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Three Times to the Death Chamber, Now Out on Bond

Richard Glossip was scheduled to be executed three times. On Thursday, an Oklahoma judge released him on bond while he awaits a retrial — and reopened the broader question of how a state with this much doubt kept setting dates.

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How a Texas Launch Pad Put Passenger Jets in Its Path

When SpaceX chose a remote Gulf Coast outpost to develop Starship, it placed a 400-foot rocket on a flight path that crosses busy Caribbean airspace. ProPublica's review of internal records shows the FAA was warned, repeatedly, about the risk to commercial aviation.

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The Cases That Did Not Hold: ICE's Mass Arrests, Tested in Court

More than three hundred people detained in immigration sweeps and charged with assaulting or interfering with officers have seen their cases collapse. ProPublica and FRONTLINE found a pattern: officer statements debunked by video.

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"A Truce Is Not an Architecture"

Lebanon and Israel are negotiating in Washington again. A new ceasefire would help — but only if it is bound to a sequenced withdrawal and a verifiable disarmament north of the Litani. Anything less is a pause, not a settlement.

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Opinion

"The Iran Trap Was Built at Home"

The President is caught in an Iran war trap of his own making — visibly eager for a 'victory' deal, visibly afraid of being seen to capitulate. The two impulses cannot be reconciled by tweet.

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"Beyond the Maps: A New Architecture of Suppression"

Red states are not just gerrymandering. They are running, in parallel, voter-roll purges, polling-place reductions and ID-verification regimes that compound at the margins. The maps get the headlines. The architecture is the story.

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"The Quiet Federalization of the State Legislature"

What unfolded in Indiana this month is not a story about MAGA revenge, or about checkbook politics, or even about the President. It is about state legislatures becoming, in practice, federal instruments.

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