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DSA vs. Establishment: New York Primary Tests Growing Antiwar Split in Democratic Party
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- DSA vs. Establishment: New York Primary Tests Growing Antiwar Split in Democratic Party
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- 13:27
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- 3 months ago
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Today is Election Day in New York, with a number of primary challengers hoping to unseat Democratic establishment politicians. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have a packed slate of 10 candidates across congressional, state Assembly and state Senate races. "People are really looking for something else other than these corporate Democrats," says Liza Featherstone, author and columnist for Jacobin. Describing the DSA as a key part of the "grassroots base" of the left wing of the Democratic Party, Featherstone says DSA members want elected leaders who have come out of movements themselves, not just lifelong politicians who only turn to movements for endorsements every four years.
Palestine is a key issue in many of the races, with DSA challengers taking a strong stand against genocide, while some incumbents have received large donations from AIPAC-linked super PACs. "People are absolutely di...
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- Lebanese Conservationist Mona Khalil, 76, Killed by Israel
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- 10:12
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- 3 months ago
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Acclaimed conservationist Mona Khalil was killed by an Israeli strike on her beachside home in the village of al-Mansouri in southern Lebanon. The 76-year-old spent more than 25 years working to protect endangered sea turtles, and her work helped turn a stretch of southern Lebanon's coastline into one of the most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles in the eastern Mediterranean.
Khalil lived in "the Orange House" — her grandmother's home, which she helped transform into a refuge for endangered sea turtles, an ecotourism site and a training ground in ecological conservation for a generation of volunteers. "This is not a project that belongs to me," she once said. "It belongs to Lebanon. It belongs to the whole world."
A refugee of the Lebanese civil war, Khalil returned to Lebanon from the Netherlands in 1999 and began her conservation work after seeing a turtle laying egg...
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- "Line of Control": Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Life Along Gaza's "Yellow Line"
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- 12:20
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- 3 months ago
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Israel is continuing to attack Gaza despite the so-called ceasefire. Israeli strikes killed Ahmed Wishah, a cameraman with Al Jazeera, and at least six people, including two children, on Saturday. Wishah's brother Mohammed, who also worked for Al Jazeera, was killed in an Israeli strike this April. Israel has now killed over 260 journalists in Gaza, including at least 12 working for Al Jazeera, since October 2023.
"We don't see the type of outrage that we would see if a Western journalist was killed by a country that is not a U.S. ally," says Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Middle East and North Africa editor at Drop Site News. "It's really a shameful state of affairs." Kouddous also comments on the expansion of Israel's "genocidal tactics" in Gaza that have now been "exported outside of Palestine in places like Lebanon."
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 23, 2026
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- 11:45
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- 3 months ago
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- Trump-backed candidate wins Colombian presidential election
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- 1:01
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- 4 months ago
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- Right-wing Trump ally Abelardo de la Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Sunday's runoff presidential election in Colombia, defeating leftist Senator Iván Cepeda, an ally of current President Gustavo Petro.
De la Espriella ran a fearmongering, "tough-on-crime" campaign, promising to build mega-prisons inspired by El Salvador's authoritarian President Nayib Bukele, to bomb "narcoterrorist camps" and to abandon Petro's peace efforts. His reported victory is also a win for President Trump, whose administration is waging an intensifying "war on drugs" across Latin America, targeting left-wing leaders like Petro with false allegations and threats of military intervention.
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- Car runs into protester at Delaney Hall
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- 0:47
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- 4 months ago
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- In Newark, New Jersey, a Father's Day vigil outside the Delaney Hall ICE jail was disrupted when a red sports car entering the facility struck a protester who was waving an upside-down U.S. flag. Demonstrators said they believe the driver of the car was an employee of the GEO Group, the for-profit private prison company that operates the ICE jail. Soon after, ICE agents deployed pepper spray and mace on the crowd.
The hunger and labor strike that detained immigrants at Delaney Hall began on May 22 is ongoing, despite most of the strikers having been transferred out of Delaney and sent to other ICE jails, according to local activists.
