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Oct 27, 2025
A record 164,000 people cast ballots in New York on the first two days of early voting in the city's mayoral race. If elected, Zohran Mamdani would be the city's first Muslim mayor. In recent days, he has faced a string of Islamophobic attacks. "I see a dynamic that I think lots of Muslims have experienced in the United States, which is when they're given positions of power or are in a position of public scrutiny, that their faith is often the first thing that gets scrutinized," says Meher Ahmad, staff editor for The New York Times opinion section.
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Oct 27, 2025
Israel has carried out repeated attacks in Gaza and killed about 100 Palestinians over the past two weeks since the U.S.-backed ceasefire deal with Hamas came into effect. Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site News, is one of the few Western journalists in regular contact with Hamas leaders. "It's utter malpractice on the part of all of these news organizations that have not regularly been interviewing the leaders, the negotiators of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. This is, by default, allowing the dehumanization narrative of Palestinians to just take hold," he says.
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Oct 27, 2025
The Trump administration has now killed at least 43 people in 10 strikes against so-called drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean. The threat of war against Venezuela and the surrounding region is growing as the Pentagon deploys the world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, to the Caribbean. Alejandro Velasco, associate professor at New York University, says the Latin American policy is "primarily Marco Rubio's ideological project," motivated by a desire to oust the government of Venezuela and weaken the allied government of Cuba.
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Oct 27, 2025
Venezuela Denounces the U.S. for Docking Warship in Trinidad and Tobago, Israel Kills 2 People in Southern Gaza, Israel Strikes Lebanon, Killing 3 People, U.S. Federal Government Shutdown Enters 27th Day, U.S. and China Agree to Framework of New Trade Deal, Trump Announces 10% Tariffs on Canada in Response to Ad Featuring Ronald Reagan, Far-Right President Milei's Party Wins Decisive Victory in Argentina's Midterm Elections, Independent Socialist Catherine Connolly Wins Irish Presidency, RSF Claims It Has Captured Sudanese Army Base in Darfur, Hurricane Melissa Intensifies to Category 5 Hurricane, Honduran Immigrant Josué Castro Rivera Dies While Fleeing ICE Agents, Federal Judge Rules ICE Agents Illegally Detained Chicago Man Whose Daughter Is Fighting Cancer, Activists Call on Maryland to End State's Contract on Avelo Airlines Responsible for Deportation Flights, U.S. Detains Prominent British Muslim Journalist Sami Hamdi, Zohran Mamdani Holds Massive Rally in Queens as Early Voting in NYC Mayoral Race Begins
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Oct 24, 2025
The new short film Criminal highlights the injustices of the criminal legal system with a look at how for-profit bail preys on the poor and mentally ill. We're joined by three contributors to the film, musician Stew Stewart and bail reform advocates Krish Gundu and Alec Karakatsanis, to discuss how what Karakatsanis calls the "unconstitutional" system of cash bail leads to "millions of coerced guilty pleas every single year all across the country, just because people are so desperate to get out." Criminal focuses on Texas's notorious Harris County Jail, where at least 15 people have died in pretrial detention just this year. Gundu explains, "We have criminalized mental illness. We've criminalized homelessness. We've criminalized reproductive rights. And so, the jail has become the emergency room of our community."
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Oct 24, 2025
"The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement." Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart Stevens about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers. Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where he is a senior adviser, is working to stop Trump's anti-democratic agenda.
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Oct 24, 2025
Israel's Knesset has advanced legislation that would effectively annex the West Bank, prompting rare criticism from the Trump administration, which says it does not support annexation. We get a report on the state of illegal settlement activity in the Palestinian territory from the Norwegian Refugee Council's Jan Egeland, who has just returned from the occupied West Bank. "I think the settler movement felt they had a free hand to do whatever they wanted on the West Bank, and it happened in the shadows of the war in Gaza," he says about the growth in settlements and widespread impunity for settlers. "Every single day, Palestinian houses are demolished. Every single day, their communities are attacked. Every single day, people are beaten up, thousands of olive trees are uprooted. I mean, it's happening as we speak."
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Oct 24, 2025
U.N. Urges Israel to Open Rafah Border Crossing to Allow Aid into Gaza, Trump: "Israel's Not Going to Do Anything with the West Bank", Israeli Minister Smotrich Resorts to Stereotypes When Talking About Saudi Arabia, "We're Going to Kill Them": Trump Claims Broad Authority to Launch Strikes Against Alleged Drug Boats, Trump Suspends Canada Trade Talks over Ad Criticizing Tariffs, Civil Rights Groups Demand ICE Stop Jailing Pregnant Immigrants Amid Reports of Medical Neglect, States Prepare to Cut Off Food Assistance as Government Shutdown Enters 24th Day, New York AG Letitia James Faces Arraignment in Federal Court as Trump Seeks "Retribution", Trump Administration Opens 1.5 Million Acres of Alaskan Wildlife Refuge to Oil and Gas Drilling, Trump Pardons Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, Who Aided Trump Family's Crypto Firm, White House Releases List of Donors to Trump's Ballroom as Demolition Crews Raze East Wing, Trump Reverses Plans to "Surge" Federal Forces to San Francisco at Request of CEO "Friends"
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Oct 23, 2025
New York mayoral candidates held their final debate Wednesday before the November 4 election, with early voting beginning Saturday. Democratic nominee and front-runner Zohran Mamdani faced off against Republican Curtis Sliwa and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent after losing the primary to Mamdani. While the debate itself is unlikely to have much impact, the fact that a pro-Palestine democratic socialist is leading the race is very significant, says writer Ross Barkan. Assuming he wins, "Zohran Mamdani is going to run one of the great and massive and important cities in the world. And all eyes are going to be on him," Barkan says. His latest book is Fascism or Genocide: How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American Politics.
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Oct 23, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the latest top U.S. official to visit Israel as part of a push to maintain the Gaza ceasefire. Reports suggest the Trump administration is worried about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermining the agreement, with the U.S. visits dubbed "Bibi-sitting" missions to prevent any sabotage. Meanwhile, lawmakers in the Knesset have advanced a bill to apply Israeli sovereignty to all illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank — a move that would effectively annex the territory and kill already dim hopes for a future Palestinian state on that land.
For more on the state of the Gaza ceasefire and the future of Palestine, we speak with Robert Malley, co-author with Hussein Agha of the new book Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine. Malley is a veteran negotiator involved in previous U.S.-backed peace talks between Israel and Palestinian leadership. He says despite the many flaws in the Trump plan, including "deciding everything for Palestinians without Palestinians having a voice," it has at least halted the worst of the violence. He also notes the "double standard" in how all U.S. administrations have dealt with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as "the search for a two-state solution became a gimmick" while the U.S. allowed Israel to entrench its occupation.
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Oct 23, 2025
The International Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that Israel, as an occupying power, must allow United Nations humanitarian aid into Gaza and may not use starvation as a method of warfare. In its advisory opinion, the World Court also found that Israel had failed to provide evidence for its claims that UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, lacks neutrality or that a significant number of its staff are affiliated with Hamas. Israel denounced the ruling and said it would not comply with the court's instructions. The Trump administration also condemned the opinion.
"The opinion is unambiguous. It's an opinion by the highest legal authority of the U.N.," says UNRWA spokesperson Tamara Alrifai, speaking to Democracy Now! from Amman, Jordan. She adds that for the Trump-backed ceasefire to succeed, aid groups must have unrestricted access to Gaza and be allowed to "flood" the territory with food and other basic supplies.
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Oct 23, 2025
"Starvation as a Weapon of War": ICJ Orders Israel to Restore Access to U.N.-Led Aid Agencies, Mass Funeral Held in Gaza for Unidentified Palestinians Whose Bodies Show Signs of Torture, Israeli Lawmakers Advance Bills to Annex West Bank, Drawing Rare U.S. Criticism, U.S. Lawmakers Call on Israel to Release 16-Year-Old Palestinian American Held Months Without Trial, Pentagon Says It Blew Up Two Boats Allegedly Carrying Drugs Near Colombia's Pacific Coast, Trump Administration Announces New Sanctions on Russia's Largest Oil and Gas Companies, Federal Government Shutdown Enters Its 23rd Day, Trump Administration Dispatches More Than 100 Federal Agents to San Francisco Bay Area, Protesters Confront Masked Federal Agents Carrying Out Arrests in Illinois, Protesters in New York March in Solidarity with Street Vendors Detained by Federal Agents, Cuban Man Deported to Eswatini Launches Hunger Strike, North Carolina Lawmakers Approve New Congressional Map, NYT: Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs with Robots, Peru's Interim President José Jerí Declares 30-Day State of Emergency, National Trust for Historic Preservation Asks to Pause Construction of White House Ballroom
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Oct 22, 2025
In recent weeks, the United States has conducted several deadly airstrikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea, which the Trump administration has claimed, without providing evidence, were being used to traffic drugs. A group of United Nations experts said U.S. strikes targeting boats in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela amount to "extrajudicial executions."
"There seems to be a much bigger political context behind this than really going after drug traffickers, which seems to be … not at all the main goal of the U.S. administration," says Guillaume Long, senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and former foreign minister of Ecuador. Long says "regime change in Venezuela" and anger over Colombian President Gustavo Petro's pro-Palestinian politics are also motivating factors in the U.S. campaign. Meanwhile, Manuel Rozental, a Colombian physician and activist, says the drug war is about economic control.
