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ICE Jailed a 6-Year-Old With Leukemia for More Than a Month

The boy, who was jailed along with his sister and mother, cried every night, a lawyer for the family said.

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Israel Is Carrying Out “Precisely Designed Mass Starvation” in Gaza

Israel Is Carrying Out “Precisely Designed Mass Starvation” in Gaza

“The only conclusion that one can come to is that Israel is doing this deliberately,” says analyst Alex de Waal.

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Rep. Ro Khanna Pushes Bipartisan Bill Calling for Release of All Epstein Files

Rep. Ro Khanna Pushes Bipartisan Bill Calling for Release of All Epstein Files

Khanna also responds to the stripping of $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

18.07.2025 2

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Consensus Grows on Gaza Genocide, But Many Holocaust Scholars Remain Silent

Consensus Grows on Gaza Genocide, But Many Holocaust Scholars Remain Silent

Israeli American historian Omer Bartov discusses these scholars’ betrayal of the notion of “never again.”

17.07.2025 2

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New Exposé Reveals How the US’s Largest Health Insurer Silences Its Critics

New Exposé Reveals How the US’s Largest Health Insurer Silences Its Critics

The New York Times’s David Enrich discusses UnitedHealth’s tactics, from disappearing videos to legal threats.

17.07.2025 10

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Rep. Maxwell Frost: Trump Admin Is “Trying to Ethnically Cleanse” the US

Rep. Maxwell Frost: Trump Admin Is “Trying to Ethnically Cleanse” the US

Democratic lawmakers are blasting the horrific conditions in Florida’s new immigration jail in the Everglades.

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Farmworker Dead and More Than 300 More Detained in California ICE Raid

Farmworker Dead and More Than 300 More Detained in California ICE Raid

Agents tear-gassed community members, including children, as crowds attempted to protect farmworkers from arrest.

14.07.2025 4

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UN Human Rights Chief Sounds Alarm on Trump’s Abuse of Migrants and Protesters

UN Human Rights Chief Sounds Alarm on Trump’s Abuse of Migrants and Protesters

High Commissioner Volker Türk says he has not been allowed access to inspect El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison.

11.07.2025 4

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From LA to Chicago, Latinx Communities Mount a Defense Against ICE Attacks

From LA to Chicago, Latinx Communities Mount a Defense Against ICE Attacks

This week saw federal agents descend on a popular LA park and a Chicago museum in two spectacles of intimidation.

10.07.2025 4

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Philadelphia Union Ends Largest Municipal Workers’ Strike in Decades

Philadelphia Union Ends Largest Municipal Workers’ Strike in Decades

“I really think that the union won the public relations battle over the past week,” says labor historian Francis Ryan.

09.07.2025 2

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Netanyahu Says Relocating Palestinians From Gaza Gives Them “Free Choice”

Netanyahu Says Relocating Palestinians From Gaza Gives Them “Free Choice”

The “freedom” being offered is to be made refugees again so Israel can continue ethnic cleansing, says Peter Beinart.

08.07.2025 20

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Ceasefire Talks Will Be Null Without Lifting of Gaza Blockade, Surgeon Says

Surgeon Feroze Sidhwa discusses Netanyahu’s US visit, Israel’s attacks on health care workers and facilities, and more.

07.07.2025 3

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Mahmoud Khalil: Let’s Focus on Palestinians Right Now Instead of My Freedom

Khalil also discusses his experience behind bars and the ongoing threat of deportation that hangs over him.

03.07.2025 4

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Los Angeles ICE Agents Kidnapped US Citizen Andrea Velez, Says Her Lawyer

People are racially profiled and snatched off the streets without due process to fulfill Trump’s “quotas.”

02.07.2025 3

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Europe Sees Dangerous Heat Wave as North America Sets 3,000 Temperature Records

This comes as GlobalChange.gov was taken down, along with information on how global warming is affecting the US.

01.07.2025 4

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Netanyahu and Trump Will Discuss How to “Capitalize” on Their Attacks on Iran

Meanwhile, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 56,000 Palestinians, with daily violence only increasing.

01.07.2025 2

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Native Sahrawis Fight to End Moroccan Occupation of Sahara at the UN

Morocco has occupied Western Sahara since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community.

30.06.2025 4

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Asylum Seeker’s Family Still Can’t Reach Him 100 Days After Kidnapping to CECOT

The Trump administration disappeared Andry Hernández Romero along with over 230 immigrants to El Salvador's mega-prison.

27.06.2025 3

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RFK Jr. Defunds Global Vaccine Group That Has Prevented Nearly 19 Million Deaths

Kennedy also recently fired a CDC vaccine advisory panel and stacked it with unqualified anti-vax appointees.

26.06.2025 3

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NATO Members Agree to Raise Military Spending to Meet Trump’s Demands

Richard Seymour describes Trump as moving toward “more instrumental and crudely material, transactional politics.”

