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ICE Kills 25-Year-Old Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine
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- ICE Kills 25-Year-Old Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine
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- 17:02
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
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Just days after the killing of a Mexican immigrant in Texas, immigration agents fatally shot another immigrant, also driving to work, this time in a small town in southern Maine. Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, originally from Colombia, was 25 years old and the father of a 3-year-old daughter. He was reportedly authorized to work in the United States, had been issued a Social Security number and was not the target of any warrant. The Department of Homeland Security has defended the shooting, saying that ICE fired on Durán Guerrero in his car out of fear for "public safety." Witnesses say they say they saw agents dragging Durán Guerrero from the car after the shooting as he told them that he had been trying to "stop."
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- "They Were Hunting for Latinos": ICE Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston
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- 15:29
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
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Outcry is continuing over the ICE shooting death of 52-year-old Mexican immigrant Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in a majority-Latino neighborhood in Houston, Texas, last week. Events pieced together by eyewitness videos and texts sent by the agents involved in Araujo's killing suggest that agents largely ignored Araujo's cries for help after he was shot. "They really just strung him along for hours until finally sending him to the hospital," says Juan Proaño, CEO of LULAC, the largest and oldest Latino civil rights organization in the United States. Houston police have begun investigating the shooting as a homicide, "but my expectation is that their investigation will similarly be hampered by DHS," says Proaño. "I don't believe there will be justice here. There's no way to bring him back."
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 14, 2026
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- 15:01
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
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- Why U.S. public opinion toward Israel has shifted
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- 0:34
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
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- “There’s been a seismic shift in American views of Israel over the past four or five years.” says Palestinian American historian Rashid Khalidi. “The biggest part of the shift was obviously triggered by the live-streamed genocide in Gaza, the fact that people were able to see with their own eyes what was actually happening, instead of the carefully curated, lying description that the Israeli government fed to complacent American journalists who repeated it verbatim on CNN and in The New York Times and in other mainstream media.”
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- Justice Department subpoenas four New York Times journalists
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- The Department of Justice subpoenaed four journalists at The New York Times on Friday night after they reported President Trump’s new Air Force One lacked key security features, including advanced anti-missile capabilities.
“Today they come for The New York Times, and tomorrow they’re going to come for other news organizations and other journalists,” says Drop Site News co-founder Jeremy Scahhill.
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- Lindsey Graham: A legacy of "imperial hubris"
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of the most prominent supporters of war in Washington, has died at the age of 71 after what his office called a “brief and sudden illness.” He was a vocal supporter of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, a leading backer of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and a proponent of more U.S. military support for Ukraine. He also pushed for a permanent occupation of Afghanistan and once called for a preemptive attack on North Korea.
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- West Bank settlers target U.S. journalists, Rep. Khanna
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- 2:13
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- Armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have carried out a number of attacks in recent days targeting local Palestinians and foreign journalists, as well as detaining U.S. Congressmember Ro Khanna during a fact-finding trip. Khanna said that when Israeli forces arrived, they sided with the settlers.
“The U.S. government just merrily goes along funding these atrocities against American citizens, not to speak of atrocities against Palestinians who don’t happen to be American citizens,” says Palestinian American historian Rashid Khalidi. “All of this is being done with our tax dollars.”
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- Jeremy Scahill: The U.S. is covering up defeats in Iran war
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- 0:49
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- U.S. Central Command said on Sunday the United States had struck 140 targets in Iran. In retaliation, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted U.S. military facilities across the Middle East.
"U.S. CENTCOM, Central Command, and the Pentagon at large have concealed the impact of Iranian strikes, in some cases entirely," says Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site News.
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- "Disgraceful": Rashid Khalidi Slams Israeli Attacks on Journalists, Detention of Rep. Ro Khanna
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- 16:30
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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Armed Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have carried out a number of attacks in recent days targeting local Palestinians and foreign journalists, as well as detained U.S. Congressmember Ro Khanna during a fact-finding trip. Khanna said that when Israeli forces arrived, they sided with the settlers. "The U.S. government just merrily goes along funding these atrocities against American citizens, not to speak of atrocities against Palestinians who don't happen to be American citizens," says Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said professor emeritus of modern Arab studies at Columbia University. "All of this is being done with our tax dollars."
Khalidi also speaks about plans for a permanent U.S. embassy in West Jerusalem, set to be built on Palestinian land stolen by Israel.
