Native nation says border wall disturbs sacred sites. A court will decide what happens next
For more than six years, the Tohono O’odham Nation has battled the Department of Homeland Security over its efforts to build a border wall between Arizona and Mexico. Now, the Nation is filing a lawsuit and seeking an injunction against the department in hopes of halting the project, part of President Donald Trump’s long-promised barricade […]
Woman exposed to hantavirus wants to go home. RFK Jr. ordered her quarantined against her will
A federal quarantine order is putting Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the center of a public health and civil liberties fight. The Wall Street Journal reported that Kennedy ordered Florida resident Angela Perryman to remain in federal quarantine in Nebraska after her possible exposure to the Andes strain of hantavirus on a cruise […]
News leader Maritza Félix on covering immigration in Arizona
Since President Donald Trump’s return to office, immigration enforcement in the United States has accelerated sharply, creating new and serious obstacles for journalists covering these policy impacts on local communities. The Committee to Protect Journalists has documented the use of immigration authorities to target reporters, including journalists who were in the country legally at the […]
These 6 foreign journalists have been denied entry by Israel
When French journalist Alice Froussard landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport a week ago, she arrived with a valid travel authorization and plans to report from the occupied West Bank, where she had worked for years. By the next morning, Israeli authorities placed her on a flight back to Paris, denying her entry. She […]
Could the UK’s ban on social media lead kids to worse dangers?
If there’s a will, there’s a way. The United Kingdom is finding that out as children across the nation search for ways to circumvent a potential social media ban for children under 16. The proposed ban aims to protect children online, and research has shown that the overuse of social media and phones negatively affects […]
Peter Thiel’s ‘Dialog’ network was super-secret. A data leak changed that
Twenty years ago, the tech billionaire Peter Thiel and an associate founded Dialog, an invitation-only network of elites from business, academia and politics. Dialog was so secretive that it never had a public-facing website, and its participants were never identified to outsiders. Until now. Data related to Dialog, which Thiel created with the Silicon Valley […]
Missouri targets baby monitor company over China ties
A company that sells baby monitors around the U.S. continues to face backlash for its ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Lorex Technology is a major manufacturer of those monitors, but was previously owned by a Chinese company. The company faces several lawsuits from other states, but the most recent one comes from the […]
Federal data center rules expire in September and the US has no alternative
It doesn’t matter which political party a person says they belong to; if asked, there’s a good chance that person has a negative opinion of data centers, according to recent surveys. The feeling often stems from the potential environmental effects and the strain the facility might place on local infrastructure. Since 2023, the Federal Data […]
Why some say the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger creates a monopoly
When the Justice Department’s antitrust division announced last week that Paramount Skydance could proceed with its $111 billion bid to acquire rival Warner Bros. Discovery, federal regulators made a bold claim about the future of television. The deal could give billionaire David Ellison — an ally of President Donald Trump — a striking degree of […]
