33 million voters have been run through a Trump administration citizenship check

“There’s still uncertainty about what is happening, what happens to the data that are shared with USCIS,” said Charles Stewart, a political science professor who directs the MIT Election Data and Science Lab. “I don’t know if this means that the USCIS now has a depository of one-sixth of all [the country’s] registered voters.”

NPR

Inside Stephen Miller’s Reign of Terror

Everything you loathe or love about Donald Trump’s America, you hate or cherish about Miller’s republic of fear

Rolling Stone

National Guard members, employees run the gamut politically, based on a review of their campaign giving

As President Donald Trump seems to reverse himself about dispatching troops to Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times examined campaign contributions by those identified in elections records as part of the National Guard in Illinois and across the country. The results show a tilt toward Republican candidates but with still-sizable Democratic donations.

Chicago Sun-Times

Louisiana scientists first detected gravitational waves from black holes 10 years ago. What’s next?

“Most of us had figured that with nature being perverse, that the first signal would be really hard to pull out of the noise. And then the signal came beautifully, beautifully clear,” said Joseph Giaime, head of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Livingston.

NOLA

Most US adults think individual choices keep people in poverty, a new AP-NORC/Harris poll finds

However, just over half also think the government spends too little on those in need, the new poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows.

AP News

Water failure at Guantánamo Bay affects U.S. migrant operations there

Critics of sending migrants to Guantánamo say the base’s infrastructure is too primitive to hold large numbers of people there, and the ongoing water failure has added to their skepticism.

NPR

Chuck Around. Find Out.

Can Schumer lead the Democrats through the coming shutdown fight?

The Bulwark

Workers taken to hospital after FBI uses furnace to burn seized meth

Some staff were exposed to the smoke for more than an hour, and several began to feel sick. All 14 went to the emergency room, where they spent about three hours in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber to combat the effects of smoke inhalation.

BBC

Publicly, this industry has been mostly quiet about MAHA. Privately, they’re panicking.

Some of the world’s biggest food companies are confronting a strange reality in Washington: They’re no longer getting their way.

After decades of seeing glad-handing on Capitol Hill and positive relations with the White House pay off in policy wins, food industry lobbyists are finding fewer receptive audiences and even struggling to get key meetings as consumer trends and a triumphant political movement fracture old alliances.

“Most of the food industry is like the stunned fish you get when you stick a cattle prod in a fish pond,” said one long-time food industry lobbyist granted anonymity to speak candidly.

Politico

Rand Paul Forced to Explain to JD Vance That Abitrary Killing Is Bad

“Think about it this way. This is how people don’t quite get this. Let’s say there’s a house in your neighborhood and they’re all selling fentanyl, and thousands of people are dying, and you’re just so mad,” he continued. “Do you go over there and just kill them or burn them? No, you go to a judge and you get a warrant and you do that. We have an interdiction program.

The New Republic

Bluesky Really Doesn’t Want People To Say ‘Rest In Piss’ About Charlie Kirk

Over the course of the last night, Bluesky took aim at many but not all posts wishing Kirk a restorative piss bath, and its approach seemed to change as I and others appealed our suspensions. Some were just standard users, but I’m not the only reporter who was hit by Bluesky’s anti-piss defense system, with investigative journalist and hacktivist Maia Arson Crimew copping a suspension for posting the same phrase.

Aftermath

‘I Couldn’t Care Less’: Trump’s Downplaying of Right-Wing Violence Continues Long Pattern

Political violence is on the rise in the U.S., affecting prominent figures on the left and right. 

But since the start of his second term, Trump has taken steps to reward right-wing violence while also obstructing the country’s ability to track and defend against acts of extremism.

Democracy Docket

ICE officer fatally shoots man during traffic stop in Chicago suburb, authorities say

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were conducting “targeted law enforcement activity” in Franklin Park when they stopped the vehicle, according to a statement from the agency.

WBEZ Chicago

Senators: Pentagon Has Not Given “Any” Justification for Caribbean Boat Strike

“They have offered no positive identification that the boat was Venezuelan, nor that its crew were members of Tren de Aragua or any other cartel,” said Reed after the briefing, per CNN.

