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Tennessee approves gerrymandered congressional map
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- Tennessee approves gerrymandered congressional map
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- 0:59
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- 5 months ago
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- Tennessee’s Republican-dominated state Legislature on Thursday approved a new congressional map that breaks up a decades-old district in the majority-Black city of Memphis into three Republican-leaning districts.
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- Trump's border wall construction damages sacred Indigenous site
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- 1:52
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- 5 months ago
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- Construction crews in Arizona building President Trump's expanded border wall have razed a portion of a Native American archeological site in the Sonoran Desert estimated to be at least 1,000 years old. Aerial photos reveal that bulldozers caused extensive damage to a massive etching in the desert sand known as an intaglio, which holds special significance for the Hia-Ced O'odham people.
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- Trump's takeover of elections, state by state
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- 1:26
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- 5 months ago
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- The Trump administration is seeking to gain federal control over elections in at least eight states, employing investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID records for the campaign.
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- “They Don’t Care”: Trump’s Border Wall Construction Damages 1,000-Year-Old Sacred Indigenous Site
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- 8:00
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- 5 months ago
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Construction crews in Arizona who are building President Trump’s expanded border wall have razed a portion of a Native American archeological site in the Sonoran Desert estimated to be at least 1,000 years old. Aerial photos reveal that bulldozers caused extensive damage to a 280-by-50-foot etching in the desert sand known as an intaglio, which holds special significance for the Hia-Ced O’odham people.
Lorraine Marquez Eiler, co-founder of the International Sonoran Desert Alliance and an elder of the Hia-Ced O’odham, says locals informed both the work crews and Border Patrol officials about the significance of the intaglio.
“On Thursday, late afternoon, they were still talking about how to protect the area and went home feeling that they were still working together. On Friday, for whatever reason, the contractors bulldozed the area,” says Marquez Eiler.
“This wal...
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- Amid Growing Abuse at ICE Jails, Rep. Adelita Grijalva Calls to Shut Down Trump’s Detention Network
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- 6:10
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- 5 months ago
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As the Trump administration continues to expand the ICE detention system, concerns are growing over abuses inside immigration jails, including use of physical violence, pepper spray and electric shocks against detainees. Earlier this year, more than 70,000 people were being detained by ICE in jails across the country.
Congressmember Adelita Grijalva from Arizona, who visited two ICE jails recently, says detainees who spoke to her described dire conditions, medical neglect and more. “People are losing weight. Water is undrinkable,” she says. “There are a lot of really significant abuses happening. There’s no rhyme or reason as to what’s going on.”
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 8, 2026
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- 12:36
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- 5 months ago
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- Trump Pushes to Take Over Elections, Punish His Enemies: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Ned Parker
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- 17:20
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- 5 months ago
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A new investigation by Reuters details how the Trump administration is seeking to gain federal control over elections in at least eight states, employing investigations, raids and demands for access to balloting systems and voter ID records for the campaign.
"What we're seeing is the Trump administration, in some ways, is seeking to relitigate the 2020 election, and they're also seeking to impose federal authority over the administration of elections," says investigative journalist Ned Parker.
Parker also discusses the Trump administration's campaign of retribution against the president's perceived enemies, for which he and his colleagues at Reuters just won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. "What we found in our count of 470 targets was that it really cut across all aspects of American society," he says.
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- Over 20,000 Global South Ship Workers Stranded at Sea Due to Iran War
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- 10:44
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- 5 months ago
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As Iran and the United States maintain rival blockades on the Strait of Hormuz and surrounding waters, we look at the more than 20,000 seafarers stranded on commercial ships since the outbreak of the war and unable to move out of the region. These maritime workers are often working-class men from developing countries across the Global South who form the crews on about 1,500 oil tankers, cargo ships and other vessels currently stuck on the water. Unpaid for several weeks, they lack the visas to disembark in any of the Gulf countries near the ships.
“There is lack of food, there is lack of provisions, there is lack of water,” says Mohamed Arrachedi of the International Transport Workers’ Federation, joining us from Bilbao, Spain. “The seafarers are just exposed and absolutely vulnerable.”
