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“Tell the World What’s Happening Here,” Say Patients in Gaza

Dr. Mohammed Khaleel recounts his experience serving patients, mostly children and young adults with blasts injuries and bullet wounds.

“Little Home Market”: The Connecticut Company Accused of Fueling an Execution Spree

Lauren Gill, Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Evidence points to Absolute Standards as the source of a lethal drug the Trump administration used to restart federal executions after 17 years.

Former President Donald Trump, left, listens as Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., speaks at a campaign event at the South Carolina Statehouse, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House Responds to Israeli-Iranian Missile Exchange by Taking Rights Away From Americans

Murtaza Hussain

A measure passed by the House seeks to block Americans from traveling to Iran on U.S. passports.

Burkina Faso soldiers take part in the annual US-led Flintlock military training closing ceremony hosted by the Internationl Counter-Terrorism Academy, in Jacqueville, on March 14, 2023. (Photo by Issouf SANOGO / AFP) (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S.-Trained Burkina Faso Military Executed 220 Civilians

The Intercept Announces Ben Muessig as Interim Editor-in-Chief

Amherst, MA - October 25: UMass students march across campus following a walkout at University of Massachusetts Amherst and a rally against, "UMass Amherst's ties with war profiteers and call for a ceasefire and end of the blockade on Gaza". (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

“Kill All Arabs”: The Feds Are Investigating UMass Amherst for Anti-Palestinian Bias

Intercepted

Biden’s Indifference to Palestinian Lives Is Sending the Middle East Into the Abyss

Podcasts

Deconstructed

“Tell the World What’s Happening Here,” Say Patients in Gaza

Intercepted

Biden’s Indifference to Palestinian Lives Is Sending the Middle East Into the Abyss

Voices

Vanishing Planet Earth with Political Borders (Kosovo not depicted as an independent state)

Voices

Israel Attack on Iran Is What World War III Looks Like

Ken Klippenstein, Daniel Boguslaw

Voices

Forget a Ban — Why Are Journalists Using TikTok in the First Place?

Politics

President Joe Biden greets digital content creators, Tuesday, October 25, 2022, on the Navy Steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

As Biden Cheers TikTok Ban, White House Embraces TikTok Influencers

Ken Klippenstein, Daniel Boguslaw

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 28: Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) talks to reporters following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on February 28, 2023 in Washington, DC. Schumer talked about how he and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) lead a congressional delegation to Germany, India, Pakistan, and Israel during last week's Congressional recess. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Chuck Schumer Privately Warns Pakistan: Don’t Kill Imran Khan in Prison

Ryan Grim, Murtaza Hussain

NYPD officers detain a person as pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside of Columbia University in New York City on April 18, 2024. Officers cleared out a pro-Palestinian campus demonstration on April 18, a day after university officials testified about anti-Semitism before Congress. Leaders of Columbia University defended the prestigious New York school's efforts to combat anti-Semitism on campus at a fiery congressional hearing on April 17. (Photo by Kena Betancur / AFP) (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Columbia Law School Faculty Condemn Administration for Mass Arrests and Suspensions

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., holds a small Israel flag as he heads to the chamber for a vote, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Since October, Sen. John Fetterman Has Been Building a Roster of Republican Donors

Justice

Esperanza Treviño, 77, mother of Melissa Lucio, pleas to the public as she is surrounded by family and friends on the steps of the Cameron County Courthouse Administrative entrance in Brownsville, Texas, on Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, that her daughter is innocent and was wrongfully sentenced to death for the murder of Lucio's 2-year-old daughter, Mariah. A 2008 conviction by a Cameron County, Texas jury found Lucio guilty of capital murder. (Miguel Roberts/The Brownsville Herald via AP)

A Prosecutor Asked Texas to Kill Melissa Lucio. Now He Says She Should Be Freed.

Liliana Segura, Jordan Smith

This photo taken on November 9, 2020 in Graz, Austria, shows the Liga Kulturverein, where a police raid, dubbed Operation Luxor, took place in the early morning. - Austrian police launched raids on more than 60 addresses allegedly linked to radical Islamists in four different regions on November 9, with orders given for 30 suspects to be questioned, prosecutors said. The Styria region prosecutors' office said in a statement it was "carrying out investigations against more than 70 suspects and against several associations which are suspected of belonging to and supporting the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas organisations". (Photo by ERWIN SCHERIAU / APA / AFP) / Austria OUT (Photo by ERWIN SCHERIAU/APA/AFP via Getty Images)

Lawsuit Links Wild UAE-Financed Smear Campaign to George Washington University

Murtaza Hussain

FILE - A sign reading "My body, my Choice," is taped to a hanger taped to a streetlight in front of the Idaho State Capitol Building on May 3, 2022. The Idaho Supreme Court ruled on Friday, Aug. 12, that the state's strict abortion bans will be allowed to take effect while legal challenges over the laws play out in court. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

The End of Roe

Idaho Goes to the Supreme Court to Argue That Pregnant People Are Second-Class Citizens

Patients, infertility doctors and advocates of IVF attend a rally outside the Alabama State House on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024 in Montgomery, Ala. The rally was organized at the Alabama State Capitol to decry the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are considered children, which led to the suspension of IVF treatments in the state. (Stew Milne/AP Images for RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association)

