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“All That’s Left of You”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Traces Palestinian Family’s Love & Loss Since 1948
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- “All That’s Left of You”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Traces Palestinian Family’s Love & Loss Since 1948
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- 1:00
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- 9 months ago
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- "All That’s Left of You" is a new feature film that looks at 70 years of Palestinian history through the lens of one family’s experience over three generations.
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- MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words
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- 54:52
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- 9 months ago
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Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign to address issues of economic justice. Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War. We play his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, which he delivered at New York City’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, as well as his last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” that he gave on April 3, 1968, the night before he was assassinated.
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- ICE loosens recruitment requirements for radical deportation mandate
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- 1:34
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- 9 months ago
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- ICE and Border Patrol have relaxed recruitment and deployment guidelines in an effort to fill the administration’s sweeping deportation goals.
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- Could the 1979 Iranian Revolution have gone differently?
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- 1:43
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- 9 months ago
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- Renowned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was a high school student when he joined protests against the Shah in the late 1970s. He says what the population wanted "was freedom," but the revolution was hijacked by "the clerical class" that had its own priorities. Now, 47 years later, the country is experiencing a new wave of protest.
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- China's rise is powered by green energy, says historian Alfred McCoy
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- 1:27
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- 9 months ago
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- Historian Alfred McCoy says global empires rise by mastering new energy systems, as China is currently doing with renewables. “China is absolutely dominant in every aspect of this green energy revolution,” says McCoy.
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- Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil Speaks Out as New Ruling Could Lead to His Rearrest, Deportation
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- 1:03
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- A federal appeals court on Thursday delivered the Trump administration a victory in its efforts to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, opening the door for his rearrest.
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- ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- A new investigation by ProPublica finds over 40 cases of immigration agents using potentially fatal chokeholds and other moves that can cut off breathing.
- Title
- “All That’s Left of You”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Traces Palestinian Family’s Love & Loss Since 1948
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- 11:50
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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"All That’s Left of You" is a new feature film that looks at 70 years of Palestinian history through the lens of one family’s experience over three generations. Democracy Now! speaks with Palestinian American director and actress Cherien Dabis, who says the film is about “looking for meaning in grief and choosing humanity even in the most difficult of circumstances, which Palestinians have done and do every single day.”
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- Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil Speaks Out as New Ruling Could Lead to His Rearrest, Deportation
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- 10:55
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- 9 months ago
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A federal appeals court on Thursday delivered the Trump administration a victory in its efforts to deport Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, opening the door for his rearrest. Khalil was a graduate student at Columbia University when he was arrested in March and detained for months. He missed the birth of his son, Deen, while in detention. “The Trump administration is trying everything in its power to come after me, to put the full weight of the government to actually make an example out of me,” Khalil tells Democracy Now! “The U.S. government has not brought a shred of evidence that I broke any laws.”
The appeals court did not weigh in on the constitutional merits, instead saying Khalil should have appealed his removal order in immigration court before going to a federal judge. “What people need to understand is the immigration courts are not real courts,” says Baher Azmy, a member of ...
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- Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Deploy Troops to Minnesota
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- 5:48
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- 9 months ago
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Following Minneapolis protests in response to the ICE killing of Renee Good, President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act Thursday, a move that would allow him to send military forces to the city. Trump’s comments came after a second person was shot by ICE following a traffic stop. “Trump probably sees this as a civil war,” says Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights. “This, as we all know, is being leveraged as part of an autocratic power grab.”
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- ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report
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- 12:34
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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A new investigation by ProPublica finds over 40 cases of immigration agents using potentially fatal chokeholds and other moves that can cut off breathing. "These arrests are playing out around the country, and often in full view of cameras and witnesses," says ProPublica reporter Nicole Foy. She also reports that at least 170 U.S. citizens have been arrested by immigration agents.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 16, 2026
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- 13:11
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- 9 months ago
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- Protests in Iran: Filmmaker Jafar Panahi worries about never-ending violence
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- The renowned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi comments on the protests gripping his home country and says that while he is certain "this regime will fall," he worries it will unleash further cycles of violence.
