curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Peter Beck:
Prosecutors test the elasticity of a decades-old terrorism statute
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Al-Muhtadi’s case in Louisiana, however, marks a significant hurdle for the Justice Department’s push to prosecute conduct tied to Oct. 7th and a test for how the criminal justice system handles overseas acts of terrorism. Prosecutors’ principal claim is that Al-Muhtadi provided material support to Hamas, contributing to the deaths of Americans and Israelis on Oct. 7th. The bulk of the evidence prosecutors plan to introduce against him comes from Israeli intelligence, intercepted phone calls, clandestine investigations, and battlefield reports—for crimes that all allegedly happened outside the U.S.
The federal defenders representing Al-Muhtadi argue his case undermines basic due process principles, writing that the government’s evidence relies on the Israeli government’s word and that the “proof that would corroborate [his defense] no longer exists,” lost to the ruins in Gaza. To prosecutors, he’s a terrorist who lived among us.
(Peter Beck more…)
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David Folkenflik @ NPR:
Families of journalists killed in Ukraine sue Fox News for failing to keep them safeFox News correspondent Benjamin Hall barely survived a Russian attack in Ukraine shortly after the 2022 invasion. He lost his right leg below the knee, most of his left foot and an eye. It was a terrible price to pay to report on war.
His companions weren’t as lucky. The strike killed veteran videographer Pierre Zakrzewski and 24-year-old Ukrainian producer Sasha Kuvshynova, along with two soldiers escorting them.
Four years later Kuvshynova’s parents and two security advisers to the network are blaming Hall and Fox for putting the crew in harm’s way.
“If you took Benji out of the equation, this never would have happened,” says Aaron King, one of the former security consultants.
He and the others tell me Hall, encouraged by network executives, pushed to go to the hot zone just outside Kyiv, despite repeated warnings.
The fatal choices behind telling a war story
She died covering war for Fox News. Her parents blame the network — and a star reporter
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Sarah-Jane Collins @ Daily Beast:
Kremlin Rushes to Defend Jared Kushner as Murky Deal Is Exposed…
Kushner and Steve Witkoff, the U.S. negotiators tasked with ending the war, allegedly have ties to business interests seeking to acquire Russian oil assets as part of a potential Ukraine peace deal.
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Moscow Times:
Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague
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Erin Keller @ Independent:
Dengue outbreak is now the largest in the US in decades
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Ruth Ann Crystal MD:
Dr. Ruth Report, 10/4/26
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Julia Musto @ Independent:
Patient died by suicide after insurance delayed medication
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Nadine Yousif, Robin Levinson-King @ BBC Toronto:
Why Canada is considering an (unlikely) invasion from the US
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Al Jazeera, Reuters, Associated Press:
US withdraws B-1 bomber aircraft from UK’s Fairford base amid Iran fearsThe abrupt redeployment to the US comes after several ‘terrorism-related’ arrests were made outside RAF Fairford.
Neil MacFarquhar @ NY Times:
U.K. Base Would Be Ambitious Target for ‘Gig Economy’ Warfare
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Heather Cox Richardson:
Letters from an American – October 4, 2026…
The fact that he is openly using taxpayer money to buy votes in the election suggests just how worried Trump is about Democrats winning control of Congress in the upcoming midterms.
…The corruption of the administration is matched by its incompetence, and neither will come out well in congressional investigations.
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)
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Rindala Alajaji @ Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility…
The court recognized that the problem is that SB 73 “requires entities like Aylo to geolocate its website users with perfection to avoid liability.” But, at the same time, the court acknowledged “that geolocation perfection is not presently possible.”
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Joe Patrice @ Above the Law:
Why have Republicans become obsessed with rehabilitating Richard Nixon lately?
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formerly Climate.gov
Climate Solutions Explorer
Have I Been Flocked?
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Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
Mike Ludwig @ truthout: ICE Says 51 People Died in Custody Under Trump. Experts Say That’s an Undercount.
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
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- July 13: Joan Sebastian Guerrero
- July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
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- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
April 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide - January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
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- January 9: Parady La
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- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
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Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
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DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
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