The House passed the $1.15 trillion FY2027 NDAA 216–212 despite bipartisan warnings that Section 219, which permanently institutionalizes U.S.–Israel defense technology cooperation, could compromise American sovereignty and bind future presidents to an arrangement they cannot easily exit.
The Pentagon admitted nearly 100 U.S. troops were injured in Iranian strikes since July 7, one day after calling such reports ‘baseless,’ while its own official casualty database continued to show zero wounded in action for July.
A U.S. official tells The Intercept that Iranian attacks have wounded ‘far more’ American troops than the Pentagon’s official casualty count reflects, continuing a documented pattern of underreporting that began at the war’s outset.
Over 100,000 Flock Safety AI cameras now blanket U.S. streets, feeding a shared database accessible to federal agencies including the FBI and ICE, while EFF investigations document the system’s use to surveil protesters, target minorities, and track individuals without warrants or local oversight.
A draft US-Saudi nuclear cooperation agreement awaiting Trump’s signature would permit Saudi Arabia to enrich uranium without requiring the enhanced IAEA safeguards long considered the minimum standard for such deals.
Peer-reviewed research has found that patients with microplastics embedded in carotid artery plaque face a 4.53-fold higher risk of heart attack, stroke, or death — while separate studies confirm plastic concentrations in arterial plaque are 51 times higher in stroke survivors than in people with healthy arteries.
Four ICE officials confirmed officers at the Maine shooting scene wore camera-equipped Motorola devices, but the camera functions were inactive — lenses physically covered — due to a competing vendor contract with Axon.
A former Moroccan DGST intelligence agent, corroborated by leaked documents and Amnesty International forensic analysis, has provided the most detailed insider account to date of how Morocco deployed Pegasus spyware against journalists, human rights defenders, and foreign officials beginning in 2017.
Trump threatens to destroy Iran’s power plants and bridges as the US reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports for the second time in 2026, while Iran warned it would shut down all regional energy exports in response.
Sen. Ron Johnson has formally demanded that Elsevier and Toxicology Reports release all records related to the removal of a peer-reviewed paper analyzing VAERS data on vaccines and SIDS, following a similar demand from HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
The US launched four consecutive rounds of strikes against Iran over a single weekend as the June 2026 ceasefire collapsed and Iranian forces retaliated against American bases and Gulf Arab allies across the region.
Documents obtained via FOIA reveal that Anomaly 6, the commercial surveillance firm that once tracked CIA and NSA employees to pitch its capabilities, has been awarded a nearly $6 million Pentagon contract to investigate Havana syndrome.
The Trump administration has rewritten Title X federal funding guidelines, steering the nation’s only dedicated contraception program away from birth control access and toward the ideological priorities of the pronatalist movement.
A Waymo robotaxi in San Mateo, California monitored two 15-year-old passengers in real time, alerted police, and remotely steered itself to a parking lot for their detention — raising urgent questions about autonomous vehicle surveillance and law enforcement access.
The UK’s Behavioural Insights Team — the government’s ‘Nudge Unit’ — used psychological techniques to engineer public compliance during COVID-19, raising profound questions about democratic consent and the boundaries between public health communication and state manipulation.
Federal agents raided a Texas activist’s home with flash-bangs and armored vehicles, then returned days later to offer her up to $200,000 to become an FBI informant targeting antifascist networks — all without filing charges against her.
Anthropic secretly embedded tracking code in Claude Code to monitor Chinese users’ timezones, proxy settings, and AI lab affiliations — a revelation that sharply contradicts the company’s high-profile refusal to enable US government surveillance.
A new congressional hearing has reopened the CIA’s MKULTRA program — a decades-long covert operation of non-consensual human experimentation whose records were deliberately destroyed, whose perpetrators faced no prison time, and whose victims have never been fully identified or compensated.
The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell that federal pesticide law preempts state failure-to-warn claims against Bayer over Roundup’s alleged cancer risk, effectively shielding the company from tens of thousands of pending lawsuits.
A new law enforcement surveillance platform called SignalTrace can track individuals through their smartphones, smartwatches, pet microchips, and other devices — building a unique electronic fingerprint that follows people far beyond what license plate readers were ever sold to the public as doing.
Citizen Lab confirms that Greek MEP Stelios Kouloglou’s iPhone was infected with Pegasus spyware at least three times while he served on the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee — the body created specifically to investigate Pegasus abuses.
The CIA has agreed to declassify a new set of MKUltra documents, including files related to a forgery subproject, following a Congressional hearing chaired by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna that detailed the program’s systematic torture of American citizens and the deliberate destruction of its records.
Sen. Ron Johnson’s Senate subcommittee report alleges FDA officials were informed in March 2021 that the VAERS safety surveillance system had a critical flaw, then ordered the researcher who discovered it to stop her work.
A former FDA consultant’s court declaration alleges Merck had sufficient evidence to formally warn the public about Gardasil’s link to POTS and autoimmune disorders years before it acted — a claim that emerged as Merck quietly settled more than 200 related lawsuits for over $50 million.
Kenya’s court battle over a US-funded Ebola facility at a military base exposes how Pentagon war budgets quietly finance American biosecurity operations on African soil — and who bears the risk when those arrangements are made in secret.