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After weeks campaigning against a bill that would compel the Justice Department to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein, President Trump reversed his stance and urged House Republicans to back the measure.
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The path is more promising than you think.
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Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of negotiations. The gathering comes 33 years after the Rio Earth Summit, which created the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. Countries are trying to find a way forward on addressing the climate crisis, even as global temperatures continue to rise and as the Trump administration boycotts the conference. COP30 is also the first since 2021 with a significant civil society presence, after three successive U.N. summits held in repressive countries that outlawed public protest.
"The beauty of the forest COP, the beauty of the people's COP in Brazil, is that civil society is very active, both inside and outside," says Leila Salazar-López, executive director of Amazon Watch.
We also speak with Viviana Santiago, executive director of Oxfam Brazil, who advises the Brazilian government on sustainable development. She stresses the importance of centering Indigenous peoples and the health of the Amazon in these talks. "People that are most affected for the climate crisis are the people that did nothing to [cause] this crisis," says Santiago.
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What we know so far about Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's proposed reforms.
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President Trump's immigration crackdown is diverting resources from other law enforcement operations. Nicholas Nehamas, a Washington correspondent, describes how federal agents investigating sexual crimes against children have been partly redeployed to focus on immigration.
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Trump repeatedly attacked Mamdani, New York City's democratic socialist mayor-elect who described himself as Trump's "worst nightmare" as he ran for office.
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Republicans are demanding a change to expiring ACA subsidies to strengthen abortion restrictions. Democrats say it's a non-starter.
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The PM sent Shabana Mahmood to run the Home Office precisely so that she would be radical.
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The crown prince's visit could result in a new U.S.-Saudi defense agreement.
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"You can't tell him who to interview," Trump said about the former Fox News host and Fuentes, a far-right activist who once called Adolf Hitler "awesome."
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Plans to end multiple appeals against removal and speed up deportations are expected to be unveiled.
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Under President Trump, an agency intended to keep Americans safe has diverted resources from combating child abuse, trafficking and terrorism.
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Lawmakers pushing for the release of more files are planning a news conference at the Capitol on Tuesday alongside victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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The shutdown fight showed the intended power struggle between the House and Senate.
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The Republican side of the committee investigating Epstein has kept pushing out troves of emails and documents, and Trump's name keeps coming up.
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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is expected to announce major reforms to the asylum system on Monday.
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The rupture comes ahead of a House vote on a measure that would compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files.
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We speak to The American Prospect's David Dayen about what could be the end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, after seven Democratic Senators and one independent struck a deal with Republicans to pass a short-term government funding bill. "Why would you end this?" asks Dayen, echoing many in the Democratic coalition who believe the deal was a poor strategic move for the anti-Trump opposition. Calls are now growing for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down. "Donald Trump and the Republicans were being blamed for all of this chaos…and yet, days later this this group of Democrats with the tacit support of Chuck Schumer decide that they're going to end this and cave."
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A council has lost its legal battle with the government in a landmark High Court ruling.
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Jelani Cobb, the acclaimed journalist and dean of the Columbia Journalism School, has just published a new collection of essays, "Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here." The book collects essays beginning in 2012 with the killing of Travyon Martin in Florida. It traces the rise of Donald Trump and the right's growing embrace of white nationalism as well as the historic racial justice protests after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. "What we're seeing is a kind reactionary push to try to return the nation to the status quo ante, to undo the kind of demographic change, literally at gunpoint, as we are pushing people of color out of the country by force," says Cobb.
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At Zohran Mamdani's victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "We're not going to be intimidated," Ocasio-Cortez said. "We're going to fight for working families. We're going to stand with immigrants. We're going to stand with the diversity of this city."
Brad Lander, former mayoral candidate who cross-endorsed with Mandani in the Democratic primary, commented on the power of having a "Muslim New Yorker and a Jewish New Yorker say we are not going to allow Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams or Donald Trump or Elon Musk or Stephen Miller to weaponize fear and pit us against each other."
"This is such an incredible proof of concept of how to fight fascism," added the Canadian journalist, author and activist Naomi Klein.
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Former President Donald Trump is back in Washington for the first time since becoming the presumptive Republican nominee as well as a convicted felon. Follow here for the latest live news updates.
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Kim's victory here means he wins the county line, placing him in the same ballot column as other party-endorsed candidates.
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 Amid protests against racial injustice, President Donald Trump is defending his decision to schedule his first campaign rally in months on a day commemorating the end of U.S. slavery and in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a city where white mobs massacred African-Americans a century ago.
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