NEW — Per Homeland Security & State Department sources, the Trump administration is staking its entire case to deport Mahmoud Kahlil not on whether he broke a law, but on Secretary of State Marco Rubio “personally” deciding Khalil would “compromise” US foreign policy.

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.

He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

MEXICO SUING U.S. GUNMAKERS OVER COUNTRY'S GUN VIOLENCE Alleges deliberate design, marketing and distribution choices (examples: Super El Jefe and Emiliano Zapata 1911 pistols) to appeal to Mexico’s illegal market @amarimow.bsky.social Mary Beth Sheridan report
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‘No Other Land,’ a film about Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community, won the documentary feature film Oscar, and its directors appealed to the world to help end the conflict and accused the United States of blocking a solution reut.rs/41oltqZ #Oscars2025

Palestinians trying to return to northern Gaza were stranded on two highways in a standoff that threatened to undo the shaky peace between Israel and Hamas.

President-elect Donald Trump will face considerable logistical and financial hurdles if he attempts to sharply increase the number of people arrested, jailed and removed from the country by ICE.

So, what would a mass deportation campaign really look like?

Trump's administration wants to deport as many people as it can at "light speed," from the moment Trump puts his hand on the bible at his inauguration. Who will be most affected? Read below.
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Here is part two of our memories in exile about Syria by my sister Nour Akkad Kasm and I.

A dedication to Syria from exile by my sister and I. This is part one.

A photo for the ages.

Started reading this book edited by @aliamalek.bsky.social. A chilling look at life in Syria before the fall of the Assad regime through the eyes of those who lived it and expressed the best way they could.

We are only just starting to learn.

The International Commission on Missing Persons estimates there could be as many as 66 mass graves across Syria, where the Assad regime sought to hide from the world the its mass killings.
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A really important story on what it's like to live and thrive with cancer by Drea Cornejo.
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"As areas are emptied of Palestinians, Israeli forces have demolished entire neighborhoods, established military fortifications and built new roads, according to a Washington Post analysis of high-resolution satellite images."
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Syria’s ousted leader cultivated a modest image. Footage revealing hidden opulence tells a different story.
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A fascinating look inside the world of the wealthy who spend millions hoping their children will be F1 stars.
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A year-long investigation by The Post reveals more than 3,100 students died at Indian boarding schools between 1828 and 1970 — and more than 800 of those students are buried in cemeteries at or near the schools they attended.

Read the full findings: wapo.st/408M3VV

Assad's legacy is a legacy of fear fueled by his secret police, the mukhabarat. To escape their constant surveillance, Syrian's developed a code language. Very proud of this story by Ruby Mellen and Muhamad Chamaa.

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For decades, Syrians passed down a warning from one generation to the next: “The walls have ears.” In this environment of surveillance, Syrians improvised.

An aspiring journalist, Plestia Alaqad, documented Gaza’s beauty, then its destruction wapo.st/3REosHd Palestinian reporters and photographers have been providing the only window into the carnage. By Kevin Sieff

In the past three decades, incidence of colorectal cancer has risen significantly among people younger than 50, many of whom have no obvious risk factors, such as having a genetic predisposition.

No one knows why.