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According to government records, ICE detained approximately 498 pregnant, postpartum, or nursing immigrants between Jan. 1, 2025, and Feb. 16, 2026. The detention of pregnant people shows an alarming shift away from Biden-era policies that required their immediate release from federal custody.

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While detained at Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, Lucia learned she was pregnant — a nightmare scenario for her and many other women who are held in ICE custody. “I saw a woman who gave birth,” she said. “I saw her in a wheelchair with her newborn crying. I never saw her or her baby again.”

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ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers who cannot access the medical care they need, according to the reporting. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many people had miscarriages after October 2025.

ICE Jail Policies for Pregnant People Built on Legacy of Eugenics, Critics Say

A record number of pregnant women and teenagers have been arrested by ICE. They cannot access medical care they need.

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The motion passed at the Green Party’s annual conference in a vote of 1,022 to 813. It also calls for a single state in historic Palestine with equal rights for all. The motion also acknowledges the right of Palestinians to resist, and reasserts the Green Party’s commitment to an arms embargo.

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“The Greens have adopted not only the green of Hamas, but also its ideology: the elimination of the State of Israel through armed struggle,” Israel’s foreign ministry posted on X, speciously comparing the left-wing British political party to the Palestinian resistance group.

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On Sunday, the United Kingdom’s Green Party passed a motion defining Zionism as a form of racism. Within hours of the vote, Israel’s foreign ministry responded, slamming the motion and barring Green Party leader Zack Polanski from entering Israel.

Israel Bans Polanski After UK’s Green Party Votes to Classify Zionism as Racism

The Green Party motion also calls for a single state in historic Palestine with equal rights for all.

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Highlighting the rising death toll from Trump’s “illegal campaign of extrajudicial killings, ie, murder at sea” initiative, Amnesty International USA asked, “Where is Congress to stop the horror?”

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The strike was the first confirmed boat bombing since Ben Saul, the UN special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism, said that even if the targeted vessels were engaged in drug trafficking, there are no “international rights to unilaterally use military force” to counter cartels.

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Trump’s boat-bombing spree continued on Sunday despite condemnation from around the world, claiming four more lives and bringing the death toll from the 13-month campaign to at least 238.

Another Trump Administration Boat Strike Claims 4 More Lives

“Where is Congress to stop the horror?” asked Amnesty International USA.

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Vice President JD Vance told reporters that he sees no problem with the campaign-style TV ads featuring Trump that are being produced using taxpayer dollars and airing ahead of the midterm elections. “They are not partisan; it’s not like we’re advocating for a particular candidate.”

Vance Sees “Nothing Unusual” in Taxpayer-Funded Ads Promoting Trump

Some critics have decried the ads as likely illegal, and potentially an impeachable offense.

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“We do not want a country dominated by a foreign power — as has unfortunately happened in Venezuela.” In Cuba, said Mauricio Alonso, a 68-year-old former nuclear engineer, defiantly, “there are no Delcy Rodríguezes.”

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Many Cubans believe that the success of the new economic measures will significantly depend on the Trump administration. “The empire goes after banks that do business with Cuba, sanctions investors, and prohibits the use of the dollar in transactions with our island,” Grisel Eulalia Reyes León said.

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The measures include allowing private business to import medicines and other goods, loosening restrictions on private tourism, and authorising privately owned banks — under Central Bank supervision — on a regulatory basis equivalent to state banks.

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Cuba has announced that 158 new economic and social measures are being implemented in what has been described as “the most profound economic reform programme … since the 1959 revolution.”

Cubans See Hope in Reforms But Worry Over How the US May Thwart Them

Residents of Havana discuss the obstacles facing the revival of the Cuban economy amid the US fuel blockade.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 16h

Trump’s speech also featured vulgar attacks against Democrats in general. At one point, he encouraged those in attendance to “just get out and vote” for Republicans. “If you do that, we’re going to win, and we’re going to win big, and we’re going to shove it up their ass,” Trump said.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 16h

In a campaign speech in Vandalia, Ohio, on Saturday, President Donald Trump suggested he would withhold federal funds from the state if voters elect Democratic politicians in this year’s midterm races.

At Ohio Campaign Rally, Trump Threatens to Withhold Aid If Democrats Get Elected

“I’m not going to help” if an Ohio Democratic candidate for governor wins, Trump said.

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Exxon and Suncor, a Canadian oil giant that operates Colorado’s only fossil fuel refinery, argue that federal law preempts Boulder’s efforts to hold the companies accountable in state court. The defendants have tried and failed repeatedly to have the case dismissed or removed to federal court.

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With help from the Trump administration, the two companies have asked the court to step in and quash the lawsuit. The plaintiffs are seeking monetary damages under state tort law “for the substantial role (the companies) played and continue to play in causing and exacerbating climate change.”

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A high-stakes legal showdown over climate change is taking place today at the U.S. Supreme Court, where attorneys representing two Colorado local governments will ask justices to allow Boulder’s lawsuit seeking monetary damages from Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil to proceed in state court.

Case at Supreme Court Could Have Profound Consequences for Other Climate Suits

With help from the Trump administration, Suncor Energy and ExxonMobil have asked the court to quash the lawsuit.

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The USDA, which oversees the U.S. Forest Service, initially gave the public only 30 days to comment on the plan. They were forced after public pressure to allow 15 additional days, until October 6. Opponents are aiming to mobilize 1 million public comments during this short period.

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On August 18, Trump’s USDA officially proposed eliminating the national Roadless Rule. If finalized, the repeal would strip protections from 44.7 million acres of wild intact forest. The rule protects forests from road building, logging, fossil fuel extraction, and other development.

