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The Louisiana National Guard, military police, and Louisiana law enforcement agencies patrol the French Quarter along Bourbon Street and intersecting streets as part of a National Guard deployment for New Year's celebrations in New Orleans, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2025.

Trump Has Already Spent $500 Million Deploying Troops to U.S. Cities

A report from the Congressional Budget Office reveals the immense expenses of the Trump administration’s military occupations.

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 28: White House Border Czar Tom Homan talks to reporters after a television interview outside the West Wing of the White House on August 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. Homon continued to defend President Donald Trump's aggressive mass deportation policy and said that he is working to re-deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador and then returned to the U.S. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

While Minnesotans Rejoice Over Greg Bovino’s Ouster, His Replacement Is a Deportation Hard-Liner

The most notable difference between Tom Homan and Bovino is that Homan has deported a lot more people — and done it at a national scale.

Unmasking ICE

These Patches Are Clues to Identifying Immigration Agents

We built a guide to patches worn by ICE and CBP to help the public determine which federal agents are in their communities.

CHICAGO - CIRCA 1940: Musician Woody Guthrie plays guitar with an unidentified man and woman on either side as a group of people look on in photographer Stephen Deutch's apartment in circa 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Stephen Deutch/Chicago History Museum/Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

Woody Guthrie Sang Against Dehumanizing the Immigrants Killed in a Plane Crash. ICE Is Doing It All Over Again.

ANSON, TEXAS - MAY 13: In an aerial view, the entrance to the Bluebonnet Detention Center is seen on May 13, 2025 in Anson, Texas. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has begun transferring illegal immigrant detainees to the Bluebonnet Detention Center after U.S. District Judge Wesley Hendrix readily offered the facility to the Trump administration under the Alien Enemies Act. Recently, the Trump administration has asked SCOTUS for permission to resume deportations after an injunction was issued last month which halted deportations under the Alien Enemies Act. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

ICE Arrested Father Who Cared for His Ill Son — Then Denied His Request to Attend Son’s Funeral

Voices

The Second Amendment Was Never Meant for Everyone

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 22: Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino speaks during a press conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal on January 22, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bovino, joined by ICE Executive Associate Director of Enforcement and Removal Operations Marcos Charles, addressed ongoing immigration enforcement operations in the state. The Trump administration has sent a reported 3,000 federal plus federal agents into the area, with more on the way, as they make a push to arrest undocumented immigrants in the region. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The War on Immigrants

Read the Report on Alex Pretti’s Killing — and the Bizarre Q&A CBP Gave Congress First

Jessica Washington

Podcasts

The Intercept Briefing

Protests and Power Plays: From Tehran to the Arctic Circle

The Intercept Briefing

Trump’s War on America

Voices

UNITED STATES - MAY 6: Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., questions Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing on oversight of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, in Rayburn building on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Voices

It’s Time for Concrete Action on ICE. Sadly, We Have the Democrats.

Residents near the scene of a shooting by a federal law enforcement agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026. A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man believed to be a US citizen in Minneapolis on Saturday, the latest violent incident by law enforcement that has sparked widespread protests and condemnations by state and local officials. Photographer: Jaida Grey Eagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Voices

Trump Is Making an Enemy of the Gun Lobby

Politics

“CBS Evening News” With Tony Dokoupil Is a Right-Wing Show for Absolutely No One

Katherine Krueger

License to Kill

Congress Votes Against Blocking Venezuela War After Stalling for Tardy GOP Rep

MINNEAPOLIS, MN. - JANUARY 2026: Nekima Levy Armstrong and other community leaders speak during a press conference in the lobby of the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minn. on Thursday, January8, 2026. The press conference was in response to the killing of Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of a 6-year-old child, who was shot and killed by an ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agent Jonathan Ross, January 7, 2026, in south Minneapolis. (Photo by Elizabeth Flores/The Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

White House Doctored Photo With AI to Make It Look Like an Activist Was Sobbing During Perp Walk

Representative Lauren Underwood, a Democrat from Illinois and acting ranking member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, left, and Representative Rosa DeLauro, a Democrat from Connecticut, during a hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. The hearing is reviewing the fiscal year 2026 budget requests for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Photographer: Pete Kiehart/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The War on Immigrants

Even Democrats Who Crafted ICE Funding Compromise Are Questioning It

Justice

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 25: flowers and candles make up a memorial to Alex Pretti on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pretti, an ICU nurse at a VA medical center, died on January 24 after being shot multiple times during a brief altercation with border patrol agents in the Eat Street district of Minneapolis. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

After CBP Killed Alex Pretti, His Federal VA Boss Blamed Minnesota Leaders

Austin Campbell

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 23: Demonstrators participate in a rally and march during an "ICE Out” day of protest on January 23, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Community leaders, faith leaders and labor unions have urged Minnesotans to participate in what they are calling a "day of action" as hundreds of local businesses are expected to close during a statewide general strike held in protest against immigration enforcement operations in the region. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Voices

We Can Fight This: Minnesota’s General Strike Shows How

Natasha Lennard

Tear gas is deployed by law enforcement as demonstators gather near the site of where state and local authorities say a man was shot by federal agents earlier in the morning in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on January 24, 2026. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said Saturday that federal agents deployed in Minneapolis as part of a sweeping immigration crackdown had carried out "another horrific shooting," less than three weeks after the fatal shooting of Renee Good. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP via Getty Images)

