‘Of course there’s going to be retaliation,’ says one expert. ‘It may be that this is what Trump’s interested in’ For decades, the US and its allies have painted Iran as the world’s biggest sponsor of state terrorism – invoking its Islamic rulers’ supposed revolutionary fanaticism and determined support for militant proxies. Now a long-standing but mainly latent threat is coalescing, with the war waged on the country by the US and Israel, to raise the risk of an attack on American soil to levels unseen since the murderous al-Qaida assaults of 11 September 2001, experts say. Continue reading...

Last year, I warned about the possibility that Israel might drag the United States into a regional conflict. What’s happening now is worse than I could have ever imagined.

On Friday, a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.

The country’s 900 billionaires have far too much influence over our government and economy. Here’s how we can reduce the power of the ultra-rich

Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no…

Pretending the software is sentient makes it sound more powerful As with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the plug has downsides. After “retirement” interviews, Claude Opus 3 said it wanted to keep sharing its “musings,” so Anthropic suggested a blog.…

Dispatch records and a police report obtained by OPB describe the previously unreported incident last fall.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Detainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency and federal immigration authorities.

Weeks after Trump pardoned Binance’s founder, the company dismantled probe and suspended the investigators; Binance denied inquiry ended or staff fired for the concerns.

The fighting enters its fifth year on Tuesday. A U.S.-based think tank says that as many as 1.8 million soldiers may have been killed, injured or missing on both sides.

The real Olympic heroes were the athletes who stood up for each other—and against Trump.

Still left out of the joke, even now.

Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has a warning for MAGA influencers and the GOP more generally for the midterms.Greene, who over the weekend said Trump was ultimately responsible for everything GOP officials do, on Sunday said that certain "MAGA influencers" are going to regret mocking su...

As America's 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country's future by bulldozing its past.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

Camo and hats for jungle combat do not make sense in American cities. But they are key to dressing for the war ICE has imagined.

On RFK, Jr., Trump v. Slaughter, and the serious flaw of the right’s unitary executive theory.

Trump's racist post came at the end of a minute-long video promoting conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. After deleting the post, Trump told reporters he "didn't make a mistake."

"Trump is using the federal government to weaken our democracy, and he has escalated his attacks in his second term,” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said. “He will not succeed.”

Trump's allies are starting to translate his anti-democratic statements into actions.

The bill would undermine the right to vote in the U.S. ahead of the 2026 midterms.

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“Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other.”

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

Today’s layoffs at this once great newspaper were nowhere near inevitable. But Jeff Bezos was never committed to the paper’s best traditions.

A collector just bought the chairs for her home. They became famous from a photo of former president Jimmy Carter, President Joe Biden and their wives.

In our first Stage Talk of 2026, we were joined by Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins and Cornell University's Dr. Claire Wardle sharing their expertise on the formation of fact checking and verificatio...

CNN’s Rosa Flores speaks to the parents of the 8-year-old who died in the custody of US immigration authorities in Texas in May, 2023 after the family made repeated requests for medial care for the gi...

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