Trump’s Repeal of Roadless Rule Would Declare Open Season on Protected Forests

A public policy expert described the move as “the largest evisceration of public lands protection in American history.”…

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Truthout @truthout.org · 18h

If elected, Flávio Bolsonaro has vowed to grant amnesty to his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest and serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup in 2022 to overturn Lula’s last victory.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 18h

Brazil’s presidential election is headed to a runoff between leftist incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and far-right Senator Flávio Bolsonaro after neither candidate cleared 50%. Bolsonaro received 47% of the vote compared to Lula’s 45%. The second round of voting is on October 25.

Far Right Makes Gains in Brazil in First Round of Presidential Race

“The momentum has been with the right since 2018,” says Brazilian philosopher Rodrigo Nunes.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 19h

Trump has pressed the idea that the war is justified due to the nuclear issue. However, his comments ignore reality — Iran was engaging in indirect but productive negotiations with the U.S. and had already said they didn’t intend to pursue a nuclear weapons program before the U.S.-Israeli war.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 19h

“It should help,” Trump said of the war on Iran. The president then blamed supposed media spin for Americans’ negative views of the war, admitting it could hurt Republicans in the midterms.

Trump Says Iran War “Should Help” Republicans in Midterms, Blames Media for Negative Voter Perceptions

Recent polling shows more than 6 in 10 Americans want the war to end as soon as possible.

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Mike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 20h

See the moment when Border Patrol and militarized police cut down the sacred Grandmother Tree, a more than 200-year-old Cottonwood on private property and Indigenous territory. The tree sitter and many others are have been arrested, according to activists @ Tierra Libre anti-border wall camp

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A UN expert recently said in a report that the Venezuela invasion and kidnapping of Maduro was a violation of international law that violated the right to life and Venezuela’s sovereignty. The U.S. has since been seizing all of Venezuela’s oil revenues and its oil reserves as Trump brags about it.

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An official present told Time that Trump asked Grok how Venezuelans would feel if he captured Maduro. The bot “responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall.”

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Trump was reportedly encouraged by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, to carry out his illegal invasion of Venezuela during an hourslong session with the chatbot just weeks before the attack this January.

Report: Trump Used Grok to Help Talk Him Into Illegal Invasion of Venezuela

The president reportedly used the AI chatbot for hours when Elon Musk visited the White House last December.

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Half of the population of Doral, Florida is from Venezuela, yet the city voluntarily signed an agreement with ICE. Now that the mayor and other politicians are receiving backlash for signing the agreement, they are trying to falsely claim the state of Florida obligated the city to sign on.

Florida City That Willingly Signed Deal With ICE Finds Itself in Crisis

Half the population of Doral, Florida, is from Venezuela. Why haven’t its leaders rescinded their deal with ICE?

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This week, Rebecca Cooke, a Democratic congressional candidate in Wisconsin, sent a “cease and desist” order to her Republican opponent due to his constant use of AI generated “deepfakes” featuring her likeness. “He’s been using AI to put words in my mouth because he has nothing else to run on.”

Dem Candidate Sends “Cease and Desist” Order to Republican Over Deepfake Ads

Democrat Rebecca Cooke said the deepfakes produced by GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden “undermine our democratic process.”…

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The DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility — an internal watchdog that was created in response to Watergate — recently heard a presentation from a revisionist Watergate historian, Geoff Shepard, on his theory that the presidential corruption scandal was actually a “deep state” conspiracy.

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Trump’s Justice Department has entertained the idea of reframing former President Richard Nixon as a victim of “deep state” persecution in the Watergate scandal, with allies likening Nixon to Trump as an unfairly maligned figure.

Trump DOJ Reportedly Looking Into Delegitimizing Watergate Prosecutors and Clearing Nixon

JD Vance has previously suggested the administration views both Trump and Nixon as victims of the “deep state.”…

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Notably, support for socialism in the U.S. is polling at its highest levels ever seen. According to a recent Gallup poll, 43 percent of Americans have a positive view of socialism, surpassing the 40 percent line for the first time since the polling organization started asking the question.

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“I don’t wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody, are used to running away from people when things get tough, because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent,” Nixon wrote. “But this is my home.”

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At a campaign rally in Florida, JD Vance said democratic socialist Angie Nixon was un-American, “When Angie Nixon calls herself a socialist, I think the right response is, ‘Get the hell out of here,'” Vance said during the rally. “You don’t belong in America, if those are your views.”

Vance Tells Florida Senate Candidate to “Get the Hell Out” of US Over Political Views

“This is my home,” Angie Nixon, the democratic socialist candidate targeted by Vance, said in response.

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Israel’s Central Elections Committee presented arguments to the Supreme Court after voting last week to bar Palestinian parties and two individual candidates from running in Israel’s October 27 elections.

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On Friday, Sami Abu Shehadeh, head of the Balad party, withdrew from Israel’s upcoming elections, in a maneuver that will likely cost the left-wing party its relevancy in the Israeli parliament after Israel’s Supreme Court advised him to withdraw.

Israel’s Supreme Court Pushes Palestinian Candidate to Withdraw From Elections

Sami Abu Shehadeh, head of the left-wing Balad party, withdrew from Israel’s upcoming elections on Friday.

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Amid allegations of insider trading, bets on military operations, and deceptive marketing practices, some states are seeking to sue or ban prediction markets. But the federal government is suing states that seek to enforce their gambling laws against them.