Unmasking ICE

Man Feds Killed in Minneapolis Was an Observer, Eyewitnesses Say

Noah Hurowitz, Jacqueline Sweet

(L/R) US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US President Donald Trump speak to the press following US military actions in Venezuela, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on January 3, 2026. President Trump said Saturday that US forces had captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro after launching a "large scale strike" on the South American country. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

New Legal Documents Show Marco Rubio Targeted Students for Op-Eds and Protesting

Jessica Washington

National Security

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 15: U.S. Army Lt. General Joshua Rudd testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee Confirmation Hearing on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2026 in Washington, DC. The Senate Armed Services Committee gathered Thursday to confirm Army Lt. Rudd to be general and Director, National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security Service/ Commander, United States Cyber Command; and Marine Corps. Lt. Gen. Donovan to be general and Commander, United States Southern Command. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Army General Tapped to Lead NSA Said He Doesn’t Know Much About the Biggest NSA Controversy

Military personnel from the German armed Forces Bundeswehr board Icelandair flight leaving Nuuk airport for Reykjavik on January 18, 2026 in Nuuk, Greenland.

While Threatening Greenland, Trump Also Threatens Iceland

A printer and a sheet of paper.

FBI’s Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on You

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 25: Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) arrives prior to the Senate Republicans weekly policy luncheon, in the US Capitol on March 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Republicans are meeting as the Trump administration faces blowback after defense plans that were posted in a group chat including top cabinet officials on the Signal app were accidentally shared with Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine. (Photo by Al Drago/Getty Images)

License to Kill

Trump Bullies Flip-Flopping Senators Into Defeating Vote to Block Venezuela War

World

Screenshot from a video posted by President Donald Trump on TruthSocial on Oct. 14, 2025 showing an attack that killed Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo.

Families of Boat Strike Victims Sue U.S. for “Manifestly Unlawful” Killings

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 5: Opponents of the United Statesâ military operation and supporters of Venezuelaâs President NicolÃ¡s Maduro gather outside the Manhattan Federal Court in New York, United States as he appears in federal court on drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges following his capture and transfer to the United States, on January 5, 2026. U.S. authorities arrest Maduro after a military action in Venezuela earlier this month, and he pleads not guilty to the charges in Manhattan. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voices

It Always Comes Back to Our Failed War on Drugs

RAFAH, GAZA - MAY 28: A Palestinian woman carries her child as she mourns near makeshift tents after the Israeli shelling of a refugee tent encampment in al-Mawasi area west of Rafah killed at least 21 Palestinians, including children on May 28, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. At least 21 people were killed on Tuesday in Israeli shelling of a refugee tent encampment in al-Mawasi area west of Rafah, in the third such attack on areas designated by Tel Aviv as a "safe zone" in the last 48 hours, the Rafah Emergency Committee said. (Photo by Jehad Alshrafi/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Voices

Plans Call for “New Rafah” Built in Israel’s Image — Without Palestinians

Séamus Malekafzali

The Royal Danish Navy Thetis-class warship HDMS Vaedderen sails past sea ice off the coast of Nuuk, Greenland, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025.

Danish Forces Are Mandated to Fire Back if U.S. Attacks Greenland

Technology

Apple CEO Tim Cook departs a business leaders reception with President Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2026.

Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti

TOPSHOT - A man walks past the Google signage outside the US tech giant's Ananta office in Bengaluru on January 5, 2026. (Photo by Idrees MOHAMMED / AFP via Getty Images)

Google’s AI Detection Tool Can’t Decide if Its Own AI Made Doctored Photo of Crying Activist

The Pentagon is viewed from the window of an airplane Aug. 27, 2023, in Washington.

DOGE Cuts “Unexpectedly and Significantly Impacted” Critical Pentagon Unit

View of the earth photographed from the Apollo 11 spacecraft as it approached the earth on its return from the moon, July 24, 1969.

Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Putting Data Centers in Space?

Environment

People demonstrate during a protest against federal employee layoffs at Yosemite National Park, California on March 1, 2025. The National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) estimates 1,000 US National Park Service employees who were on one-year probationary periods were laid off. About 3,400 employees of the US Forest Service were among the cuts too, according to multiple US media reports. The cuts were part of the work of the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire Elon Musk, as part of a declared effort to reduce public spending by dismantling the federal bureaucracy. (Photo by Laure Andrillon / AFP) (Photo by LAURE ANDRILLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Admin “Deliberately” Tanking Morale to Get Parks Staff to Quit, Official Says in Leaked Tape

A serpentine river near Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Alaska on September 11, 2022.

Climate Crimes

Trump Sacrifices Alaska Wilderness to Help AI Companies

The new US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., shakes hands with US President Donald Trump after a swearing in ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

MAHA Slams “Corporate Capture” by Food and Pharma Giants — While Trump Strips Regulations

Jessica Washington

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 29: Members of the Sunrise Movement are arrested as they protest outside the Senate office of Republican vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) on Capitol Hill on July 29, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Sunrise Movement, a climate change political action group, held signs accusing Vance of being in the pocket of big oil companies. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Chilling Dissent

Sunrise Movement, Founded to Fight Climate Change, Pivots to Fighting Trump