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CFPB Staffer Alexis Goldstein Fired for Confronting DOGE Members, Announces Run for Congress
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- CFPB Staffer Alexis Goldstein Fired for Confronting DOGE Members, Announces Run for Congress
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- 7:57
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- 8 months ago
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The Trump administration has fired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau program manager Alexis Goldstein for documenting a meeting a year ago between the agency and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. "I have been on admin leave ever since, until I was fired last week," says Goldstein, who says the Trump administration's gutting of the CFPB removed key oversight of the financial industry. "So, essentially, no one is watching the biggest banks."
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- "Extremely Dangerous Situation": Trita Parsi Warns U.S. & Iran Have Incentives to Escalate Conflict
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- 11:30
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- 8 months ago
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As U.S. and Iranian officials continue negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, President Trump has ordered a buildup of U.S. forces in the Middle East, including two aircraft carriers. "This is an extremely dangerous situation, which both sides are actually incentivized to escalate," says Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. "Both sides actually believe that a short, intense war may improve their negotiating position."
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- Jesse Jackson Fought for Justice at Home & Abroad: Juan González & Bishop William Barber
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- 16:47
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- 8 months ago
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Tributes are pouring in from across the globe for Reverend Jesse Jackson, who died on Tuesday. The civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate was 84 years old.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — February 18, 2026
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- 12:32
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- 8 months ago
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- How Jesse Jackson changed U.S. politics
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- 1:46
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- 8 months ago
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- Civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate Jesse Jackson has died at age 84. His work and activism "contributed to making this country more democratic, more inclusive, more fair," says Howard University professor Clarence Lusane.
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- Bernie Sanders on Jesse Jackson's legacy
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- 1:37
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- 8 months ago
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- Bernie Sanders described Jesse Jackson as "one of the very most significant political leaders in this country in the last 100 years" during a 2024 tribute to the civil rights icon and two-time presidential candidate. Jackson died February 17 at age 84.
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- When ICE Agents Lie: DOJ Drops Charges Against 2 Minneapolis Men Falsely Accused of Attempted Murder
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- 8:31
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- 8 months ago
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Two ICE officers have been placed on administrative leave and are accused of lying under oath about an incident in Minneapolis last month involving two Venezuelan immigrants, one of whom was shot in the leg by an agent. After the incident, the two Venezuelan men, Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, were charged with felony assault, falsely accused of beating an ICE officer with a broom and snow shovel. Sosa-Celis was shot in the right thigh. While the Department of Homeland Security originally claimed the men had attacked the agent in an act of "attempted murder," video evidence and witness testimonies contradicted the accusations. Federal prosecutors in Minneapolis last week dropped the felony assault charges against Aljorna and Sosa-Celis.
Criminal defense attorney Frederick Goetz, who represents Aljorna, says the admission of wrongdoing is "unusual" given that the Justice Departm...
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- Jesse Jackson's Legacy: From Marching with MLK to Building the Rainbow Coalition
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- 18:08
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- 8 months ago
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We look back on the life and legacy of civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84. From marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to building the Rainbow Coalition in his two presidential runs and beyond, "Jackson's life contributed to making this country more democratic, more inclusive, more fair," says Howard University political science professor Clarence Lusane.
We also speak with activist Larry Hamm, who co-chaired Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign in New Jersey. Hamm first met Jackson in 1971 and says he was "audacious" above all else. "Jesse knew his place in history," says Hamm.
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- Bernie Sanders on Jesse Jackson: One of the Most Significant Political Leaders of "Last 100 Years"
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- 6:04
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- 8 months ago
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As we remember the life and legacy of civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, we air remarks by Senator Bernie Sanders from a 2024 tribute held during the Democratic National Convention. Sanders, whose own two runs for president galvanized progressives across the United States, hailed Jackson's campaigns in 1984 and 1988 for building a broad coalition for social justice. "Jesse Jackson is one of the very most significant political leaders in this country in the last 100 years," Sanders said. "Jesse's contribution to modern history is not just bringing us together; it is bringing us together around a progressive agenda."
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- "Keep Hope Alive": Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Icon Who Twice Ran for President
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- 11:36
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- 8 months ago
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Civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson died Tuesday at the age of 84. Jackson is known for working closely with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the civil rights movement, and he later ran two groundbreaking presidential campaigns in 1984 and 1988, when he pushed to cut the Pentagon budget while increasing domestic spending on education, housing and healthcare. Jackson was also involved in international campaigns from the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa to supporting Palestinian self-determination. We remember his legacy and air interviews from his many appearances on _Democracy Now!_ over the years.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — February 17, 2026
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- 11:01
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- 8 months ago
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- Why is ICE still jailing Leqaa Kordia?
