The leak of classified documents about preparations for an attack on Iran forced Israel to delay military action at a time of sky-high tensions in the Middle East, a federal prosecutor said as he sought to convince a judge to jail a CIA employee accused of violating the Espionage Act. Instead, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan […]
It was mid-afternoon on October 14 when Ayman Alsayed got the call. It was his brother, Diaa, on the phone from Gaza City, seven hours ahead of where Ayman was in the U.S. Diaa was OK, but there had been an airstrike on their family house in Jabalia. Some of their loved ones had been […]
The Biden administration is withholding federal funding from a climate justice group that supports a ceasefire in Gaza. The Climate Justice Alliance, a national coalition of more than 100 community environmental groups, was one of 11 grant-making organizations designated for Environmental Protection Agency funding under President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. The Climate Justice Alliance […]
Earlier this month, voters in California rolled back a number of criminal justice reforms on the ballot. Los Angeles ousted District Attorney George Gascón, who had been elected on pledges to end cash bail and prioritize violent crime. San Francisco reelected District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who oversaw a spike in crime in her first year […]
As the clock winds down on the Biden presidency, Democrats have a limited window to act. Come January 20, Republicans will control the executive branch and both houses of Congress. On this week’s episode of The Intercept Briefing, Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., acknowledges the need for swift action, particularly on the war in Gaza, prison […]
In an order on Friday, a federal court rejected OpenAI’s effort to toss a lawsuit filed by The Intercept over using its journalists’ work to train ChatGPT without permission or credit. One of The Intercept’s claims under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act will move forward against OpenAI, although another claim was dismissed, along with all […]
The nation’s largest private prison company, the GEO Group, has seen its stock soar in the weeks since Donald Trump’s election in anticipation of new contracts linked to mass deportation. Trump’s new choice for U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi, worked as GEO’s lobbyist as recently as 2019. Her list of corporate clients also includes Amazon, […]
In the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, Democrats and those on the left are grappling with what comes next. On The Intercept Briefing podcast this week, columnist Natasha Lennard critiques the Democratic Party. “You can’t be both at once: You can’t be the party of Wall Street, and you can’t be the party of […]
A controversial “nonprofit killer” bill is back on track after it was blocked earlier this week. A majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives rejected the bill on Tuesday out of fear that it could grant President-elect Donald Trump the legal tools with which to target his ideological foes, but Republicans are swiftly pressing […]
Typically, appointees for the job of U.S. attorney general have had long careers working in law and law enforcement. But that’s not the case for Matt Gaetz, who resigned from Congress on Wednesday after being tapped as President-elect Donald Trump’s new attorney general. Aside from being the subject of a recent criminal investigation himself, Gaetz […]
