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Earlier this month, President Donald Trump made a suggestion that landed on a key part of his far-right coalition like a sucker punch. Referring to negotiations over the Affordable Care Act, he urged House Republicans to be “a little bit flexible” on the…

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration’s new dietary guidelines urging Americans to eat far more meat and dairy products will, if followed, come…

Over the last few weeks, Minneapolis has looked like a city under siege. The Trump administration has sent roughly 3,000 federal agents to Minnesota in what Todd Lyons, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has called the “largest…

This story was originally published by Popular Information, a substack publication to which you can subscribe here. During the second Trump administration, the population of migrants held at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities has…

This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Senate passed a limited spending package on Thursday that will largely fund several science- and land-related agencies,…

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Russian authorities have detained an Indigenous climate advocate, accusing her of participating in a terrorist organization in what…

As the Trump administration’s deportation campaign continues to bring fear and upheaval to Minneapolis, more immigrants are sharing their stories of detainment and harsh treatment when being apprehended at their homes, while driving, and at work. Tensions…

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, US Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Shannon Bream that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is not, nor are they planning to, investigate Jonathan Ross—the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot and…

This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Maurice Manishimwe runs a small garage beside a fuel station in Musango village, just outside the Rwandan capital of Kigali, in a nation…

As President Donald Trump wraps up the first year of his second term—one marked by US aggression abroad and rising political violence at home—a wave of new polls released this week shows him and his policies at remarkably high, and in some cases record,…