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- Iran war has “fundamentally transformed" the United States’s position in the Middle East
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- 1:52
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- 4 months ago
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- Mediators from Pakistan and Qatar say the United States and Iran made "encouraging progress" during 18 hours of negotiations in Switzerland, where the two sides agreed to a roadmap toward reaching a final deal within 60 days. The Iran war has “fundamentally transformed the United States' position in the Middle East,” says journalist Spencer Ackerman.
“The Iranians have cratered the air bases, destroyed the radar systems that protected those air bases, and have held at risk the energy and other critical infrastructure — data center facilities — around the Gulf states that hosted the United States’s military presence, made those U.S. allies in the Gulf think very seriously about whether the United States’s military umbrella actually defends them.”
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- "Criminal Approach to Politics": Trump Ally Abelardo de la Espriella Wins Colombian Presidency
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- 16:52
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- 4 months ago
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Right-wing Trump ally Abelardo de la Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Sunday's runoff presidential election in Colombia, defeating leftist Senator Iván Cepeda, an ally of current President Gustavo Petro. De la Espriella ran a fearmongering, "tough-on-crime" campaign, promising to build mega-prisons inspired by El Salvador's authoritarian President Nayib Bukele, to bomb "narcoterrorist camps" and to abandon Petro's peace efforts. His reported victory is also a win for U.S. President Donald Trump, whose administration is waging an intensifying "war on drugs" across Latin America, targeting left-wing leaders like Petro with false allegations and threats of military intervention.
"De la Espriella clearly represents a criminal approach to politics: lying, propaganda, coordination and collusion with criminal narcotrafficking, restriction of rights, and money laundering," says longtime Colombian ...
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- PM Keir Starmer Resigns & Palestine Action "Terrorism" Sentencing of "Elbit 4"
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- 13:34
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- 4 months ago
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Keir Starmer has announced his resignation as the United Kingdom's prime minister and leader of the Labour Party following growing pressure from within his own party to step down. During his time in office, Starmer faced mounting opposition over his embrace of austerity measures amid a cost-of-living crisis in Britain, as well as his brutal crackdown on Palestine solidarity protesters. Former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is widely expected to become the next prime minister. Some leaders of the British left have warned Burnham may do little to shift from Starmer's policies, including his position on Israel.
Starmer "really lost support in the party because he was perceived as too right-wing for it and because he was too boring. He lacked charisma," explains our guest, the Australian British human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson.
Robertson also discusses Britain's Court of Appeal's rulin...
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- U.S.-Iran War Upends Middle East Balance of Power
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- 21:22
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- 4 months ago
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Mediators from Pakistan and Qatar say the United States and Iran made "encouraging progress" during 18 hours of negotiations in Switzerland, where the two sides agreed to a roadmap toward reaching a final deal within 60 days. The talks took place despite Iran on Saturday announcing it was closing the Strait of Hormuz after Israel killed 83 people in Lebanon on Friday. Israel said it would agree to a new ceasefire in Lebanon but is also refusing to end its occupation of southern Lebanon.
"Iran has, through its throttling of the Strait of Hormuz, enormous leverage to produce pain on not just the United States, but global markets," says award-winning journalist Spencer Ackerman. "We're going to await how the Iranians will ultimately play that card when it comes to Lebanon."
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, fellow at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center, says that ...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 22, 2026
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- 11:52
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- 4 months ago
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- “Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Song
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- 19:01
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- 4 months ago
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“Another Wasted Life.” That’s the name of a remarkable new song by the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Grammy-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens. She released a video of the song on October 2 to mark International Wrongful Conviction Day. The song was inspired by Kalief Browder, a Bronx resident who died by suicide in 2015 at the age of 22 after being detained at Rikers Island jail for nearly three years, after being falsely accused at the age of 16 of stealing a backpack. He was held in solitary confinement for two years and was repeatedly assaulted by guards and other prisoners.
In the video for “Another Wasted Life,” Rhiannon Giddens features 22 people who were wrongly incarcerated. Together, they collectively served more than 500 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. The video includes two men, David Bryant and Tyrone Jones, who each spent 40 years in prison. Another seven of the men ea...
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- Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera “Omar” About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said
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- 15:10
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- 4 months ago
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As part of our Juneteenth special broadcast, we feature our interview with pioneering musical artist Rhiannon Giddens, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her opera Omar, about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar in Africa who was sold into slavery in the 1800s.
