President Trump, without offering details, said that the pilot who attempted to hijack a plane headed for Israel could have ties to Tehran and that the US would hit Iran, in his words, “very hard” if implicated. Also, a British-Iranian dual national has been arrested on suspicion of “preparation of terrorist acts” in connection with an alleged plot to target a UK airbase used by the US military. British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said there are “strong indications” Iran was involved in the incident — remarks that appeared to support the United States’ assessment that the incident involved a foreign actor. And, gulf oil producers, with considerable support from the US Navy, are jamming crude through the Strait of Hormuz,…
Country music star Zach Bryan wore a shirt reading “Free Palestine” while performing at the Robert Kraft-owned Gillette Stadium Friday. This comes after the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots lodged a campaign against Macklemore for pro-Palestinian remarks.
A group of interfaith leaders in California is marching 96 miles from an ICE processing center in the Mojave Desert to Downtown L.A. to protest ICE and demand a shutdown of “all detention centers.”
A historic 96-mile march is underway, as faith leaders make the multi-day journey from the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in the Mojave Desert, to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. The distance is the point, says organizer Rev. Jennifer Gutierrez, who says the long pilgrimage serves to remind detainees “they are not isolated from their human community.” Rev. Canon Jaime Edwards-Acton adds that after the walk, the faith community’s next job is making sure “everyone gets to vote.”
A new investigation in The Atlantic found that the Trump administration’s rushed and relentless mass deportation purge is separating families again - this time in a different, more hidden, way. The first Trump administration’s family separations at the border were carried out under an explicit “Zero Tolerance” policy; now the administration is detaining and deporting parents already in the U.S. without giving parents the time or resources to make a plan for their children’s care. Families are living in a “climate of fear” and leaving their children with “nowhere to go.” Because of a legal gray area between immigration law and family law, some children left behind wind up with abusive caregivers and “there’s no process…
New York Attorney General Letitia James has been appointed special prosecutor to investigate the alleged gang rape at Cornell University in 2024, after widespread backlash over its handling. “It’s unremarkable that women are this angry,” journalist Liz Plank told Jacob Soboroff. Ms. Magazine Executive, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf notes that American young men are not seeing men in power held accountable for their misbehavior, “power structures have not changed. That says as much about our democracy and how much we’re willing to fight for the democracy we need as it does about the lesson that young people are learning about the path to power.”
With the midterms just weeks away, Donald Trump is leaving open the possibility of declaring a national emergency or invoking the Insurrection Act— to seize control of the elections. This as the Department of Justice announced its intention to send 1,000 federal election observers to the polls come November. New York's Rep. Joe Morelle says democrats are ready to respond to any steps to interfere in the election, "We'll be watching....we're prepared to go to court should the department of justice overstep at all." Adding, "they're largely toothless... this is really their effort to intimidate people."
This week, Donald Trump unveiled an AI-powered chatbot to simplify access to government information and services. Then it started fact-checking his favorite lies. Jacob Soboroff tested it out for himself.
