Democracy Now
Lake dries up in Switzerland
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- Lake dries up in Switzerland
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- 0:38
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- 1 day ago
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- Record-breaking heatwaves in Europe have led to historic drought conditions, drying up lakes and waterways. The drought is already affecting farming, trade and energy production. Climate scientists warn that conditions will only worsen worldwide.
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- New Human Rights Watch report on U.S.-Ecuador military campaign
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- 0:47
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- 2 days ago
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- A new report by Human Rights Watch raises alarm over abuses on civilians as part of a joint U.S.-Ecuador military campaign under the government of the right-wing Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa.
"The Trump administration has deepened U.S. security cooperation with Ecuador," says Juanita Goebertus, director of the Americas division at Human Rights Watch. "None of the two governments have provided transparency about the nature of their security cooperation."
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- Rep. Max Miller accused of violence against women going back to high school
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- 2:44
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- 2 days ago
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- Democrats are calling for an ethics investigation into Republican Congressmember Max Miller of Ohio, who is facing allegations of domestic abuse as he runs for reelection. Miller's ex-wife Emily Moreno, daughter of Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, claims that Miller burned her by throwing hot water at her, held a gun to her head and fractured their 2-year-old daughter's collarbone.
Mother Jones obtained around 2,000 pages of court filings and police reports pertaining to Miller, which include allegations dating back to high school. "There is an established pattern of multiple women claiming that they were abused by Congressman Max Miller," says Abby Vesoulis, national politics reporter for Mother Jones.
Miller is also accused of abuse by former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, who was in a relationship with Miller prior to his marriage to Moreno.
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- "Digital Doppelgangers": Naomi Klein Corrects the Record on Viral AI-Generated Quote
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- 3:52
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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During Thursday's live show, we shared a quote from author Naomi Klein that we later discovered was AI-generated. Klein has written about the fake quote and on her Substack, and joins Democracy Now! to discuss the growing difficulty of verifying oline information.
"These companies are creating digital doppelgangers of us, trying to monetize our identities," says Klein. "One wonders how we're ever going to get out of this house of mirrors unless companies are forced to label AI-generated work."
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- Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes
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- 16:54
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- Naomi Klein corrects the record on viral AI-generated quote
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- During Thursday’s Democracy Now! segment about the risks of artificial intelligence, we shared a quote from author Naomi Klein that we later discovered was AI-generated.
“These companies are creating digital doppelgangers of us, trying to monetize our identities,” says Klein. “One wonders how we’re ever going to get out of this house of mirrors unless companies are forced to label AI-generated work.”
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- "Assault, Misogyny, Verbal Threats": Mother Jones Exposé on Allegations Against GOP Rep. Max Miller
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- 11:28
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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Republican Congressmember Max Miller of Ohio is facing allegations of domestic abuse as he runs for reelection. Miller's ex-wife Emily Moreno, daughter of Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno, claims that Miller burned her by throwing hot water at her, held a gun to her head and fractured their 2-year-old daughter's collarbone. Miller is also accused of abuse by former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, who was in a relationship with Miller prior to his marriage to Moreno.
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- Rep. Ro Khanna on Blanche Nomination, Epstein Accountability and His Detention by Israeli Settlers
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- 13:30
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- 2 days ago
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We speak to Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna about President Trump's attempt to nominate his personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, as Attorney General, accountability for survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse and trafficking, Khanna's detention by Israeli settlers in the West Bank and more.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 31, 2026
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- 9:35
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- 2 days ago
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- Haitians in U.S. lose protection from deportation
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- 2:03
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- 3 days ago
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- The Haitian community is bracing for mass deportations after the Supreme Court last month sided with the Trump administration to end TPS, or Temporary Protected Status, for over 300,000 Haitians living in the United States.
Community advocate Vilès Dorsainvil says many people would love to return home, but the yearslong chaos and violence in Haiti means "they do not have a country to go back to."
