Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition

As the Senate prepares for a Wednesday vote on whether to confirm Gina Haspel as director of the CIA, the Senate Intelligence Committee has restricted access to a classified memo Democratic staff put together, detailing Haspel’s role in advocating for torture and later destroying evidence related to it. On Monday morning, Elizabeth Falcone, a senior aide for Sen.

Mohammed Abdalla-Omran’s efforts to make a new life for himself in the United States were abruptly disrupted in August 2012, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at his workplace in New Hampshire. An Egyptian citizen, Abdalla-Omran was arrested on an outstanding warrant for overstaying a tourist visa.

A month after dozens of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surrounded a meatpacking plant in Morristown, Tennessee, and detained 97 men and women who worked there, the tight-knit rural community is still reeling, but the initial shock has seeped into a quiet pain, as families adjust to lives without work and their loved ones.

After it emerged that Facebook user data was illicitly harvested to help elect Donald Trump, the company offered weeks of apologies,minor reforms to how it shares such information, and a pledge to make itself “more transparent,” including new, limiteddisclosures aroundadvertising. But Facebook still tells its2 billion users very little about how it targets them for ads that represent essentially the whole of the company’s business.

Driving into Cheltenham from the west, it is hard to miss the offices of Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, the United Kingdom’s surveillance agency. The large, doughnut-shaped building sits behind high-perimeter fencing with barbed wire and many levels of security.

When the Department of Homeland Security’s attempt to unmask an irksome Twitter account imploded last year, few within the agency were surprised, according to newly released records. “Why would we do this?” one official asked in early April 2017 after Twitter filed a complaint in federal court, according to the heavily redacted emails. The short-lived investigation into @ALT_USCIS, an anonymous account that claims it’s run by a U.S.

When Kara Eastman, a community activist, decided to run for Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, a swing seat surrounding metro Omaha, she wasconfident that pro-choice groups would leap toembraceher candidacy.

The fight over charter schools is often just as much a battle over unions. Charter school operators and funders take relatively clear anti-union positions, and the absence of organized labor is often a selling point for charters, which boast flexible hours and pay schedules as paths toward quality education. Teacher unions, meanwhile, tend to oppose charter schools as a drain on needed resources for traditional schools and as centers of educator exploitation.

At around 4:41 p.m.on April 4, Saheed Vassell was shot and killed on the southwest corner of Utica Avenue and Montgomery Street, in the Crown Heightsneighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The first police officers on the scene — and the ones who appeared to fire the first shots— were three members of an anti-crime unit dressed in plainclothes and one uniformed officer from another unit.

Theconfirmation hearingfor Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the CIA, Gina Haspel, will beginin the U.S. Senate on Wednesday. Haspel’s nomination has become controversial because of her supervision of a CIA black site in Thailand at which detainees were tortured (with heinous methods that extended far beyond “mere” waterboarding), as well has her central role in destroying videotapes of the interrogation sessions at which torture was employed.

This article includes graphic images and video some readers may find disturbing. Six animal rights activists are facing felony charges, filed on Wednesday by a Utah prosecutor, stemming from an undercover investigation into abusive conditions on a large turkey farm. The criminal complaintincludes two felony theft charges that carry possible prison terms of five years each.

For the past four years,dozens of homeless sex offenders have lived in tents in a makeshift encampment along a set of railroad tracks in Hialeah, a city in Florida’s Miami-Dade County. The residentslive in squalid conditions, as documented by the Miami New Times in an investigation last year. Rain soaks through the tents, and flies and mosquito populate the residents’ belongings.

At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, hundreds of thousands of African Muslims were forcibly brought to the United States to be enslaved. One of them, Omar Ibn Said, from Futa Toro, in modern-day Senegal, chronicled his journey and life under enslavement in a brief 15-page manuscript. “Wicked men took me by violence and sold me,” he wrote. “We sailed a month and a half on the great sea to the place called Charleston in the Christian land.

Scott Pruitt, the embattled head of the Environmental Protection Agency, took the side of poultry companies and other businesses in Arkansas in a dispute over the pollution of an ecologically sensitive and economically vital watershed, environmental groups say. While he was representing Oklahoma as its attorney general, Pruitt helped to slow the implementation of a plan, forged years ago by both states, to clean a river in his home state.

There is a fightraging overvoting rights across the country — especially in Georgia. The contours of the battlefield are usually seen as partisan;restrictions on voting rights tend to be a Republican project.