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- Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
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- 20:29
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- 4 months ago
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We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. We begin with our 2021 interview with historian Clint Smith, originally aired a day after President Biden signed legislation to make Juneteenth the first new federal holiday since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Smith is the author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America. “When I think of Juneteenth, part of what I think about is the both/andedness of it,” Smith says, “that it is this moment in which we mourn the fact that freedom was kept from hundreds of thousands of enslaved people for years and for months after it had been attained by them, and then, at the same time, celebrating the end of one of the most egregious things that this count...
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- "Shoot the People" Documentary Profiles Acclaimed Photographer Misan Harriman
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- 25:58
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- 4 months ago
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The new documentary Shoot the People profiles the Nigerian British photographer and activist Misan Harriman, the first Black photographer to shoot the cover of British Vogue and an outspoken advocate of Palestinian rights. We speak to Harriman in New York City ahead of the film’s U.S. premiere, about his work, the repression and criminalization of pro-Palestine protest in the United Kingdom — including the unprecedented sentencing of four activists with the group Palestine Action as terrorists — and more. “I genuinely believe that through art and culture, we can see that the sum of all of our parts is stronger than the powerful few,” says Harriman.
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- DOJ Takes Elon Musk's Side in NAACP Lawsuit Against xAI for Polluting Black Neighborhoods
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- 7:31
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- 4 months ago
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The Department of Justice has intervened in a legal case involving the world’s first trillionaire, Elon Musk, asking a Mississippi federal court to toss a lawsuit from the NAACP against Musk’s company xAI, a subsidiary of SpaceX. The NAACP says xAI is violating the Clean Air Act by running dozens of unpermitted gas-burning turbines in majority-Black neighborhoods to fuel its data centers in Memphis, Tennessee. The Department of Justice, however, is arguing that the lawsuit violates national security by “seeking to shut off the power supply for artificial-intelligence innovation that supports the Department of War’s military operations.”
“We should be concerned about this type of authoritarian rule,” says NAACP attorney Abre’ Conner, who adds that communities themselves “should be the ones to make the decisions about our health, about pollution in communities, about stopping sacrific...
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- G7 Summit Highlights Global Economic System "Captured" by Billionaires: Oxfam
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- 8:34
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- 4 months ago
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World leaders are returning home from the annual G7 summit, having failed to address issues such as income inequality, climate change and territorial conflict, while entertaining the wealthy executives of the artificial intelligence and fossil fuel industries. Oxfam International Executive Director Amitabh Behar calls the G7 “a club of the super-rich super-elites” and slams the summit’s focus on business, and business as usual, at the expense of humanitarian efforts and improving the lives of “the common people.”
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- Trump's War on Iran Ends with a "Triumphant" Tehran and a Diminished U.S.: Vali Nasr
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- 13:16
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- 4 months ago
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The United States and Iran have officially signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war in Iran. The 14-point agreement includes an immediate end to fighting on all fronts including Lebanon, an end to the U.S. naval blockade on Iran and the full resumption of maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. It also proposes easing oil sanctions on Iran, unfreezing Iranian assets and launching a $300 billion investment fund to rebuild Iran, all while tabling the question of Iran’s nuclear program, which is instead set to be negotiated over in the coming months.
“The United States is more eager for this war to end than Iran is,” says professor Vali Nasr, who teaches at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. “In Iran, they’re very triumphant.” We discuss the long-term effects of the war, from the growing U.S. distrust of Israel, to the new generation of pol...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 18, 2026
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- 13:33
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- 4 months ago
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- Has the Iran war damaged the U.S.-Israeli relationship?
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- 0:58
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- 4 months ago
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- Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg says "Trump's had enough" of Netanyahu and is willing to ignore his objections in order to secure a peace deal with Iran.
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- DOJ charges Minnesota activists over anti-ICE protests
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- 1:47
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- 4 months ago
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- Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have charged 15 people in connection with anti-ICE protests in the Twin Cities. The point of the indictments is "to spread fear," says attorney Bruce Nestor, who represents one of the defendants.