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Oct 22, 2025
Tensions are escalating between Colombia and the United States as President Trump conducts deadly airstrikes on supposed "drug boats" in the Caribbean. Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the U.S. of committing murder for killing a Colombian fisherman in one attack in mid-September and just recalled the country's ambassador, Daniel García-Peña.
"Even if they were in fact carrying drugs, the procedure is to capture them, to seize them, to arrest them and to find information about who was behind them, and not blowing them up," García-Peña tells Democracy Now! from Bogotá.
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Oct 22, 2025
Virginia Roberts Giuffre's posthumous memoir has just been released, detailing how she was groomed by Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, whom she met at Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort. In Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, she writes that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew three times, beginning when she was 17, and was beaten and raped by a "well-known prime minister." Virginia Giuffre died by suicide earlier this year in Australia at age 41.
Democracy Now! speaks with Amy Wallace, Giuffre's ghostwriter, who says Giuffre experienced the "depths of hell" with Maxwell and Epstein. "It's not just a catalog of horrors. It's a woman who is terribly abused as a child, escapes from that terrible abuse — valiantly — forms a family, which is in itself a triumph, and then becomes an advocate," says Wallace.
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Oct 22, 2025
Israel Continues Deadly Attacks in Gaza Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, Israeli Forces Detain 45 People in the West Bank as UN Warns About Settler Violence, Mahmoud Khalil Files Appeals to Prevent ICE from Detaining Him Again, Federal Government Shutdown Has Entered Its 22nd Day, Jan. 6 Rioter Pardoned by Trump Arrested for Allegedly Threatening to Kill Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Trump Demands DOJ to Pay Him $230 Million in Compensation for Federal Probes Against Him, Arizona Attorney General Sues Speaker Johnson for Refusing to Seat Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva, Trump's Special Counsel Nominee Withdraws Following Backlash over Racist Texts, Federal Agents Shoot U.S. Marshal and Undocumented Immigrant in Los Angeles, WaPo: Secretary of State Rubio Offered MS-13 Informants to Secure El Salvador Prison Deal, Guardian: CIA Played Central Role in Sharing Intel Used for U.S. Strikes in the Caribbean, Trump-Putin Summit in Budapest Is Canceled, Former French President Sarkozy Begins 5-Year Prison Sentence, Court Overturns Conviction of Colombia's Former President Álvaro Uribe, Flotilla Led by Indigenous Activists Heading to Brazil for COP30
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Oct 21, 2025
Armed Only with a Camera, the documentary chronicling the life of the late filmmaker Brent Renaud, premieres Tuesday on HBO. Renaud was the first Western journalist killed during the war in Ukraine. He was shot by Russian soldiers during the 2022 invasion while filming Ukrainian refugees with another photojournalist, Juan Arredondo, who was wounded in the attack. Armed Only with a Camera, directed by Renaud's brother Craig, also a filmmaker, traces Brent Renaud's long career covering conflict and post-conflict regions around the world. We speak to Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo about Brent's work and memory. "He was a very compassionate person," says Renaud, emphasizing that Brent's focus on conflict zones "was never about just trying to get to the frontlines … He wanted to humanize the people that were there."
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Oct 21, 2025
We look at the influence of Trump's top budget adviser and the architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought, over the Trump administration's policies and Trump himself. Vought is "the driving force behind the [government] shutdown" and "basically a second commander-in-chief, a shadow president," says ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll, who spent months researching Vought for an extensive profile on the Office of Management and Budget director. During this second Trump administration, Vought's deeply conservative ideology has been unchallenged by a compliant Congress, Kroll explains, placing unprecedented power into the hands of the executive branch.
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Oct 21, 2025
"We are under attack by our own federal government," says Democratic Congressmember for Illinois Delia Ramirez about Trump's immigration crackdown in Chicago. "What we're seeing is an agency that has gone rogue, that has been emboldened and that thinks that they're above the law." She urges Americans to report and record ICE activity to strengthen future legal battles, "because what ICE is stating and what we're seeing in the community in the streets is inconsistent." Congressmember Ramirez also comments on the ongoing federal government shutdown, which she calls "a clear embodiment of Donald Trump's leadership: starve and let people die while the billionaires and his cronies enrich themselves," the Republican leadership's continued refusal to swear in new Democratic Congressmember-elect Adelita Grijalva, and the Trump-backed Gaza ceasefire.
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Oct 21, 2025
Top U.S. Officials Travel to Israel for Talks as Netanyahu Threatens to Collapse Gaza Ceasefire, Palestinian Woman Beaten Unconscious as Israeli Settlers Attack West Bank Olive Farmers, Federal Court Gives Trump Green Light to Deploy Troops to Portland, "Blatantly Immoral": DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Draws Fire for $170M Purchase of Luxury Private Jets, Colombia Recalls Ambassador to U.S. over Strikes in Caribbean as Trump Issues Threats, Sanae Takaichi, Opponent of Gender Equality, Becomes Japan's First Female Prime Minister, Trump Admin Fires Two Prosecutors Who Opposed Criminal Case Against Letitia James, DOJ Whistleblower Says He Received Illegal Orders from Trump Appointee Emil Bove, Politico: Trump Nominee Texts Group of Republicans He Has a "Nazi Streak", Seven Universities Decline to Sign Trump Administration's "Compact", White House Begins Demolishing Part of East Wing to Make Way for Trump's Ballroom
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Oct 20, 2025
Immigrant rights and labor icon Dolores Huerta, now 95 years old, is continuing her lifelong activism as immigration raids intensify across the country. She addressed the No Kings rally in Watsonville, California, this weekend to speak out against the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda. "This is ethnic cleansing," Huerta tells Democracy Now! "We have never seen such horrific, horrific attacks on our people."
Huerta is president and founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation; she co-founded the United Farm Workers of America with Cesar Chavez in the 1960s. Amid intensifying immigration raids, she describes how she has joined with People for the American Way and the Dolores Huerta Foundation to release a short dramatized film that shows neighbors joining together in nonviolent civil disobedience to protect an immigrant elder from being disappeared by ICE.
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Oct 20, 2025
An estimated 7 million people took part in No Kings rallies Saturday to protest President Trump's authoritarian policies. Organizers say protests were held at about 2,600 sites across all 50 states in what was one of the largest days of protest in U.S. history, surpassing the first No Kings day of action in June. One of the biggest mobilizations was in Washington, D.C., where Trump has fired thousands of federal workers and sent in National Guard troops to patrol the streets. Democracy Now! covered the action and spoke to people about what brought them out to protest. "We need to make it clear that we can't have an authoritarian government, a government that's turned into nothing but a weapon," says Paul Osadebe, who says he was fired from his job as a HUD civil rights lawyer for challenging Trump's refusal to enforce the Fair Housing Act.
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Oct 20, 2025
"Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees," says Sari Bashi, an Israeli American human rights lawyer and former program director at Human Rights Watch. "Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime. The vast majority of people being held are being held without trial."
Bashi also says the genocide has "been hell" for her Palestinian husband, whose family is based in Gaza. Their relationship is chronicled in Bashi's forthcoming memoir, Upside-Down Love.
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Oct 20, 2025
We speak with Al Jazeera reporter Ibrahim al-Khalili in Gaza, where the shaky ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appears to be holding despite sporadic violence. Gaza officials say Israeli forces have repeatedly violated the agreement, including when they opened fire on a civilian bus, killing 11 members of a Palestinian family attempting to return home in Gaza City. Israel killed dozens more over the weekend when it unleashed a wave of airstrikes after it said militants attacked some of its soldiers, although there are reports the soldiers died when their bulldozer ran over unexploded ordnance. Israel also continues to restrict humanitarian aid into Gaza, despite its commitments in the ceasefire agreement.
"Israel is breaching the ceasefire," says al-Khalili. "The war has not really ended for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are still struggling to survive the next day with the lack of basic necessities."
Al-Khalili, who has reported from Gaza since the outbreak of the war in October 2023, lost several family members in a deadly Israeli attack on their apartment building. His brother Mohammed was also taken captive by Israeli forces for 19 months and only released last week as part of the prisoner exchange.
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Oct 20, 2025
No Kings: An Estimated 7 Million People Participate in Nationwide Anti-Trump Rallies, Israel Kills Dozens in Gaza and Temporarily Halts Aid Deliveries, President Trump Threatens to Send National Guard Troops to San Francisco, Federal Government Shutdown Enters 20th Day, Trump Threatens to Cut Off Foreign Aid to Colombia and Launch Attacks Inside Venezuela, Rodrigo Paz Wins Bolivian Presidential Election, Trump Urges Ukrainian President Zelensky to Accept Putin's Terms to End the War, Prince Andrew Announces He's Giving Up Royal Titles Ahead of the Publication of Virginia Giuffre's Memoir, Vermont Republican Legislator Resigns over Racist and Antisemitic Group Chat, Trump Commutes Sentence of Former Republican Congressman George Santos, Kaiser Permanente Healthcare Workers End Five-Day Strike
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Oct 17, 2025
Even as President Trump has cracked down on dissent and sent troops into multiple cities, organizers of Saturday's anti-authoritarian "No Kings" protests expect millions to join at least 2,500 rallies across all 50 states and several U.S. territories. The turnout could surpass the 5 million protesters who turned out for "No Kings Day" events in June.