Panahi's latest film is "It Was Just An Accident."
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- Director Jafar Panahi on Deadly Iran Protests & Filmmaking Under Censorship
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- 30:46
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- With Iran gripped by nationwide protests that activists say have left at least 2,600 people dead, we recently spoke with renowned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, whose latest film, It Was Just an Accident, was shot entirely in secret inside Iran and won the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The film has since been shortlisted for an Oscar in the international feature category. Panahi dedicated a recent New York Film Critics Circle Award to Iranian protesters.
It Was Just an Accident centers on a group of former prisoners who kidnap a man they believe was their interrogator and grapple with whether to exact revenge, and Panahi says the film drew directly from his own experience with state violence and repression. Panahi has been repeatedly arrested in Iran, served prison sentences, and was recently sentenced in absentia to an additional year in prison and a two-year travel ban.
In an extended interview, Pahani discussed the protests in Iran, fighting...
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- FBI Raids Home of Washington Post Reporter as Attacks on Press Freedom Intensify Under Trump
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- 14:02
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- 9 months ago
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The FBI raided the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson this week and seized her electronic devices, part of a leak probe into a government contractor accused of mishandling classified government materials. Natanson has reported extensively on the Trump administration's changes to the federal bureaucracy, including mass layoffs of government workers. This comes amid a broader pattern of attacks on the media, including lawsuits, funding cuts, and increasing media and technology consolidation.
"It's hard not to see [the FBI raid] as an effort to intimidate not just journalists, but the sources that would communicate with them," says Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. "It's a terrible time for press freedom. … We need the press to inform the public about the government's actions and decisions and to help us hold government officials to ...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 15, 2026
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- 14:28
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- 9 months ago
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- Resisting ICE
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- 0:38
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- As Trump’s immigration enforcement surge continues in full force, people across the country are still resisting, "putting everything on the line."
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- Journalist hired by ICE after just one 6-minute interview
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- 2:25
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Journalist Laura Jedeed was hired as an ICE deportation officer after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas, despite:
❌ never signing any paperwork
❌ not having completed a background check
❌ likely failing a drug test
❌ and publicly sharing her opposition to the Trump administration and its anti-immigrant crackdown.
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- Supreme Court Appears Poised to Uphold State Bans on Trans Student Athletes
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- 7:25
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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When Becky Pepper-Jackson started middle school, she wanted to join her school's track and field team. Like many girls her age, she was excited to make new friends and cultivate a passion for a sport. But unlike the other girls on her school's track and field team, Pepper-Jackson is trans. And because she lives in West Virginia, a state that has banned transgender girls from participating in public school sports, Pepper-Jackson was excluded from what for her classmates is a normal childhood experience. Pepper-Jackson sued, and her case is now before the conservative-majority Supreme Court — which, after oral arguments Tuesday, appears likely to uphold similar laws throughout the country. "The states have attempted to justify these things in terms of some sort of alleged sex-based athletic advantage," says Karen L. Loewy of the LGBTQ+ legal advocacy organization Lambda Legal. "It's really about whether the court...
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- ICE Detention Expands Dramatically; 70,000 Immigrants Now Jailed, Deaths Increase
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- 7:50
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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A new report finds the number of people in ICE detention has nearly doubled in Trump's first year back in office, driven by indiscriminate arrest policies that have locked up more and more people without criminal records, "an unprecedented situation for immigration detention." We break down the numbers with Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, which published the report. Reichlin-Melnick explains that ICE's annual budget has approximately quintupled, even as 2025 marked the agency's deadliest year so far. Four more people have already died in detention in just the first two weeks of 2026. "Crucially, all of this has been slower than they wanted," he adds. "Their hope was to have over 100,000 people in detention by today; they've hit 70,000."
