Entire Chain of Command Could Be Held Liable for Killing Boat Strike Survivors, Sources Say

Nick Turse

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s actions could spark investigations for war crimes or outright murder, sources told The Intercept.
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Legalized Takings: The Land Grab That Killed Donald Scott

Collateral Damage, Radley Balko

Donald Scott was killed in his home by an ad hoc team of raiding cops who were looking for marijuana — but the larger prize may have been his 200-acre Malibu ranch.
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Border Patrol Raided Arizona Medical Aid Site With No Warrant, Showing Growing “Impunity”

Ryan Devereaux

The raid on humanitarian aid providers on the U.S.–Mexico divide late last month was the first where Border Patrol entered structures without a warrant.
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Trump Frees Ex-President of Honduras, Right-Wing “Narco-Dictator” Convicted of Drug Trafficking

Jared Olson, Noah Hurowitz

Juan Orlando Hernández received a pardon for drug trafficking. Trump is threatening to oust Nicolás Maduro over similar allegations.
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Bipartisan House Resolution Seeks to Block Trump War With Venezuela

Matt Sledge

The war powers legislation would prohibit Trump from launching “hostilities within or against Venezuela” without congressional approval.
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Trump Wants to Make African Countries Share Abortion Data to Get AIDS Funding

Jessica Washington

An aid agreement template would require countries to share vast amounts of health data, including on abortion, to receive funds to combat HIV and other infectious diseases.
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Department of War Disputes Second Attack on Boat Strike Survivors Was a “Double-Tap”

Nick Turse

“Quibbling over the semantics of ‘double-tap’ doesn’t change the reality that the strike was a summary execution of men clinging to the remains of a boat.”
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“Real” America Is Turning Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Regime

Alain Stephens

Everyday Americans in Appalachia and the Southeast show that resisting ICE is becoming the rule, rather than the exception.
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Trump Gutted AIDS Health Care at the Worst Possible Time

Steven W. Thrasher, Afeef Nessouli

By the first World AIDS Day of his second term, Trump gutted LGBTQ+ employment globally and put humanity at greater risk of AIDS.
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Legalizing Cocaine Is the Only Way to End the Drug War

Mattha Busby

The war on drugs has failed, and Trump’s deadly boat strikes are only doubling down on decades of failed policy.
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