"We are engaging in the most American activity in the world, which is coming together in peaceful protest of our government," says Leah Greenberg, co-founder and co-executive director of the progressive organization ?Indivisible. Trump's threats against the protests are a "classic exercise of the authoritarian playbook, to try to create fear, to try to threaten, to try to make people back off preemptively," she adds.
"There will be no fear, but the fear of what will happen to us if we don't mobilize," says Byron Sigcho Lopez, alderperson of the 25th Ward in Chicago, where mass protests are expected.
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Oct 17, 2025
There are growing questions over the legality of U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. "These are sitting ducks, and we are simply engaged in cold-blooded murder of individuals who may or may not be drug smugglers," says David Cole, professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Cole says that President Trump is "committing homicide" by killing people without trial. "These individuals who have now been sent to the bottom of the sea by this president, if they were tried, at most, would face a sentence of some period of years," says Cole. "There would be no death penalty authorized under the Constitution for these individuals, even assuming they're guilty."
This comes as Trump has authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations inside Venezuela aimed at regime change, raising fears of a military confrontation between the two countries.
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Oct 17, 2025
Just days after the U.S.-backed ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect, President Trump has issued new threats against Hamas, saying Thursday the United States would back a military intervention against the group if it fails to uphold the ceasefire agreement.
"There is the fear all the time that the war will be renewed," says Amira Hass, Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who joins us from Ramallah. Hass is the daughter of Holocaust survivors and is the only Israeli Jewish journalist to have spent 30 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank.
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Oct 17, 2025
Palestinians in Gaza Attempt to Identify Bodies Released by Israel, Israeli Defense Minister Calls on Military to Prepare a "Comprehensive Plan" to Defeat Hamas If Ceasefire Fails, Jewish Voice for Peace Protesters Occupy Senator Cory Booker's Office Building Lobby, Trump's Former National Security Adviser John Bolton Indicted by a Grand Jury, U.S. Launches Another Strike on a Suspected Drug Boat Off the Coast of Venezuela, U.S. Admiral Overseeing Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats in the Caribbean to Step Down, Ukrainian President Zelensky to Meet with Trump Today and Request Tomahawk Cruise Missiles, ProPublica: More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Detained by ICE Agents, Federal Judge Lifts Travel Restrictions for Mahmoud Khalil, Federal Government Shutdown Enters 17th Day, WSJ: Trump Admin to Overhaul IRS to Pursue Left-Leaning Groups and Major Democratic Donors, Organizers of "No Kings" Protests Expect Millions of People to Join at Least 2,500 Rallies Nationwide, New York City Mayoral Candidates Face Off in First Debate Ahead of Nov. 4 Election, Federal Judge Orders ICE Agents to Wear Body Cameras in Chicago
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Oct 16, 2025
The Department of Defense has introduced a new press policy requiring the Pentagon to authorize any reporting on itself. Top TV news outlets have rejected the pledge; only the far-right outlet One America News has agreed to sign on. Dozens of reporters with the Pentagon Press Association turned in their government-issued press badges and left the building Wednesday rather than agree to the rules. "The Trump administration has made the suppression of speech that it doesn't like a governing principle since it took office," says David Schulz, who advised the Pentagon Press Association on their response. He warns the "desire of the Pentagon officials to control what is said about them" is "alarming" and signals a major rupture in U.S. press freedoms.
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Oct 16, 2025
The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, threatening the equal representation of Black voters, and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The case concerns Louisiana's six congressional districts, two of which are majority-Black, in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state. A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in which they were a majority was ruled to have violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act last year. Now a group of conservative activists have brought the battle to the Supreme Court, challenging Section 2 itself. "The stakes of this case are enormous. This is a case about whether districts that represent all Americans fairly will remain possible in this country," says ACLU lawyer Megan Keenan, who is part of the legal team defending Louisiana's current congressional map. "We have a wretched history of racial discrimination in voting in this country," and "for 40 uninterrupted years, we have applied this rigorous, data-driven test to figure out when discrimination exists and how to stop it. That's the test that's at stake in this case."
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Oct 16, 2025
We speak to Argentine journalist Pablo Calvi about the U.S. government's multibillion-dollar bailout for Argentina, which could grow from $20 billion to $40 billion as Argentina is rocked by an ongoing economic crisis. "I don't see that the bailout would benefit the Argentine people or the American people, for that matter," says Calvi. Instead, he believes the tech industry will reap the financial rewards from its ties to U.S. President Trump and his ally, far-right Argentine President Javier Milei, who attended the conservative CPAC conference in the U.S., where he gifted billionaire Elon Musk a chain saw.
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Oct 16, 2025
Palestinians who have been released from Israeli prisons as part of the hostage exchange with Hamas are describing physical and psychological torture, medical neglect, deprivation and more. Moureen Kaki, a Palestinian American aid worker with Glia International who has been interviewing the returnees, joins us from Khan Younis to share some of their stories. Most were captured and imprisoned without charge by the Israeli military in the past two years. "They were being illegally imprisoned as captives by the Israeli military and then the Israeli government," Kaki explains. "Some of them were held captive for as little as three months, and some of them for several years."
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Oct 16, 2025
We get an update from Gaza as the ceasefire there concludes its first week. Despite the agreed-upon cessation of hostilities, the Israeli military has continued its deadly attacks on Palestinians. Israel's pledge to let in the 600 aid trucks needed daily to fill the dire need among the starving population has likewise fallen short. "We do not have enough supplies entering Gaza," says Rachael Cummings, who is with Save the Children International in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
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Oct 16, 2025
Israel Delays Reopening Gaza Border Crossing, Continues Deadly Attacks Despite Ceasefire, Palestinian Political Prisoners' Group Says Israeli Guards Brutally Beat Marwan Barghouti, Spanish Unions and Students Hold Nationwide Strike Demanding Government Sever Ties with Israel, Greta Thunberg Describes Israeli Guards' Torture of Gaza Aid Flotilla Activists, Maduro Says "No to Regime Change" as Trump Says He's Ordered Covert CIA Operations in Venezuela, Reporters Turn In Badges and Vacate Pentagon En Masse Rather Than Sign Restrictive Press Policy, Supreme Court Appears Poised to Strike Down Key Provision of Voting Rights Act, Judge Puts Temporary Hold on Trump's Mass Firing of Federal Workers During Government Shutdown, U.S. to Deport Exonerated Prisoner Held 43 Years for Crime He Did Not Commit, Trump Admin Plans to Limit Refugee Admissions, Giving Preference to English Speakers, Democratic Women's Caucus Marches Through Capitol Demanding Rep.-Elect Grijalva Be Sworn In, WSJ: Ghislaine Maxwell Receiving Preferential Treatment at Minimum-Security Prison
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Oct 15, 2025
There are just weeks to go before the November 4 New York City mayoral election, a virtual rematch of the Democratic primary from earlier this year, when democratic socialist state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani defeated former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for the party nomination. Cuomo is now running for mayor as an independent, but former aide Lindsey Boylan says New Yorkers must not forget why he was forced out of the governor's mansion four years ago. She was the first of about a dozen women to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment, setting in motion events that would lead to his fall from power — even as he continues to claim innocence.
"He resigned because he did these things," says Boylan, who backs Mamdani in the mayoral race. "People powerful within his own party forced that resignation because they knew he did these things. So he's lying. … We have to repeat it, because people have to know what an abuser he is."
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Oct 15, 2025
As Israel and Hamas exchange living and dead captives as part of a U.S.-backed ceasefire agreement, questions are growing about how sustainable the truce is and whether the two sides will progress to the second and third stages of the plan.
"My family is very happy that the families of other hostages that have been returned, dead and alive, are reaching some degree of closure," says Middle East historian Joel Beinin, whose Israeli niece, Liat Beinin Atzili, was held captive in Gaza for 54 days after she was taken by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023, while her husband Aviv was killed. The family's story is the focus of a new documentary, Holding Liat.
"All of the rest of the 20-point plan is very dubious, and I have grave doubts about whether any of the rest of it will actually be implemented," says Beinin, who also discusses one-sided Western media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how he came to "abandon Zionism" despite having family in Israel.
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Oct 15, 2025
We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, which explores the history and tactics of anti-fascist movements in Europe, the United States and beyond. Turning Point USA, the conservative campus group founded by Charlie Kirk, had called for Bray's firing and branded him "Dr. Antifa." This comes as the Trump administration has dramatically escalated its war on dissent following Kirk's assassination, using his death as pretext to launch an assault on activists, organizations and speech it disagrees with.
"What we're seeing today in the U.S. is increasingly fascist. MAGA, I believe — and I study fascism, I don't say this lightly — is a fascist movement," says Bray, referring to Trump's political movement.
President Trump signed an executive order designating antifa as a terrorist organization, but Bray stresses there is no such organization; anti-fascism is a loose political movement or ideology akin to feminism, but Trump is using the label to "demonize resistance" to his policies.