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- How activists pushed bank to divest from private prisons
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- 2:09
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- 3 days ago
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- Citizens Bank has divested from CoreCivic and GEO Group, the two largest private prison companies that operate many immigration jails for ICE. The move comes amid sustained pressure by activists and after Jersey City pulled over $250 million of municipal funds from the bank, an effort led by Democratic Socialists on city council.
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- Report from Springfield, Ohio: Haitians Brace for ICE Crackdown After TPS Protections End
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- 6:49
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- 3 days ago
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The Haitian community is bracing for mass deportations after the Supreme Court last month sided with the Trump administration to end TPS, or Temporary Protected Status, for over 300,000 Haitians as well as thousands of Syrians who fled violence in their home countries. According to an internal government document, the plans to round up and deport Haitian immigrants could start this week. President Trump has long expressed animus toward Haitians in the United States. During the 2024 presidential campaign, he amplified false claims that Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, were eating cats and dogs. “The fear is so huge in our community,” says Vilès Dorsainvil, co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Support Center in Springfield, Ohio. Due to the risk of violence in Haiti, the U.S. government is warning American citizens not to travel to the country. For many Haitian immigrants who fled to the U.S. for saf...
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- Citizens Bank Cuts Ties to ICE Prison Companies GEO Group & CoreCivic After Grassroots Campaign
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- 12:47
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- 3 days ago
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A coalition of social justice organizations is celebrating a recent decision by Citizens Bank to divest from private prison companies that operate immigration jails for the federal government. The financial institution has faced significant pressure from protesters for providing more than $2.5 billion in financing to CoreCivic and the GEO Group, which work directly with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. While the bank denied that activist pressure affected its decision, the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition counted it as a victory.
“It was absolutely thanks to the incredible work of the activists,” says Jake Ephros, a Democratic Socialist member of Jersey City Council, who helped push the municipality to pull over $200 million in city funds from the bank.
We also speak with Rev. John Edgerton, senior minister of Old South Church in Boston and a board member of the Greater Boston Inte...
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- AI Goes Rogue: OpenAI Agent Hacks Other Firms as Growing Coalition Demands Safeguards
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- 21:17
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- 3 days ago
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Artificial intelligence tools are quickly advancing in sophistication and capabilities, raising alarm among researchers and industry figures who say the technology needs to be more tightly regulated. This comes as OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, recently disclosed that one of its experimental AI agents went rogue and secretly hacked into the infrastructure of several other companies in what was supposed to be a controlled test. Over 1,100 scientists and senior employees at top AI firms have called on the U.S. government to back international efforts to “deliberately pace” the development of the world’s most advanced AI systems.
“What we’re talking about now are AI systems that also have goals on their own that they can actively go out and pursue in the world,” says AI researcher Max Tegmark, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tegmark says OpenAI’s rogue agent is...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 30, 2026
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- 13:16
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- India cracks down on "Cockroach" movement
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- 1:15
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- 4 days ago
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- After weeks of street protests, the youth-led "Cockroach" movement is accusing India's right-wing government of reneging on its promise to not take punitive action against demonstrators.
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- What you need to know about cyclosporiasis
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- Dr. Debra Houry was previously the chief medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She resigned from her post one year ago in protest over political interference at the agency and the leadership of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
We spoke to Dr. Houry amid a major outbreak of the foodborne parasite cyclosporiasis, which has reached more than 11,000 cases across 41 states. The numbers of cases are still climbing, and all sources of contamination in these latest outbreaks may never be identified.
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- Israeli impunity & U.S. complicity
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- 1:22
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- 4 days ago
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- We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel’s continued impunity from international law.
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- India Unleashes "Massive Crackdown" on Youth-Led Cockroach Mvmt After Education Minister's Ouster
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- 14:29
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- 4 days ago
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We go to New Delhi for an update on India's youth-led, anti-government "Cockroach" movement. After weeks of street protests against Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and the ruling BJP party, Pradhan tendered his resignation on Saturday. Now, however, protest leaders are accusing right-wing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of reneging on his promise to not take punitive action against demonstrators. "Because this government and its policy is, and has always been, that of vengeance, … we are witnessing a massive crackdown on student activists across the country," says Neha Bora, a doctoral student at Jawaharlal Nehru University and the national president of the All India Students Association. Bora spent 23 days on hunger strike during the protests.