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- Lindsey Graham “Never Met a War of Aggression He Didn’t Passionately Back”: Jeremy Scahill
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- 5:37
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, one of the most prominent supporters of war in Washington, has died at the age of 71 after what his office called a “brief and sudden illness.” He was a vocal supporter of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, a leading backer of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and a proponent of more U.S. military support for Ukraine. He also pushed for a permanent occupation of Afghanistan and once called for a preemptive attack on North Korea.
Graham “never met a war of aggression that he didn’t passionately back,” says Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site News, who adds that the late senator also had a “slavish dedication to Israel over the interests of the United States and the rest of the world.”
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- “Iran Is Not Going to Capitulate”: Jeremy Scahill on Renewed War, Strait of Hormuz & More
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- 15:16
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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The United States is continuing to bombard Iran amid an intensifying standoff over the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Central Command said on Sunday the United States had struck 140 targets in Iran. In retaliation, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had targeted U.S. military facilities across the Middle East.
“U.S. CENTCOM, Central Command, and the Pentagon at large have concealed the impact of Iranian strikes, in some cases entirely,” says Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site News, adding that “Trump has dramatically underestimated the Iranians from the very beginning.”
The escalating attacks from both sides come after Iran announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz last week and President Trump declared the ceasefire over. Iran insists that, according to the 60-day memorandum of understanding with the United States, commercial ships going through the waterway must “coo...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 13, 2026
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- 17:54
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
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- Can DSA really build socialism in the United States?
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- 1:23
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- Democracy Now! host Juan González speaks to Ashik Siddique,
co-chair of the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America, about the DSA's vision for socialist politics in the United States.
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- The rise and fall of FOIA
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- 1:22
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- On July 4th, 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act, the landmark government transparency law. Today, over sixty years later, FOIA appears to be in serious trouble.
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- ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
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- 2:32
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- More details have emerged in the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the 52-year-old Mexican father killed Tuesday by ICE in Houston during his early-morning commute to work in construction.
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- FOIA Under Attack: Landmark Transparency Law Turns 60; Fed Gov’t Blocking More Documents Than Ever
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- 7:09
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act, the landmark government transparency law that has helped reveal and publicize critical information about everything from the Vietnam War to FBI surveillance to CIA torture. For decades, FOIA has played a crucial role in uncovering and rectifying government wrongdoing. Today, however, advocates say that the government’s resistance to fulfilling FOIA requests has grown, forcing applicants to file expensive lawsuits to obtain records, while records that are released often take years to receive and are filled with so many redactions as to render them essentially “a waste of time.”
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- “Exposing Instagram’s Darkest Secret”: BBC Find Ads for Child Sex Abuse Material in India
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- 11:42
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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A new investigation from the BBC is accusing Instagram of running paid ads in India promoting child sexual abuse material. BBC senior correspondent Divya Arya explains how Instagram’s AI-powered review process frequently fails to flag content suggesting illegal and abusive activity, and how the platform’s profit-driven algorithms boost accounts paying to advertise this content. Instagram’s parent company Meta has denied culpability, “saying that it’s absolutely unfair to say that they prioritize revenue over user safety and that they underinvest in safety mechanisms.” In response to Arya’s findings, the Indian government is now demanding that Meta immediately remove all such ads and child exploitation materials, and submit a detailed explanation on how such advertisements were allowed on its platforms. “This illegal content should not be on the internet, and somebody needs to be held accountable f...
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- DSA & Justice Democrats on Changing the Democratic Party, Mamdani, Gaza & More
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- 22:41
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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As a rose-tinted wave of progressives and democratic socialists win Democratic primaries across the United States, we take a look at two of the organizations behind this recent slate of successful electoral campaigns: the Democratic Socialists of America and Justice Democrats.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 10, 2026
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- 13:32
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- What is the Flamingo Revolution sweeping Albania?
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- 1:55
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- A planned luxury resort in Albania, with financial backing from Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, has set off a "Flamingo Revolution" in the Balkan country that could bring down the government and shake up the entire post-communist system.
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- Lorenzo Salgado Araujo killed by ICE in Houston
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a 52-year-old Mexican immigrant and father of three who was fatally shot by ICE agents in Houston. In an emotional press conference, Ronaldo Salgado described the last moments of his father's life and demanded accountability.
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- Is the Iran ceasefire dead?
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- 1:34
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- President Donald Trump has declared the ceasefire with Iran "over" and resumed attacks on the country. Analyst Trita Parsi says this latest exchange of fire is "much worse" than previous rounds and makes reaching a lasting peace more difficult.