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Oct 15, 2025
Pressure Grows on Israel to Allow More Aid into Gaza, Amazon Fires Software Engineer Who Criticized Cloud Computing Project with Israel, Pro-Palestinian Protesters Clash with Authorities During Soccer Match Between Israel and Italy, ICE Agents Disperse Protesters with Tear Gas After High-Speed Chase in Chicago, State Department Revokes Visas of Foreign Nationals over Charlie Kirk Comments, "I Love Hitler": Racist Messages by Young Republican Leaders Exposed in New Leak, Speaker Johnson Continues to Delay Swearing-In of Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva, Senate Fails to Pass Funding Bill as Federal Government Shutdown Enters Its 15th Day, Trump Conditions $20 Billion Bailout to Argentina on Milei's Party Winning Elections, Reuters: China Buying Argentine Soybeans Amid U.S. Tariffs, U.S. Strikes Another Boat Off Coast of Venezuela, Killing 6 People, Five Major Broadcast Outlets Refuse to Sign Pentagon's New Press Policy, Elite Military Unit Seizes Power After Ouster of Madagascar President, Reuters: Assad Regime Moved Mass Graves to Cover Up Killings, Tens of Thousands of Kaiser Permanente Frontline Medical Staff Go on Strike, Transgender Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Dies at 78
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Oct 14, 2025
As Trump threatens to send more federal troops to Chicago, grassroots movements have mobilized to protect immigrants from ICE raids. Democracy Now!'s Juan González, who is based in Chicago, reports that there have been "meetings all around the city, at college campuses and in neighborhoods, to build this self-defense group."
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Oct 14, 2025
As President Trump celebrates his Gaza ceasefire deal, major questions remain over what happens next. Democracy Now! speaks with Khaled Elgindy, visiting scholar at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, who breaks down the U.S.-backed peace plan. Though the document includes "vague statements" on how the peace process will unfold, Elgindy says it's wise for "Palestinians to rebuild their national movement" at this time. At the same time, Israel has refused to release political leader Marwan Barghouti, who has spent decades in Israeli prison and is widely seen as a "unifying leader" who could bring all Palestinian factions together.
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Oct 14, 2025
Pressure is mounting for Israel to release many more detainees as part of the U.S.-backed Gaza ceasefire deal, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been held under harsh conditions without charge since December, when Israeli troops stormed the hospital — claiming without evidence it was a Hamas command center. Soldiers forced Dr. Abu Safiya out at gunpoint along with patients he had refused to abandon. Famous footage shows him wearing his white medical coat as he climbed over rubble to walk toward an Israeli tank before he was detained.
Naji Abbas, director of the Prisoners Department at Physicians for Human Rights Israel, says that Abu Safiya is one of at least 19 doctors held in Israeli detention without charge. "They are facing a very serious risk for their health and for their lives," says Abbas. "They are being tortured. They are facing violence daily."
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Oct 14, 2025
As President Trump addressed the Israeli Knesset on Monday, he was briefly interrupted by two lawmakers who waved signs reading "Recognize Palestine." The two Knesset members, Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif with the Hadash-Ta'al alliance, were expelled from the chamber. "Yesterday, there was a disgusting display of flattery and personality cult by two megalomaniacs who are hungry for power and blood," says Cassif. "This was a minimum protest against the policy of the genocidal government of Israel."
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Oct 14, 2025
Israeli Military Forces Kill at Least 5 Palestinians Despite Ceasefire Agreement, Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank Celebrate Return of Nearly 2,000 Prisoners, Families Demand Hamas Return Bodies of 24 Israeli Hostages, Trump Co-Chairs Summit in Egypt for Ceasefire Signing Ceremony; Netanyahu Does Not Attend, Journalist Abducted by Israel Says She Was Tortured in Israeli Custody, Afghan Taliban Claims Its Forces Killed Dozens of Pakistani Soldiers, Russian Forces Attack Ukraine's Second-Largest City Kharkiv, Speaker Johnson Warns Government Shutdown Could Be the Longest in U.S. History, Several News Outlets Announce They Will Not Sign Pentagon's New Press Policy, 2003 CIA Cable Details Torture Methods Against a Detainee at a Black Site, Madagascar's President Flees the Country Following "Gen Z" Protests, United Nations: 300,000 People Have Fled South Sudan in 2025, Economists Demand Relief for Poorer Countries Facing Unsustainable Debt Burdens, 64 Are Dead and Dozens Missing in Mexico After Heavy Rains Bring Flooding to Five States, New York AG Letitia James Campaigns for Zohran Mamdani, Warning of Trump's Retribution Campaign
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Oct 13, 2025
To mark Indigenous Peoples' Day, we sit down with the award-winning Indigenous writer, journalist and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat, an enrolled member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq'secen of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation. His debut book, We Survived the Night, is part-memoir, part-investigative journalism, telling both his family story and the story of Indigenous erasure and resistance in what is now called North America. "I often think about what it must have meant for my ancestors to greet one another in the day by saying something as simple and profound as that they had 'survived the night,'" says NoiseCat. "What did that mean in the winter of 1863, for example, when over two-thirds of our nation died of smallpox? What did it mean in the days after the children were taken away to Indian residential schools?"
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Oct 13, 2025
Renowned Israeli historian, author and professor Ilan Pappé discusses the postwar prospects of Palestinian statehood and of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under investigation for corruption in Israel and subject to an international arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court. Despite the newly implemented Gaza ceasefire, says Pappé, Israeli political leaders have not changed their policy aim to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their remaining territory. "Nothing has changed in the dehumanization and the attitude of this particular Israeli government and its belief that it has the power to wipe out Palestine as a nation, as a people and as a country," he explains. Pappé's latest book is titled Israel on the Brink: And the Eight Revolutions That Could Lead to Decolonization and Coexistence.
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Oct 13, 2025
"War is over," declared Donald Trump Sunday night, as the first phase of the U.S.-backed 20-point Gaza peace plan got underway. Hamas has returned the remaining 20 living hostages back to Israel, while Israel has released around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. We get a reaction to the ceasefire from the Palestinian writer and human rights activist Ahmed Abu Artema. He recently evacuated Gaza, nearly two years after multiple family members, including his son, were killed in an Israeli military attack. "We cannot say we are happy, because we lost everything," he says.
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Oct 13, 2025
Trump Addresses Knesset as Israel and Hamas Exchange Captives, Israel Threatens to Arrest Palestinians Caught Celebrating Release of Prisoners, Israel Releases Remaining Gaza Flotilla Participants It Abducted on High Seas, Tens of Thousands Rally in London to Demand Justice for Palestinians, Trump Warns of More Layoffs as Mass Firings Target CDC and Education Dept., Appeals Court Blocks Deployment of National Guard to Chicago But Rules Federalization Can Continue, Chicago TV Producer Released Without Charge After Arrest by Federal Agents, "Funds Not Feds": Chicago Protesters Demand ICE Funds Be Redirected to Social Programs, Anti-ICE Protesters in Portland Don Inflatable Costumes to Mock Trump's "War Zone" Rhetoric, At Least 60 Killed by Paramilitary Attacks on Besieged City in Sudan's North Darfur, Kremlin Warns of "Dramatic" Escalalation as Trump Mulls Long-Range Missiles for Ukraine, Madagascar's President Says He's Resisting a Coup as Soldiers Join Anti-Government Protests, Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs on China After Beijing Restricts Rare-Earth Minerals, Venezuelan Ambassador Warns U.S. Is Preparing an Invasion, 8 Charged with Felonies in Texas for Allegedly Assisting in Outlawed Abortions, 16 Killed as Explosion Destroys Tennessee Explosives Factory
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Oct 10, 2025
Writer Cory Doctorow returns to Democracy Now! to discuss his new book Enshittification, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how online platforms like Facebook degrade over time as companies seek to maximize profit at the expense of their users, and it has since become shorthand for describing a pervasive sense of dropping standards across various aspects of modern life.
Enshittification is "the collapse of discipline," says Doctorow. "America's ruling class has managed to neutralize all the discipline that it ever faced. Their weirdest, worst ideas are the ones that we're all stuck with."
Doctorow also elaborates on a point he makes in his book: "Donald Trump's election represents the ultimate triumph of enshittification in the political realm."
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Oct 10, 2025
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqualified by the government of President Nicolás Maduro, with fellow opposition leader Edmundo González standing in for her. Venezuela's National Electoral Council ultimately declared Maduro the winner of the contested election, and he was sworn in for his third term in January.
Machado has voiced support for U.S. sanctions against Venezuela and other efforts to topple the government; she aims to privatize the country's state oil industry and has praised right-wing Latin American leaders, including Argentina's Javier Milei and El Salvador's Nayib Bukele.
Friday's Nobel announcement comes as U.S. President Donald Trump has openly campaigned for the award.
"It's a perplexing choice," says Greg Grandin, a historian of Latin America. "They've given it to somebody who's completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism."
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Oct 10, 2025
A ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on Friday after the Israeli government approved the first phase of the U.S.-backed plan to end two years of war in the Palestinian territory. The deal calls for a pause in Israeli attacks, the release of the remaining Israeli captives held by Hamas in exchange for Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons, as well as an influx of badly needed humanitarian aid for the starving population of Gaza. Israeli forces have pulled back but continue to control roughly half the territory, with the ceasefire agreement calling for further withdrawals in later phases.
"This is a deal that really should have been made long, long ago," says Amjad Iraqi, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group. "We've known that the parameters of this truce have been on the table for well over a year, if not since the very beginning of the war."
Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu says while people are happy for a pause in the slaughter, she finds it "repulsive" that Palestinians had to bargain with their own oppressors. "It should have been that the world put sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide, rather than forcing Palestinians to negotiate an end to it."