Indian writer and artist Shuddhabrata Sengupta points out that the movement is not the first major "Gen Z"-led protest in the country. Six years ago, Ind...
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- "Tipping Point": Ex-CDC Official Links Cyclosporiasis, Measles Outbreaks to Trump Public Health Cuts
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- 13:42
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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The United States is facing a number of major disease outbreaks, from foodborne cyclosporiasis to vaccine-preventable measles. We speak to the former chief medical officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Debra Houry. She resigned from her post one year ago in protest over political interference at the agency and the leadership of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist who has overseen the slashing of billions of dollars in public health funding during the second Trump administration.
"The U.S. is really at a tipping point, when you look at measles, whooping cough, all these vaccine-preventable diseases, as well, and the secretary is responsible for this," says Houry. "Public health matters. When it works, you often don't know, because you're saving lives. But when you take it away, we see those consequences today."
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- U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Slams U.S. "Complicity" as ICC-Wanted Netanyahu Visits White House
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- 14:58
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- 4 days ago
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We speak to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, about Israel's continued impunity from international law. Despite an International Criminal Court warrant out for his arrest, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently visited the White House to meet with President Donald Trump. While the United States is not a member state to the ICC, "It doesn't mean that they have to extend protection to a fugitive from international law," says Albanese, who joins widespread international calls for Netanyahu's arrest. "The United States is actively contributing to make the international criminal law architecture that it has been building, from the Nuremberg trials up until now, crumble on our head."
Albanese also comments on settler- and soldier-led "pogroms" in the occupied West Bank and calls out the complicity of the governments of Greece, Italy...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 29, 2026
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- 12:06
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- BreakThrough News responds to government subpoena
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- 2:22
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
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- The Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News last week, demanding the independent online news outlet hand over internal communications and financial records.
"They're attempting to criminalize dissent and an independent press," says BreakThrough News journalist Rania Khalek, comparing it to the McCarthy-era campaign against left-wing groups.
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- LGBTQ rights: Man drives into Berlin’s Pride celebrations
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- 1:01
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
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- A man drove a minivan into a crowd of people near Berlin's Pride celebrations on Saturday, killing one person and injuring 29 others. Authorities shot and killed the man during an operation on Sunday. The alleged suspect was identified as Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German citizen. According to authorities, Ballout tried to join the Islamic State in 2025 and was released from prison in May after being jailed for preparing an attack.
"The far right here in Germany is, of course, waiting for an attack like this one to use it in order to highlight that the foreigners are the problem," says Alfonso Pantisano, LGBTQ affairs commissioner for the Berlin state government. "By doing so, they completely forget and avoid to look at how much queerphobia there is in this country in all various levels of structures."
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- Trump admin targets antiwar organization CodePink
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- 2:06
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
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- As the Trump administration threatens to intensify its "global campaign to crush radical left terrorism," a new 100-page report issued by the State Department last week accuses the Cuban government of waging a "sustained campaign of subversion against the United States." The report claims Cuba has backed a number of groups in the United States, including the feminist antiwar organization CodePink.
CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin calls the State Department's report "an incredible piece of garbage" for attempting to link U.S. peace movements to Cuba and for "paint[ing] this picture of a tiny island nation that is trying to overthrow the United States."
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- Berlin's Queer Commissioner on Fatal Car Ramming Attack on LGBTQ+ Pride Celebration
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- 8:18
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- 5 days ago
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A man drove a minivan into a crowd of people near Berlin's Pride celebrations on Saturday, killing one person and injuring 29 others. Authorities shot and killed the man during an operation on Sunday. The alleged suspect was identified as Abdul Ballout, a 21-year-old German citizen. According to authorities, Ballout tried to join the Islamic State in 2025 and was released from prison in May after being jailed for preparing an attack.
