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View More NewsIstanbul, July 8, 2026—Turkey should put an end to arbitrary detentions and arrests of journalists following the recent detaining of at least 11 members of the press ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Three of the journalists who were taken into police custody in Turkey between June 23 and July 7 remained behind bars at the time of publishing, with two of them having been arrested. Some were apprehended in the scope of sweeping preliminary police operations ahead of the July 7-8 summit, while others appear to be isolated cases. “Whether or…
The Trump administration claims that its new Homeland Security task forces are here to protect Americans from an “invasion” by undocumented immigrants and thwart terrorist organizations, foreign cartels, and transnational gangs. So why are they targeting immigrant asylum seekers—who are in the country legally—over sex work? To be fair, this seems to be a minor part of the task forces’ business. Much of the time, they’ve been waging a drug war against American citizens, as I reported last month. Today, I want to focus on one case that didn’t make it into that piece. It’s the case that turned me…
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