-c...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected President Donald Trump’s 15-point Gaza plan Sunday, saying Israel would not withdraw until Hamas is “genuinely” disarmed.⁠ ground.news/article/isra...

A magnitude-7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 69 people and collapsing buildings across several cities. ground.news/article/20-d...

An Israeli court halted a plan to put crocodiles in a moat around Israel's Ketziot Prison after an animal welfare group challenged the move. ground.news/article/isra...

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You knew Trump would still find a way to ruin the World Cup I'm a beyond-diehard USA fan who thinks Balogun's red card was wrongly given, but this taints everything. I'd rather lose by the rules (which includes bad officiating) than win with rank corruption

KERNEN: In the disclosure, the amount of money you and the family made from crypto was an outsized number. Did you know about the crypto ventures? TRUMP: I could know about it. I didn't. There's nothing illegal with that. I could know.

UNDERREPORTED: The Trump administration has asked Congress for more than $1.4 billion to respond to a growing Ebola outbreak, according to an administration official. ground.news/article/trum...

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The Iranian consulate in Hyderabad says that $12B in frozen Iranian assets have been released following the U.S. and Iran's latest talks in Switzerland.

NEWS: After nearly all other acts dropped out of Trump's takeover of the Freedom 250 concert series, Kash Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, will now be the marquee performer. Wilkins joins Lee Greenwood as the only acts set to perform.

Why does it need to be this hot?

I thought the president said gas prices were coming down?

A new analysis from ITEP estimates that the typical American households has spent an extra $414.77 on gas since the start of Trump's Iran War. Overall, drivers in the U.S. have paid $55,470,870,409 more to the oil industry since prices began to rise. Unreal. https://itep.org/iran-war-fuel-cost/

Trump on defense contractors: "They're not allowed to take any more stock buybacks. They can't do that anymore."

PHOTO: Paint was peeling from the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and drifting into algae-tinted water Thursday, less than two weeks after President Donald Trump said the renovation was complete.

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Researchers estimated the networks store a mass of carbon equal to about five times the mass of all living humans.⁠ ground.news/article/eart...

The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on two campaign finance cases that could forever change our elections. @davidsirota.com explains how SCOTUS is about to legalize corruption.

Turning Point is a Terrible Organization….

We are digging coal

"This week’s three big winners:" The Knicks, Iran, and the smell of Algae.

Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today! We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come.

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