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- 1:48
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- 8 months ago
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- Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia will soon mark one year trapped in ICE detention. Kordia, who was born in East Jerusalem, first came to police attention when she was arrested during the 2024 Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University.
Those charges were dropped, but Kordia was later detained at routine immigration check-in in New Jersey. Federal immigration officers said her student visa had expired, and sent her to an ICE detention center in North Texas, where she’s been incarcerated ever since.
A judge has ruled that she cannot be repatriated to Israel because of risk of persecution there, but the U.S. government has refused to release her on bond while her legal battle crawls along.
This month, under what she describes as torturous conditions, Kordia suffered her first-ever seizure, which led to a multiday hospitalization.
Her attorney Sarah Sherman-Stokes shares the latest updates on her case.
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- Oscar-Nominated Film Uses Prisoner Cellphones to Show U.S.’s Deadliest Prisons
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- 1:09
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- 8 months ago
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- The Oscar-nominated documentary “The Alabama Solution” features footage clandestinely shot on contraband cellphones wielded by men incarcerated by the fifth-largest state prison system in the United States.
Last month, three of the incarcerated activists featured in the film were moved to solitary confinement in what advocates believe is retaliation for their role in exposing the abuses of the state’s prison system.
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey declined to speak with the filmmakers during production but issued a press statement criticizing the documentary when its Oscars nomination was announced.
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- "The Alabama Solution": Oscar-Nominated Film Uses Prisoner Cellphones to Expose Deadly Prisons
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- 23:46
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- 8 months ago
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Three activists — Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray and Raoul Poole — featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Alabama Solution were placed in solitary confinement last month in what advocates believe is retaliation for their role in exposing the abuses of the state's prison system and for helping to organize a prison labor strike. We're joined by three guests who worked on the documentary: director Andrew Jarecki, investigative journalist Charlotte Kaufman and Tiffany Johnson Cole, a childhood friend of and attorney for Robert Earl Council. Johnson Cole has filed a lawsuit against her client's transfer. She says Council, Ray, Poole and other incarcerated activists have "put themselves in harm's way in an effort to bring about change in a system that is truly cruel and inhumane."
The Alabama Solution features footage clandestinely shot on contraband cellphones wielded by men incarcerated by...
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- Why Is Leqaa Kordia Still Jailed? Palestinian Protester Suffers Seizure After 11 Months Locked Up
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- 13:21
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- 8 months ago
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Thirty-three-year-old Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia will soon mark one year trapped in ICE detention. Kordia, who was born in East Jerusalem, first came to police attention when she was arrested during the 2024 Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University. Those charges were dropped, but Kordia was later detained at routine immigration check-in in New Jersey. Federal immigration officers said her student visa had expired, and sent her to an ICE detention center in North Texas, where she's been incarcerated ever since. Under what she describes as torturous conditions, she suffered her first-ever seizure, which led to a multiday hospitalization. For three days, ICE refused to inform her family and legal team about her status and whereabouts. "She's been a relatively healthy person physically until she was detained … [but] her health is at great risk if she remains in custody," says Kordia's attorney Sarah ...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — February 16, 2026
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- 16:25
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- 8 months ago
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- Cuba’s U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade
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- 1:22
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- 8 months ago
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- Cuban ambassador to the United Nations, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, speaks about the growing humanitarian crisis in Cuba due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade.
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- Cuba's U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade, Push to Topple Government
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- 18:22
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- 8 months ago
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Cuba is facing a growing humanitarian crisis due to a U.S.-imposed oil blockade. The Trump administration has also threatened new tariffs against any nation that sends fuel to Cuba, which has been under a U.S. trade embargo since 1962. These measures have caused fuel shortages and widespread blackouts, while the cost of food and transportation has skyrocketed. "This is a massive violation of human rights," says Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, Cuban ambassador to the United Nations. "It's a massive violation of international law."
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- "Love Forward Together": Faith Leaders in North Carolina Launch 50-Mile March for Social Justice
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- 7:52
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- 8 months ago
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Faith leaders in North Carolina are leading a three-day trek from Wilson to Raleigh in an event aimed at supporting "unabridged voting rights; living wages and ending poverty; welcoming immigrants," and more. Reverend Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove spoke with _Democracy Now!_ from the march, saying that "love is the power that can overcome fear in this moment." As North Carolina faces a President Trump-led gerrymandering effort, Wilson-Hartgrove hopes that the event will mobilize voters across the state.
