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Khalil has sued the government and other groups under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which was passed to stop efforts by vigilante groups like the KKK to coordinate with the government to strip individuals of their constitutional rights. buff.ly/z4E0Zdq

Trump has swiftly backtracked his threat to impose a 20% fee on cargo that passes through the Strait of Hormuz, calling off the plan just a day after he announced it — and claiming that, in fact, he never supported such an idea.buff.ly/TOGIbSd

The Trump administration has ordered that ICE agents temporarily suspend “non-urgent” vehicle stops, following a series of fatal shootings by federal agents, including two killings in Texas and Maine this month.buff.ly/jIZiHCE

“Weaponizing” one’s vehicle seems to be the government’s go-to excuse for lethal force. Markwayne Mullin used the same terminology to justify ICE fatally shooting Guerrero. Yet, it’s the ICE officers who are turning people’s vehicles into caskets. buff.ly/vc5Rwns

Racial justice organizers in the legal profession are gearing up for a meeting where ABA will decide whether to officially drop its commitment to promoting diversity in law schools.buff.ly/oiUYhoY

In a “dear colleague” letter on Tuesday, Hakeem Jeffries wrote that he will be voting against a measure introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie that would cut $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing to Israel.buff.ly/oZMg9dC

Trump’s speech will focus on newly declassified intelligence reports that indicate a foreign nation may have attempted to interfere in the 2020 presidential race. The president will also discuss supposed vulnerabilities within voting machines.

In a late-day statement on Monday, DHS shifted its narrative on the fatal ICE shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine, saying that the man was trying to flee and that the immigration agent shot him out of supposed fear for “public safety.”buff.ly/Ynp551l

When students return to school this fall in the Salamanca in Western New York, a new kind of teacher will be ready to greet them. The small, rural district is set to be one of the first in the country to put a humanoid robot in a classroom.buff.ly/SW8akfK

Minnesota prosecutors announced that they obtained a trove of evidence from the federal government in the killings Renee Good and Alex Pretti, all of which the federal government had previously refused to turn over. buff.ly/4CZGxyj

Trump has formally alerted Congress that he has restarted the U.S. war on Iran, potentially allowing his administration to argue that the War Powers deadline has been reset. Despite the "ceasefires", the war did not actually end. buff.ly/Aj90WgC

In a change of course, the Trump administration’s plans to detain tens of thousands of immigrants in warehouses have been massively scaled back. Local communities mobilized swiftly to stop these massive detention sites, some capable of holding 10k people. buff.ly/9NYq9yb

Marco Rubio announced a “campaign to dismantle” the International Criminal Court, the Hague-based tribunal tasked with investigating war crimes. Rubio accused the court of “waging a war against our country[...]with the force of so-called international law.”buff.ly/hJARh37

Witnesses said that, around 7:15 am, they heard multiple shots ring out, and saw agents pulling a man who was bleeding from the head out of the car, per the Portland Press Herald.

Two immigrant rights groups said that the victim was a 26-year-old Colombian man who was authorized to work in the United States, and held a Social Security number.

An ICE agent reportedly shot and killed a person in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, marking the second person killed at the hands of federal immigration agents in a week. buff.ly/w3zNj0R

U.S. President Donald Trump said that the U.S. is supposedly going to take control over the Strait of Hormuz and charge a 20% fee — just weeks after Marco Rubio said that “no country is allowed” to impose fees on ships passing through the waterway.buff.ly/WVpSs9c

Sports are supposed to be a place in which countries that have been on the receiving end of imperial brutality have a rare chance to compete with each other and with world powers on a level playing field.

The words “rigged” and “corruption” filled Little Egypt’s Steinway Street after the match and were all over social media feeds as well. “It needs to be a fair game, and today I don’t think it was a fair game.”truthout.org/articles/after…

The collapse of Graham Platner’s campaign is not proof of a unique blind spot among democratic socialists. It is a mirror reflecting a systemic failure shared by a defensive party establishment and an increasingly elitist corporate press.buff.ly/8BlSOzg