"The far right here in Germany is, of course, waiting for an attack like this one to use it in order to highlight that the foreigners are the problem," says Alfonso Pantisano, LGBTQ affairs commissioner for the Berlin state government. "By doing so, they completely forget and avoid to look at how much queerphobia there is in this country in all various levels of structures."
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- Meet Beto Coral, Activist Targeted by ICE for Criticism of Trump-Backed Colombian President-Elect
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- 13:42
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- 5 days ago
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A prominent Colombian activist left the United States after he was arrested by immigration agents and detained for over a month in an ICE jail. Franklin Humberto Coral Garrido, known as Beto Coral, was a frequent online critic of far-right President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, a Trump ally, in the run-up to Colombia's election.
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- A New McCarthyism? Republicans' Escalating War on Leftist Groups
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- 18:10
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- 5 days ago
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As the Trump administration threatens to intensify its "global campaign to crush radical left terrorism," we look at a new 100-page report issued by the State Department last week accusing the Cuban government of waging a "sustained campaign of subversion against the United States." The report claims Cuba has backed a number of groups in the United States, including the National Lawyers Guild, Pastors for Peace, the National Network on Cuba and the feminist antiwar organization CodePink.
Meanwhile, the Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News last week, demanding the independent online news outlet hand over internal communications and financial records. BreakThrough News says it's being targeted over its coverage of U.S. mass deportations, ICE abuses, Cuba and Palestine solidarity and U.S. foreign policy.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 28, 2026
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- 15:19
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- 5 days ago
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- How the U.S. embargo hurts regular Cuban people
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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- U.S. policy toward Cuba "is a disaster," says Democratic Congressmember Jim McGovern. "We should lift the embargo. We should have normal relations with the Cuban people. We should let the Cuban people decide their future."
The Trump administration imposed a strict oil embargo on Cuba starting in January. It has caused nationwide blackouts, food shortages and negative health outcomes for people on the island.
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- New wave of Israeli violence across the West Bank
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- 2:16
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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- A new wave of violence by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the occupied West Bank is part of a larger goal of "ethnically cleansing Palestinians," says journalist Mariam Barghouti.
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- Wildfires are becoming increasingly unmanageable, says "Fire Weather" author
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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- Increasingly destructive "megafires" like those raging across parts of North America and Europe are "basically vindicating, unfortunately, the warnings of climate scientists and firefighters," says author John Vaillant.
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- Israeli Army & Settlers Are Working Together to "Ethnically Cleanse" West Bank: Mariam Barghouti
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- 9:28
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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Israeli settlers torched two mosques over the weekend in a new wave of violence targeting Palestinian towns and villages across the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, Israeli military forces on Saturday detained over 70 Palestinians in raids across the occupied territory. This follows the killing of at least four Palestinians in the village of Tal on Friday, when Israeli settlers and soldiers opened fire on residents attempting to protect their homes; two Israelis were also killed.
Palestinian journalist Mariam Barghouti says the Israeli army and Israeli settlers “should not be seen as separate” as they carry out “a familiar pattern of collective punishment.” She also stresses that anti-Palestinian violence in the occupied West Bank cannot be divorced from Israeli repression in Jerusalem and its genocide in Gaza.
“This is a colonial regime that is engaging in crimes against humanit...
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- "Iraq 2.0"?: Rep. Jim McGovern on Iran War, New Red Scare, Israeli War Crimes & Dem Party Divide
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- 15:23
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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We speak with Democratic Congressmember Jim McGovern of Massachusetts, a longtime critic of U.S. foreign policy, in a wide-ranging conversation about Iran, Cuba, ending military funding for Israel and more. Last week, McGovern joined the entire Democratic caucus and four Republicans to pass a resolution calling on President Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from hostilities against Iran.
"It's just like Iraq," says McGovern. "We're getting involved in a quagmire here, an endless war."