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- "Journacide: The War on Truth": New Film Investigates Israel's Killing of Reporters in Lebanon
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- 16:27
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- 4 months ago
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Israel has killed over 260 journalists and media workers in Gaza since October 7, 2023. With Israel's latest and ongoing assault on Lebanon, the death toll of journalists there has reached 28. Irish filmmaker Seán Murray investigates Israel's killings of journalists in his new feature documentary "Journacide: The War on Truth." He says the term "journacide" applies to Israel's military actions because of the "explicit nature of the targeting and killing of journalists" as a way to silence the truth. Murray calls it "the Gaza doctrine that is now being applied in Lebanon."
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- Has Trump Had Enough of Netanyahu? Israel Defies U.S., Vows to Continue War in Lebanon
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- 12:48
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- 4 months ago
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The United States and Iran are set to formally sign an agreement Friday to end military hostilities, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and begin negotiations on a long-term peace accord between the two countries.
According to terms of the memorandum of understanding obtained by CNN and other media outlets, there is to be "an immediate and permanent end to the war on all fronts, including Lebanon." The leaked text also promises sanctions relief for Iran and access to the country's frozen assets held abroad, as well as a $300 billion fund for reconstruction and development. The memo reiterates Iran's long-held position that it will never produce nuclear weapons, with the fate of its nuclear program delayed until further negotiations.
Israel has vowed to ignore the U.S.-Iran agreement and maintain its occupation of southern Lebanon, with many Israeli leaders and commentators expressing outrage ...
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- "The Point Is to Spread Fear": DOJ Charges 15 with Conspiracy for Anti-ICE Protests in Minnesota
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- 12:05
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- 4 months ago
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Federal prosecutors in Minnesota have announced criminal charges against 15 people in connection with anti-ICE protests in the Twin Cities. The defendants are accused of "conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers" and of allegedly "violently" impeding immigration enforcement in Minneapolis during Trump's so-called Operation Metro Surge, during which thousands of federal immigration agents were deployed and fatally shot two U.S. citizens.
The indictment focuses on Direct Action Minnesota, or DAMN, a broad activist coalition that prosecutors have linked to anti-fascist, or "antifa," groups. Last fall, President Trump categorized antifa as a "domestic terror organization" even though it is not an actual group.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 17, 2026
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- 13:19
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- 4 months ago
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- Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center
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- 1:13
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- 4 months ago
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- President Donald Trump's name has been removed from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., after a judge ruled its addition was illegal. The Kennedy Center's board, which was handpicked by Trump, voted to add his name to the center late last year.
"This is just the first step in rebuilding the trust that has been lost," says Mallory Miller, who was fired from her job as assistant manager of dance programming at the Kennedy Center in August 2025. She is the co-founder of Hands Off the Arts, a group that has been rallying outside the Kennedy Center every week.
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- South Texas community groups take on SpaceX
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- 2:36
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- 4 months ago
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- Environmental and conservation groups recently filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a land swap approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that would give SpaceX more than 700 acres of a national wildlife refuge in South Texas.
SpaceX has conducted rocket launches for several years from an area known as Starbase, which was formally incorporated as a city in 2025. It is essentially a company town with officials and most voters tied to SpaceX.
"Elon Musk is using our impoverished community as his laboratory to blow up dangerous experimental SpaceX rockets," says Bekah Hinojosa, co-founder of the South Texas Environmental Justice Network, one of the groups that filed the lawsuit.
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- Will Israel have the final say on Iran deal?
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- 0:50
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- 4 months ago
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- The U.S. and Iran reached a memorandum of understanding on Sunday extending the ceasefire by 60 days. It is set to be formally signed in Geneva on Friday.
According to Iran, the deal calls for a permanent and immediate cessation of hostilities on all fronts, including in Lebanon. But Israel, which is not a party to the agreement, says it plans to keep troops in parts of southern Lebanon.
"The Israelis are trying to destroy this deal, and they will continue to try," says Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. "It will require persistent, consistent pressure by Trump on the Israelis in order to hold them back."
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- Watching the World Cup in Gaza
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- 0:51
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- 4 months ago
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- Displaced fans in Gaza are struggling to watch the 2026 World Cup.