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- House Passes "Worst Voter Suppression Bill Ever" in Latest Push to Help Trump Take Over Elections
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- 13:34
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- 8 months ago
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The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to require proof of U.S. citizenship in the November midterm elections. If it becomes law, it would be the "worst voter suppression bill ever passed by Congress," according to Ari Berman, national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. "The bill really combines a lot of the worst things that Republicans want to do with regards to voting, and it comes at a time when Trump appears dead set to try to interfere in the midterm elections," he adds.
Wednesday's vote sends the legislation on to the Republican-led Senate, where it is expected to receive a vote but unlikely to garner the 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority needed for passage.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — February 13, 2026
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- 14:42
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- 8 months ago
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- Rep. Jayapal Slams AG Pam Bondi over Epstein Files
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- 1:38
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- 8 months ago
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- Congressmember Pramila Jayapal asked Epstein survivors to stand up, before she challenged Attorney General Pam Bondi to apologize to them for the Justice Department's failure to fully redact their names in the Epstein files.
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- Jewish Rep. Balint Walks Out of Hearing After Bondi Calls Her Antisemitic
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- 1:31
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- 8 months ago
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- Vermont Congressmember Becca Balint asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein — a demand that Bondi repeatedly ignored during the hearing.
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- "I Was Just So Disgusted": Jewish Rep. Balint Walks Out of Hearing After Bondi Calls Her Antisemitic
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- 9:55
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- 8 months ago
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As we continue to look at Wednesday's contentious hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, we speak with Vermont Congressmember Becca Balint, who walked out after Attorney General Pam Bondi accused her of supporting antisemitism. Balint, who is Jewish and whose grandfather died in the Holocaust, had just asked Bondi to meet with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein — a demand that Bondi repeatedly ignored during the hearing.
"It was just heartbreaking to watch the attorney general act in this way, especially when survivors have waited, over the course of decades, for justice," Balint tells Democracy Now!
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- Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Speaks Out on Jailing of Screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian in Iran
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- 6:00
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- 8 months ago
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Authorities in Iran have arrested the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian in Tehran. Mahmoudian co-wrote the film "It Was Just an Accident" with dissident director Jafar Panahi, and their film is nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature at this year's Academy Awards. Mahmoudian was arrested after signing a public statement condemning Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as well as the brutal crackdown on anti-government protesters, calling it "an organized state crime against humanity." Panahi, who also signed the statement alongside 15 others, recently spoke with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Panahi described meeting Mehdi when they were both imprisoned, which led to their creative partnership. "Because he had spent nine years of his life in prison, I knew that he had a deep understanding of different people i...
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- Netanyahu Seeks to Kill U.S.-Iran Talks to Start Another War: Mouin Rabbani
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- 6:10
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- 8 months ago
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President Donald Trump held a lengthy meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday at the White House, where the two leaders discussed ongoing nuclear talks with Iran. Trump has said he wants to reach a deal with Iran about the country's nuclear program, which Tehran insists is only for peaceful civilian purposes but which the U.S. and Israel claim is aimed at developing nuclear weapons. In recent weeks, Trump has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran after the Iranian government crushed a wave of anti-government protests, killing thousands of people. The Pentagon is also reportedly preparing to move a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East, raising pressure on Iran's leadership.
"What Netanyahu is seeking to do with this visit is to inject poison pills into the negotiations in order to ensure that they fail, and thereby set the stage for a new armed conflict with...
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- Rep. Jayapal Slams AG Pam Bondi over Epstein Files & Spying on Lawmakers
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- 19:20
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- 8 months ago
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Attorney General Pam Bondi testified Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee, where she repeatedly refused to answer questions about her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case. She also refused to apologize to Epstein survivors over the botched release of files, some of which contained survivors' personal information and even uncensored nude photographs. During the hearing, Bondi was photographed consulting a binder that appeared to show the search history of lawmakers who visited the Justice Department to examine the unredacted Epstein files in person.
"Essentially, they were spying on us," says Democratic Congressmember Pramila Jayapal. "It's certainly not going to stop me from continuing to review the files, but it is absolutely outrageous."
Jayapal also condemns the Justice Department for refusing to open new investigations into Epstein's associates listed in the files. "These ...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — February 12, 2026
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- 13:03
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- 8 months ago
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- Rep. Delia Ramirez calls on Democrats to pull DHS funding
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- 1:18
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- 8 months ago
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- Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to their demands to rein in federal immigration agents.