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Oct 10, 2025
Israeli Government Approves First Phase of Gaza Ceasefire Deal, Grand Jury Indicts New York Attorney General Letitia James, 2024 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado, Colombia's President Petro Claims Colombians Killed in Boat Struck by U.S., Peruvian Lawmakers Swear In New President, U.S. Begins Implementation of $20 Billion Bailout for Argentina, Federal Government Shutdown Enters 10th Day, Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Deployment of National Guard Troops in Illinois, National Guard Troops Set to Begin Patrols of Memphis, Oklahoma's Republican Governor Criticizes Trump's Deployment of Texas Troops to Illinois, Texas Court Halts Execution of Robert Roberson, Convicted over "Shaken Baby Syndrome"
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Oct 09, 2025
Israeli forces have abducted over 500 peace activists over the past week who were sailing to Gaza in an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged territory. Organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla say most of the participants were sent to Ktzi'ot Prison, notorious for harsh and abusive conditions. Some have reported physical abuse, humiliation and inhumane treatment by Israeli soldiers.?
Jewish American activist David Adler, co-general coordinator of the Progressive International, says he faced additional abuse because of his background.
"They reached down and saw my passport, which had my full name, David Rashi Kremen Adler, and asked if I was Jewish. I said I was Jewish. They ripped me by the ear and forced me to bend down and stare at the flag of the state of Israel," says Adler, who also describes being confronted in prison by the far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who called Adler a "terrorist."
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Oct 09, 2025
President Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the "first phase" of a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal for Gaza. The 20-point roadmap includes a swap of captives and a phased Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, though details on many of the planks remain sketchy. Democracy Now! spoke with Palestinian and Israeli analysts on how to interpret the peace plan.
"We're now at a fork in the road," says Mouin Rabbani, a Palestinian Middle East analyst. "While it's very welcome, of course, that the genocide may be coming to an end … this is a renewed Oslo process with an even lower political ceiling." He says there are calls around the globe for a "different paradigm … in which Israeli accountability for its actions replaces these meaningless, endless negotiations about nothing."
Muhammad Shehada, a writer and analyst from Gaza, is critical of the deal, saying that "as soon as a ceasefire deal is signed, nobody bothers with the details. Gaza disappears, and it's back to this slow, latent, invisible violence of starvation and engaging people in a permanent state of nonlife."
Ori Goldberg, an Israeli political analyst and scholar, says that the deal was politically advantageous for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "Netanyahu can now be the complete package," says Goldberg. "Netanyahu was the fearless leader who fought the difficult, inevitable war, but he is now the fearless leader who brings the difficult, inevitable deal."
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Oct 09, 2025
Celebrations broke out in Gaza and Israel overnight after President Trump announced Israel and Hamas have agreed on the first phase of a hostage-ceasefire deal. Trump said the remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza would likely be released on Monday. Israel has also agreed to release hundreds of Palestinians held captive in Israeli prisons, but a final list of prisoners has not been released. Eyad Amawi, an aid coordinator who joins us from Deir al-Balah in the Gaza Strip, has "mixed feelings, happiness, worries and hopes" about the deal. He is cautious due to "Israeli habits" during ceasefire agreements to "grant themselves more time to punish our people, to increase the suffering."
During the first phase of the deal, Israel will withdraw forces from parts of Gaza and allow more humanitarian aid into the besieged territory. A ceasefire is expected to begin after the Israeli government formally approves the deal.
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Oct 09, 2025
Trump Says Israel and Hamas Have Agreed to Gaza Ceasefire Deal, Israel Continues Attacks on Gaza Even as Palestinians Celebrate News of Ceasefire, Spanish Parliament Approves Israel Arms Embargo as Dutch Protesters Hold Sit-Ins for Gaza, GOP Defeats Senate War Powers Resolution to Limit Trump's Strikes on Alleged Drug Traffickers, IRS to Furlough Nearly Half Its Workers as Government Shutdown Enters Second Week, 500 National Guard Troops Arrive in Chicago as Trump Calls for Mayor and Governor to Be Jailed, Pastor Shot in Head by "Less Lethal" Round at Chicago-Area ICE Protest Joins Lawsuit, Trump Holds Roundtable on Antifa, Claims to Go After Its "Funders", Antifa Expert to Flee with Family to Spain Following Death Threats, Former FBI Director Comey Pleads Not Guilty to Charges He Lied to Congress, WaPo: One-Quarter of FBI's Agents Assigned to Immigration Enforcement, Tennessee Lawmaker Justin Pearson Launches Primary Challenge to Incumbent Rep. Steve Cohen, 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Hungarian Novelist László Krasznahorkai, Jordanian American Omar Yaghi, Son of Palestinian Refugees, Wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Oct 08, 2025
The new documentary Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink looks at how hedge funds have gutted newsrooms across the country. The hedge fund strategy of "distressed asset investing" involves buying up industries that are struggling to turn a profit, and then selling off their assets and laying off workers. "You have people who are interested solely in making money off of the newspapers and not in serving the community and doing good journalism," says director Rick Goldsmith. "This is happening all over the country, and more than half the daily newspapers are either owned or controlled by hedge funds."
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink is now streaming and airing on PBS.
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Oct 08, 2025
We speak to journalist David Klion about the Trump-affiliated right wing's increasing grip on mainstream news media, as "anti-woke" pundit Bari Weiss takes the helm as the new editor-in-chief of CBS News. The former New York Times opinion writer, who left the paper over what she alleged was a climate of censorship, brands herself as a champion of free speech, but in reality "has a 20-year history of suppressing speech that she finds objectionable, especially when it's speech championing the rights of Palestinians and criticizing the state of Israel," says Klion. Weiss's ascension comes just after CBS's parent company, Paramount, completed a merger with Skydance, the media company founded by the son of billionaire Larry Ellison. Ellison, the founder of the tech company Oracle and soon-to-be part owner of social media platform TikTok in the U.S., is also a staunch supporter of Israel and has close ties to Donald Trump. Weiss's appointment by the Ellisons "is an ideological power play," says Klion. "It's about elevating her political ideology over the most important and storied news brands in the United States."
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Oct 08, 2025
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won a special election for a House seat in Arizona two weeks ago, has still not been sworn in to Congress. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is blaming the government shutdown for the delay, even though he previously expedited the swearing-in of multiple Republicans who won their special elections before election results were even in. It's more likely, say supporters, that Grijalva is being held up to prevent what she has pledged will be her first act in Congress: adding her name to and thus triggering a vote on California Congressmember Ro Khanna's bill for the public release of files related to the federal investigation of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. "She needs to get sworn in today," says Khanna, adding that every day Grijalva is not seated in the House "is breaking precedent and depriving people of who they voted for." Grijalva says, "This is an incredibly scary precedent to set. If you don't agree with the politics of the speaker, then they can keep you out of your duly elected office."
Khanna and Grijalva also discuss the legacy of Grijalva's late father, the longtime Arizona Congressmember Raúl Grijalva; the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration; right-wing attacks on freedom of the press; and more.
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Oct 08, 2025
As the government shutdown enters its second week, Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna of California says "the Republicans could open government today." The two parties are at a standoff over provisions in the Republican spending bill that would cut health insurance benefits for millions of Americans. President Donald Trump said Tuesday furloughed government workers may not be paid, breaking with precedent and a 2019 law. "In a shutdown, we always pay our troops, we always pay essential workers, and Trump is threatening both to lay them off illegally and not to pay them," says Khanna.
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Oct 08, 2025
Israeli Forces Kill 8 Palestinians Across Gaza in the Past 24 Hours, Israeli Far-Right National Security Minister Ben-Gvir Prays at Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound, Mideast Envoy Witkoff and Jared Kushner Set to Attend Gaza Ceasefire Talks in Egypt Today, Israeli Forces Intercept Another Gaza-Bound Humanitarian Aid Flotilla, Draft White House Memo States Furloughed Workers Could Be Prevented from Receiving Back Pay, FAA Warns of Staffing Shortages at Airports in Major Cities Amid Shutdown, National Guard Troops from Texas Arrive in Chicago, ACLU Accuses Trump Admin of Subjecting Immigrants to Inhumane Conditions at Angola Prison, Wired: ICE Bolstering Social Media Surveillance Nationwide, Attorney General Bondi Evades Questions on Epstein Files in Contentious Senate Hearing, Former FBI Director James Comey Set to Appear in Federal Court Today, SCOTUS Appears to Favor Removing Colorado's Ban on LGBTQ "Conversion Therapy" for Minors, Politico: Trump Admin Looking to Privatize $1.6 Trillion in Federal Student Loan Debt, California Governor Newsom Signs Law Aimed at Combating Antisemitism in Schools, Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $996 Million in Talc Baby Powder Cancer Case, Missouri Attorney General Subpoenas Planned Parenthood for Records of Abortion Patients
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Oct 07, 2025
We speak with Plestia Alaqad, an award-winning Palestinian journalist whose on-the-ground reporting from Gaza captured global attention during the early days of Israel's military assault two years ago. Then just 21 years old, her video dispatches went viral and offered the world a rare glimpse of life under bombardment. Alaqad, who fled Gaza with her family in late 2023, has now published The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of Resistance, drawn from the diary she kept in the weeks following October 7, 2023.
Reflecting on the last two years, Alaqad says that "Israel succeeded in isolating and dividing Gaza from the rest of the world" and making daily life intolerable for Palestinians. "They've been displaced, bombed, trapped and starved deliberately by Israel."