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- "ICE Is OK with Renee Good's Killing": Journalist Ken Klippenstein on ICE Tactics & Recruitment
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- 10:53
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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Reporter Ken Klippenstein's latest investigation into the inner workings of the Trump regime finds that immigration enforcement agencies ICE and Border Patrol have relaxed recruitment and deployment guidelines in an effort to fulfill the administration's sweeping deportation goals. "There's splits within the agency about the shooting [of Renee Good] and the general mission," says Klippenstein, whose reporting is based on leaked documents and interviews with officials from the Department of Homeland Security. Because "they're worried about sending more experienced agents there who might not agree with the mission," he explains, DHS is heavily recruiting volunteers with little vetting or training to carry out its deportation mandate. "They have more money than they know what to do with, and they need to fill those roles, and they're doing everything they can to create them so that the actual personnel head count ca...
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- Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check
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- 8:04
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- 9 months ago
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"They didn't ask very many questions." Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas, despite never signing any paperwork, not having completed a background check, likely failing a drug test, and publicly sharing her opposition to the Trump administration and its anti-immigrant crackdown. "It seems like the answer to the question, 'Who are they hiring?' is: They don't know."
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- "Federal Invasion": Minnesota Officials Condemn Violent ICE Raids, Arrests
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- 11:08
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- 9 months ago
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Trump's immigration enforcement surge continues to rock Minnesota, just a week after the ICE shooting of Renee Good, a mother of three and U.S. citizen in Minneapolis. _The Minnesota Star Tribune_ reports that the number of federal agents now in Minneapolis and Saint Paul outstrips the 10 largest Twin Cities metro police departments combined. "We don't want ICE in our neighborhoods. They are violent, they are creating chaos and terrorizing our immigrant neighbors, and they are not keeping anyone safe," says vice president of the Saint Paul City Council, Hwa Jeong Kim, who comments on the city's new lawsuit against the Trump administration, the loss of temporary protected status for thousands of Somali immigrants in the United States, plans for a general strike in Minneapolis and more.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 14, 2026
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- 12:00
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- U.S. is "empire in decline": historian
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is "an empire in decline," exhibiting the same "irrationality" as previous declining powers.
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- Why did an off-duty ICE agent kill Keith Porter Jr.?
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- 1:20
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Activists in Los Angeles are demanding justice for Keith Porter Jr., an African American 43-year-old father of two, who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year’s Eve.
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- "Empire in Decline": Historian Alfred McCoy on U.S. Aggression in Venezuela, Iran & Beyond
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- 14:30
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- 9 months ago
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As President Trump threatens Iran, Venezuela, Mexico, Greenland and more, renowned historian Alfred McCoy says the United States is "an empire in decline," following a predictable pattern of militarism abroad and political instability at home as it loses power and influence on the world stage. "American politics become increasingly contorted and irrational," says McCoy. "I think the thing to do is to realize that we are an empire in decline, … and it will continue for another decade or two, until American power finally slips away."
McCoy just published his latest book, "Cold War on Five Continents: A Global History of Empire and Espionage," on the impact of U.S.-Soviet imperial proxy wars in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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- "State of Siege": Iran Protest Death Toll Rises to 2,000 After U.S. Sanctions Spawn Economic Crisis
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- 11:36
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- 9 months ago
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Iran has said it's ready for "war" or dialogue after President Trump said the U.S. was considering "very strong options" to intervene if Iran's security forces kill anti-government protesters in an ongoing crackdown. Vali Nasr, professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, says the U.S. "can wage full-scale war on Iran — which President Trump does not seem to be eager to do — or it can hope to squeeze Iran economically in order to create political unrest in Iran."
This comes as at least 648 people have been killed since protests broke out in late December, according to the Norway-based group Iran Human Rights, and over 10,000 people have been arrested. Iranian officials say the number of dead could be as high as 2,000.
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- "Stolen from Us": Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter, Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent
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- 16:27
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- 9 months ago
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Activists in Los Angeles are demanding justice for Keith Porter Jr., an African American 43-year-old father of two, who was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve. His family is demanding transparency in the investigation into his killing. "When he walked in, he brought joy," says Porter's cousin Jsané Tyler. "He always had a laugh, a joke, a smile." Community organizers have called for the arrest of the ICE officer who killed Porter, but local government officials have reportedly told activists they have no intention of investigating Porter's killer. "The community is going to have to mobilize," says Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 13, 2026
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- 12:52
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Threats of foreign intervention hurt protesters in Iran: Middle East scholar
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Middle East scholar Narges Bajoghli says Iranians challenging their government are not helped when the United States, Israel and other Western countries suggest they have a role in fomenting protests or when they threaten military action.