We also speak with Manoj Yadav, general secretary of Forward Seamen’s Union of India, who ...
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- Supreme Court kicks off "gerrymandering arms race" with Voting Right Act decision
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- 1:15
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- 5 months ago
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- "The country's most important civil rights law no longer effectively exists, and that's going to have ramifications on American democracy for a very long time," Mother Jones correspondent Ari Berman says of the Supreme Court's recent 6-3 decision rejecting key principles of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Since the court issued its ruling last week, Republican-controlled states have begun to redraw their voting maps in a "gerrymandering arms race" that "could lead to the largest drop in Black representation since the Jim Crow era," says Berman.
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- Hindu nationalists consolidate power in India
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- 1:33
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- 5 months ago
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- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party in India has just won key state-level elections, bringing over 70% of the country under the control of his right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP. The results are "bad news for everyone" who believes in a diverse, pluralistic India, says journalist Arfa Khanum Sherwani.
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- Rat infestation in Gaza: Israel's blockade compounds misery
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- 2:00
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- 5 months ago
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- Gaza is facing an “environmental collapse” under Israeli bombardment and blockade, reports Palestinian aid worker Eyad Amawi of the Gaza Relief Committee. Israel’s destruction of infrastructure has become a “generator for disease,” with sewage contamination and rodent infestation now an everyday hazard for refugees living in tent camps.
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- “Gerrymandering Arms Race”: GOP Rushes to Erase Black Representation After SCOTUS Guts Voting Rights
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- 7:41
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- 5 months ago
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“The country’s most important civil rights law no longer effectively exists, and that’s going to have ramifications on American democracy for a very long time.” Mother Jones correspondent Ari Berman reacts to the Supreme Court’s recent 6-3 decision rejecting key principles of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Since the court issued its ruling last week, Republican-controlled states have begun to redraw their voting maps in a “gerrymandering arms race” that “could lead to the largest drop in Black representation since the Jim Crow era,” explains Berman. “We’re returning to the days of literacy tests and poll taxes — not through those devices, but through specifically trying to eliminate Black office holders. And Southern legislators are very clear they are going to do this. They feel unshackled by the Supreme Court ruling. They are being pressured by President Trump to do it, and they feel like a...
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- India’s Modi Gov’t Purged Millions of Voters Before Elections in “Direct Attack” on Democracy
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- 19:23
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- 5 months ago
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won big in state-level elections this week, with the Hindu nationalist BJP now controlling over 70% of the country. Leading opposition politician and Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee has refused to recognize the results as legitimate, accusing the Modi government of mass disenfranchisement. Ahead of elections, 9 million names were deleted from the rolls under a process called “Special Intensive Revision” (SIR). The process, conducted by India’s Election Commission, “vitiates and creates an electoral advantage by pitting Hindu voters against Muslim voters,” says political scientist Gilles Verniers. Rather than the advertised purge of deceased and duplicate voters, SIR appears to have primarily affected Muslims and other minorities. Nearly 3 million voters in West Bengal, where more than a quarter of the popul...
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- Gaza Faces Public Health Collapse Amid Rat Infestation & Disease as Israel Blocks Reconstruction
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- 13:44
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- 5 months ago
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Gaza is facing an "environmental and biological apocalypse" under Israeli bombardment and blockade, reports Palestinian aid worker Eyad Amawi of the Gaza Relief Committee. Israel's destruction of infrastructure has become a "generator for disease," with sewage contamination and rodent infestation now an everyday hazard for refugees living in tent camps. "[It's] no longer just bombardment or physical destruction. It is the collapse of every essential condition required for human survival: water, food, health, dignity, shelter, safety, everything." Amawi also comments on the extended detention of two international activists with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Thiago Ávila and Saif Abukeshek will not be released before this weekend, according to the latest update from the Israeli military. Neither has been charged with any crime.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 7, 2026
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- 14:37
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- 5 months ago
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- The cost of ignoring Anita Hill
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- 1:46
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- 5 months ago
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- Despite Anita Hill’s claims in 1991 that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her when he was chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court.
“This intersectional failure not only impacts Black women, not only impacts communities of color,” says legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw. “It undermined the security and the democracy of the entire nation.”
