NEW: major security lapses on night of deadly Bourbon St. attack +multiple times that night the police SUV left a gap over 14' wide. the truck was 7' wide +metal barrier was intended to be raised but was left down +no vehicle barriers beyond that point wapo.st/3C9HrWd

I spent 9 months looking through police records of cases where suspects were identified through facial recognition. Police are using these tools in a way that was never intended: As a shortcut to arresting people when they have no other evidence. wapo.st/4fQYlXn

"They were dreamers...Hustlers, strivers, irrepressible free spirits. They acted in movies, jumped off cliffs, and built instruments that would travel to space. They were as distinctive as the city they called home...they made the place what it is. And now they are gone."

Chinese Ships Are Carrying America’s Cargo. The U.S. Wants to Reverse That. Beijing’s support helps its shipbuilding industry capture more than half the global market Stu Woo wsj.com/world/china/ch… wsj.com/world/china/ch…

1/ A team of The Washington Post journalists spent nearly 2 months probing what went wrong in the response to the Eaton Fire. See it here washingtonpost.com/weather/intera… By Joyce Sohyun Lee Joshua Partlow John Muyskens Samuel Oakford Sarah Kaplan Brianna Sacks Aaron Davis and Imogen Piper

Read for yourself: Here are the attack plans that Trump advisers shared on Signal. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

The Atlantic has published the signal that that the administration says isn’t classified. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

“One by one”

Rather than activate a major response operation in the first 12-24 hours, the administration spent day 1 of the response window terminating all remaining USAID staff last Friday and instructing everyone to leave their offices by 1pm. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/…

Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world, reports Dasha Burns

Predictable and, in fact, widely predicted.

Much of the Trump admin's assault on the bureaucracy has a specific target: the people who collect and share data. "[It's taking] policies that would harm people and then saying, ‘We don’t want to collect data about the impact of the policies.'" My latest: propublica.org/article/trump-…

ICE is reportedly loading people onto buses right now to be imprisoned in El Salvador without a day in court, in violation of a Supreme Court order. That includes at least one person with Temporary Protected Status and a 19-year-old accused of being in TDA b/c of a water pistol.

New research from us - the UAE is providing new weapons to the RSF in Sudan in violation of the arms embargo on Darfur. All states must stop selling arms to the UAE until they stop fueling war crimes in Sudan. Looking at you, US and China and Europe. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes - how governments respond could haunt them for years to come bbc.in/3SG6xkk

The scale of destruction in Gaza "stands out even among the most extreme wartime cases in modern history" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Each day we learn about Israeli airstrikes hitting schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, electrical facilities, and other critical civilian infrastructure in Gaza. How does the Israeli state argue these are legal? The same way the U.S. has increasingly done for years: It

The documentary that the BBC refused to air showing the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza by Israeli authorities was broadcast by Channel 4 last night. Amnesty International researcher, Budour Hassan, explains the use of secret sites by the Israeli authorities.

Senior UN official Jonathan Whittall, now banned by Israel from entering the occupied Palestinian territories, describes litany of horrors his team has documented in Gaza; describes attempts at the "silencing" of his colleagues as part of a broader pattern. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Israel is murdering the messengers. The targeted Israeli strike on a media tent in #Gaza killed an entire news crew including 6 journalists — Israel’s deadliest single attack on journalists since Oct. 7, 2023. Read more: cpj.org/2025/08/israel…