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- Can Jonathan Ross be arrested for killing Renee Good?
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Minneapolis-based activist Nekima Levy Armstrong says local authorities should arrest Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good last week.
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- Protests continue in Iran as hundreds are reportedly killed in crackdown
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Iranian dissident Hamidreza Mohammadi, brother of imprisoned Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi, says the country's security services have been given free rein to commit violence against anti-government protesters. "The regime has been able to kill a lot of people."
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- L.A. Fire Survivors Fight Foreclosure & Demand Justice in Altadena
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- 10:05
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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We look at "All the Walls Came Down," a new short documentary directed by filmmaker Ondi Timoner that looks back at the devastating 2025 fires in Los Angeles, which destroyed Timoner's home and left the historically Black community of Altadena in ruins. The film, which has been shortlisted for an Academy Award, follows community organizer Heavenly Hughes as residents confront the aftermath of the fires and organize to rebuild their town.
"We feel like we're being forced out because of this fire and not really getting the support that we need from our elected officials to be sure to preserve and protect our Black and Brown community," says Hughes.
Timoner says Southern California Edison, which has taken responsibility for the Eaton Fire, has refused to tap its emergency funds. The utility company needs to "bridge families over so that they're not pushed off their generational land," Tim...
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- "We Had Whistles. They Had Guns": Nationwide Protests Held over ICE Killing of Renee Good
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- 12:06
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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We speak with civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong in Minneapolis as protests continue in the city following the killing of activist Renee Good last week. The ICE agent who fatally shot Good in her car has been identified as Jonathan Ross, an Iraq War veteran described by family and friends as a hardcore conservative Christian and MAGA supporter. This comes as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem continues to claim Good was engaged in "domestic terrorism."
"Folks at the highest levels of government are perpetuating falsehoods … and working overtime to justify the brutal murder of Renee Good," says Levy Armstrong, who urges local authorities to arrest Ross.
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- Iran Escalates Deadly Crackdown on Mass Protests as Trump Threatens to Launch Military Attack
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- 20:03
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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Hundreds of people have reportedly been killed in Iran as authorities crack down on protests against inflation and the government's handling of the economic crisis, with thousands more arrested amid a nationwide communications blackout. The protests started in late December and quickly spread across the country, marking the strongest internal challenge to the Iranian government in years. Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to attack Iran in support of the protesters.
"Many civil and political activists in Iran have warned against any kind of foreign intervention, because it actually increases repression inside of the country," says Narges Bajoghli, associate professor of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University.
We also speak with Iranian dissident Hamidreza Mohammadi, brother of the imprisoned Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi. Speaking from Oslo, he ...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 12, 2026
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- 12:23
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Title
- Minnesota authorities blocked from investigating Renee Good’s homicide
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- 2:20
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Minnesota state investigators say the FBI is blocking them from investigating the homicide of Renee Good, who was shot by a federal ICE agent in her car on January 7.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says the federal government’s claims of immunity for the ICE officer — identified as Iraq War veteran Jonathan Ross — go against precedent and could lead to a grave miscarriage of justice.
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- "What Are You Hiding?" Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Says ICE Killing Must Be Investigated
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- 19:38
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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Minnesota state investigators say the FBI is blocking them from investigating the ICE shooting of Renee Good, a mother of three and award-winning poet who was killed in her car on January 7. The federal government's claims of immunity for the ICE officer — identified as Iraq War veteran Jonathan Ross — go against precedent, as does its refusal to cooperate with state authorities, says Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who is demanding a local and state-led investigation into Good's homicide and an end to the Trump administration's "smear tactics" against Good. "This is Third Reich stuff," adds Ellison, decrying the escalation in aggressive tactics employed by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis and throughout the country. "This is an unprecedented attack on American institutions."