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- Albania's Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov't
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- 9:31
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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Plans for a luxury resort in an ecologically sensitive area have set off more than a month of protests in Albania, where thousands have taken to the streets to oppose the megaproject backed by Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. The Flamingo Revolution — named for its feared impact on migratory birds — began as an environmental protest but has now turned into anger at the entire political system, threatening to bring down the government of Prime Minister Edi Rama.
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- Homicide by Asphyxiation: What Happened to Geraldo Lunas Campos, Who Died in a Texas ICE Jail?
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- 7:25
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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The family of Geraldo Lunas Campos is suing over the 55-year-old Cuban immigrant's death at an ICE detention center in Texas earlier this year, with a local coroner ruling his death a homicide from asphyxia. The Department of Homeland Security said Lunas Campos had attempted suicide, but witnesses said he died after being restrained by multiple guards. The family's lawsuit names four guards and multiple private companies overseeing the jail.
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- "Demanding the Truth": Family Wants Answers After ICE Kills Houston Dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
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- 9:53
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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Immigration and civil rights advocacy groups are demanding an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant and father of three who was killed by ICE agents in Houston on Tuesday morning. Salgado Araujo, who had been living in the United States for nearly 35 years, worked in construction and was starting his day by picking up other workers in Magnolia Park, a historically Latino neighborhood, when ICE agents targeted him. The Department of Homeland Security says Salgado Araujo "weaponized his vehicle" and attempted to ram agents, a claim made in previous ICE killings that has fallen apart under scrutiny. This latest death comes exactly six months after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis under similar circumstances.
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- "A Disastrous Development": Trita Parsi on Breakdown of U.S.-Iran Ceasefire
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- 13:39
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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We speak with political analyst Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about the latest events in the Middle East. The United States has bombed Iran for multiple days after President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire between the countries to be "over." Iran says it has retaliated by attacking U.S. military bases and other strategic sites in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 9, 2026
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- 13:24
- Date posted
- 24 days ago
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- Why the conflict in Sudan is a proxy war
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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- A new documentary investigation has uncovered how the United Arab Emirates supports a secret network of military training camps for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that enables them to continue their deadly war in Sudan.
“This war, which is often categorized in international media as a civil war, is really a proxy war,” says award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Julia Steers. “We’re talking about a really extensive network of logistics and training and financial backing from the UAE.”
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- Turkey’s state repression ignored at NATO summit
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- "Here in Ankara, and in Turkey more broadly, this NATO summit is not taking place in a climate of freedom. We saw, in the two weeks leading up to this summit happening, authorities in Ankara arrested over 200 people in dawn raids," says Ruth Michaelson, a journalist based in Istanbul who is covering the NATO summit in Ankara.
Trump announced on Tuesday at the summit that he would lift U.S. sanctions on Turkey and is considering selling the country F-35 fighter jets. Repression from the Turkish state against its residents has not been addressed during the summit by its members in general; instead, "something that we've been hearing throughout the summit is that Turkey has this indispensable place in NATO," says Michaelson.
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- Maine Senate Race: What happens now?
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- Maine's Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner has yet to drop out of the race despite losing all major endorsements after a rape allegation by an ex-girlfriend, Jenny Racicot, who says Platner assaulted her in 2021. Platner has denied the claim.
"There's no way to force Platner off the ballot; he has to make the decision," says Amy Fried, professor emerita of political science at the University of Maine. Platner would have to drop out of the race by Monday, "and then there's two weeks for the Maine Democratic Party to pick someone else."
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- "Inside the Secret Network Fueling Sudan's War": Filmmaker Julia Steers on UAE Backing RSF Crimes
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- 27:59
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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A new investigation has uncovered how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) supports a secret network of military training camps for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that enables them to continue their deadly war in Sudan.
"This war, which is often categorized in international media as a civil war, is really a proxy war," says award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Julia Steers. "We're talking about a really extensive network of logistics and training and financial backing from the UAE."
The investigation is a collaboration between Lighthouse Reports, Evident and Sudan War Monitor.
Meanwhile, as the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warns another humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding the North Kordofan state capital of El Obeid, where the RSF and the Sudanese army are fighting for control, "there's no question that the RSF would not be ab...
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- NATO Meets in Turkey Amid Crackdown on Civil Society; Trump Praises Erdoğan & Considers F-35 Sales
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- 10:26
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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Trump announced on Tuesday at the NATO summit in Ankara that he would lift U.S. sanctions on Turkey and is considering selling the country F-35 fighter jets. Trump made the comment following a lavish state dinner hosted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whom he praised as a "great leader." The mayor of Istanbul and other Turkish politicians, civil society figures and journalists remain jailed on politically motivated charges.
