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Alabama's legislature passed a bill in late March requiring all state and local entities to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America." Now Birmingham's public radio station WBHM has told its listeners that due to the law, which took effect October 1, the University of Alabama at Birmingham is forcing it to use the legislature’s preferred language in its reporting.
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The station is licensed to the university, making its employees both state and UAB employees. Still, WBHM’s Journalism Code of Integrity emphasizes the newsroom’s independence and states that the university “should not — and cannot — expect to exert influence on WBHM’s journalists and its independent editorial process.”
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Dahlberg also announced in the letter that he is stepping down from his position and leaving the station. His resignation was supposed to be effective October 16, but he posted an update that the university told him on Monday morning that he should pack his bags immediately. We cannot say for sure whether the university hastened Dahlberg’s departure due to his message to listeners and the criticism it generated, but the timing is certainly suspicious.
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18 months after @mahmoudkhalel's arrest, the Trump administration still hasn’t brought charges against him. Now, he’s taking his case to the Supreme Court.
He joined @akela_lacy on The Intercept Briefing to explain.
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Listen to the full episode here: theintercept.com/2026/10/02/…
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham is rolling over to Trump and his acolytes in the state, rather than stand up for editorial independence. theintercept.com/2026/10/02/…
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How much does it cost to get more information about a cop who punched someone in the face? If you guessed anything lower than $2.5 million, you’d be wrong — at least according to the city of Eugene, Oregon.
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In August, the local news outlet Double Sided Media filed a public records request for records about police officer Justin Peckels, which focused on potential misconduct between 2018 and 2026. Peckels has been the subject of community complaints, including for punching a resident in the face during a traffic stop, making the records vital for oversight and their release clearly in the public interest.
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Taken by ICE last year for protesting Israel, Khalil speaks on how his fight is bigger than whether he gets to stay in this country. theintercept.com/2026/10/02/…
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A Eugene-based publication requested records about a cop accused of misconduct. The city slapped it with a prohibitive fee. theintercept.com/2026/10/01/…
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After a lengthy delay and multiple attempts to administer a lethal dose of pentobarbital, the state of Tennessee failed to kill Christa Pike on September 30.
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Trump’s proposed budget hides $1 trillion in military spending from the public by spreading it across disparate government agencies. theintercept.com/2026/10/01/…
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The Intercept is suing for critical records in the Prairieland “antifa” terrorism case that has seen anti-ICE activists hit with prison sentences totaling over 560 years. Can you chip in $5 by midnight to help us uncover the truth?
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ICE briefly posted eight of its 2025 death reviews online. Most of them raised issues of substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees. theintercept.com/2026/09/30/…
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Despite support from other Democrats, the Senate voted 51-47 against a resolution to force U.S. probes on killings of Americans in the West Bank. theintercept.com/2026/09/30/…
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As the Trump administration fights to keep deporting immigrants to countries where they have no connections, we studied the system that profits from these grave abuses. theintercept.com/2026/09/29/…
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A whistleblower says the warden didn’t make a federally required disclosure. Now the company is turning the Arizona prison into an ICE jail. theintercept.com/2026/09/29/…
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“This is one of the singularly most distressing cases that I’ve seen in terms of public access to records. This is stonewalling on steroids.” theintercept.com/2026/09/29/…
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The Trump administration’s attempt to rebrand its faltering forever war hasn’t slowed the mounting toll of U.S. casualties. theintercept.com/2026/09/28/…
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