Alaqad also stresses that the story of Palestine goes beyond just the last two years. "History didn't start on October 7. It's been two years of the genocide, but it's been 77 years, if not more, of the ongoing Nakba that started in 1948," she says.
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Oct 07, 2025
As the world marks the second anniversary of the October 7 attack, we speak with Maoz Inon, an award-winning Israeli peace activist whose parents Bilha and Yakovi were both killed that day when Hamas fighters stormed their kibbutz near the Gaza border. Since then, Inon has become a world-famous advocate of peaceful coexistence for Israelis and Palestinians. His forthcoming book, co-authored with Palestinian peace activist Aziz Abu Sarah, is titled The Future Is Peace: A Shared Journey Across the Holy Land.
"It's a very sad day, because so many lives were lost in the last two years," says Inon. Reflecting on his parents' lessons about life, Inon says it's up to current and future generations to build something better: "It's our turn — our turn to sow the seeds of peace, the seeds of reconciliation, the seeds of equality, knowing that next year and next season will be better."
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Oct 07, 2025
Israelis, Palestinians and people around the world are marking two years since the October 7 Hamas attack that sparked the war in Gaza. The second anniversary of October 7 comes amid renewed hope for a ceasefire, as mediators from Hamas and Israel meet in Egypt to negotiate over U.S. President Donald Trump's plan for the future of Gaza. The proposal, like previous ones, calls for a swap of captives, as well as a phased Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza. But major questions remain over what both Israel and Hamas will agree to.
"We welcome any peace agreement," says Eyad Amawi, a representative of the Gaza Relief Committee and a coordinator for local NGOs, based in Deir al-Balah. "We hope that a ceasefire agreement will [be] completely implemented and we can reinforce our society here and renew the life and return the hope for our civilians."
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Oct 07, 2025
As Chicago braces for a possible deployment of National Guard troops by President Trump, we speak with Ed Yohnka from the ACLU of Illinois about how the administration's ongoing immigration crackdown is putting communities at risk. For weeks, federal agents with ICE and other agencies have carried out violent immigration arrests across Chicago, including in a high-profile raid on a residential building in which many U.S. citizens were also detained. "There's no emergency," says Yohnka, who blames the administration for needlessly escalating tensions in Chicago, seemingly in search of excuses for more violence. "And when anybody protests, then that's seized upon by the administration as a claim for the need to bring in further forces," says Yohnka.
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Oct 07, 2025
Israelis Mark 2nd Anniversary of Hamas Attacks with Commemorations and Protests, Israeli Strikes Have Killed Over 100 in Gaza Since Trump Called for Halt to Bombings, 170 Activists, Including Greta Thunberg, Deported from Israel After Raid on Gaza-Bound Flotilla, U.N. Says Israeli Attacks Have Killed Over 100 Civilians in Lebanon Since Ceasefire, National Guard Troops Head to Chicago After Judge Declines to Block Deployment, Trump Administration Appeals Judge's Order Blocking Deployment of National Guard to Portland, Trump Threatens More Mass Layoffs, Blames Democrats, as Government Shutdown Enters 7th Day, U.S. Sends 10 Immigrants to Eswatini in Another "Third Country" Deportation Flight, UNHCR Warns Countries Not to Abandon 1951 Refugee Convention, Syria Establishes Parliament with Few Women and Minority Lawmakers, ICC Convicts Former Sudanese Militia Leader of War Crimes in Darfur, Paramount Skydance Acquires The Free Press, Installs Bari Weiss as Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, Supreme Court Rejects Appeal from Jeffrey Epstein Co-Conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva Blasts Delay to Her Swearing-In as an "Epstein Cover-Up"
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Oct 06, 2025
Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who just returned from Sudan, says that the famine is man-made. "Atrocities in Palestine, atrocities in Sudan that relate to malnutrition, that relate to famine, are a consequence of underlying structures that enable these things to happen," says Haj-Hassan, who also volunteered in Gaza.
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Oct 06, 2025
Palestinians are still being systematically starved in Gaza even as ceasefire talks are underway this week. "It is a choice that Israel has, whether to feed the people or whether to starve them," says Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University. "The children who have been through this will suffer physical and cognitive harm for the rest of their lives, and there is an obligation on those who perpetrated the crime, and indeed on the rest of us, to give them the support."
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Oct 06, 2025
Global condemnation is mounting as hundreds of international activists remain in Israeli prison days after Israel's military raided and captured dozens of boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Reuters reports at least 170 flotilla activists, of the more than 400 arrested, have been deported from Israel. Many have described torture and mistreatment in Israeli custody. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg told Swedish officials she was held in a cell infested with bedbugs and deprived of food and water. Turkish activist Ersin Çelik told the Anadolu news agency that guards had "dragged little Greta by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag."
Kieran Andrieu is a British Palestinian journalist who was recently deported to Britain after being detained aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla. Andrieu says that activists faced torturous conditions in Israeli prisons. "They were throwing people's medicine in the bin in front of them and laughing in their faces," he says. "They were totally and utterly insensitive to the possibilities of any of us dying."
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Oct 06, 2025
President Trump is calling on negotiators to "move fast" on Gaza ceasefire talks as delegations from Hamas and Israel convene in Egypt to discuss the 20-point plan announced last week by the White House. The deal calls for Hamas to release all remaining hostages and to disarm. Daniel Levy, president of the U.S./Middle East Project, says it is unclear whether the plan will lead to an end to genocide in Gaza, yet "with all the faults in this plan, and there are multiple, … Biden never pushed this hard," says Levy.
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Oct 06, 2025
Gaza Ceasefire Talks Begin in Egypt Today, Israel Kills Seven Palestinians in Gaza Today, Tens of Thousands Rally in Tel Aviv in Support of Hostage Deal, Federal Judge Blocks Trump from Deploying National Guard Troops to Oregon, Trump Admin Plans to Send Hundreds of National Guard Troops to Chicago, Trump Uses Shutdown to Withhold Federal Funding from Democratic-Led Cities and States, WaPo: Trump Admin Looking to Change Age Requirements for Social Security Disability Payments, U.S. Forces Bomb Another Boat Off the Coast of Venezuela, Killing Four People, Russia Fires More Than 50 Missiles and Nearly 500 Drones at Ukraine, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu Resigns Less Than a Day After Forming His Cabinet, Global Sumud Flotilla Activists Allege Mistreatment by Israel in Detention, Major Pro-Palestinian Protests Erupt All Over the World, NYT: Trump Set to Lower Refugee Admissions, Supporting Mostly White South Africans, Journalist Mario Guevara Deported to El Salvador After Being Detained by ICE for Over 100 Days, Authorities Probing Alleged Arson Attack at Home of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Admin
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Oct 03, 2025
The Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted by Israeli forces Thursday as its dozens of vessels approached the shores of Gaza. In response to the detention of the flotilla's activists, Italian labor unions have launched a nationwide general strike demanding their release and an end to Israel's relentless assault. Global Sumud Flotilla spokesperson Maria Elena Delia shares an update from Rome, where hundreds of thousands are participating in nonviolent protest.
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Oct 03, 2025
The Oscar-winning actress and activist Jane Fonda is relaunching her father Henry Fonda's free speech organization, the Committee for the First Amendment. First established in 1947 to combat the rise of McCarthyism, the organization brings together members of the film and television industry to push back against and refuse government censorship. Fonda's announcement comes after the television network ABC brought back late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's show following widespread protest. Kimmel's show had been pulled from the air after he made comments criticizing the Trump administration's response to the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. "This regime is held up by pillars: military, media, professions and so forth. If each pillar organizes to remove support, we can do it," says Fonda about why she's decided to relaunch the organization now. "We have to do it."
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Oct 03, 2025
UPDATE: Mario Guevara was deported from the United States early on October 3, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara may be deported to El Salvador as soon as today despite holding work authorization in the United States and never having been charged with a crime. Guevara, who founded the outlet MG News, where he received awards for his coverage on immigration, has lived in the United States for nearly 20 years. He was arrested and jailed in June for live-streaming an anti-Trump "No Kings" demonstration near Atlanta.
"Mario's case is really the tip of the spear, and today's deportation is deeply troubling," says lawyer Nora Benavidez. "It is because of his journalistic work that they targeted him. They really do not want what he's doing to expose ICE." Benavidez also responds to the attempted deportations of pro-Palestine immigrant students on U.S. college campuses. "It really mirrors the way that Mario has also been targeted because the government, very similarly, simply went after him for his speech," she says.
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Oct 03, 2025
The Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara may be deported to El Salvador as soon as today despite holding work authorization in the United States and never having been charged with a crime. Guevara, who founded the outlet MG News, where he received awards for his coverage on immigration, has lived in the United States for nearly 20 years. He was arrested and jailed in June for live-streaming an anti-Trump "No Kings" demonstration near Atlanta.
"Mario's case is really the tip of the spear, and today's deportation is deeply troubling," says lawyer Nora Benavidez. "It is because of his journalistic work that they targeted him. They really do not want what he's doing to expose ICE." Benavidez also responds to the attempted deportations of pro-Palestine immigrant students on U.S. college campuses. "It really mirrors the way that Mario has also been targeted because the government, very similarly, simply went after him for his speech," she says.
