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Lisa Graves discusses the case before the court on tariffs, as well as voting rights and John Roberts’s legacy.


“My community is under invasion from our own federal government. It has got to stop,” says Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss.


Daniel Nichanian, editor-in-chief of Bolts, gives an overview of Tuesday’s elections.


Two journalists trace how excess caution led the DOJ to refuse to prosecute Trump allies' 2020 election interference.


If Mamdani wins, progressive groups could find themselves collaborating with the administration to govern the city.


The new jails are expected to look like the tent camps built at Fort Bliss, an immigration policy expert says.


The US embargo and other economic sanctions make it much harder for Cuba to respond to disasters.


Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history.


Health insurance premiums are expected to more than double for some 20 million people unless Congress acts.


The Trump administration has now killed at least 43 people in 10 boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific.


At least 15 people have died in pretrial detention just this year at Texas’s notorious Harris County Jail.


For the ceasefire to succeed, aid groups must have unrestricted access to Gaza, says UNRWA spokesperson Tamara Alrifai.


Ambassador Daniel García-Peña discusses the escalating tensions between the US and Colombia.


Rep. Delia Ramirez discusses Trump’s crackdown in Chicago, the government shutdown, the Gaza ceasefire, and more.


“The vast majority of people being held are being held without trial,” said human rights lawyer Sari Bashi.

Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass discusses settler violence, Israeli prisons, and the Gaza ceasefire.

The only outlet to agree to the restrictive new rules is the far right One America News Network.

If we don’t organize and take action in the streets, says Mark Bray, “we’re going to end up somewhere really bad.”

Global demonstrations -- not Trump or Netanyahu -- are the real reason why we have a ceasefire now, says Ofer Cassif.

María Corina Machado has voiced support for sanctions against Venezuela and praised right-wing Latin American leaders.

Palestinian and Israeli analysts weigh in on how to interpret the hostage-ceasefire deal.

Weiss’s appointment by the billionaire Ellison family “is an ideological power play,” says journalist David Klion.

Ed Yohnka of the ACLU of Illinois discusses how the ongoing immigration crackdown is putting communities at risk.

“They were throwing people’s medicine in the bin in front of them and laughing in their faces,” says Kieran Andrieu.

Reporter Debra Kamin outlines the ethically dubious deals the Middle East envoy and his family are involved with.

El Salvador has imprisoned women who suffered obstetric emergencies like miscarriages or stillbirths.

A judge has issued a scathing ruling rebuking the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestine students.

Nkosi Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela will soon be entering the zone where previous flotillas were intercepted by Israel.

Trump aims to clear the lane for Cuomo because he knows Cuomo will clear the lane for Trump’s agenda, says Mamdani.

“People feel now it’s a permanent state of displacement,” says Al Jazeera reporter Hani Mahmoud.

“There is zero pathway for people in danger now to apply for asylum in the United States,” says ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt.

Trump was speaking to an international far right more than he was to UN member states, says journalist Ishaan Tharoor.

A leading voice in the Arab Spring protests, the political dissident spent more than half of his adult life behind bars.

“It is all flagrantly illegal,” says Jameel Jaffer, director of the Knight First Amendment Institute.

Peltier discusses his time in (and release from) prison, his ongoing struggle for Indigenous rights, and more.

“The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya” exposes how Israel attacks and decommissions hospitals, says Dr. Azra Zyada.

Trump’s plan to send troops and agents into Memphis is “a power play for more authoritarianism,” says Justin J. Pearson.

Venezuelan historian Miguel Tinker Salas discusses the growing US military presence in the Caribbean.

“We don’t have any rights to know the allegation against us,” says Butler amid the crackdown on Palestinian solidarity.

The country’s former Chief Justice Sushila Karki looks set to become interim prime minister.

“Solidarity work is an accumulative process that we have to build,” says Saif Abukeshek of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

“They tried to kill the very people that would have been sitting across the table in these negotiations,” says Scahill.

JPMorgan processed more than 4,700 transactions for Epstein totaling more than $1.1 billion, a new exposé reveals.

Over 500 officials participated, arresting 475 people. Witnesses say agents threatened and tear-gassed workers.

The US is escalating the “war on drugs” and folding it into the “war on terror,” says historian Greg Grandin.


Former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber explains how the UN could do more to stop the genocide.

Legal experts are calling this a test case for the Trump administration’s attempts to criminalize and punish dissent.

The tariffs will remain in effect until October, giving the Trump administration time to bring the case to SCOTUS.

Former State Department official Josh Paul, who resigned over increased arms to Israel, discusses the new developments.