"Here in Ankara, and in Turkey more broadly, this NATO summit is not taking place in a climate of freedom. We saw, in the two weeks leading up to this summit happening, authorities in Ankara arrested over 200 people in dawn raids," says Ruth Michaelson, a journalist based in Istanbul. "There has also been a protest ban enforced in Ankara, and that is a protest ban that extends even to leafleting."
Repression from the Turkish state has not been addressed d...
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- As Calls Mount for Graham Platner to Drop Out of Senate Race, What Happens Next in Maine?
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- 17:02
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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Maine's Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner has yet to drop out of the race despite losing all major endorsements after a rape allegation by an ex-girlfriend, Jenny Racicot, who says Platner assaulted her in 2021. Platner has denied the claim.
"There's no way to force Platner off the ballot; he has to make the decision," says Amy Fried, professor emerita of political science at the University of Maine. Platner would have to drop out of the race by Monday, "and then there's two weeks for the Maine Democratic Party to pick someone else."
Fried discusses potential Democratic candidates to replace Platner and the legacy of Republican Maine Senator Susan Collins, against whom they would be running in November.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 8, 2026
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- 13:29
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
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- Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya: Hospital director tortured in Israeli custody
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, has been imprisoned without charge in Israel for over 18 months, since his arrest by Israeli troops December 2024.
Last week, his lawyer shared that Dr. Abu Safiya has experienced an increase in beatings, violence and torture inside Israeli prisons, with the 52-year-old pediatrician saying, “They brought me here to kill me. I don’t see myself surviving. This is the end."
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- Millions attend state funeral of slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
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- 2:07
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- Millions of people are estimated to be participating in the multiday state funeral of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iran this week. After days of mourning in Tehran, the supreme leader’s body arrived in the holy city of Qom on Monday before it will be brought to other holy sites.
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- Israel flouts ceasefire terms in Gaza
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- 1:05
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
- Description
- Since the U.S.-backed “Board of Peace” 20-point plan to end Israel’s military assault on Gaza was signed in October, Israel has violated the plan's ceasefire provisions on a near-daily basis, killing nearly 1,100 Palestinians, including women, children and other unarmed civilians.
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- Hamas Renouncing Rule Over Gaza Signals Commitment to Ceasefire Despite Ongoing Israeli Attacks
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- 6:13
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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As part of the U.S.-backed "Board of Peace" 20-point plan to end Israel's military assault on Gaza, Hamas is dissolving its civilian governing body in the Gaza Strip. Hamas's head of administration, Mohammed al-Farra, resigned from his position on Monday. Hamas, which has controlled the territory for nearly two decades, has said that its ministries and staff will stay in place, and that it will still oversee security and policing in parts of Gaza left under its control.
The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, NCAG, was formed in January 2026 and is meant to take transitional control. "In practice," says Amjad Iraqi, senior Israel-Palestine analyst at the International Crisis Group, "Hamas is still the de facto governing authority on the Palestinian-populated side of Gaza. The NCAG, the Palestinian technocratic committee that's supposed to take over those governing duties, is still bas...
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- Calls Grow for Israel to Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya; U.S. Doctor Says "Nobody Is Safe" in Gaza
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- 16:33
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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Israel continues to ignore international calls to free the director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, from over 18 months of Israeli detention without charge. After seeing Dr. Abu Safiya on July 2, his attorney Nasser Odeh says the doctor faces "tangible danger to his life" from torture and medical neglect. For more, we speak to Tirza Leibowitz, the deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights Israel, about Abu Safiya's case and efforts to secure his release. The group has filed an appeal in the Israeli courts requesting the release of Abu Safiya and 13 other Palestinian doctors who were captured in Gaza and imprisoned by the Israeli military.
We also hear from Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a Chicago-based emergency room physician and former colleague of Hussam Abu Safiya. Ahmad volunteered as a medical practitioner in Gaza in 2024. He says Abu Safiya has become a "symbol of Palestinian re...
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- Report from Tehran: Millions Attend Ali Khamenei's Funeral Amid Widespread Sense of Victory in War
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- 18:40
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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Millions of people are estimated to be participating in the multiday state funeral of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iran this week. After ruling the Islamic Republic of Iran for over three dozen years, Khamenei was killed by a joint Israeli-U.S. airstrike on February 28.
Now viewed as a martyr by both his religious base and the wider Iranian public, Khamenei has taken on a "new identity" as "the leader of the resistance movement, the leader in the fight against U.S. imperialism," says Tehran-based journalist Reza Sayah, who has been reporting on the funeral proceedings.
