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• The New York State Police have quietly built a database of over 5,000 alleged gang members using speculative criteria like tattoos, clothing, and associations.
• Governor Kathy Hochul has said the State Police, which she controls, won't cooperate with President Trump's mass deportation campaign — yet the agency funnels the gang database into a federal system that makes it instantly available to ICE.
• The Trump administration is carrying out extrajudicial mass deportations of immigrants with alleged gang ties — justified, in cases like Kilmar Abrego Garcia's, by gang databases maintained by local police departments.

This Canadian federal election maybe the most consequential for Americans in recent history, so it might be worthwhile explaining how things work above the 49th parallel.

Frustration with established parties across Europe has created openings the right has been quick to fill. Can a divided left rally in response?

Late last week Volvo Group North America announced it planned to lay off hundreds of workers at its Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks operations in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia over the next three months. The global truck maker is taking the action to “align production with reduced demand for our vehicles,” a company spokesperson said.

Emiliano, a boy diagnosed with adhd, faces a system that doesn't know how to see him. While he deals with labels and barriers, his mother — a Guatemalan journalist and refugee in the United States — fights to pave the way for him, convinced that her son is not a problem to be fixed, but a beautiful mind that the world has not yet learned to understand.

The White House has taken down some government websites providing COVID-19 information and replaced them with a new boldly styled page dedicated to the controversial theory that the pandemic was caused by the virus leaking from a Chinese government laboratory.

Climate change has dropped in Canadians’ list of priorities this election — but that doesn’t mean climate issues are no longer relevant

As judges weigh the limits of medical exceptions, Idaho’s abortion ban is being tested — in courts, hospitals and patients’ lives

Veterans Guardian says it’s fighting to give veterans a choice. Critics say they’re guardians of greed.

A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees. “This goes against all the normal contracting safeguards,” one expert said.