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Experts are concerned about the dangerous conditions at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center that opened Tuesday in the Florida Everglades. Hurricanes, flooding, and mosquitoes pose a more likely threat to people incarcerated there than the alligators and snakes that President Donald Trump has “joked” about. Built in eight days, …

As lawmakers drafted what is poised to become the landmark legislative achievement of his second term, President Donald Trump told Republicans in Congress in May, “Don’t fuck around with Medicaid.” On Wednesday, as he met with holdouts on the “Big Beautiful Bill” to try to get it over the finish …

The authors are staff writers at The Harvard Lampoon, the school’s 150-year-old humor magazine. As college students on the cusp of graduation, we face an uncertain future. We’ve spent the last few years sleeping in class, cheating on homework assignments in our dreams, and discussing the nuances of the Israeli-Palestinian …

Throughout President Donald Trump’s second term, he’s used every means possible to promote himself and prop up his agenda in unprecedented ways — even as he pulls apart the government brick by brick. Now, it’s happening at the embattled Social Security Administration, which manages America’s core safety-net program. On Thursday, …

President Donald Trump’s administration deported eight immigrants to South Sudan, a dangerous country where most of the men have no ties, the Department of Homeland Security said Saturday. The Friday night deportations come after two federal judges refused to block the move, citing recent rulings by the Supreme Court. The …

After publicly feuding with President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, announced Saturday that he has started a new political party. Musk made the announcement a day after Trump signed his “Big Beautiful Bill” into law on Friday, which Musk called a “disgusting abomination.” Musk said he could …

Donald Trump used the antisemitic term “Shylocks” while speaking at an event in Iowa Thursday night. The president employed the slur to describe predatory loan lenders while discussing the newly passed domestic tax and spending bill, which he has dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill.” “Think of that: no death tax, …

Bad Bunny is bringing all the festive energy at a time where it feels hard to celebrate July 4th. In his new music video for “Nuevayol,” the Latin superstar honors the Puerto Rican diaspora and delivers a poignant pro-immigrant message. Toward the end of the video, a voice that sounds …

This Fourth of July, musician Ben Folds has released a brand-new album recorded live at the sold-out Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The show took place before Trump seized the Center and Folds resigned from his leadership position there in …

The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” —Donald Trump and the GOP’s sprawling legislative packagethat will cut taxes on the rich, supercharge the administration’s immigration raids and arrests, and gut green-energy initiatives while kicking millions of Americans off their health care and other social services — is now law. The president signed …