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CBS owner Paramount Skydance is now seeking another megamerger that would put more media under Ellison family control.
The US president's claims that Afrikaners face racial persecution and genocide have been repeatedly disproven.
The Justice Department memo was signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is Trump’s former personal attorney.
The documentary examines Carroll’s legal fights against Trump for sexual assault and defamation.
The World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency due to the rapid spread of the deadly virus.
In Gaza, Israel has accelerated the Nakba “10 times as viciously,” Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada says.
Congress has approved a new $14 billion arms package for Taiwan, but Trump has not yet moved it forward.
Mass layoffs and the loss of scientific expertise had already thrown the Food and Drug Administration in turmoil.
Saif Abukeshek was detained for 10 days after his boat, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was intercepted by Israel.
The Green Party also won control of several local councils, while Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces calls to resign.
Bulldozers destroyed part of a Sonoran Desert intaglio that holds special significance for the Hia-Ced O’odham people.
Without the Voting Rights Act, “multiracial democracy in America will be under threat forever,” reporter Ari Berman says.
“This isn’t just a Trump problem,” says Clayton Weimers, the North America director for Reporters Without Borders.
The only Democratic commissioner calls the move “the most offensive assault on the First Amendment so far by this FCC.”
“We saw a level of violence that I genuinely didn’t anticipate,” a flotilla member said after being detained by Israel.
The court heard oral arguments this week on Trump’s push to strip temporary protected status from Haitians and Syrians.
The court struck down Louisiana’s voting map that was designed to create a second majority-Black district in the state.
“The [Trump] administration is desperate to find some form of an off-ramp,” says Drop Site News' Jeremy Scahill.
Rep. Delia Ramirez speaks about the administration's effort to “weaponize the court system” against immigrants.
“His first instinct almost always seems to be demonize someone as an enemy," said Sister Helen Prejean.
Big Tech seeks “a closer relationship to the state than they had before,” says author Quinn Slobodian.
Corporations have proposed building about 103 to 160 massive data centers on Native lands, says Krystal Two Bulls.
Advocate Setareh Ghandehari says rampant medical neglect and abuse are largely responsible for the rise in deaths.
Western countries condemn restrictions in the Hormuz Strait more than the “clearly unlawful war,” says Maryam Jamshidi.
Aliya Rahman hopes to highlight tools that could “make mass acts of racial violence seem too expensive for these folks.”
Congress “shouldn’t see these resignations as the end of the story,” gender justice expert Fatima Goss Graves says.
As Trump vows to blockade Iranian ports, the diplomats say his “mercurial” approach makes peace talks challenging.
Trump announced a blockade of Iranian ports and Iran threatened to strike other Gulf ports in retaliation.
Even far-right governments like Italy’s find it more difficult to show Trump support, scholar Nathalie Tocci says.
“The silence of states and the continued flow of weapons has only emboldened Israel,” researcher Ramzi Kaiss says.
“It’s beyond the wildest dreams of the military-industrial complex,” says Public Citizen co-president Robert Weissman.
There has been “no accountability whatsoever for violations of the laws of war,” says researcher Ramzi Kaiss.
“ICE dungeons are systematically ... built to break people mentally,” Kordia said.
Trump's televised speech was an admission of “defeat in the war of narratives," says scholar Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi.
Workers are protesting low wages, lack of personal protective gear, and discrimination against immigrant employees.
Kiswani says she has been “screaming into the void” about the way Palestine activists have been targeted with violence.
Scahill also discusses possible avenues of US escalation and what he’s learned in conversations with Iranian officials.
As nuclear-armed countries violate international law, others may turn to proliferation as a form of deterrence.
Ramirez also discusses the birthright citizenship Supreme Court case, the US fuel blockade against Cuba, and more.
Daniel Levy analyzes US, Israeli, and Iranian wartime strategy; Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the West Bank; and more.
Antiwar veteran Mike Prysner attributes the spike to a shift in consciousness that started with the Gaza genocide.
People don’t feel like anywhere is safe in an unpredictable war that has no limits, says reporter Kareem Chehayeb.
Professor Laleh Khalili discusses the implications for the petrodollar and for sustainable alternatives to oil.
The system, known as Project Maven, also incorporates the AI model Claude built by Anthropic.
“Sanctions are literally killing people right now,” says Cuban journalist Daniel Montero, speaking from Havana.
Israeli strikes have killed nearly 700 people in Lebanon and over 800,000 people have been displaced.
Professor Narges Bajoghli explains how harsh sanctions and propaganda had created a political divide among Iranians.
People who were tracking civilian casualties have been reassigned to other jobs, says journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed.
War on Iran exposes “the frailty of a global order that is grounded in fossil fuels,” says journalist Antonia Juhasz.
Public focus on Iran has allowed the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to continue unabated, says journalist Orly Noy.
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