The National Guard Knows Its Armories Have Dangerous Lead Contamination, Putting Kids and Soldiers At Risk

Nick Turse

An Intercept investigation reveals that the Army National Guard has known about poisonous lead dust at armories open to the public for years, but is doing little to respond.
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Paging the Hague: Israel’s Exploding Electronics Might Be War Crimes

Jonah Valdez

Experts on international law pointed to the indiscriminate nature of the blasts in Lebanon and the prohibition on booby traps.
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Israeli Soldiers Killed 15 Protesters in the Same Place They Shot Aysenur Eygi

Jonah Valdez

Since 2021, Israeli soldiers have met weekly protests in the West Bank village with deadly force.
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There Are So Many Armed Cops on Subways That Now They’re Shooting Each Other

Natasha Lennard

A police shooting that injured three people and one officer is the result of New York Mayor Eric Adams’s enforcement-first mentality.
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Pegasus Spyware Victims Ask U.K. Police to Charge Shadowy NSO Group

Georgia Gee

So far, no one has been able to hold the notorious Israeli spyware firm accountable for complicity in human rights abuses.
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Most of the World Agrees Israel’s Occupation of Palestine Must End. The U.S. Is Fine With It.

Jonah Valdez

The United States voted against a U.N. resolution that sets a 12-month timeframe to end Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza.
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A Brief History of Booby-Trapping Electronics to Blow Up

Nikita Mazurov

Israel’s attack that turned pagers belonging to Hezbollah members into explosive devices is shocking — but not unprecedented.
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