Marimar Martinez, Chicago woman shot 5 times by federal agent, to testify at Washington hearing The April 22 Homeland Security Committee hearing will mark the first official testimony for Martinez, who demands that federal agents be held accountable for her shooting.

Marimar Martinez, Chicago woman shot 5 times by federal agent, to testify at Washington hearing

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Cuban man dies by suicide in ICE detention in Miami — the second in Florida in a month At least nine immigrants have died of presumed suicides since President Donald Trump assumed office in January 2025.

Cuban man dies by suicide in ICE detention in Miami — the second in Florida in a month
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ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

ICE agents arrested an 85-year-old widow in her nightgown at her late husband’s home and a county probate judge overseeing his estate says that one of his sons was responsible for the arrest. Nick Bogel-Burroughs @porterthereport.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

Opinion | A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality

This is what corporate responsibility is: prosecution for paying Syrian terrorists to keep a plant going, money that finances attacks on civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/o...

What the U.S. Blockade Means for Iran’s Economy

My latest: What the U.S. Blockade Means for Iran’s Economy. Iran will definitely be poorer, but not necessarily less dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/b...

Trump’s Erratic Behavior and Extreme Comments Revive Mental Health Debate

A series of disjointed, hard-to-follow and sometimes-profane comments capped by threatening to wipe out Iran and attacking the pope have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power and revived the debate about Trump's mental health. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

How Iran, Suffering Under Sanctions, Diversified Its Economy

For nearly 50 years, Iran has been treated as an outlaw, earning a spot as one of the most heavily sanctioned countries in the world. Still, we found that the country had managed to keep doing business with much of the world. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b...

Fallout of War Piles Economic Pain Onto Europe’s Political Stress

Fallout from the war is piling on the pain, and giving Europe a "Mean Girls" moment. The United States, its closest BFF, is repeatedly threatening to break up.

Trump stepped up the name calling. In Mean Girls-speak, it’s like calling Europe fat."

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Opinion | Is It 1914 in America?

Very insightful piece on what today's leaders don't understand now that they've started a war. We are in a culture that "has increasingly ceded authority to systems that mistake information for understanding and speed for judgment." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

States Pay Deloitte, Others Millions To Comply With Trump Law To Cut Medicaid Rolls - KFF Health News The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will add red tape and restrictions for those seeking Medicaid and SNAP benefits. And the costs to update computer systems that determine eligibility for those programs w...

In case you’re wondering who is getting rich from GOP decision to purge millions from Medicaid: kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Refine and dandy: Iran’s war bounty Also on the daily podcast: Crushing India’s Maoists and understanding understudies

Iran’s oil earnings have nearly doubled since the war began. “The Intelligence” explains how years of sanctions-dodging prepared the country to profit from a war against it. Listen now

For the Global Economy, ‘All Roads Lead to Higher Prices and Slower Growth’

My latest -- For the Global Economy, ‘All Roads Lead to Higher Prices and Slower Growth’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/w...

Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack Morgan Stanley wealth manager approached BlackRock about multimillion-dollar investment for US defence secretary

Pretty shocking even for this administration: Hegseth's broker looking to buy defense stocks before Iran attacks. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Opinion | The Old Man Dreaming Up Wars for Young Men to Fight Any deal with Iran would probably be a bad one. But sending ground troops to seize Iranian territory would be an even worse choice.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“For all the uncertainties, one truth I feel deeply from having seen war up close: Old men should not fix their messes by dispatching young people to die in unnecessary wars,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes.

"The president's case against wind are literally the rantings of an old man. I've seen grandpa Simpson make more sense."

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

Are Higher Energy Prices Here to Stay?

On the Daily, I expain why higher energy prices might be here for longer than you think. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/p...

War’s Attacks on Energy Could Turn Economic Shock Into Long-Term Damage

My latest -- The attacks this past week shows how a relatively weak Iran can still exert enormous leverage over the global economy. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/b...

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

The Trump admin keeps insisting that a lot of the accusations in the Epstein Files were baseless, and surely some were.

But the FBI held FOUR different interviews with one of Trump's accusers and then SIX more with another accuser, which suggests the agents thought *these* women were on the level.

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service."

Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself.

A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing traders to buy the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in case tariffs were struck down. trib.al/be2l16x

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Opinion | The Former British Prince and the Very American Outrage At least monarchies have developed limits on arbitrary power.

In Opinion

“No one is likely to mistake contemporary Britain for a model democracy,” Fintan O’Toole writes. “And yet it is in Britain that some semblance of justice for the women and girls so ruthlessly exploited by Mr. Epstein’s network of well-connected men may be finally beginning to emerge.”

‘Murky Waters’ for Global Businesses After Trump’s Tariff Loss

My latest - ‘Murky Waters’ for Global Businesses After Trump’s Tariff Loss www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Opinion | Britain’s Jewel-Encrusted Shell of Privilege Has Been Thoroughly Breached

Interesting take on how in Britain's case, a monarchy is subject to democratic norms of justice than the US www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

Congressman Jamie Raskin just conducted an unannounced oversight visit to an ICE facility — and what he witnessed raises serious questions.

Dozens of men were packed shoulder-to-shoulder in a single room with one toilet, no showers, and aluminum foil blankets — despite a massive federal budget.

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

Disgusting. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

ICE officers claimed they shot a Venezuelan man out of self-defense. Today, that case has been dismissed and those officers are under investigation for lying under oath—according to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. trib.al/RRdaWwU

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