During his tenure on the Court, Thomas has provided the tie-breaking vote in many cases that roll back rights for people in the United States.
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- U.S. falls in global press freedom rankings
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- 2:41
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- 5 months ago
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- Reporters Without Borders’s World Press Freedom Index charts how press freedoms have deteriorated in the United States and elsewhere over the past 25 years. The U.S. was ranked 17th in the world in 2002. In the latest index, the U.S. is down to 64th, falling seven places since last year.
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- How Israel is violating the ceasefire in Lebanon
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- 0:57
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- 5 months ago
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- “The conditions that we're seeing right now in Lebanon is escalating attacks across the south, and the destruction, it's hard to describe,” says Lylla Younes, an investigative journalist based in Beirut.
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- "Backtalker": Kimberlé Crenshaw on New Memoir, Voting Rights, Critical Race Theory & Clarence Thomas
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- 16:24
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- 5 months ago
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Leading scholar in the field of critical race theory Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term "intersectionality," which she has described as a "lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects." Crenshaw, a professor of law at UCLA and Columbia University and executive director of the African American Policy Forum, has just published a new book, "Backtalker: An American Memoir."
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- Israel's Destruction of Southern Lebanon Turns Villages into "Moonscapes"
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- 9:25
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- 5 months ago
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The Israeli military issued new evacuation orders in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, warning residents of 12 towns and villages, including some north of the Litani River — beyond its current zone of occupation — to leave their homes. Those warnings were followed by reports of airstrikes in the south. Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a fragile temporary ceasefire in mid-April that has since been extended, but fighting has continued at a lesser scale. More than 1 million Lebanese, nearly one-fifth of Lebanon's population, have been displaced.
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- Global Press Freedom Hits Record Low, U.S. Drops to 64th in the World: Reporters Without Borders
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- 17:03
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- 5 months ago
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Reporters Without Borders warns press freedom has fallen to its lowest level since the group began publishing its annual World Press Freedom Index in 2002. The index has charted how press freedoms have deteriorated in the United States and elsewhere over the past 25 years. The U.S. was ranked 17th in the world in 2002. In the latest index, the U.S. is down to 64th, falling seven places since last year.
"It's tempting to lay all of this at the feet of President Donald Trump, and to be clear, he is the single biggest threat to American press freedom today," says Clayton Weimers, the North America director for Reporters Without Borders. "But the mere fact that we fell from 57th last year tells us that this isn't just a Trump problem. We have structural deficiencies that are imperiling the future of press freedom in this country.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 6, 2026
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- 12:04
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- 5 months ago
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- The FCC's war on Jimmy Kimmel
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- 1:45
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- 5 months ago
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- The Trump administration has weaponized the Federal Communications Commission to go after the president's perceived enemies in the media, says Anna Gomez, the sole Democratic commissioner on the FCC.
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- Iran war exposes U.S. imperial decline: historian
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- 1:35
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- 5 months ago
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- The U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz have exposed "the real limits of American imperial power," says historian Toby Jones.
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- "Assault on the 1st Amendment": Dem. FCC Commissioner on Mega-Mergers & Trump Targeting Kimmel, ABC
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- 18:10
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- 5 months ago
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As President Trump continues to attack media organizations and journalists, we speak with a sitting member of the Federal Communications Commission about how the administration has weaponized the FCC to go after his perceived enemies in the media. Anna Gomez is the sole Democratic commissioner on the FCC, which is currently operating with just three commissioners instead of the usual five. She criticizes the agency's recently announced review of ABC television licenses, which comes after President Trump called for the firing of ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. Under Chair Brendan Carr, the FCC has repeatedly gone after critics of the president by threatening to revoke valuable broadcast licenses.
"This administration is using any point of leverage that it has to go after its critics," says Gomez, who was appointed by President Joe Biden in 2023.
Gomez also discusses how media consolida...
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- Public Access TV at Risk: Cable Giants Threaten to Cut Funds for Local Stations Across U.S.
