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A pregnant woman and her 1-year-old baby, who died in an attack on a tent for displaced people, in Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, on March 19, 2025. Photo: Abdallah F.S. Alattar/Anadolu via Getty Images “Please, don’t put him in the fridge!” she said. “He can’t bear the cold.” Her voice cracked as she pleaded with…

Before signing its lucrative and controversial Project Nimbus deal with Israel, Google knew it couldn’t control what the nation and its military would do with the powerful cloud-computing technology, a confidential internal report obtained by The Intercept reveals. The report makes explicit the extent to which the tech giant understood the risk of providing state-of-the-art…

Americans know that the U.S. government and defense industry exports huge amounts of military goods to Israel — but they may not be aware that in some cases these shipments travel beside them. On Saturday afternoon, a cargo airplane carrying 14 tons of explosive materials bound for an Israeli weapons manufacturing company is expected to fly…

A $500 million lawsuit filed Monday in Washtenaw County Circuit Court is taking aim at the Michigan Department of Corrections, alleging that prison officials subjected hundreds of incarcerated women to illegal surveillance by recording them during strip searches, while showering, and even as they used the toilet.  The suit describes the violations as a profound…

Elon Musk may not be a great neighbor. You can read all about it in a New York Times article detailing what it’s like to reside in West Lake Hills, Texas, near the world’s wealthiest man. In a story describing issues with permits and ordinances at Musk’s property, the Times reveals various characteristics of the…

On Sunday morning, less than 24 hours after The Intercept reported on the issue, New York University School of Law walked back its demand that 31 pro-Palestine students give up their right to protest in order to sit for in-person final exams. The school had said that the students, under disciplinary investigation for participation in…

When a bomb threat coincided with a pro-Palestine student protest at Barnard College last month, the New York City Police Department arrested nine demonstrators. By the next day, local and national media had picked up the story. Some outlets suggested that the protesters were responsible for the threat. “Several Barnard College protesters in custody after…

Two months before she was supposed to go on trial for killing her child, Michelle Taylor stood before a Florida judge and listened quietly as the prosecutor recited the allegations against her. Taylor, 41, had long insisted she was not what the state made her out to be: a mother who set fire to her…