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Kristi Noem, secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security, during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026.

The War on Immigrants

Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.”

Law enforcement sources told The Intercept that Noem’s tale about a cannibal was a fabrication.

Nonprofit Coalition Asks Courts to Prevent Coercive Federal Investigation Tactics

Seventeen organizations filed an amicus brief calling out pretextual federal investigations and arguing for judicial oversight.

License to Kill

The U.S. Has Killed More than 150 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.

The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.

The Intercept Briefing

What Does Trump Want With Cuba?

In this handout photo obtained from the U.S. Defence Department, Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sails in the Arabian Sea, Feb. 6, 2026.

Trump Menaces Iran With Massive Armada Capable of Prolonged War

Midterms 2026

A New PAC Wants to Counter Israel’s Influence. It Also Welcomes Hitler Apologists.

State Sen. Sharif Street D-Philadelphia speaks during the Pennsylvania Democratic Party's 3rd Annual Independence Dinner in Philadelphia, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Midterms 2026

Philadelphia Could Elect Its First Muslim Congressman. He’s Not Sure Where He Stands on Israel.

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The Intercept Briefing

What Does Trump Want With Cuba?

The Intercept Briefing

Attorney for Epstein Survivors Warns That Justice Is Impossible With Bondi as AG

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A warehouse that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to convert into a detention center for immigrants in Roxbury, New Jersey, on February 16, 2026.

Voices

Can Trump’s Plan for Warehouse Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped?

Natasha Lennard

MILAN, ITALY - FEBRUARY 08: Gold medalist Alyssa Liu and Amber Glenn of Team United States pose for a photo after the Medal Ceremony for the Team Event after the Men's Single Skating - Free Skating Team Event on day two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games at Milano Ice Skating Arena on February 08, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Voices

It’s Correct and Moral to Use the Olympics to Speak Out About Politics

Politics

Representative Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat from Texas and US Senate candidate, during a debate at the 2026 Texas AFL-CIO COPE Convention in Georgetown, Texas, US, on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. Representative Jasmine Crockett, an effective fundraiser with a large social media following, is facing Texas State Representative James Talarico in the contest for the Democratic nomination. Photographer: Bob Daemmrich/The Texas Tribune/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Jasmine Crockett Swears Off Corporate Cash — But Transferred Thousands From Her House Campaign

US Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on "Oversight of the Department of Justice" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on February 11, 2026. Congressional Democrats accused US Attorney General Pam Bondi of engaging in a "cover-up" of the Jeffrey Epstein files and turning the Justice Department into a weapon of retribution for President Donald Trump. Bondi, testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, defended the department's handling of the records about the convicted sex offender at a fiery hearing attended by a number of Epstein's victims. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List

Midterms 2026

AIPAC Is Flooding Illinois With Cash. Pro-Palestine Groups Are Backing Kat Abughazaleh.

Voices

Americans Want Accountability With the Epstein Files. Elites Couldn’t Care Less.

Dylan Gyauch-Lewis

Justice

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 24: A person kneels near the site where 37-year-old Alex Pretti was allegedly shot and killed by federal agents on January 24, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Federal agents allegedly shot and killed Pretti, a south Minneapolis resident, amid a scuffle to arrest him. The Trump administration has sent a reported 3,000 federal agents into the area, with more on the way, as they make a push to arrest undocumented immigrants in the region. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.

Chilling Dissent

Trump Attacked Immigrant Food Aid in Minnesota. Locals Fought Back.

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES September 10: Extinction Rebellion activists hold a banner outside CBS Studios in New York City during a demonstration accusing the network of supporting a Trump-aligned bid for Paramount, which they called a threat to democracy and press freedom in New York, United States on September 10, 2025. (Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door

Jacqueline Sweet

Federal agents detain a protester in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 3, 2026. A US judge on January 31, 2026 denied Minnesota's bid to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to suspend its sweeping detention and deportation operation in the state that has left two US citizens dead and fueled massive protests. Masked and heavily armed federal agents have swept through Minnesota communities seeking undocumented migrants, detaining thousands and shooting dead two US citizens in the process. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP via Getty Images) / ALTERNATE CROP

Unmasking ICE

Marine Detained in Minneapolis Says Feds Copied His Phone Without a Warrant

Austin Campbell

National Security

Screenshot from a video U.S. Southern Command posted on X on Dec. 31, 2025, to announce an attack the day prior.

U.S. Sent a Rescue Plane for Boat Strike Survivors. It Took 45 Hours to Arrive.

Tomi McCluskey, Nick Turse

Air Force Maintenance Staff Can’t Stop Buying Fancy Knives With Tax Dollars

Austin Campbell

U.S. Border Patrol patrol along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, near the Paso del Norte International Bridge, seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026.

Officials Dispute Trump Explanation of El Paso Airspace Closure: “There Was Not a Threat”

Chilling Dissent

Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers

Jessica Washington

World

By Slashing Foreign Aid, Trump Is Fueling the Spread of HIV in Uganda

Steven W. Thrasher, Afeef Nessouli

An American Citizen Has Been Stuck in El Salvador’s Prison System Since the Biden Administration

An aerial view of the burial in mass graves of 111 Palestinians who died due to Israeli attacks in Khan Yunis, the occupied Gaza Strip, on Nov. 22, 2023.

Israel’s War on Gaza

Israeli Military Found Gaza Health Ministry Death Toll Was Accurate. Will These Deniers Admit It?

Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York, during a Bloomberg Television interview at City Hall in New York, US, on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. Mamdani is amping up pressure on Governor Kathy Hochul to hike taxes for the richest residents and corporations, asking the state to send billions more in aid to New York City as he faces mounting budget holes. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Israel’s War on Gaza

Zohran Mamdani Wants NYC to Divest From Israel — But New Comptroller Pledges to Buy War Bonds

Technology

An entrance to Bellevue Hospital is seen in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020.

Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars From New York City’s Public Hospitals

Kristi Noem, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, speaks at the border with Mexico Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, in Nogales, Ariz.

The War on Immigrants

Lawmakers Call on Meta to Stop Running ICE Ad Featuring Neo-Nazi Anthem

Austin Campbell

A finger hovers above an iPhone displaying an image of a fingerprint on February 18, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

Washington Post Raid Is a Frightening Reminder: Turn Off Your Phone’s Biometrics Now

Apple CEO Tim Cook departs a business leaders reception with President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2026.

Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti

Environment

People demonstrate during a protest against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park, California on March 1, 2025. The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) estimates 1,000 US National Park Service employees who were on one-year probationary periods were laid off. About 3,400 employees of the US Forest Service were among the cuts too, according to multiple US media reports. The cuts were part of the work of the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire Elon Musk, as part of a declared effort to reduce public spending by dismantling the federal bureaucracy. (Photo by Laure Andrillon / AFP) (Photo by LAURE ANDRILLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Admin “Deliberately” Tanking Morale to Get Parks Staff to Quit, Official Says in Leaked Tape

A serpentine river near Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska on September 11, 2022.

Climate Crimes

Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies

The new US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shakes hands with US President Donald Trump after a swearing in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

MAHA Slams “Corporate Capture” by Food and Pharma Giants — While Trump Strips Regulations

Jessica Washington

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 29: Members of the Sunrise Movement are arrested as they protest outside the Senate office of Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Capitol Hill on July 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Sunrise Movement, a climate change political action group, held signs accusing Vance of being in the pocket of big oil companies. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

Sunrise Movement, Founded to Fight Climate Change, Pivots to Fighting Trump