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- "Holding Liat": Former Israeli Hostage Says "There Aren't Any Conflicts That Are Unsolvable"
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- 8:13
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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Israeli American Liat Beinin Atzili was taken captive during the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. Over the next two months, her family members, including film director Brandon Kramer, tirelessly advocated for her release, an endeavour now documented in Kramer’s new film, Holding Liat. We speak to Atzili and Kramer about their family’s ordeal and Atzili’s captivity in Gaza, where she was held in isolation alongside another Israeli woman by members of Hamas until November 2023. “They kept telling us that they had no idea what was going on with other hostages, and that it was their job to keep us safe and to keep us healthy until we were released in a hostage deal. And that’s what they did,” she says. Since her release, Atzili has become a fierce advocate for peace and reconciliation. “There aren’t any conflicts that are unsolvable. It’s just a matter of people wanting to speak to each other and wanti...
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- "The Voice of Hind Rajab," Shortlisted for Oscar, Uses Audio of 6-Year-Old Girl Killed in Gaza
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- 14:10
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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Two years ago this month, the world was gripped by a series of shocking recordings of a 6-year-old girl in Gaza pleading for help as she sat trapped in a car riddled with bullets alongside the bodies of her cousins, aunt and uncle, who had just been killed by Israeli forces as the family attempted to flee the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza City. Emergency responders with the Palestine Red Crescent Society attempted to secure safe passage to rescue the child, an elementary school student named Hind Rajab, but Israeli forces also targeted and destroyed an ambulance as it arrived on the scene, killing medical workers Yusuf al-Zeino and Ahmed al-Madhoun, before firing again at the family's car, killing Rajab.
"When you hear her voice, you can't unhear it," says the award-winning Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, whose new Oscar-shortlisted film, The Voice of Hind Rajab, incorporates recordings of Ra...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 9, 2026
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- 12:35
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Minneapolis demands independent investigation into ICE killing of Renee Good
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- 1:08
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- We speak with Robin Wonsley, member of the Minneapolis City Council, who responded to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, by an ICE agent in Minneapolis Wednesday.
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- Why Venezuela is Making Oil Deals with U.S. Despite Capture of "Prisoner of War" Maduro
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- U.S. forces have seized two more oil tankers with links to Venezuela, days after the U.S. attacked Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro.
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- Minneapolis Reels After ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Renee Good, Mother of 3
- Runtime
- 1:05
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- "This could happen to you in your city," says Robin Wonsley, member of the Minneapolis City Council. "This happening here in Minneapolis sets a tone for this to play out in many other cities."
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- Trump Vows to “Indefinitely” Control Venezuela’s Oil
- Runtime
- 18:07
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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U.S. forces have seized two more oil tankers with links to Venezuela, days after the U.S. attacked Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro along with his wife, making former Vice President Delcy Rodríguez the new leader of the country. “This is a decapitation without regime change,” says Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodríguez. “The political system in Venezuela remains intact.” In Caracas, former Venezuelan diplomat Carlos Ron says Maduro is a “prisoner of war” and that Venezuelans “are angry and are upset about this incursion from the United States.” This comes as the Trump administration has announced plans to control sales of Venezuela’s oil “indefinitely.”
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- Title
- ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Minneapolis Mother, Renee Good
- Runtime
- 24:46
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
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We speak with two people who responded to the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, by an ICE agent in Minneapolis Wednesday. Trump administration officials claim the agent acted in self-defense, but local officials, including Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, reject that claim.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — January 8, 2026
- Runtime
- 12:44
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
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- Title
- "Greenland is not for sale": Inuit activist says Greenland must be independent
- Runtime
- 1:02
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Inuit activist and attorney Aaju Peter says Indigenous Greenlanders want independence, not U.S. annexation.
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- 2025's L.A. fires are preview of the future: Jacob Soboroff
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Journalist Jacob Soboroff's new book "Firestorm" revisits the devastating Los Angeles fires of 2025, which burned down his childhood home.
