Democrat Candidates Election 2020

When two world leaders were caught on a hot mic having a bizarre conversation about living forever, the news agency Reuters realized it was a big story. Reuters reported on and aired the footage of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping discussing organ transplantation as a means of life extension and perhaps immortality during…

In an exchange this week on “All-In Podcast,” Alex Karp was on the defensive. The Palantir CEO used the appearance to downplay and deny the notion that his company would engage in rights-violating in surveillance work. “We are the single worst technology to use to abuse civil liberties, which is by the way the reason…

Democratic lawmakers are blasting a controversial Gaza aid group funded by the U.S. government for tapping armed members of a motorcycle club that one legislator called an “Islamophobic hate group.” Sen. Pete Welch, D-Vt., and Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., said in statements that they were outraged that a contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation employed…

Maryam walked for two hours through the streets of Gaza, reciting verses of protection from the Quran. She was hunting for a faint internet connection. Under a sky choked with smoke and dust, Maryam wound through roads converted to sprawling tent camps and long lines of children waiting for food, until she arrived at an…

The Trump administration’s war on immigrants is expanding. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday confirmed its deportation operations would ramp up in Chicago and other major U.S. cities in the coming weeks. When the new fiscal year kicks in October 1, Immigration Customs and Enforcement can begin tapping billions in new funds from President…

When the city of Seattle contacted Fusus, one of the nation’s leading police surveillance tech companies, in 2023, a company exec did more than just send over a brochure — he offered to connect Seattle with a “peer” in Atlanta’s police department who was familiar with the company’s products. This kicked off months of communication…

Lawyers for an Idaho death row prisoner accused the state of failing to disclose important details about its execution drugs and blocking mandated depositions. Idaho prevented attorneys from obtaining information critical to death row prisoner Gerald Pizzuto Jr.’s legal defense, his lawyers wrote in a previously unreported filing last week. Discovery in the case is…

In the latest party turmoil over Israel’s war on Gaza, Democratic National Committee members voted on Tuesday to kill a resolution calling on the U.S. to halt arms sales to Israel. “As we approach 2026, it’s not going to go away.” The resolution had been met with resistance from DNC Chair Ken Martin, despite polls…

EGyptian government employees wielding a chain and stick detained and assaulted a 22-year-old man and his 15-year-old brother at the Egyptian Mission to the United Nations during a pro-Palestine protest in New York on Wednesday, the brothers’ parents told The Intercept. The New York City Police Department then arrested the two brothers on assault charges,…