ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

Sahan’s analysis of court records and federal deportation data represents the most thorough accounting yet of the Minnesota children detained during Operation Metro Surge.

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The Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan Amid Trump’s war in Iran and an exodus of intelligence staffers, Sebastian Gorka has asserted that a blueprint for fighting terror threats is “imminent” — but has not released it. Iranian threats have refocused attention on the lack of a doctrine.

NEW: Amid Trump’s war in Iran and an exodus of intelligence staffers, Sebastian Gorka has asserted that a blueprint for fighting terror threats is “imminent” — but has not released it. Iranian threats have refocused attention on the lack of a doctrine.

Trump Pardoned a Nursing Home Owner Who Owed Almost $19 Million to a Grieving Family Stories about pardons are often about presidential power. But what about people on the other side of that grace? The Coulson family may never receive millions from a wrongful death lawsuit it won years ago.

NEW: Stories about pardons are often told as stories about presidential power — who had access, who persuaded a president to intervene. But what drew reporter Jeremy Kohler to this story was the people on the other side of that act of grace.

I can’t wait to read your fiction, Anne!

I taught a class on fiction with real-life characters in my MFA program (a sign, perhaps, of how my heart was already turning to nonfiction…?), and it featured these stories and I think Ragtime — but the fact that I’m not sure of the other main text is telling. 🙃

They are wonderfully destabilizing! Hard to shake ‘em, even years after last reading.

Are you open to short stories? The first that came to mind are Angela Carter’s “The Fall River Ax Murders” and “The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe”

As floodwaters rise, Michigan infrastructure on brink: Dams need $1B in repairs - Bridge Michigan Climate change and delayed improvements to the state’s infrastructure could come to roost, as rivers threaten to overtop century-old dams.

" ... some two-thirds of Michigan’s 2,600 dams have exceeded their intended lifespan of 50 years. ... many weren’t built to withstand modern floods.

"Michigan law doesn’t require them to do so."

3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town? Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weird...

One of the purported developers "said he regrets not reading the fine print.

“'Every time I’ve done that, I’m like, you know what, gahhh, why do I get screwed? Next time I’m going to read through everything,' he said." 😱

3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town? Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weird...

"He told me Prestige was named after the fictional do-nothing company in the Will Ferrell comedy 'Step Brothers.'"

"'It’s just stupid,' he said. 'I’m not like some big serious whatever.'”

This type is bone-chillingly familiar to everyone living in a disinvested shrinking city.

By Molly Parker:

Reminds me of ...

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Ownership disputes, aging design add to Cheboygan dam’s failure threat - Bridge Michigan Federal officials have repeatedly told the owner of a nonfunctioning hydro plant connected to the dam to bring it back online, but the company has not done so. Now, state officials are scrambling to r...

Ownership disputes, aging design add to Cheboygan dam’s failure threat

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Tennessee Lawmakers Pass Fix to School Threats Law After Kids Were Arrested for Jokes and Misunderstandings Tennessee lawmakers voted to change a controversial law so school officials will now only have to report threats they deem “credible.” It comes after an investigation by ProPublica and WPLN that showe...

Tennessee finally adjusted its school threats law, which had led children as young as 6 to be charged with felonies for jokes and rumors.

Once signed by the governor, the bill will require school officials to only report "credible" threats to police.
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Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record with daring moon flyby that included a solar eclipse The Artemis II astronauts have completed their record-breaking trip around the moon. Monday’s lunar journey comes after Artemis II surpassed Apollo 13’s distance record.

BREAKING: Artemis II completes record-breaking trip around the moon filled with lunar far side views and a total solar eclipse.

And now another reason not to touch the stuff: the strong possibility that you will end up plagiarizing, whether you know it or not. But it was the "that is going to go away" attitude that rankled the most. That's the tech credo: anything that takes time or I don't understand must be obsolete.

When I told him about The New Yorker's very human fact-checking process, he crowed that "a lot of that is going to go away." To which I said, NO, AI means we need MORE fact-checking, because AI has flooded the web with bullshit. It certainly can't be trusted to fact-check itself, or anything. /

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

Deepfaking Orson Welles’s Mangled Masterpiece Will an A.I. restoration of “The Magnificent Ambersons” right a historic wrong or desecrate a classic?

I told him that, for this piece, I went to the library and took out four or five books on Orson Welles. He balked, like I was from the Stone Age. I told him that not everything's online and I actually LIKE that part of the job. But more importantly - / www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The New York Times drops freelance journalist who used AI to write book review Writer and author Alex Preston said he “made a serious mistake” after a reader spotted similarities between his review and one that appeared in the Guardian

This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Ohio's FirstEnergy corruption case ends with hung jury • Ohio Capital Journal Summit County jurors were unable to reach a verdict on whether former FirstEnergy executives committed bribery in what's been called the largest public corruption scheme in Ohio history.

Summit County jurors were unable to reach a verdict on whether former FirstEnergy executives committed bribery in what’s been called the largest public corruption scheme in Ohio history. Ohio Atty Gen Dave Yost said the state will retry the case ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/31/f...

In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course. Pete Hoekstra once testified that “the market should dictate the price of steel, not the government.” But he now champions the Trump trade policies that are being linked to job losses in his former Mi...

On the anniversary of the "Liberation Day" tariffs, re-upping this:

"Pete Hoekstra once testified that 'the market should dictate the price of steel, not the government.' But he now champions the Trump trade policies that are being linked to job losses in his former Michigan district."

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch:

This is Victor. We are going for our families.
This is Christina. We are going for our teammates.
This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

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