Voices

Pro-Lifers Are Up Against a Real-Life Crisis

National Security

Protesters gather as a man holds up a sign demanding that soldiers from the United States Army leave Niger without negotiation during a demonstration in Niamey, on April 13, 2024. Thousands of people demonstrated on April 13, 2024 in Niger's capital Niamey to demand the immediate departure of American soldiers based in northern Niger, after the military regime said it was withdrawing from a 2012 cooperation deal with Washington. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

U.S. Troops in Niger Say They’re “Stranded” and Can’t Get Mail, Medicine

ERBIL, IRAQ - APRIL 14: A fragment of a missile fall on an empty field during the Iranian airstrikes against Israel in Soran district of Erbil, Iraq on April 14, 2024. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)

U.S., Not Israel, Shot Down Most Iran Drones and Missiles

Ken Klippenstein, Daniel Boguslaw

Israel’s War on Gaza

Israel and Israel Alone Kicked Off This Escalation — In a Bid to Drag U.S. Into War With Iran

Murtaza Hussain

240405-N-NF288-071 PHILIPPINE SEA (April 5, 2024) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) launches a Standard Missile 2 during a live-fire exercise in the Philippine Sea, April 5. Ralph Johnson is forward deployed and assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest DESRON and the U.S. 7th fleet’s principal surface force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jamaal Liddell)

Israel Conflict Spreads to 16 Nations as Biden Admin Says There’s No War

Ken Klippenstein, Daniel Boguslaw

World

DIMONA, ISRAEL - AUGUST 25: A unit of newly-deployed Patriot anti-missile missiles stands near Israel's nuclear research reactor August 25, 2002 at Dimona in the Negev desert, Israel. Military officials called the exercise of deploying the units routine. (Photo by Nadav Neuhaus/Getty Images)

The Secret U.S. Alliance That Defended Israel From Iran Attack

Daniel Boguslaw, Ken Klippenstein

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 18: NYPD officers guard the entrance to the New York Times as Pro-Palestine activists march as they participate in a Global Strike for Gaza on December 18, 2023 in New York City, New York. Activists gathered at Grand Central Station before marching as they continued to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. The protest convened just as the UN Security Council canceled an upcoming vote calling for a cessation of hostilities in Gaza as they try to change the language of the resolution to meet the US objections to the wording of the draft resolution saying they cannot support a “cessation of hostilities," but would agree to a call for a “suspension of hostilities." (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

New York Times Brass Moves to Stanch Leaks Over Gaza Coverage

Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim

A view of an empty United Nations Security Council ahead of a meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including Iran's recent attack on Israel, at UN headquarters in New York City on April 14, 2024. World leaders urged restraint on April 14 after Israel came under an unprecedented attack from Iranian drones and missiles that drew widespread condemnation and sparked fears of a broader conflict. The UN Security Council emergency meeting was requested by Israel. (Photo by Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood

Ken Klippenstein, Daniel Boguslaw

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 14: Pro-Palestine protesters flood the lobby of the New York Times offices and block the security entrances during an action criticizing the newspaper's coverage of the Israel-Hamas war on March 14, 2024 in New York City. The protest lasted nearly two hours and resulted in approximately 100 arrests. (Photo by Michael Nigro/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Israel’s War on Gaza

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”

Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim

Technology

Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military

Israel’s War on Gaza

Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List”

IT specialist Mario Haustein works on a computer with the operating system Linux at the computer center of the Technical University in Chemnitz, Germany, 8'March 2017. Many software applications of the TU'run on Linux-based systems. Thousands of guests from all over Europe are expected at the 19th Chemnitz Linux Days (11 - 12 March). Photo by: Jan Woitas/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

The Other Players Who Helped (Almost) Make the World’s Biggest Backdoor Hack

NEW YORK, USA - MARCH 22: State troopers are seen at the Grand Central Terminal in New York City, United States on March 22, 2020. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Congress Has a Chance to Rein In Police Use of Surveillance Tech

Environment

Razafihanta Flogone, 38, poses for a portrait inside her home in Ambinanibe in Fort-Dauphin, Madagascar, on July 11, 2023. Her husband Randriamanjaka Zeze used to fish where the port built by QMM is now located. They had to find new places to fish and she took on weaving to help support her family.

Rio Tinto’s Madagascar Mine Promised Prosperity. It Tainted a Community.

The entrance to Miami Seaquarium is seen, Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Miami. An unlikely coalition of a theme park owner, animal rights group and NFL owner-philanthropist announced Thursday that a plan is in place to return Lolita, an orca that has lived at the Miami Seaquarium for more than 50 years, to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest. (Alie Skowronski/Miami Herald via AP)

Federal Probes, Sick Animals, and Fed-Up Vets: The Miami Seaquarium Is on the Brink of Collapse

FILE - Cleanup of a creek is underway in the aftermath of a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, March 8, 2023. The Biden administration is initiating a formal evaluation of risks posed by vinyl chloride, the cancer-causing chemical that burned in a towering plume of toxic black smoke following a fiery train derailment earlier this year in eastern Ohio. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Vinyl Chloride Industry Keeps Expanding Despite East Palestine Disaster

Schuyler Mitchell

Gov. Jeff Landry speaks during the start of the special session in the House Chamber on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, in Baton Rouge, La. Landry called for the special session only a few hours after taking office. (Michael Johnson/The Advocate via AP, Pool)

“Certainly Intimidation”: Louisiana Sues EPA for Emails With Journalists and Cancer Alley Residents

Delaney Nolan, Oliver Laughland