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- 10:05
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- 5 months ago
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As more people cut the cord and drop their cable TV subscriptions, public access channels are losing a vital source of revenue. For decades, cable television companies have paid franchise fees to local municipalities as compensation for use of the public right of way, through which the companies route cables and utilities. Those fees have funded local stations focused on public, educational, and governmental access programming.
"As there's migration to digital entertainment and to streaming, there is no local investment — there's no local jobs, there's no local programming," says Michael Max Knobbe, executive director of BronxNet in New York.
We also speak with Joe Barr, executive director of Access Sacramento in California, who says the station is "of the community, by the community, for the community." He adds that as the corporate media continues to consolidate, "it really could b...
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- Trump's War on Iran & Strait of Hormuz Crisis Reveal "Limits of American Imperial Power"
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- 13:29
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- 5 months ago
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We speak with Middle East history professor Toby Jones about the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz, where overlapping blockades by Iran and the United States have disrupted shipping and the wider global economy since the start of the war in late February. Jones says this latest conflict is part of a decadeslong project by the United States to exert imperial control over the oil-rich region, but that it's now in danger of a strategic loss signaling a deeper imperial decline.
"Through an unprovoked assault on Iran, Trump has accelerated, or at least clarified, the real limits of American imperial power," says Jones. "He's definitely put the United States in a much more vulnerable and weakened position globally as a result of this war."
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 5, 2026
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- 13:25
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- 5 months ago
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Correction: Organizer Dee Reed who appeared in the headlines at around 7 minutes is with Black Voters Matter, not Black Lives Matter. We regret the error.
Photo credit: Bing Guan via Reuters
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- Israel abducts Global Sumud Flotilla participants
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- 2:14
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- 5 months ago
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- On Thursday, Israel’s military intercepted nearly two dozen boats traveling with the Global Sumud Flotilla as they worked to bring food and humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
The vessels were chased down overnight by drones and military speedboats near the Greek island of Crete. Their radar was jammed as Israeli troops carrying assault rifles boarded the ships and ordered participants to their hands and knees. Some flotilla members had to be rescued after one boat was left to sink in international waters.
About 175 people were arrested, including Hannah Smith, who describes the violent raid, arrest and detention of herself and fellow activists. Two flotilla participants are still being detained without charges. Saif Abukeshek of Spain and Thiago Ávila of Brazi have been transferred to an Israeli prison, where they have launched a hunger strike.
Last year, Israel carried out similarly violent raids on a previous attempt by the Global Sumud Flot...
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- Worldwide press freedoms hit record low
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- 1:13
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- 5 months ago
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- Press freedom has fallen to its lowest level in 25 years, according to the 2026 World Press Freedom Index. 13 journalists have been killed around the world this year. 471 are currently detained and at least 21 are held hostage.
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- Trita Parsi on Iran War: Trump Still “Looking for a Silver Bullet” Instead of Negotiating Seriously
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- 9:29
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- 5 months ago
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We discuss the ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft’s Trita Parsi. U.S. officials are denying Iranian reports that a U.S. vessel was struck by Iranian missiles amid the two countries’ dual blockade of the strait. The warring nations still say they are observing a fragile temporary ceasefire as negotiations continue for a possible longer-term deal. However, says Parsi, “both sides are making maximalist demands,” so a diplomatic solution is unlikely. “As long as Trump continues to listen to those forces, the very same forces that also sold him this blockade that has backfired, we’re not going to see a diplomatic breakthrough. It requires a far more disciplined and flexible approach to negotiations, and right now we’re not seeing that from either side.”
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- Gaza Flotilla Member Details “Cruelty” of Israeli Abduction at Sea; Two Activists Still Detained
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- 16:45
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- 5 months ago
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We get a firsthand account of the violent raid, arrest and detention of members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, after Israeli forces intercepted the humanitarian mission in international waters Thursday. “We were held in a makeshift prison with shipping containers and barbed wire. Many people were subject to aggressive physical force. Of the 56 aid-carrying vessels attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza, more than a third were seized by the Israeli military,” recounts flotilla member Hannah Smith. Some flotilla members had to be rescued after one boat was “left sinking,” Smith reports.