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Oct 03, 2025
As officials with Hamas say they will respond "soon" to President Trump's ceasefire proposal to end Israel's nearly two-year war on Gaza, brokered with Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, we look at the many other deals Witkoff and his family are involved with. A New York Times investigation reveals that when Witkoff, a real estate developer and longtime friend of Trump, began his new position as a diplomat in the Middle East, his son Alex took over his company, the Witkoff Group. Since then, not only has the Witkoff Group continued to ink major deals with investors in the Gulf Arab states, but the elder Witkoff has not even fully divested from the company. "There is no question that these relationships and these allegiances carry over between business and politics. … [T]he Witkoffs and other people in the administration may or may not be profiting personally from them while they are trying to do this work," says Debra Kamin, who reported the story. We also speak to Kamin about turmoil in the Department of Housing and Urban Development under Trump.
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Oct 03, 2025
Israeli Attacks Kill 22 Palestinians Since Dawn, Far-Right Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir Taunts Global Sumud Flotilla Activists, Over 1,000 Rabbis and Jewish Peace Activists in Brooklyn Demand Gaza Ceasefire, Trump Calls Gov't Shutdown an "Unprecedented Opportunity" to Punish Political Opponents, Trump Admin Cuts Nearly $8B in Clean Energy Projects in States That Voted for Kamala Harris, Massive Fire Erupts at Chevron Oil Refinery in California, Trump Asks Universities to Sign "Compact" Supporting His Agenda in Exchange for Funds, Immigration Judge Denies Asylum Bid of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Appeals Court Allows ICE to Deport Award-Winning Journalist Mario Guevara, Trump Declares U.S. Is in "Armed Conflict" with Drug Cartels, Paramilitary Attacks on Besieged North Darfur City Killed 91 in September, Two Victims of Manchester Synagogue Attack Were Struck by Police Bullets, Including One Who Died, Sarah Mullally Named First-Ever Female Archbishop of Canterbury, FDA Approves Generic Version of Abortion Medication Mifepristone
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Oct 02, 2025
A new investigation by Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Maria Hinojosa looks at reproductive rights in El Salvador, which has one of the world's most restrictive anti-abortion laws and has imprisoned women who suffered obstetric emergencies like miscarriages or stillbirths.
While exact numbers are difficult to ascertain, one woman who spent time in prison in El Salvador for a miscarriage estimated "that 90% of the women who are in prison in El Salvador are in prison for this," says Hinojosa.
Hinojosa also cautions that a version of El Salvador's law could make its way to the United States as states pass more abortion bans following the end of Roe v. Wade.
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Oct 02, 2025
We speak with the acclaimed filmmakers Raoul Peck and Alex Gibney about their latest documentary, Orwell: 2 2=5, which explores the life and career of George Orwell and why his political writing remains relevant today.
"We are living again and again — not only in the United States, but in many other countries, including in Europe, in Latin America, in Africa — the same playbook playing again and again," says Peck, who directed the film.
Gibney, a producer on the film, says Donald Trump perfectly illustrates the "assault on common sense" that is part of any authoritarian system. "What you instinctively know to be true is upended by the authoritarian leader, so that everything flows from him," says Gibney. "He just invents things on the spot, but he expects them to be revered as true."
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Oct 02, 2025
Israel's Navy has intercepted dozens of ships in international waters, halting efforts by international activists to break Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid to the starving population. Video live-streamed by the Global Sumud Flotilla showed Israeli commandos boarding ships and abducting dozens of activists on Wednesday. At least 201 people from 37 countries were taken into custody, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mandla Mandela.
Palestinian activist Saif Abukeshek, who is on the steering committee of the Global Sumud Flotilla, says this latest attack reveals ongoing international complicity with Israel's violations of international law. "Israel has been committing genocide for 22 months, and nothing happens," says Abukeshek.
We also speak with reporter Emily Wilder, who is on board the Conscience, still sailing toward Gaza as part of a later wave in the ongoing campaign to break the siege. She says that it was important for her, as a journalist, to bear witness and make it clear that "Israel does not represent my voice."
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Oct 02, 2025
Israeli Forces Abduct Hundreds of Activists in Raid of Gaza-Bound Humanitarian Aid Flotilla, Israeli Military Warns Gaza City Residents to Flee or Be Classified as Terrorists, Amid Government Shutdown, White House Freezes $26 Billion in Funds and Plans Mass Layoffs, Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Efforts to Fire Federal Reserve Governor — For Now, Trump Directive Classifies "Anti-Capitalism" and "Anti-American" Views as Domestic Terrorism, Jane Fonda Relaunches Henry Fonda's McCarthy-Era "Committee for the First Amendment", Trump Shares Racist Deepfake Videos Mocking House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Trump Posts, Then Deletes, Deepfake Video Promoting "Medbed" Conspiracy Theory, Federal Judge Orders ICE to Release DACA Recipient Catalina "Xóchitl" Santiago, Planned Parenthood Closes Two Remaining Clinics in Louisiana, At Least 2 Killed in Attack on Manchester Synagogue, Police Open Fire at Anti-Government Protesters in Morocco, Killing Two People, Primatologist and Conservationist Jane Goodall Dies at Age 91
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Oct 01, 2025
A Reagan-appointed judge has issued a scathing ruling rebuking the Trump administration's targeting of pro-Palestine students. Judge William G. Young called the case AAUP v. Rubio "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court" and ruled that contrary to the State Department's claims, "noncitizens lawfully present here in [the] United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us."
For more, we're joined by lawyer Alex Abdo, who worked on the case; Todd Wolfson, president of the plaintiff, the American Association of University Professors; and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, whose arrest and targeting by the Trump administration in March kicked off a heightened scrutiny of immigrants living and working on U.S. college campuses. "If free speech means anything in this country, it means masked government agents can't pick you up off the street and throw you into jail because of what you've said," explains Abdo. He adds that the ruling will help support Khalil against the Trump administration's ongoing attempt to deport him. Details that emerged during the trial revealed that the Trump administration is continuing to target Khalil "to make an example out of me."
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Oct 01, 2025
At an unprecedented gathering of hundreds of top generals and admirals from U.S. military installations around the world, President Trump delivered a rambling speech Tuesday alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. They laid out their vision of a "warrior" culture in the U.S. military and claimed the United States is facing an "invasion from within." Eugene Fidell, a military scholar at Yale Law School, says the meeting was a means of "exacting loyalty, special loyalty, from the most senior officers and enlisted personnel" and that by promoting a solely "white male" image of the U.S. armed forces, the administration has made clear it "wants to turn back the hands of the social clock."
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Oct 01, 2025
We speak to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson as President Trump singles out the city as a training ground for the military and National Guard deployment. Militarized federal agents from the FBI and Border Patrol have already joined ICE agents for a city-wide crackdown against immigrants and protesters. Felony charges have been brought against protesters at ICE's Broadview detention center. "This is yet another example of how this president is militarizing forces, ultimately with the goal to occupy cities," says Johnson, who calls Trump's threats a "political stunt" and an "affront to democracy."
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Oct 01, 2025
Israel Kills 51 Palestinians in 24 Hours as Gaza-Bound Global Sumud Flotilla Sails into "High-Risk Zone", Trump Gives Hamas "Three or Four Days" to Respond to Gaza Ceasefire Deal, Parents of Israeli Soldiers March Alongside Hostage Families Calling for an End to Gaza War, Federal Judge Rules Trump Admin Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens for Pro-Palestinian Activism, Trump and Hegseth Address 800 Military Generals and Admirals in Unprecedented Meeting, U.S. Gov't Shuts Down After Senate Funding Bill Fails, ICE Agents Assault Group of Reporters Documenting Arrests at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, Probe Launched After Local Journalist Was Shot by a Pepper Ball by Immigration Agents, Federal Authorities Rappel into Chicago Apartment Complex and Arrest Alleged Undocumented Immigrants, Mexican Immigrant Dies a Week After Shooting at Dallas ICE Facility, Pentagon Preserves Medals of Honors Awarded to Soldiers in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, Powerful Earthquake Kills at Least 69 People in the Philippines, Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change Among Winners of 2025 Right Livelihood Award
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Sep 30, 2025
Tension between immigration agents and community activists is growing in Chicago, where ICE agents have deployed tear gas and pepper balls against ongoing protests outside Chicago's Broadview ICE detention facility.
Democracy Now! speaks with community activist Cristóbal Cavazos, who says that the people of Chicago have been steadfast in their mobilization against ICE, with communities engaging in daily protests and community safety patrols. "We're really doing some historic mobilization here in Chicago, and we're super proud," says Cavazos. "The key word here is 'resistance.'"
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Sep 30, 2025
President Trump has directed 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to be deployed to Portland, claiming troops are necessary to "protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists." Trump's order comes after he signed an executive order claiming the decentralized antifa movement is a "domestic terror organization." "There is nothing going on right now in Portland or any part of Oregon that requires him to send in the federal military," says Sandy Chung, executive director of the ACLU of Oregon.
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Sep 30, 2025
The U.S. government appears to be headed to a shutdown at midnight Wednesday after President Trump and Democratic leaders failed to reach an agreement on a spending bill. Democrats are looking to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act and reverse cuts to Medicaid and other healthcare programs that were implemented by the tax and spending bill passed earlier this year.
"The president is all too happy to fund programs he likes and defund programs he doesn't like," says David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect. "That's the textbook definition of a government shutdown. And we've been in that state since the inauguration, practically, and now we're just going to admit it."