Sayah also discusses the absence of Khamenei's son and chosen successor Mojtaba Khamenei from the public eye, the Iranian government's position on the thousands of protesters killed by security forces in the early months of 2026 and more.
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 7, 2026
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- 14:34
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- Title
- Climate change: United States vs. China
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- “China is kind of a complicated story,” says climate reporter David Wallace-Wells. “They're both the world's biggest emitter … and also the source of the greatest hope for climate change.”
Wallace-Wells also explains that countries across the Global South have “taken decarbonization into their own hands,” in part because the technology necessary to do so can be cheaply bought from China.
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- Climate change: United States vs. China
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- 1:19
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
- Description
- “China is kind of a complicated story,” says climate reporter David Wallace-Wells. “They're both the world's biggest emitter … and also the source of the greatest hope for climate change.”
Wallace-Wells also explains that countries across the Global South have “taken decarbonization into their own hands,” in part because the technology necessary to do so can be cheaply bought from China.
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- Trump's Corruption, Birthright Citizenship & Olympian Charged w/ Touching Reflecting Pool
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- 18:43
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
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A grand jury in Washington, D.C., has indicted former U.S. Olympic canoeist David "Davey" Hearn on a felony charge for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 19. He is facing a possible maximum sentence of 10 years in prison if convicted. Hearn, who denies the accusations, says he had noticed a partly detached piece of the Reflecting Pool's blue liner and reached into the water to see what it felt like, when he was quickly arrested and subsequently held in jail for five hours. He is one of at least six people who have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, which has turned green due to algae blooms despite being painted "American-flag blue" at the behest of President Trump.
"We do think that Davey is being scapegoated for the failures of the White House with respect to the Reflecting Pool, that the blame is being shifted," says Norm Eisen, co-founder ...
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- Top U.S. & World Headlines — July 6, 2026
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- 14:44
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
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- Meet Rafael Rubio, NY City Council Employee Released from Delaney Hall After 5 Months in ICE Jail
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- 7:59
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
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A New York City Council employee who was detained at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, for more than five months was released from custody in June. Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez was taken by federal immigration officers in January during a routine asylum interview. Rubio Bohorquez, who is from Venezuela, was detained despite holding temporary protected status that should have shielded him from deportation.
"People are sad; detainees are sad. It's people that try to build a future in this country, people that have complied with the law," says Rafael Andres Rubio Bohorquez of detained immigrants he met while being held in multiple ICE jails. "They have paid their taxes. They are raising families."
Rubio Bohorquez says he fears being detained again, even though his attorney Gwyneth Hesser says that would be in violation of a court order. "But it seems right now that's not tha...
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- Record Heat Waves Are Preview of Our Future on a Warming Planet: Climate Writer David Wallace-Wells
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- 13:20
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
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A massive heat dome settled above the eastern half of the United States over the Fourth of July weekend, bringing triple-digit temperatures, disrupting travel and prompting emergency measures for millions of people. At least 25 people died in New Jersey due to extreme heat and humidity, and more than 185 million people — over half of U.S. residents — were under heat alerts over the weekend. This follows a record-shattering European heat wave that's been blamed for thousands of deaths across Spain, France and Germany. Climate scientists say the burning of fossil fuels is the primary cause of global warming and the reason why heat waves are becoming longer, hotter and more frequent.
"Global warming is accelerating past thresholds that we used to consider unacceptable," says climate journalist David Wallace-Wells. "There are a lot of questions about why we haven't prepared adequately for these heat...
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- Is the United States really a land of liberty?
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- As the United States turns 250 years old, historian Eddie Glaude says the country has never fully resolved the contradiction at the heart of its founding.
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- Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the “Quasi-Religious” Push for Artificial Intelligence
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- 35:45
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. The book documents the rise of OpenAI and how the AI industry is leading to a new form of colonialism. “One of the things that you really have to understand about AI development today is that there are what I call quasi-religious movements that have developed within Silicon Valley,” says Hao. “The concept of artificial general intelligence is not one that’s scientifically grounded.”
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- “Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World
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- 14:26
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- 1 month ago
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In our July Fourth special broadcast, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of artificial intelligence companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Her reporting uncovered the exploitation of workers in Kenya, attempts to take massive amounts of freshwater from communities in Chile, along with numerous accounts of the technology’s detrimental impact on the environment. “This is an extraordinary type of AI development that is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms,” says Hao in an extended interview.
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