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- "Frontlines of a Burning World": Climate Change-Fueled "Megafires" Sweep Europe & North America
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- 15:03
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- 6 days ago
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France and Spain are battling catastrophic wildfires that have forced more than 350,000 people to evacuate their homes. The fires began in the southwest of France on Wednesday before spreading to Spain, where they have consumed more than 120,000 acres in what is now the most destructive fire in Spain's recent history. Meanwhile, a new heat wave is expected to hit Europe this week, with temperatures soaring above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit).
Professor Ángel Luis Lara, who fled his home west of Madrid, says he considers his family "very lucky" because they managed to escape to safety. He says the wildfires are not just about extreme weather, but also "decades of neoliberal policies" that have diminished public services and the ability to respond to natural disasters.
We also speak with journalist John Vaillant, author of Fire Weather, who says the climate crisis has created condi...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 27, 2026
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- 15:16
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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- Israel's "Alligator Alcatraz"?
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- 0:28
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- A new proposal by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir would see Palestinians held in a prison surrounded by a crocodile-infested moat.
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- U.S. mercenary groups conduct drone strikes in Haiti
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- On Wednesday, Congressmember Joaquin Castro questioned Colonel Justin Gorkowski of the U.S.'s "Haiti Gang Suppression Force Tiger Team" about a Human Rights Watch report from March. The report revealed that drone strikes led by Erik Prince’s private military firm Vectus Global in Haiti had killed at least 60 civilians — including 17 children.
The U.S. military and a number of U.S.-based security contractors are in Haiti aiming to suppress the island nation's rise of armed paramilitary "gangs," which have wrested territorial control from the government amid an ongoing political crisis.
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- India’s “Cockroach” political movement?
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- 2:24
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- A youth-led protest movement in India is demanding an end to the country’s status quo. Sparked by the leak of national exam questions, tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets.
Although the protesters’ initial demands were for the resignation of the country’s education minister, “everything has shifted to directly attacking [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi,” says Indian writer Arundhati Roy, who says the erosion of democratic principles under Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata (Indian People’s) Party is being contested on a large scale for the first time.
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- U.S. vows to dismantle the ICC
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- The Trump administration is attempting to dismantle the power of the International Criminal Court, potentially protecting the U.S. government from consequences for its abuses of power.
It has imposed wide-reaching sanctions on judges, prosecutors and groups who have accused U.S. ally Israel of war crimes.
“This is an insurance policy against accountability for crimes that the Trump administration is committing in plain sight," says veteran war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody.
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- Trump says Saudi Arabia must recognize Israel to close nuclear deal
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
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- The status of a newly signed U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal is in question after President Trump made the surprise announcement that the deal is off unless Saudi Arabia normalizes relations with Israel. The deal paves the way for Saudi civil nuclear development, although critics warn that it could lead to the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the politically volatile Middle East.
Saudi Arabia has long maintained that it would not officially recognize Israel by joining the Abraham Accords, the U.S.-negotiated diplomatic deal between Israel and a number of Arab states, until there is a pathway toward the creation of a Palestinian state.
The Abraham Accords provision indicates that “Israel is calling the shots again,” when it comes to U.S. policy in the Middle East, notes Daniel Levy of the U.S./Middle East Project. Levy says it is unlikely that Saudi Arabia will agree to Trump’s new conditions, at a cost to U.S. business interests, which stand to profit handily...
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- "Farmers of the Sea": PBS Film Profiles Puerto Rican Fishermen on the "Frontlines of Climate Change"
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- 5:53
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
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Filmmaker Juan Carlos Dávila's new film for PBS, Farmers of the Sea, documents climate change's threats to the fishing industry and food security in Vieques, Puerto Rico. For islands in the Caribbean, explains Dávila, "we are situated geographically in one of the frontlines of climate change. [We're] not only facing stronger hurricanes now, [but] we could face food shortages, especially the islands that depend so much on the food that comes from the sea."
