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Pet-Eating Lies to Deportation Fears: Haitians in Trump’s Crosshairs

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Lindsay Aime remembers the moment his Haitian immigrant community came under a national spotlight. It was September 2024 when then-presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, of eating people’s pets. To Aime, who is originally from Haiti but has lived in Springfield since 2019, the accusation was not just absurd. It felt […]

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Report: One in Five People in Gaza Could Starve to Death Within Months

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Nearly 470,000 people in the Gaza Strip, or approximately one in five of its residents, could starve to death in the coming months under Israel’s total aid blockade, according to a new report published Monday. The report, a product of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)—a partnership between 19 organizations including various United Nations agencies, […]

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25 Arrested While Protesting GOP Medicaid Cuts

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Within the first few minutes of Tuesday’s House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on planned Republican Medicaid cuts—which would render more than 8 million Americans uninsured—a contingent of protesters entered the room in Washington, DC’s Rayburn Building where members of Congress had gathered. The protesters, shouting “No cuts to Medicaid!” represented groups including the […]

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MAGA World Is Not Happy About Trump’s Gift From Qatar

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Some of President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are not thrilled about his plan to accept a luxury jet as a gift from Qatari royals to use as Air Force One. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told CNN, “I don’t think another country should be providing America [a plane]. We don’t need that….I think America can afford their own plane […]

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Your Weather Forecasts Are About to Get a Lot Less Accurate

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This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Did you check the weather forecast today? Whether it was on your phone, the five-day outlook in your newspaper, or your friendly TV meteorologist, that forecast was built on a massive government-run network of sensors and computers that get the weather […]

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Wall Street Gutted Steward Health Care. Patients Paid the Price.

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Sungida Rashid had no intention of taking an Uber to the birth of her first child. She’d never been one to take the easy route, and besides, she wanted to get things moving—and walking seemed the best way to do it. So on an overcast Sunday in October 2023, Sungida and her husband, Nabil Haque, […]

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“The Children Are Being Used as Bait”

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In early March, a seven-year-old boy in immigration custody received good news: He would finally be released to his mother’s care. Months earlier, he had been apprehended as an unaccompanied minor while crossing the US-Mexico border. Since then, he had been staying in a facility run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement, waiting for his […]

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GOP Unveils Sweeping, Brutal Medicaid Cuts

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On Sunday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) released budget reconciliation text that outlined extensive cuts to Medicaid planned by the Republican Party—which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office promptly estimated “would reduce the number of people with health insurance by at least 8.6 million” nationwide. At least $715 billion would be cut […]

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Top-Earning 10 Percent Responsible for the Majority of Global Warming, Study Finds

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world’s wealthiest 10 percent are responsible for two-thirds of global heating since 1990, driving droughts and heatwaves in the poorest parts of the world, according to a study. While researchers have previously shown that higher income groups emit disproportionately large amounts […]

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Florida Families Could Buckle Under the Pressure of Trump Policies

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On a recent Wednesday morning, a hot pink van emblazoned with the words “Keeping South Florida Babies in Need Clean, Happy & Healthy Since 2013” pulled into the parking lot of the North Miami Beach Library. The van’s side door opened, revealing a shelf packed with diapers and a counter stacked with baby wipe packs.  […]

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Trump’s Latest Conflict of Interest? Accepting a Plane From Qatari Royals

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This week, President Donald Trump will head to the Middle East for the first foreign trip of his second term. While he is there, he will reportedly manufacture a new conflict of interest for himself by accepting a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family. Trump will use the […]

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After Jailing of Newark Mayor, DHS Official Warns of “More Arrests Coming”

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After the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Ras Baraka, was arrested Friday for protesting outside of a new immigration detention facility, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official is threatening to arrest three more elected officials who were present. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Baraka, who is running for governor, on Friday after he […]

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