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Trump’s Concentration Camp Build-Out Includes Nearly $40 Billion for Warehouse Conversions ( www.commondreams.org )

“President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda has supercharged opposition in cities where he has deployed federal agents to conduct raids, and communities in states including New York and Missouri are already working to block the next step the Department of Homeland Security plans to take in its push for mass ...

Judge sentences teen to life without parole for North Carolina mass shooting that killed 5 ( apnews.com )

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A judge sentenced an 18-year-old who acknowledged killing five people in a North Carolina mass shooting to life in prison without parole Friday, rejecting arguments that he deserved the chance for release decades from now. ...

Leakers Helped Destroy Deportation Case Against Tufts Student ( theintercept.com )

The video was shocking, and devoid of context, it appeared Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted off the street by masked men and hauled to a waiting van. In what turned out to be an immigration operation, the Trump administration arrested Öztürk in March 2025, jailed her in horrific conditions for ...

Trump’s religious liberty commissioner removed after Zionism dispute ( www.middleeastmonitor.com )

Carrie Prejean Boller, a former Miss California, was removed Wednesday from President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission following a contentious hearing on antisemitism for what she claimed were efforts to “force” commissioners to affirm Zionism. ...