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Over 30 former military officers and individuals working in tech sent a letter to congressional leadership expressing concern over the Pentagon-Anthropic dispute and asking for lawmakers to take action to reign in executive power and set AI guardrails.
Virginia Democrats passed a controversial bill requiring schools teach students that Jan. 6 was a violent insurrection and banning election fraud claims in classrooms.
Before Trump tapped Markwayne Mullin to be the next DHS secretary, the Oklahoma senator had several notable news moments.
The startling claim came amid a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Apparently, reporting on Iran isn't journalism. It's making Trump look bad.
DHS is producing viral content out of immigration raids. Real sources are going quiet. Journalist Maria Hinojosa tells The Metro what that costs a democracy.
Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) voted against Republicans’ bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security with no restrictions to rein in ICE’s abuses of power.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is using a variety of tools to surveil folks they want to intimidate and apprehend. That web helps federal agents find people to deport. But it also allows them to identify U.S. citizens who criticize the federal government and its policies.NPR has compiled dozens of stories of people caught up in the surveillance web. Some were monitoring ICE activities and found themselves in interactions with agents who identify them by their names and home addresses. NPR’s Scott Detrow talks with Meg Anderson and Jude Joffe-Block who have been collecting the stories, and tracking ICE’s surveillance tactics.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at [email protected] from NPR’s Kat Lonsdorf contributed to this story. This episode was produced by Gabriel Sanchez and Karen Zamora, with audio engineering by Ted Mebane. It was edited by Alina Hartounian, John Ketchum and Sarah Handel.Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.
Andrew Paul Johnson, authorities said, tried to keep one of his victims mum by floating the promise of money he was expecting to receive from the Justice Department.
Cocaine trafficking was a transparent excuse for attacking Venezuela. President Donald Trump ordered the midnight raid and seizure of the country’s president because he sought a bigger prize, not because
Mullin’s potential ascension will have significant implications for future U.S. elections.
The administration has been prickly in the first week of its war with Iran.