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- Trump's EPA reverses policy underpinning almost all U.S. climate regulations
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- 1:30
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- 8 months ago
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- A set of Obama-era rules that required the federal government to regulate the emissions of six greenhouse gases is being reversed by the Trump administration. Their repeal will not only increase what drivers pay at the pump but also set U.S. innovation back on the world stage.
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- “Devastating”: Trump EPA to Scrap Landmark Climate Finding in Pro-Fossil Fuel Deregulatory Push
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- 8:41
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- 8 months ago
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In a victory for the fossil fuel industry, a set of Obama-era rules that required the federal government to regulate the emissions of six greenhouse gases is being reversed by the Trump administration. The changes would undo the legal basis of the fight against global warming, as well as remove industrial reporting obligations and roll back emissions standards for cars and trucks. Environmental engineer Gretchen Goldman helped author those emission standards while working for the Department of Transportation under the Biden administration. Now as the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, she says their repeal will not only increase what drivers pay at the pump but also set U.S. innovation back on the world stage. "We're really seeing the abdication of U.S. leadership on climate, and that has huge implications, both for our immediate ability to reduce heat-trapping emissions globally … but also in term...
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- Impeach the President: Rep. Al Green Denounces Trump's Racist Obama Video & Attacks on Black History
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- 12:35
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- 8 months ago
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- “De Facto Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront ICE, CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics
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- 20:17
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- 8 months ago
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House Democrats grilled the heads of ICE, CBP and USCIS at a hearing Tuesday over their role in the Trump administration’s brutal campaign to carry out mass deportations. “These three directors are responsible for what we are seeing around the country, whether it’s in detention, whether it’s in the streets or even in the courts,” says Illinois Congressmember Delia Ramirez, who is calling for her fellow Democrats to suspend funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to their demands to rein in federal immigration agents. We play excerpts from Ramirez and other representatives’ remarks about the killings of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the deaths of immigrants in ICE custody and the fear and terror experienced by civilians confronted daily by masked federal agents. “This is more than authoritarianism. This is a de facto dictatorship,” says Te...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — February 11, 2026
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- 14:23
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- 8 months ago
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- Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence
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- 1:20
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- 8 months ago
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- "The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening, in which the press is absolutely a structural part of this," says Carole Cadwalladr, award-winning investigative journalist.
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- Rep. Joaquin Castro on Horrific Conditions Inside TX Immigrant Detention Center
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- 0:57
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- 8 months ago
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- Joaquin Castro, a Democratic congressmember from Texas, visited the family immigration detention center in Dilley where 5-year-old Liam Ramos was held.
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- "I Have Never Felt So Much Fear": Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX
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- 7:02
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- 8 months ago
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A new ProPublica investigation reveals new details about a sprawling ICE detention complex where families describe horrific conditions inside, such as being served contaminated food, with children and parents at times finding worms in their meals. Lights are reportedly left on for 24 hours a day. South Texas Family Residential Center, in the town of Dilley a few dozen miles from the southern border with Mexico, detains an estimated 3,500 people, more than half of them children. "I have never felt so much fear to go to a place as I feel here. … Once I go back to Honduras, a lot of dangerous things could happen to my mom and I," a 14-year-old detained at Dilley, Ariana Velasquez, told ProPublica. There are also mounting reports of psychological abuse by guards, some of whom have allegedly threatened families with separation. "Many of the children who are now being sent there are being arrested by ICE around the c...
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- Rep. Joaquin Castro Slams ICE "Prison" Where Children as Young as 2 Months Old Are Held
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- 12:15
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- 8 months ago
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Senate Democrats have reportedly begun tentative negotiations with the White House just days before funding for the Homeland Security Department is set to expire at midnight on Friday, threatening another partial government shutdown. Joaquin Castro, a Democratic congressmember from Texas, visited the family immigration detention center in Dilley where 5-year-old Liam Ramos was held. Kids have been "traumatized by the experience," says Castro.
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- Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite's Veil of Silence
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- 23:48
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- 8 months ago
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Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across the globe. Millions of pages remain unreleased. As many prominent U.S. figures evade accountability following mentions in the Epstein files, a number of European figures have resigned for their relationships with Epstein. "The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening, in which the press is absolutely a structural part of this," says Carole Cadwalladr, award-winning investigative journalist. "I have been shocked — deeply, deeply shocked — by the absence of headlines."
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — February 10, 2026
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- 11:40
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- 8 months ago
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- 20,000 Palestinians seeking to leave Gaza for medical care
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- 1:32
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- 8 months ago
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- Israel has partially reopened the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, but it has allowed only dozens of people to enter Egypt for medical care. Some 20,000 Palestinians require urgent medical evacuation from the destroyed enclave.