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- Kennedy Center: Fired Artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph Speaks Out as Trump Name Removed from Building
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- 20:57
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- 4 months ago
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- "Land Grab": Trillionaire Elon Musk Sued in South Texas to Block SpaceX Takeover of Wildlife Refuge
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- 10:26
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- 4 months ago
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Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire on Friday with the largest initial public offering in stock market history for his rocket and AI company SpaceX. The company is based in South Texas in a city controlled by Musk known as Starbase, which SpaceX has used for rocket launches since 2014. Environmental and conservation groups recently filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block a land swap approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that would give SpaceX more than 700 acres of a national wildlife refuge in South Texas.
With Starbase, "SpaceX has already burned down dozens of acres of wildlife habitat, is dumping polluted water on our beach, has sent rocket debris into our communities, into communities in Mexico," says Bekah Hinojosa, co-founder of the South Texas Environmental Justice Network, which is part of the lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Elon Musk is using our ...
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- Trita Parsi on the U.S.-Iran Peace Deal & Being Threatened with Deportation
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- 11:04
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- 4 months ago
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The U.S. and Iran reached a memorandum of understanding on Sunday extending the ceasefire by 60 days. It is set to be formally signed in Geneva on Friday. The text of the agreement has not yet been released, but Iran has agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while the U.S. will lift its naval blockade. According to Iran, the deal calls for a permanent and immediate cessation of hostilities on all fronts, including in Lebanon. But Israel, which is not a party to the agreement, says it plans to keep troops in parts of southern Lebanon. "The Israelis are trying to destroy this deal, and they will continue to try," says Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. "It will require persistent, consistent pressure by Trump on the Israelis in order to hold them back."
We also discuss how The Free Press, founded by Bari Weiss, published an article last week clai...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 16, 2026
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- 12:04
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- 4 months ago
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- DOJ Approves Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Amid Fears Trump Allies Will Tighten Grip on Media
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- 6:01
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- 4 months ago
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The Trump administration has approved media conglomerate Paramount’s $111 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros., one year after Paramount and Skydance Media signed a similar merger that placed Paramount’s movie studio, streaming service and broadcast network CBS under the control of the multibillionaire Ellison family, founders of Skydance and close allies of Donald Trump. The Warner Bros. merger, if completed, would bring an even larger slice of the industry’s market share into Ellison control. It’s been contested for months as a likely violation of antitrust laws amid a wider trend of corporate consolidation in the media and entertainment industry. “This has been one of the most shallow and corrupt merger review processes we’ve ever seen,” says Craig Aaron, co-CEO of the advocacy organizations Free Press and Free Press Action (not to be confused with Paramount Skydance’s conservative news outlet T...
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- Major Antiracist Rally Held in Belfast to Condemn Anti-Immigrant Riots
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- 20:22
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- 4 months ago
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Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman is in Belfast, where several days of racist riots have targeted immigrants and ethnic minorities with violence, threats and property destruction. It is the third consecutive summer of organized mob violence against immigrants in Northern Ireland, with roots in the extant paramilitary structures that remain there after decades of sectarian warfare. Our broadcast from the Northern Ireland capital features guests Sinéad Marmion, an immigration lawyer, and Patrick Corrigan, the Northern Ireland director of Amnesty International UK. Both were among the tens of thousands who attended a recent rally in Belfast condemning racism and standing in solidarity with immigrants. “The vast majority of people in Belfast, as across Northern Ireland, are antiracist and very welcoming to the people who have come here to make their lives from around the world,” says Corrigan. “We wanted to send,...
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- Will Israel Blow Up Trump's Deal? Jeremy Scahill on Iran Talks, Strait of Hormuz, Nukes & More
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- 15:11
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- 4 months ago
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More than 100 days into hostilities, Iran and the United States say they have reached a preliminary deal to end the war. Israel, however, is not a party to the tentative deal and says it plans to keep occupying areas of southern Lebanon — a position still contested by Iran and the key sticking point to the partial ceasefire deal agreed to by the U.S. and Iran in April. Although the new agreement is set to be signed Friday, Israel’s unrelenting assault on Lebanon could once again spoil any deal.
