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Maeve McGoran
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Reporter, ex-NPR, based in Miami. Please check out my new podcast Shipwreck on Audible. audible.com/Shipwreck
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UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
February 19, 2026 at 1:08 PM
"The highest-paid adjunct professor at UF’s College of Law in a quarter century...Eight times higher than what the median law school adjunct earns...as the DeSantis administration leans on Florida’s 40 public universities and colleges to justify their spending."

www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
‘Professor Uthmeier’: Inside Florida attorney general’s $100k teaching job at UF
The university was eager to hire the newly minted attorney general, but didn’t announce his teaching job until the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Times began asking questions.
www.miamiherald.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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This is the Colbert interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico that Barri Weiss, David Ellison & Donald Trump don’t want you to see.

Twice in three months content on CBS has been censored. And this is only the beginning…
February 17, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a towering civil rights leader and two-time presidential candidate, has died. He was 84.
Jesse Jackson, longtime civil rights leader and presidential candidate, has died
The civil rights leader died "peacefully on Tuesday morning, surrounded by his family."
www.whatimreading.net
February 17, 2026 at 1:17 PM
“So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity."
Epstein Files "contain disturbing & credible evidence of systematic & large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking & exploitation of women & girls & could amt to sexual slavery, reproductive violence, enforced disappearance, torture, inhuman/degrading treatment & femicide" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Flawed ‘Epstein Files’ disclosures undermine accountability for grave crimes against women and girls: UN experts
GENEVA – The so-called ‘Epstein Files’ contain disturbing and credible evidence of systematic and large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking and exploitation of women and girls, UN experts* said today.Acco...
www.ohchr.org
February 17, 2026 at 3:21 AM
"Citing theTrump administration’s stance...Moderna has halted preparatory work for large late-stage clinical trials of vaccines to prevent and treat Epstein-Barr, a common virus that may be linked to multiple sclerosis."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...
Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
"Mariah Lopez, a transgender activist, said the rainbow flag’s unauthorized return was in keeping with the history of the monument...'You know, Stonewall was a riot,' Ms. Lopez said."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...
N.Y.C. Officials Reinstate Pride Flag at Stonewall After Federal Removal
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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Literally millions of people worldwide will needlessly suffer & die because of this.
February 13, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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After suffering a seizure inside an ICE detention center, #LeqaaKordia said, she was kept in chains that weighed on her hands and legs in a hospital room, while barred from contacting her family or attorneys.

www.northjersey.com/story/news/p...
‘I felt like an animal': Paterson resident details ICE hospitalization
Leqaa Kordia of Paterson has been held in ICE detention since March 2025 over an alleged visa violation.
www.northjersey.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:50 AM
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NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress.

“She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me.

But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention without prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
www.nbcnews.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:25 PM
"In some documents, it’s apparent that redacted images or names were of individuals being investigated as co-conspirators of Epstein."

Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Who were the other men in the Epstein files? This is the FBI’s own list
FBI employees shared a PowerPoint presentation in the summer of 2025 covering the Epstein case, including a slide about 11 powerful men.
www.miamiherald.com
February 7, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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Anti-ICE protesters rally in Milan as Winter Olympics get under way | Winter Olympics News | Al Jazeera www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
Anti-ICE protesters rally in Milan as Winter Olympics get under way
Students demand ICE agents protecting US delegation leave amid global outrage over Trump's brutal deportation push.
www.aljazeera.com
February 7, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.

Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Five-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now
www.huffpost.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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I feel like I should get a little more credit for freelance reporting with a toddler at home in my one-bedroom apartment with no reliable internet because we were late on the bill because we had to pay for groceries
February 4, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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“Nationalize the voting” is a direct threat to the Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which grants the states the power to oversee our elections. This is fundamental, Constitution 101 type stuff.

constitution.congress.gov/browse/artic...
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
February 2, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and father from ICE detention center

www.ms.now/news/liam-ra...
Judge orders release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos and father from ICE detention center
A photo of Ramos wearing a bunny hat and a Spider-Man backpack as he was being detained went viral, sparking national criticism.
www.ms.now
January 31, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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There’s a throughline between the administration’s lawless violence abroad and its lawless violence at home—between smearing the victims of boat strikes as “terrorists” and smearing the victims of DHS executions as “terrorists.”
January 31, 2026 at 3:15 AM
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Incredible self own for the US. The damage being done to the US scientific enterprise is generational. We will look back on this as a tipping point where the US chose all on its own to stop leading the world in science.

www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
www.science.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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NEW: Another declaration you have to read! Alex Pretti was shot near the apartment of a doctor, who saw the shooting occur and rushed to provide emergency aid as he lay dying on the street.

They describe what they saw: "The victim had at least three bullet holes in his back."
January 25, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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“Please get the truth out about our son.”
January 25, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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Alex Pretti grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he played football, baseball and ran track for Preble High School. He was a Boy Scout and sang in the Green Bay Boy Choir.

apnews.com/article/immi...
The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says
Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a U.S.
apnews.com
January 25, 2026 at 12:57 AM