NEW @TheAtlantic The predicted blue wave seems to grow by the day, @RussellBerman reports. Can a Navy veteran sail it to victory in South Carolina? theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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“There’s no bigger betrayal to our soldiers than to use their trust in a program, set out by our government to protect their families, and ultimately use it to destroy their families while they’re serving our country and putting their lives on the line,” Martinez told us. “You’re stabbing your own soldiers in the back.” W/the awesome @NickMiroff theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. Story with @nancyayoussef theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Driving through Arizona on a Saturday morning, I saw a line of cars nearly a mile long stopped along a high-desert highway. I slowed, thinking there had been an accident. Then I realized that all of those people were waiting in line for food.
Weeks later, I went back to try to understand what was going on: Going Hungry in Trump’s Economy
The president said the “American dream is back.” Rural Arizonans don’t think so.
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How embarrassing for a member of Congress to not only think it's illegal to record in public but to try to get a reporter arrested for doing so
Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night.
Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.
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NEW @TheAtlantic Trump has been looking for a scapegoat ahead of the midterm elections—and appears to have settled on Ukraine, @JonLemire and @shustry report. They spoke to people in the president’s orbit about his thinking: theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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*NEW EXCLUSIVE*: I’ve spent months reporting on the quiet campaign within the FBI to urge senior leadership to cancel Patel’s trip to Russia before the midterms. Current and former FBI officials familiar with the matter told me that their many efforts to pass apprehensions up the chain went unanswered, prompting some to take the extraordinary step to share their worries with Congress and others. @TheAtlantic theatlantic.com/national-sec…
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Cuba today through the lens of Lisette Poole:
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Three days after federal judge halted border wall construction in Big Bend, the Trump admin arrests protestors trying to protect cottonwoods and blocking crews in remote San Rafael Valley of southern Arizona
BREAKING: DHS contractors are toppling the last of four ancient cottonwoods to build double border walls across the San Rafael Valley.
The wall cuts through the key remaining wildlife corridor for endangered jaguars between Arizona and Sonora, where human border crossings are seldom seen.
A protest camp had occupied and protected this tree for more than 60 days, halting construction. The camp was raided and campers were arrested this morning.
This wall will effectively lock the remaining jaguars in the U.S. into solitary confinement, while permanently marring one of the last remaining wild places along the Arizona border.
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Our story from March about Trump's wall project in the valley, one of the last high desert grasslands left along the US-Mexico border theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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In Ohio, a trucker tries to make sense of the moment when Pierre Damas Bel, a Haitian immigrant, stepped in front of his path, @mccrummens reports. “I keep on thinking about it,” Jack Buhring told her: theatln.tc/JVPstGsc
📸: Carol Guzy for The Atlantic
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Cubans in Miami have tried to reach Marco Rubio through church services, party invitations, and prom dates, @ksieff reports. Everyone has the same question: What’s his plan for regime change? theatlantic.com/national-sec…
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In Ohio, a trucker tries to make sense of the moment when Pierre Damas Bel, a Haitian immigrant, stepped in front of his path. “I keep on thinking about it,” Jack Buhring told @mccrummens: theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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NEW EXCLUSIVE: I spoke with more than 40 current and former administration officials, FBI employees, members of Congress and their staff and others close to the White House who described Patel as desperate to help DOJ indict putative malefactors and stimulate headlines to please the president. Is there anything Patel won’t do for Trump before the midterms? theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Watching these two journalists describe becoming hostages in foreign countries their parents had left, and being crushed wondering if they'd see their mothers again -- it's just grueling. Thank God they're both free
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich spent 491 days in Russian prison over baseless espionage charges.
Finally released in 2024 in a prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia, Evan and Freedom Desk vodcast host Jason Rezaian talk about what went through his mind after being sentenced to 16 years behind bars.
Watch the full interview: bit.ly/4AYW34z
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Donald Trump says that his ICE crackdown is behind falling crime rates—a claim contradicted by his own administration’s data, Jack Rodriquez-Vars and @NickMiroff report. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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NEW: The Baltic states are readying themselves to fend off a Russian attack—with the help of the United States, or without it, @isaacstanbecker reports.
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President Trump says that his ICE crackdown is behind falling crime rates—a claim contradicted by his own administration’s data, Jack Rodriquez-Vars and @NickMiroff report. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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NEW: Inside a flailing presidency
A real theme this year: Many of Trump’s actions—quite a few impetuous and ill-considered—have only hurt him and his fellow Republicans ahead of the midterms
Now the bottom may be falling out - with fears of a blue wave theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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NEW: Trump says steep drop in violent crime is the result of his immigration crackdown. A comparison of FBI data and ICE stats doesn’t show that. Many of the places where homicides & violent crime are falling fastest...
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...are the sanctuary jurisdictions the administration denounces as incubators of violence and mayhem. And in several of the states with highest numbers of ICE arrests, the decline in violent crime has been slower. More @TheAtlantic with Jack Rodriquez-Vars theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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