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- The dark side of the Olympics
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Recent Olympic reforms are mostly "cosmetic," says author Jules Boykoff, who explains why cities are increasingly saying no to hosting the Games. "They don't get at the core elements that really plague the Olympic Games, and that's overspending, that's the intensification of militarized policing, that's greenwashing, that's corruption, that's the displacement of local populations."
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- Minneapolis resident describes her violent arrest by ICE in Minneapolis
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Aliya Rahman is a U.S. citizen who was violently arrested by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. Rahman says she repeatedly told agents she was disabled, but they ignored her pleas for medical attention or other accommodation.
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- Protests against ICE and Israel erupt in Milan amid Olympics
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- 0:26
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Thousands of people marched through the streets of Milan, Italy on Saturday to protest the environmental, social and economic impacts of the Winter Olympics.
They're also objecting to Israel's participation in the Games — and the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with the U.S. delegation.
Police fired tear gas and water cannons as some protesters approached a hockey venue.
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- Palestinians in Gaza Still Face Israeli Attacks, Disease, Medical Neglect
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- 9:01
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt
The partial reopening of Gaza's southern Rafah crossing with Egypt has been marked by chaos and severe restrictions imposed by Israel, as tens of thousands of Palestinians continue to wait for medical evacuation to receive urgent care outside the Gaza Strip. According to U.N. data, only 36 Palestinians in need of medical treatment were allowed to leave Gaza during the first four days of the crossing's reopening. Palestinians permitted to reenter Gaza have also reported abuse and hourslong interrogations. This comes amid growing skepticism over the implementation of the second phase of the Trump-brokered ceasefire, which Israel has repeatedly violated with near-daily attacks across Gaza since the truce took effect in October.
"No one inside Gaza is calling this a ceasefire," says Arwa Damon, former CNN correspondent and the founder of INARA, a nonprofit organization that supports children impacted by...
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- JD Vance Is Booed at Olympics While Thousands Protest U.S. Sending ICE Agents to Games in Italy
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- 7:47
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt
With the 2026 Winter Olympics underway in Italy, we speak with writer and academic Jules Boykoff, author of six books about the Olympics, who says Milan is hosting the Games despite widespread public opposition from locals. Boykoff says that while the Olympics have attempted in recent years to institute some "cosmetic" reforms, "they don't get at the core elements that really plague the Olympic Games, and that's overspending, that's the intensification of militarized policing, that's greenwashing, that's corruption, that's the displacement of local populations."
Boykoff's recent piece for The Nation, co-authored with Dave Zirin, is headlined "Get Ready for This Year's Undemocratic, Debt-Ridden, and Mobster-Infused Winter Olympics."
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.o...
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- As Black History Month Turns 100, Trump Refuses to Apologize for Video Depicting Obamas as Apes
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- 8:01
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt'
President Donald Trump is refusing to apologize for sharing a racist video on social media that depicts former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes. The video remained available on Trump's Truth Social page for 12 hours before it was deleted around noon on Friday. It prompted rare criticism from members of his own party, including South Carolina's Tim Scott, the Senate's only Black Republican, who called it "the most racist thing" he had seen from the White House.
"This is a disgusting and despicable display of racism from President Trump," says Wisdom Cole, senior national director of advocacy for the NAACP. "Instead of unifying the nation and celebrating the achievements of Black America … he chooses to continue to perpetuate bigotry."
Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livest...
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- Meet Aliya Rahman, Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted, Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis
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- 18:04
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt
We speak with Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was violently dragged from her car by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month and detained at the Whipple Federal Building, which has become the epicenter of the government's immigration crackdown in the city. Rahman says she repeatedly told agents she was disabled and had a brain injury, but they ignored her pleas for medical attention or other accommodation. "I was taken out of that place unconscious," says Rahman, who describes lasting injuries and trauma from her detention. Rahman was not charged with any crime. "What I saw in that detention center was truly horrific."
We also speak with attorney Alexa Van Brunt, director of the Illinois office of the MacArthur Justice Center, who says victims of ICE violence like Rahman can sue the federal government for violating their rights, "but they cannot sue the officers in their individual cap...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — February 9, 2026
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- 12:52
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-yt
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. ET.
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- Title
- The "two truths" in Iran
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- 0:55
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- "As progressives in the United States [or] outside of Iran, we should be able to hold two truths at the same time," says Middle East scholar Arang Keshavarzian.
