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OpenAI’s Robotics Chief Leaving Tech Company After Its Deal With Pentagon OpenAI revealed a deal this week with the Pentagon, allowing the Department of Defense to use its AI technology.

OpenAI revealed a deal this week with the Pentagon, allowing the Department of Defense to use its AI technology.

What We Forget About Covid Will Shape the Next Pandemic As the pandemic recedes, our collective memory is softening the fear and chaos. That shift could determine how we handle the next crisis.

As Covid recedes, our memory of the crisis is softening. What we forget — about overwhelmed hospitals, uncertainty and tradeoffs — will shape how we respond to the next pandemic.

A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future “This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.

DHS quietly removed a Biden-era policy from its website that outlined oversight & privacy safeguards for facial recognition.

Now, they’re using Mobile Fortify, an app that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query DHS databases for matches on anyone they snap a picture of.

Trump shares chilling rant about loss of American life after US strike Iran

Donald Trump has taken to Truth Social to share a terrifying rant after the US and Israel executed a daytime strike on Saturday throughout Iran, with plumes of smoke billowing from central Tehran.

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"It does not take a scholar of legal ethics to conclude that government lawyers should not be allowed to make up a violent and organized terrorist invasion of a major American city."

Read about our bar complaint: freedom.press/issues/doj-l...

In other words, ICE-Gestapo kidnapped and murdered yet another innocent person.

JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

In Brazil and South Korea, leaders who attempt a coup are in prison. In US, they deliver the State of the Union! Trump is still a threat to our democracy!

In Brazil and South Korea, leaders who attempt a coup are in prison. In US, they deliver the State of the Union! My new article on how other nations have moved swiftly to protect their democracies--But not the US. Which one is the banana Republic?! deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/in-brazil-...

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,460 These are the key developments from day 1,460 of Russia's war on Ukraine.

These are the key developments from day 1,460 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Bipartisan bill aims to end health conflicts and bring down costs after years of complaints in Ohio • Ohio Capital Journal A bipartisan bill would prohibit health giants from providing services and paying for them. It would be the biggest antitrust law in decades.

Bipartisan bill aims to end health conflicts and bring down costs after years of complaints in Ohio ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/16/b...

‘Wrong in 1942. Wrong now.’ Local Japanese Americans tie WWII incarceration to Trump’s immigration crackdown Japanese American groups held a vigil at the Broadview ICE facility on the Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the 1942 order spurring mass incarceration of those of Japanese ancestry during Wor…

Japanese American groups held a vigil at the Broadview ICE facility on the Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the 1942 order spurring mass incarceration of those of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

The Real Cost of Voter ID Laws — And Who Pays the Highest Price Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

Every eligible citizen should be able to vote without unnecessary barriers.

Voter ID laws undermine that principle by turning a right into a privilege that can be lost.

And who’s bearing the brunt of that cost? Those who’ve been historically disenfranchised.

Tennessee said yes to ICE—and turned into a deportation state How the feds worked with state troopers to terrorize Nashville’s immigrants.

Inside Tennessee's model for supercharging ICE's deportation machine.

Prison-Style Free Speech Censorship Is Coming for the Rest of Us The outcome of a court case could decide whether the Trump administration can criminalize simply possessing political literature.

In plain language, Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada is facing up to 20 years behind bars for allegedly moving a box of anarchist zines from his parents’ house to another residence in his hometown of Dallas.

Trump raises global tariffs to 15 per cent in wake of Supreme Court loss President continues his attack on judges and announces levies on US trading partners will ‘immediately’ increase

Trump raises global tariffs to 15 per cent in wake of Supreme Court loss ft.trib.al/kwHUPFt

A 15,000-acre wildfire that started in Oklahoma is exhibiting extreme rates of spread and has moved into Kansas, according to the Oklahoma Forestry Services.

Read more: https://cnn.it/4c1fu2C

'Forgotten Souls' explores the legacy of the missing Tuskegee Airmen Often overlooked in America’s history of World War II are the 27 Tuskegee Airmen who disappeared in combat. Geoff Bennett recently sat down with Cheryl W. Thompson, whose father was also an airman. Sh...

Often overlooked in America’s history of World War II are the 27 Tuskegee Airmen who disappeared in combat. https://to.pbs.org/3Ohp739

Danish PM says more Greenland talks due after meeting US's Marco Rubio New opinion poll finds seven in 10 US adults disapprove of President Donald Trump's handling of Greenland issue.

New opinion poll finds seven in 10 US adults disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of Greenland issue.

More civilians killed in Ukraine last year than any other since Russia’s 2022 invasion

MAGA’s Always Bogus “Antitrust Movement” Comes To A Screeching Halt With Firing Of Gail Slater

The Trump administration has fired one of the few remaining members of the administration that had even a passing interest in antitrust enforcement. DOJ antitrust boss Gail Slater has been fired from the…

Electricity Bills Got More Expensive In 2025—Despite Trump’s Promise To Reduce Utility Costs Americans closest to new data centers will be more affected by rising utility costs, economists said.

Americans closest to new data centers will be more affected by rising utility costs, economists said.

Donald Trump ridiculed online after 'hilariously false' mail-in voting claim

During a White House briefing on Thursday, Trump made an entirely inaccurate assertion that the United States is the sole nation globally utilizing mail-in ballots.

Russell Vought raided USAID budgets he helped gut to pay for his own security The White House budget office reportedly set aside $15 million of remaining funds to protect the Project 2025 guy, according to Reuters.

The White House budget office reportedly set aside $15 million of remaining funds to protect the Project 2025 guy.

The SAVE America Act would disenfranchise Americans living abroad The “SAVE America Act” is a rebranded version of the anti-voter SAVE Act, and its new name should not fool anyone.

NEW: Yesterday, the House passed the SAVE America Act, a measure that would disenfranchise millions of Americans domestically and abroad.

@demsabroad.bsky.social Martha McDevitt-Pugh asserts voting is not a privilege; it’s a constitutional right. And they do not lose that right when living abroad.

White House takes down meme of Obamas posted on Trump social media and slammed as racist | Colorado Newsline The White House on Friday pulled down a social media post depicting former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as monkeys.

The White House on Friday pulled down a social media post depicting former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama as monkeys after members of Congress from both political parties expressed dismay and called it racist.
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Despite judge’s order, ICE sent an immigrant to Mexico instead of returning him to Minnesota The government says the undocumented immigrant voluntarily left the U.S. His attorney is seeking a contempt of court finding as the federal courts remain overwhelmed by immigration cases.

Despite two court orders to return Emilio Pena Jimenez to Minnesota from a detention center in Texas, the government sent him to Mexico.

Family of Renee Good, citizens hurt by DHS detail violence to Democratic panel • Minnesota Reformer Administration officials have defended the immigration crackdown, including the aggressive tactics used in Minneapolis and other cities.

Family of Renee Good, citizens hurt by DHS detail violence to Democratic panel minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/03/r...

Trump family crypto firm sold major stake to UAE investment firm The investment, worth a reported $500 million, gave Emirati-backed investors a 49 percent stake in World Liberty Financial, a Trump crypto company.

A crypto company run by President Trump’s family members sold a large stake to investors tied to the United Arab Emirates just days before Trump’s inauguration, linking a Trump family business to a prominent member of the UAE’s governing elite.

Israel kills 32 people in deadliest Gaza strikes in weeks | The National

Several children are among the dead, local authorities say