Two members, Saif Abukeshek of Spain and Thiago Ávila of Brazil, are now being held without charges in an Israeli prison. “It is a favorite tactic of the Israeli regime to try to bully people into silence and submission, to threaten people, and they’ve gotten away with it for decades,” says ...
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- Abortion Rights Movement Shifts to “Plan C” as Court Restricts Mifepristone by Mail
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- 12:22
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- 5 months ago
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In a major blow to abortion access, a federal appeals court decision siding with the state of Louisiana has placed major restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone. The medication, used in roughly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S., can no longer be sent by mail or prescribed through telemedicine. But previous abortion restrictions show that curtailing access doesn’t reduce the prevalence of abortions. Instead, they make the procedure more dangerous, and even deadly. “They’re trying to stop the unstoppable. And as a result, these restrictions are pretty draconian and increasingly absurd,” says The Nation’s abortion access correspondent Amy Littlefield, who also explains what alternate steps patients and providers can now take to access medication abortion. The decision is expected to be challenged at the Supreme Court, making the anti-abortion movement “top of mind once again in a midterm ele...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 4, 2026
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- 15:11
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- 5 months ago
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- Did Carney's Davos speech lead to real change in Canadian policy?
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- 1:37
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- 5 months ago
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- Avi Lewis, the leader of Canada's left-wing New Democratic Party, says Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney has continued to uphold the Western double standards he rightly condemned in a memorable speech in Davos.
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- Neha Dixit on the dire state of workers’ rights in India
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- 1:32
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- 5 months ago
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- "Various governments in India and the central government have been trying to dilute labor laws," says Neha Dixit, an investigative journalist and author based in New Delhi. "They have tried to introduce new labor codes that restrict strikes, that promote hire-and-fire policy … and there have been constant protests and strikes against this."
Dixit's new book, “The Many Lives of Syeda X: A People's History of Invisible India,” is about Syeda, a working-class woman in Delhi who has worked 50 jobs over 30 years. One of those jobs is shelling California almonds as a piece-rate worker — meaning she is paid based on her output, not the hours she works.
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- Chicago Teachers Union spearheads May Day actions
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- 1:30
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- 5 months ago
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- Workers around the world are rallying today to mark May Day, International Workers' Day. The May Day Strong coalition in the United States says 3,000 protests and events are scheduled across the country today, with organizers calling for “no school, no work, no shopping."
A national public holiday in many countries, International Workers’ Day commemorates the 1886 Haymarket Square Riots in Chicago, where workers struggled for an eight-hour workday. Stacy Davis Gates, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, talks about the efforts Chicago teachers have taken to educate their students about May Day.
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- "A People's History of Invisible India": Journalist Neha Dixit on Dire State of Worker Rights
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- 13:27
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- 5 months ago
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On International Workers' Day, we take a look at the state of workers' rights and freedoms in India, where pressure on fuel supplies from the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has deepened the cost-of-living crisis and labor unrest is on the rise. In mid-April, tens of thousands of workers from the industrial hubs around New Delhi blocked roads to demand a fair wage and better working conditions.
"Various governments in India and the central government have been trying to dilute labor laws," says Neha Dixit, an investigative journalist and author based in New Delhi. "And there have been constant protests and strikes against this."
Dixit's new book is The Many Lives of Syeda X: A People's History of Invisible India.
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- "No School, No Work, No Shopping": Workers, Immigrants to Lead Thousands of May Day Protests
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- 13:32
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- 5 months ago
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As workers around the world rally to mark May Day, International Workers' Day, we speak with organizers in Los Angeles and Chicago. The May Day Strong coalition here in the United States says 3,000 protests and events are scheduled across the country with organizers calling for "no school, no work, no shopping."
The largest May Day protest in Los Angeles is planned at MacArthur Park. Pedro Trujillo, the coordinator of the Los Angeles May Day Coalition, says the July presence of immigration agents with SWAT gear and armored vehicles in MacArthur Park laid the foundation for a high May Day turnout. "That's why we see such a strong coalition coming together, over 120 organizations and unions here in Los Angeles endorsing this march. We haven't seen this level of support, of engagement, in a very long time," says Trujillo.