Truthout

Confusion, Anger, Relief: Korean Engineer Tells of Week in U.S. ICE Detention

At the detention center, Cho was assigned a prison uniform. He shared a room with one other person where they ate, slept and relieved themselves. He got little information about why he was behind bars, and even Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities seemed unsure of what was going on. “It felt like our basic human rights weren’t being guaranteed,” he said.

Wall Street Journal

Megachurch leader and his mother indicted on sex trafficking and racketeering charges

Prosecutors claim the family that has led La Luz del Mundo — or “Light of the World” — for nearly 100 years also used it to facilitate sexual abuse across successive generations. The indictment alleges that García, his late father, Samuel Joaquín Flores, and grandfather Aarón Joaquin Gonzalez, who founded the church, systematically abused their followers, aided by relatives and employees.

NPR

Exclusive: South Koreans head home from more LGES US battery sites after raid, sources say 

An LG Energy Solution spokesperson told Reuters the company has asked its employees who are on a business trip in the U.S. to immediately return home or stay at their residences. It did not comment on employees of subcontractors and declined to comment on whether the move would affect the timeline of its U.S. projects.

Reuters

Musk calls for new UK government at far-right rally in London

“You either fight back or you die,” Musk says via video link to demonstration organized by far-right activist Tommy Robinson.

Politico

Mothers Reunite With Their Sons Who Were Deported to CECOT: Photo Essay

Over the past four months, as part of a ProPublica-led investigation in collaboration with The Texas Tribune, Alianza Rebelde Investiga (Rebel Alliance Investigates) and Cazadores de Fake News (Fake News Hunters), I have documented in photographs the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, as well as their return to Venezuela, where I am from. I had visited with mothers like Mireya Sandia and other relatives to see how the absence of their loved ones had affected them.

ProPublica

A Newspaper Called His Gaza Photos “Hamas Propaganda.” He’s Fighting Back.

The filing against a European news organization is a first-of-its-kind legal strategy for a journalist working in Palestine. “I want to prove the truth cannot be erased by false allegations,” Fteiha told The Intercept.

The Intercept

Israel ramps up strikes on Gaza City and hospital says at least 32 are dead

One of the strikes overnight and into early morning Saturday hit a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, killing a family of 10, including a mother and her three children, said health officials. The Palestinian Football Association said a player for the Al-Helal Sporting Club, Mohammed Ramez Sultan, was killed in the strikes with 14 members of his family. Images showed the strikes hitting followed by plumes of smoke.

NPR

Zimbabwe’s public debt servicing crisis leaves countless mothers grieving

Zimbabwe’s public debt servicing has become a suffocating burden, squeezing the life out of the healthcare system. With a total public debt of approximately USD 21.53 billion, with much of it owed to the World Bank, China, France, and other international creditors, the government’s debt repayment obligations are consuming a significant chunk of the national budget. In the 2025 budget, the Ministry of Health and Child Care was allocated ZWD 27.8 billion (approximately USD 1.039 billion), just 7.1 percent of public spending, which falls short of the Abuja Declaration‘s 15 percent allocation target.

Global Voices

A new world order isn’t coming, it’s already here − and this is what it looks like

In recent years, a new multipolar world has emerged with at least four distinct sources of power.

The Conversation

Georgia’s incumbent president won’t stand down nearly a year after disputed election

The country of Georgia is now a “weak Democracy” following last year’s parliamentary elections that saw a pro-Russian party win a majority of seats and no longer stands for the pro-Western future the small Caucasus region has fought so hard for since independence more than 30 years ago, says incumbent Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili.

NPR

Judge worries Trump administration is sidestepping torture protections for deported Africans

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is still weighing what, if any, power she has to order protections for the deportees who were abruptly sent to Ghana last week.

Politico

Is Syria Heading for Democracy or Another Dictatorship?

In the eight months since Ahmed al-Sharaa took power in Syria following the collapse of the Assad regime in December, there has been a great deal of hope that this new administration can bring peace and unity to Syria. However, the Sharaa government has shown worrying signs of regression, with reports of massacres against religious minorities and an ongoing lack of democracy. Sharaa himself is the former sanctioned leader of HTS, which was Al Qaeda’s one-time affiliate in Syria.

Zeteo