Favorite Megan Wallace had just been booked at the St. Johns County Jail in St. Augustine, Florida, when she started hearing gossip about its most notorious resident. Michelle Taylor had allegedly set fire to her own house in 2018, killing her 11-year-old son. The motive was insurance money. Everyone at the jail seemed disgusted by…
Favorite In partnership with This investigation, conducted by Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, is part of the Gaza Project, a collaboration involving over 40 journalists from 12 organizations coordinated by Forbidden Stories. The image of Al Jazeera cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi lying motionless on the pavement quickly spread among journalists in Gaza. His press vest is…
Favorite Ten months before U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested Mahmoud Khalil in the lobby of his Manhattan apartment building, Columbia University suspended the Palestinian graduate student. The suspension lasted only one day before Columbia — with an apology from the university president’s office, Khalil later said — rescinded the suspension and dropped the…
Favorite Beside sheer brutality, there is a clear strategic reason that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents quickly whisked Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil out of New York City last weekend. It’s the reason he was first transported to New Jersey, then to a private detention center in Louisiana. And it’s why the Trump administration is fighting…
Favorite Protesters demonstrate in front of police along the perimeter of the Columbia University campus in NYC on April 30, 2024. Photo: Melissa Bender/NurPhoto via AP Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on Gaza. In early November 2023,…
Favorite Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” spent the first month of the second Trump presidency ransacking federal agencies — and racking up more than a dozen lawsuits challenging its structure, operations, and power. In response, both Musk and President Donald Trump attacked judges that dare to apply legal scrutiny to DOGE and flirted with…
Favorite When President Donald Trump issued an executive order threatening to deport international students involved in pro-Palestine protests, advocates expressed immediate concern that the move would target demonstrators — particularly Muslim and Arab students — for engaging in activity protected by the First Amendment. Some members of the Columbia University community, however, leapt at the…
Favorite Amid anger and protest over the Trump administration’s plan to deport millions of immigrants, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to monitor and locate “negative” social media discussion about the agency and its top officials, according to contract documents reviewed by The Intercept. Citing an increase in threats to ICE agents and leadership, the…
Favorite The FBI was not pleased. There were mentions of the agency in documents connected to an upcoming forensics conference that it deemed disparaging. So in the weeks before President Donald Trump took office and issued an executive order barring censorship by federal government employees, the FBI set out to do just that. In mid-December,…
Favorite 1 Fighting Crime With Science As a teenager, Dr. Susan Walsh loved the TV show “The X-Files.” She was particularly drawn to the character of Dana Scully, a hyper-rational doctor-cum-FBI agent who brought a scientist’s skepticism to investigations of paranormal phenomena and deployed her medical training to determine cause of death for the show’s…