"We are creating a coalition to resist the tyranny of billionaires i...
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- From Springfield, Ohio, to the Supreme Court: A Pastor's Fight to Protect TPS for Haitians
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- 12:32
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- 5 months ago
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week on President Trump's push to strip temporary protected status from 350,000 Haitians and 6,100 Syrians living in the United States. The TPS program grants protection from deportation and work authorization to immigrants whose home countries are deemed unsafe to return to, most often because of war or natural disaster. The case could ultimately have ramifications for more than 1 million TPS holders from over a dozen countries.
TPS holders from Haiti and Syria say their countries remain unsafe and that DHS did not follow proper procedure. The lawsuit brought by Haitian TPS holders also accuses the administration of being motivated by racism — an allegation supported by a lower court ruling in February.
"Haiti is still in bad shape, and [TPS holders] cannot return there. So, you can imagine now the uncertainty that they live with on a dail...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — May 1, 2026
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- 13:36
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- 5 months ago
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- Will the Iran war accelerate the green energy transition?
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- 0:59
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- 5 months ago
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- Author and activist Bill McKibben says the Iran war has exposed the "utter folly" of fossil fuel dependence. "Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz," says McKibben. "That makes it a very appealing alternative, especially now that it's cheaper than burning coal and gas and oil."
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- What the Supreme Court's ruling on the Voting Rights Act means for minority representation
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Civil rights attorney Maya Wiley reacts to the Supreme Court decision that effectively guts the Voting Rights Act.
- Title
- Iran, Venezuela and the return of gunboat diplomacy
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- International relations scholar Gilbert Achcar says Donald Trump is bringing back "19th-century gunboat diplomacy" with his military actions in Venezuela, Iran and beyond.
- Title
- Sunlight Doesn't Go Through the Strait of Hormuz: Bill McKibben on Iran Oil Shock & Green Transition
- Runtime
- 10:51
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
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We speak with author and activist Bill McKibben about the worsening climate crisis and why the world must rapidly transition to renewable energy in order to stave off the worst impacts. He says the Iran war has exposed the "utter folly" of fossil fuel dependence. "Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz," says McKibben. "That makes it a very appealing alternative, especially now that it's cheaper than burning coal and gas and oil."
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- Scholar Gilbert Achcar on the U.S. War Against Iran & Trump's "Old-New Imperial Doctrine"
- Runtime
- 11:32
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
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We speak with Lebanese-born academic Gilbert Achcar about the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, U.S. foreign policy under President Trump and more. Achcar says Trump's military actions in Venezuela and Iran are not as dramatic a departure from U.S. policy as some commentators have suggested, calling it "an old-new imperial doctrine." While the George W. Bush administration believed in "regime change," says Achcar, Trump is "just going back to 19th-century gunboat diplomacy: You bomb a country until they submit."
Achcar's new book is Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective.
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- Title
- Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act in "Devastating Blow" to Democracy & Civil Rights: Maya Wiley
- Runtime
- 22:10
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
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The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the landmark 1965 law that was a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement.
"This is central to whether or not we maintain a multiracial democracy in this country," says lawyer and civil rights activist Maya Wiley, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She calls Wednesday's ruling "a free pass to discriminate."
Wiley also responds to the Justice Department's fraud case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which centers on the group's history of paying individuals to infiltrate white supremacist groups in order to monitor their activities.
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m...
- Title
- Top U.S. & World Headlines — April 30, 2026
- Runtime
- 11:18
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt
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- Title
- The U.S. Forest Service is spraying Roundup on trees
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- A major investigation by Nate Halverson for Mother Jones looks at how the U.S. Forest Service has been rapidly expanding its use of the popular weed killer glyphosate, known as Roundup, despite concerns about its safety.
This comes as the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case that could determine whether thousands of cancer patients can sue the manufacturers of Roundup. The herbicide was developed by Monsanto, which was bought by Bayer in 2018.
- Title
- Will the Iran oil crisis propel a global energy transition?
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 5 months ago
- Description
- As countries around the globe brace for the ripple effects of the energy shocks created by the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, transitions to clean energy could be accelerated, says Bloomberg climate reporter Akshat Rathi.
