Insiders profiting off ICE’s real estate deals, whistleblowers gone silent, and more from The Lever this week.

Lawyers flocked to East Palestine after a toxic train derailment, winning a $600 million settlement. Case closed? Not even ...

South Memphis was already struggling with poor air quality — and then a colossal gas-powered data center came to town.

California sues ghost gunmakers, Colorado protects family health care, Virginia cuts the cord on ICE, and Oregon races toward affordability.

U.S. consumers and businesses footed 95 percent of the cost of Trump’s tariffs between January and August of last year.

Federal regulators have reportedly already received a complaint over prediction market Kalshi’s Super Bowl halftime show ...

An FBI interview reveals Deutsche Bank’s internal warnings about Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner — and alleged retaliation against the whistleblower.

Trump largely dismantled ICE’s civil rights oversight office. Now, as Congress clashes over Homeland Security funding, its fate hangs in the balance.

In a landmark antitrust case, Michigan alleges oil companies colluded to “capture and kill” clean-energy and electric-vehicle ...

By invoking Franklin D. Roosevelt’s warning about economic hardship and fascism, AOC is arguing that working-class populism isn’t just good policy — it’s democracy’s last line of defense.

The NFL takes a stand, Big Pharma middlemen taste justice, windmills get a boost, and one state protects its immigrants.