The return of Donald Trump to the White House intensifies concerns about whether the United States will further engage in yet another conflict, this time with Iran. On Monday, Trump announced that Iran will be held responsible for attacks by the Houthis in the Red Sea, and will suffer “dire” consequences. While Trump has brought...
A report released by the World Meteorological Organization on Tuesday found that not only was 2024 the warmest year in a 175-year observational period, reaching a global surface temperature of roughly 1.55°C above the preindustrial average for the first time, but each of the past 10 years were also individually the 10 warmest on record....
The Social Security Administration will no longer allow phone verification, starting on March 31. On Tuesday, the Social Security Administration (SSA) introduced new measures aimed at curbing alleged fraud in the program — changes that will invariably make it harder for millions of Americans to apply for benefits or update their information, advocates for beneficiaries...
Today, on the 22nd anniversary of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, key architects and commanders of this monstrous war crime, from Condoleezza Rice to David Petraeus, sit comfortably in cushy positions at top American universities. At the same time, the overseers of the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli bombardment and siege on Gaza, considered a genocide...
The egg seizures showcase the Trump administration’s failure to act on rising consumer costs. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the agency tasked with preventing the transport of unauthorized items across the country’s borders, has been conducting more seizures of illegally imported eggs and egg-related goods than of fentanyl, the drug President Donald Trump frequently...
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement Tuesday criticizing attacks by President Trump and his allies on federal judges. “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” he said. Roberts’s statement came after Trump called for the impeachment...
Editor’s note: Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil has issued his first public statement since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) snatched him from his home on March 8, 2025. The statement was dictated to Khalil’s friends and family from the ICE jail in Jena, Louisiana, where he is being held, and it was...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The for-profit prison company GEO Group has surged in value under President Donald Trump. Investors are betting big on immigration detention. Its stock price doubled...
As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are bracing for catastrophe. That’s because more than 40% of the about 15,000 patients the center serves are enrolled in Medicaid. Cuts to the program would be...
“Israeli forces have signed a death warrant for Palestinian children in Gaza,” one rights group worker said. Israel killed at least 174 children in its ceasefire-shattering assault on Gaza on Tuesday, making it one of the deadliest 24 hours for children in Gaza’s history, Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) has said. The death toll is...
The HHS web page that once featured the former surgeon general’s advisory on gun violence now reads “Page Not Found.” The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has apparently removed a page on its website describing gun violence in the U.S. as a public health crisis. The department made that designation in June 2024,...
Progressive lawmakers and rights groups reissued their urgent demands for an arms embargo to Israel on Tuesday, following a horrific Israeli assault on Gaza that killed hundreds of Palestinians. The attacks came after the Israeli military had slowed its massacres for weeks under the ceasefire agreement. “The Israeli apartheid regime has resumed its genocide, carrying...
On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi said that the Trump administration would “absolutely” continue expelling Venezuelan immigrants from the U.S., despite a federal judge’s order temporarily halting the deportations. “These are foreign terrorists, that the president has identified them, and designated them as such, and we will continue to follow the Alien Enemies Act [AEA],”...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation I was jolted awake at 2 am this morning by the deafening sound of explosions and relentless bombardment here in the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza where I live. The noise was so overwhelming, I couldn’t tell where it was coming from. I was in...
Israel has resumed its heavy bombing of civilians in Gaza, killing at least 404 Palestinians over the course of a single day. The attacks are a major violation — and potentially unilateral ending — of the already-fragile ceasefire and captive release deal. On Tuesday, Israel dropped a huge number of bombs across Gaza without any...
