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War in Iran Spiked Oil Prices. Trump Will Decide How High They Go

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The conflict in the Middle East is driving oil prices up in a midterm year when Americans are already focused on high energy bills.

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Life in Cuba Under Trump’s Pressure Campaign: No Electricity, No Oil, and Impossible Choices

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As the United States takes new steps against the regime that has ruled the island since 1959, the Cuban people face 20-hour blackouts, decreased internet access, and shortages of basic supplies.

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‘Narco-Submarine’ Carrying 4 Tons of Cocaine Captured by Mexico’s Navy

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Following increased surveillance and patrols of routes used by transnational drug-trafficking networks, Mexican authorities have seized approximately 10 tons of cocaine in the past week alone.

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DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies

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Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

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Metadata Exposes Authors of ICE’s ‘Mega’ Detention Center Plans

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Comments and other data left on a PDF detailing Homeland Security’s proposal to build “mega” detention and processing centers reveal the personnel involved in its creation.

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Elon Musk’s X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders

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While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk’s X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Checkmarks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry.

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ICE Is Crashing the US Court System in Minnesota

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Petitions demanding people get the chance to be released from ICE custody have overwhelmed courts throughout the US.

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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

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ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn’t built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.

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ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips

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ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tip line since last spring, according to a newly released Homeland Security document.

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Here’s the Company That Sold DHS ICE’s Notorious Face Recognition App

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Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.

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