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Sep 30, 2025
As the Israeli blockade of Gaza continues, a nearly 50-boat flotilla carrying humanitarian aid is currently some 150 nautical miles from Gaza. The grandson of Nelson Mandela, Nkosi Zwelivelile "Mandla" Mandela, speaks with Democracy Now! from the Global Sumud Flotilla.
South Africans "are beneficiaries of international solidarity. Those that rallied behind our cause and stood side by side in supporting the anti-apartheid movement ensured that we attained our freedom in our lifetime," says Mandela. "This is why today we utilize our voice to support the oppressed and most vulnerable nations across the globe."
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Sep 30, 2025
After a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump unveiled a 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip on Monday that aims to end Israel's war on Gaza, free the remaining Israeli hostages and remove Hamas from power. Netanyahu expressed support for the deal, but he has already backed away from key elements, including a call for Israel to eventually pull its troops out of Gaza. Hamas has not responded yet to the deal. As part of his 20-point peace plan, Trump announced the establishment of an international transitional governing body called the "Board of Peace," which Trump would head.
Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu says the deal is "certainly not a plan that is going to end the genocide. What they're simply attempting to do is repackage it." Buttu also notes that while Trump met with Netanyahu before announcing the plan, Palestinians were not consulted. Buttu asks, "Why is it that Palestinians have been forced to negotiate an end to their genocide?"
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Sep 30, 2025
Netanyahu Agrees to 20-Point "Peace Plan" for Gaza; Trump Warns Hamas to Agree or Face Destruction, Netanyahu Apologizes to Qatar over Airstrike That Targeted Hamas Delegation in Doha, Another Palestinian Baby Starves to Death as Israeli Attacks Kill More Civilians in Gaza, Journalist Charged with Hate Crime After Photographing Protest of New York Times's Gaza Coverage, Vance Warns "We're Headed to a Shutdown" as Trump and Democratic Leaders Fail to Reach Spending Deal, U.N. Reinstates Sanctions on Iran over Nuclear Program, Trump Admin Strikes Deal with Iran to Deport Iranian Nationals, YouTube Agrees to Pay $24.5M to Settle Trump Lawsuit, HUD Fires Two Whistleblowers Over Trump Admin's Efforts to Dismantle Civil Rights Enforcement, Trump Again Threatens to Cut Off Federal Aid to NYC If Mamdani Is Elected Mayor, Trump Admin Allocates Public Land to Coal Mining and Provides $625M for Coal-Fired Power Plants, OpenAI Plans to Build 5 New Data Centers With Help of SoftBank and Oracle, Sen. Sanders: Nearly 700 Prescription Drugs Have Increased in Price Despite Trump's Pledges
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Sep 29, 2025
The Black liberation activist Assata Shakur died on September 25, 2025, at the age of 78. She passed away in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984 after escaping the U.S. prison system, and where she continued to reside for decades despite U.S. attempts to capture and extradite her. In 1998, Shakur wrote an open letter to Pope John Paul II during his historic visit to Cuba, after New Jersey state troopers requested the pope call for her extradition. "The New Jersey State Police and other law enforcement officials say they want to see me brought to 'justice.' But I would like to know what they mean by 'justice.' Is torture justice?" Shakur wrote. "When my people receive justice, I am sure that I will receive it, too." We play Shakur's recording of her letter, in memory of her life and her work.
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Sep 29, 2025
Democracy Now! was on the streets as thousands marched to the United Nations in New York City Friday while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the General Assembly. Despite the fact that Netanyahu is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes he has presided over in Gaza, he was able to travel to the U.N. without incident, as the United States says it does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. We spoke to protesters demanding Netanyahu's arrest and an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza.
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Sep 29, 2025
In an exclusive interview just hours after incumbent New York City Mayor Eric Adams's decision to end his reelection bid, we sat down with Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani, to lay out his campaign and his vision for an affordable city. We discuss his platform, his support for Palestinian rights and why he identifies as democratic socialist. Mamdani also responds to Adams's decision to drop out, which is expected to help consolidate votes for Mamdani's main opponent, disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. "The reason that Donald Trump is seeking to clear the lane for Andrew Cuomo is because he knows that Andrew Cuomo will clear the lane for Donald Trump's agenda," he says.
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Sep 29, 2025
Israel Kills at Least 50 Palestinians over the Past Day in Gaza, ??Over 100 Diplomats Walk Out on Netanyahu During U.N. Speech, U.S. Revokes Visa for Colombian President Petro After He Joined Palestine Protest at U.N., NBC News: U.S. Military Officials Drawing Up Plans to Attack Venezuela, Oregon Sues Trump Admin over Plans to Deploy Troops to Portland, Armed Federal Agents Patrol Downtown Chicago as Trump Admin Escalates Immigration Crackdown, ICE Detains Des Moines School Superintendent Ian Roberts, NYC Mayor Eric Adams Announces He's Dropping Out of Mayoral Race, Iraq War Veteran Attacks Mormon Church in Michigan, Killing at Least 4 People, Iraq War Veteran Opens Fire at Bar in North Carolina, Killing 3 People, Trump to Attend Hegseth's Unprecedented Meeting with Top Generals and Admirals, Trump to Meet with Congressional Leaders to Avert Government Shutdown, SCOTUS Allows Trump Admin to Withhold $4 Billion in Foreign Aid, Russia Launches Onslaught of Drones and Cruise Missiles at Ukraine, Indigenous Rights Organization Accuses Ecuadorian Armed Forces of Killing Community Member, Missouri Governor Signs into Law Trump-Backed Congressional Map, NFL Announces Bad Bunny to Headline Super Bowl Halftime Show, Assata Shakur Dies at 78 in Havana
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Sep 26, 2025
As the Trump administration escalates its pressure campaign on Venezuela, we speak with Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío, who is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. In recent weeks, the U.S. has bombed multiple alleged Venezuelan "drug boats" at sea, killing at least 17 people without providing any clear evidence that they were involved in drug trafficking or linked to the government in Caracas. The U.S. has also increased its military footprint in the Caribbean and placed a $50 million bounty on President Nicolás Maduro for information leading to his arrest for narcotrafficking.
The U.S. military presence in the Caribbean "is a threat to Venezuela and to the countries of the region," says Fernández de Cossío. "There's no real reason for that to be there, and the justification that they're fighting drugs or organized crime is believed by no one. … They're assassinating people for no reason."
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Sep 26, 2025
President Donald Trump is escalating his attack on progressive groups following the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk and a deadly shooting that targeted an immigration jail in Dallas. White House officials have repeatedly blamed Democrats and left-wing groups for contributing to political violence, but investigative reporter Ken Klippenstein says the motivations of people who commit such acts are often more complicated.
Klippenstein has reported on the backgrounds of Kirk's accused killer and the gunman who targeted the Dallas ICE facility, and says friends described both young men as somewhat isolated and largely uninterested in partisan politics. "That was perhaps the most normal thing about these two shooters, that they were disengaged with politics," he says.
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Sep 26, 2025
Israel's military has issued new evacuation orders for neighborhoods of Gaza City as Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into the Gaza Strip's largest urban area. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have already fled Gaza City for overcrowded areas further south, as Israeli forces systematically flatten much of the city. Meanwhile, Israeli bombardment continues to kill dozens of Palestinians every day amid widespread famine.
"People feel now it's a permanent state of displacement," says leading Al Jazeera reporter Hani Mahmoud, who has just left Gaza City. "People have been herded from one area to another."
Mahmoud also discusses the toll of reporting on the genocide despite Israel's repeated targeted assassinations of journalists in Gaza, including many with Al Jazeera. "We believe the world deserves to learn the truth," he says of his choice to keep working despite the risks.
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Sep 26, 2025
Ex-FBI Director James Comey Indicted as Trump Escalates Campaign of Retribution on Opponents, Israeli Attacks Kill Dozens in Gaza City as Some Palestinians Resist Forced Evacuation, Israel Bombs Yemen's Capital, Killing 8 and Wounding 142, "No Justice If Palestine Is Not Freed": Mahmoud Abbas Addresses U.N. General Assembly, Benjamin Netanyahu's Jet Is Diverted to Evade Potential Arrest in Europe on ICC Warrant, Microsoft Cuts Off Some Services Used by Israeli Military Unit to Spy on Palestinians, Russia's Foreign Minister Says NATO and EU Have Declared a "Real War" on Russia, Trump Administration Readies $20 Billion Bailout of Argentina and Trump Ally Javier Milei, Video Shows ICE Agent Assaulting Ecuadorian Mother Inside 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan, Amazon Reaches $2.5 Billion Settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, Trump Signs Executive Order Allowing TikTok to Keep Operating in the U.S.
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Sep 25, 2025
Spain and Italy are sending naval vessels to protect the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla after activists said drones repeatedly attacked their boats near Greece on Wednesday. Activists said the most recent strikes marked the seventh attack on the solidarity movement's vessels. The Global Sumud Flotilla is the largest humanitarian convoy in history to traverse the Mediterranean Sea, says David Adler, co-general coordinator of the Progressive International, who joins Democracy Now! from the flotilla. "We are not here to drop the aid and go home and pat ourselves on the back. We are here to establish a humanitarian corridor for states themselves to assume their responsibilities and to deliver the aid at the scale that Gaza requires."
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