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Photo Essay
In Photos: One Week Since the Shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis
Leah Feiger and Paloma Shutes


Plan Ahead
What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood
Lily Hay Newman, Maddy Varner, and Matt Burgess



Background Check
ICE Agent Who Reportedly Shot Renee Good Was a Firearms Trainer, per Testimony
Matt Giles and Tim Marchman


AI detectives
People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good
David Gilbert



The Big Interview
Margaret Atwood on Doomscrolling: ‘I Want to Keep Up With the Latest Doom’
Katie Drummond




EXPIRED/TIRED/WIRED
‘We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’—Trump’s Mass Deportations Will Only Grow From Here
David Gilbert



Dirty Laundry
Here’s What’s in the DOJ’s Epstein Files Release—and What’s Missing
Maddy Varner, Dell Cameron, and Caroline Haskins

Uncanny Valley
WIRED Roundup: The 5 Tech and Politics Trends That Shaped 2025
Zoë Schiffer and Brian Barrett


Nightmare Fuel
Terrifying New Photos Emerge From the Jeffrey Epstein Estate
Maddy Varner and Andrew Couts








Uncanny Valley
WIRED Roundup: DOGE Isn’t Dead, Facebook Dating Is Real, amd Amazon’s AI Ambitions
Zoë Schiffer and Leah Feiger


The Big Interview
Former USIP Lawyer on DOGE: ‘Brass Knuckles on an Authoritarian Fist’
Angela Watercutter

The Big Interview
David Hogg to Democratic Establishment: Get the Message or Get Voted Out
Marah Eakin


The Big Interview
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie: Past Leaders Took the City ‘for Granted’
Marah Eakin

Busted
FBI Says DC Pipe Bomb Suspect Brian Cole Kept Buying Bomb Parts After January 6
Dell Cameron and David Gilbert

Fishy Business
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Is Detaining People for ICE
Caroline Haskins

Inner Loop
The Trump Administration Wants Immigrants to Self-Deport. It’s a Shit Show
Vittoria Elliott




Return to Sender
Pranksters Re-Created a Working Version of Jeffrey Epstein’s Gmail Inbox
Boone Ashworth

Probing Questions
Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
Ali Winston




Uncanny Valley
WIRED Roundup: Fandom in Politics, Zuckerberg’s Illegal School, and Nepal’s Discord Revolution
Zoë Schiffer and Leah Feiger


Epstein Docs
Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump’s Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser
Tim Marchman and Leah Feiger





Shutdown
Social Security Employees Grill Management During Tense Shutdown Meeting
Zoë Schiffer and Leah Feiger




Empire State of Mind
‘New York City Has Fallen’: MAGA Responds to Zohran Mamdani’s Victory With a Racist Freak-Out
David Gilbert


Digital Democracy
The Inside Story of How Gen Z Toppled Nepal’s Leader and Chose a New One on Discord
Tulsi Rauniyar

Shifting Priorities
An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’
Ali Winston

Mace On A Plane
Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report
Jake Lahut

Influence Operation
Republicans Claimed Biden Censored YouTube. 20 Employees Seem to Say Otherwise
Makena Kelly



Shutdown
Federal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown
Vittoria Elliott and Makena Kelly


Trending Topics
CBP Searched a Record Number of Phones at the US Border Over the Past Year
Matt Burgess and Dell Cameron

Head count
The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
Vittoria Elliott

Show of Force
This Is the Nuclear-Powered Ship Deployed in Trump’s War on Drug Boats
Fernanda González

House Oversight
Hundreds of People With ‘Top Secret’ Clearance Exposed by House Democrats’ Website
Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Protests
The ‘Surge’ of Troops May Not Come to San Francisco, but the City Is Ready Anyway
Boone Ashworth







Poof, Gone!
The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure
Lauren Goode and Makena Kelly










Frozen Out
Apple Took Down These ICE-Tracking Apps. The Developers Aren't Giving Up
Reece Rogers and Lily Hay Newman




health care
Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr.’s Autism ‘Cure’
David Gilbert


Shutdown
Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown
Leah Feiger and Vittoria Elliott