“This is going to become the center of whether any actual agreement takes place,” says Drop Site News's Jeremy Scahill, who joins Democracy Now! to break down what we know about this latest round of diplomacy. As the U.S. now intends to end the war without accomplishing its initial goals of regime change and nuclear capitulation, it appears that Trump has “finally accepted some version of his manufac...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 15, 2026
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- 13:17
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- 4 months ago
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- "New form of imperialism" powers AI and other advanced technology
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- 1:55
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- 4 months ago
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- Environmental scientist Kaveh Madani says the unequal environmental impact of artificial intelligence and other advanced technology amounts to a "new form of imperialism," with poorer communities often paying the price for the comfort of those in richer countries.
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- Pope Leo mourns migrant deaths
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- 0:37
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- 4 months ago
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- Pope Leo addressed migrants and rights groups in Spain's Canary Islands, a major crossing point for people seeking refuge in Europe.
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- Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian activist, faces new deportation threat
- Runtime
- 1:46
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, who was targeted by the Trump administration for his advocacy, is facing new legal risk after an immigration judge revived his deportation case. He notes the dramatic change in U.S. public opinion on Israel and says "the fight in Palestine and the fight here in America is interconnected."
- Title
- The story of Wagner Group, Russia's notorious mercenaries
- Runtime
- 1:23
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- Filmmaker Rick Rowley's new documentary "Hell's Army" tracks the Wagner Group, the notorious Russian mercenary force that has fought in Ukraine and other parts of the world.
- Title
- "Hell's Army": New Film Tracks Russia's Wagner Group & Rise of Mercenary Armies
- Runtime
- 9:48
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Title
- Mohsen Mahdawi: Trump Admin "Weaponizing Immigration Laws" to Deport Me
- Runtime
- 7:49
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Title
- "Cautionary Tale": NYC's The New School Guts Faculty & Staff as Colleges Intensify Austerity
- Runtime
- 8:05
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Title
- U.S. Attacks Iranian Water Reservoirs Amid "Normalization" of Targeting Civilian Infrastructure
- Runtime
- 4:01
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Title
- "New Form of Imperialism": Renowned U.N. Scientist on AI Boom's Huge Water, Carbon & Land Footprint
- Runtime
- 11:37
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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The environmental toll of the artificial intelligence boom continues to mount as tech companies use ever more power to run their data centers and use enormous amounts of water for cooling. A new investigation by U.N. scientists warns that AI's water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3 billion people, while its power use will be triple that of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria combined — countries with a total population of 650 million.
"Most people understand AI as a digital technology, as a virtual thing, as something that is in the clouds," says Iranian environmental scientist Kaveh Madani, director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health. "What we tried to do in this report was to remind people that there's some physics to all of this."
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — June 12, 2026
- Runtime
- 12:58
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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- Title
- Madison Square Garden's invasive surveillance network
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
- Description
- We go behind the scenes at New York City’s Madison Square Garden to discover the shocking secrets of a vast surveillance machine employed by billionaire Trump donor James Dolan to track and target his enemies.
A bombshell investigation by Wired magazine reveals the inner workings of the arena's facial recognition technology to create lists of so-called "threats" and feed information to private security forces.
- Title
- Will Congress Renew Controversial Surveillance Law? Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cindy Cohn
- Runtime
- 8:57
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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A key provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is set to expire Friday unless it is reauthorized by Congress. Section 702 allows for the warrantless surveillance of foreign nationals believed to be outside of the U.S., yet, in practice, it also sweeps up and stores vast amounts of data from people inside the country, including their emails, texts and cellphone data. The FISA provision was enacted in 2008 to legalize George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program that was developed after 9/11.
A bipartisan group of senators is opposing the reauthorization of Section 702 due to President Trump’s naming of MAGA loyalist Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, to replace Tulsi Gabbard, who announced her resignation in May. Pulte has no known background in intelligence. He currently serves as director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, where he has used his position...
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- "Keep the Game Beautiful": Why ICE Crackdown & FIFA Greed Could Spoil the World Cup
- Runtime
- 6:37
- Date posted
- 4 months ago
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“People are really, really afraid … that ICE will go and raid communities where people are watching and gathering together” to watch the FIFA World Cup, says Nelini Stamp. She is an organizer with the Our Copa campaign, a grassroots initiative that aims to protect immigrant fans, center the sport’s working-class roots, and host accessible local watch parties during the World Cup. “We will keep each other safe as much as possible during these games,” says Stamp.
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