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- Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of "Colonial" PROMESA Control as GOP Targets Birthright Citizenship
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- 12:42
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
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After failing to overturn birthright citizenship at the Supreme Court, Republican legislators are turning to new tactics to disenfranchise people born on U.S. soil. Their latest targets are those born to noncitizen or permanent resident parents in U.S. territories like Puerto Rico, where the Supreme Court has said citizenship is granted by statute and full constitutional protections do not apply. The proposed "End Birthright Citizenship for the Territories Act" would create "a subclass of people who can be discriminated against" and "disregarded as human beings" in the U.S. territories, says Puerto Rican legal scholar Efrén Rivera Ramos, who joins Democracy Now! from Puerto Rico's capital city, San Juan. While the bill's sponsor, Republican Congressmember Morgan Griffith of Virginia, says he's focused only on so-called birth tourism, Rivera Ramos says the language of the law is less clear.
The quas...
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- "Cockroach Democracy": Arundhati Roy on India's Youth-Led Protest Movement, Modi's Crumbling Support
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- 14:51
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
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A youth-led protest movement in India is demanding an end to the country's status quo. Sparked by the leak of national exam questions, tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets. They are protesting under the banner of the Cockroach Janta (People's) Party — a new party named to reflect the words of India's chief justice, who compared unemployed youth to cockroaches and parasites. The movement has only swelled in response to a violent crackdown on protesters. Although the protesters' initial demands were for the resignation of the country's education minister, "everything has shifted to directly attacking [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi," says Indian writer Arundhati Roy, who joins us from New Delhi, the physical center of a movement that first found exponential success online. The erosion of democratic principles under Modi's right-wing Bharatiya Janata (Indian People's) Party is being contested...
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- "America First or Israel First?" Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Saudi Nuke Deal, Iran & More
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- 12:03
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- 9 days ago
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The status of a newly signed U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal is in question after President Trump made the surprise announcement that the deal is off unless Saudi Arabia normalizes relations with Israel. The deal paves the way for Saudi civil nuclear development, although critics warn that it could lead to the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the politically volatile Middle East.
Saudi Arabia has long maintained that it would not officially recognize Israel by joining the Abraham Accords, the U.S.-negotiated diplomatic deal between Israel and a number of Arab states, until there is a pathway toward the creation of a Palestinian state. The Abraham Accords provision indicates that "Israel is calling the shots again," when it comes to U.S. policy in the Middle East, notes Daniel Levy of the U.S./Middle East Project. Levy says it is unlikely that Saudi Arabia will agree to Trump's new conditions, at a cost to...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 24, 2026
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- 10:14
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- 9 days ago
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- Protests in Italy over police killing
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- 0:30
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- 10 days ago
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- Abderrahim Fakir, a 42-year-old immigrant business owner who had lived in Italy since he was a young child, died after he was pinned to the ground by police in Bologna, Italy on Sunday.
Fakir's last moments were captured and circulated widely on social media. According to the footage, two officers hold him down as he screams for help in Italian, while a third man holds his feet as Fakir is bound. Fakir continues screaming until he is unconscious.
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- Palestinian activist's deportation case is "textbook censorship" by the Trump admin
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- 2:16
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- 10 days ago
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- Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi is facing a new deportation threat after a three-judge panel overturned a lower court ruling that had freed him from ICE custody. Mahdawi was involved in pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University and says he is being targeted solely for his advocacy.
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- Salah Sarsour on ICE detention
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- 1:49
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- 10 days ago
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- Green card holder Salah Sarsour is a Palestinian community leader in Milwaukee who was recently released from an ICE jail after 80 days of detention, but he still faces the risk of deportation. Sarsour's lawyers say he is being targeted by the federal government over his advocacy for Palestinian human rights.
Sarsour says his time in detention brought back "bad memories" from his childhood living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank, including when he spent years in an Israeli prison.
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- Why Gaza is "the future of genocide"
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- 1:39
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- 10 days ago
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- Gaza is "the future of genocide," says Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov. He predicts the lack of accountability for Israeli crimes will set a terrifying precedent for future wars.