25.06.2025 6

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Israel’s Rivalry With Iran Isn’t About Nukes, It’s About Regional Domination

If Israel’s concern truly was nonproliferation, it would’ve supported Obama’s Iran deal, says Trita Parsi.

24.06.2025 7

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After 104 Days in Prison, Mahmoud Khalil Marches Back to Columbia University

“I just want to go back and continue the work I was already doing, advocating for Palestinian rights,” Khalil said.

23.06.2025 10

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The US Is Literally Trying to Take Away Trans Lifelines, Says Chase Strangio

Strangio discusses the Supreme Court upholding a ban on gender-affirming care and the end of the LGBTQ suicide hotline.

20.06.2025 9

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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander Speaks Out After ICE Arrested Him in Courthouse

“This is part of what authoritarians do,” Lander says. He also discusses the mayoral race and the New York for All Act.

18.06.2025 3

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Israel’s Iran Attack Was Motivated by Waning Support for Genocide, Analysts Say

Experts say the so-called “preemptive” attacks are really a continuation of Israel's assault on Gaza and the region.

17.06.2025 5

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“No Kings Day” Protests Overshadow Trump’s Military Parade

At least 5 million people joined protests in the largest day of action against Trump since his return to office.

16.06.2025 3

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USAID Cuts Lead to Global Rise in Death, Hunger, Poverty, and Disease

The cuts have already caused some 300,000 deaths and could lead to more than 3 million preventable deaths per year.

13.06.2025 4

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Former US Diplomat Joins March to Gaza to Call for an End to Israel’s Genocide

Dozens who flew to Cairo for the march have reportedly been detained, interrogated, and deported by Egyptian forces.

12.06.2025 4

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Trump Administration Sees Growing Pushback as Travel Ban Separates Families

Immigrant rights advocates who have been organizing as the ban takes effect discuss the latest developments.

11.06.2025 2

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Trump Admin Sends More Troops to Put Down Anti-ICE Protests in Los Angeles

Trump’s policies aren’t just about ethnic cleansing, they’re about ideological cleansing, says writer Jean Guerrero.

10.06.2025 5

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LA Community Organizer Describes Hourslong Street Battles Against Border Patrol

An activist who helped organize the protests said demonstrators successfully turned back immigration agents.

09.06.2025 4

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Trump and Musk’s Dramatic Falling Out Displays the Hazards of Billionaire Rule

Author Quinn Slobodian speaks on how empowering these "titanically sized egos” threatens our collective wellbeing.

06.06.2025 3

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Israeli Academics Call for Boycott of Israel’s Medical Institutions

The medical establishment is complicit in the genocidal assault on Gaza, said Israeli political scientist Neve Gordon.

05.06.2025 2

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Greta Thunberg: Silence and Inaction Is More Deadly Than Me Sailing to Gaza

A group of 12 people, including the Swedish activist, are attempting to deliver aid in spite of the Israeli blockade.

04.06.2025 1

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US Communities Are Resisting ICE Raids to Protect Students and Neighbors

Protests are unfolding as agents arrest undocumented people at courthouses, workplaces and on the way to school.

03.06.2025 3

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Ex-Israeli Mediator Says Netanyahu’s Aim in Gaza Is Permanent War, Not Ceasefire

Netanyahu is delaying securing a ceasefire deal as he works toward the eventual annexation of Gaza, says Daniel Levy.

02.06.2025 3

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McCarthy Attacked Individual Professors. Trump Is Going After Entire Campuses.

Historian Ellen Schrecker says the current assault is worse than the 1950's anti-communist repression of higher ed.

30.05.2025 6

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Ex-Israeli Soldiers Say Palestinians Are Used as “Slaves” and “Human Shields”

New report finds the Israeli military systematically forces Palestinians to hunt for explosives and perform other tasks.

29.05.2025 7

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Speaking From ICE Jail, Jeanette Vizguerra Says She’s a Political Prisoner

The activist and mother calls herself “the Mahmoud Khalil of the immigrant rights and sanctuary rights movement.”

29.05.2025 20

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GA Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Woman Declared Brain Dead on Life Support

Doctors have kept Adriana Smith on breathing machines for three months due to the state's “heartbeat law.”

27.05.2025 3

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Trump Budget Is “a Mugging Conducted by the 1 Percent Against the Rest of Us”

Senate Republicans will now have to pass their own version of the budget.

23.05.2025 3

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As Israel Widens Assault on Gaza, Children Are Bearing the Brunt

“It’s the worst it’s ever been,” says a surgeon who has been treating patients at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

22.05.2025 10

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Bishop William Barber: GOP Budget Is a Form of Social and Political Murder

“The reason I use the word ‘murder’ is because they know that it’s going to cause death,” Barber says.

22.05.2025 20

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Israeli Soldiers Admit to Intentionally Trying to Flatten Gaza in New Report

“The real aim is to make it impossible for the Palestinians to return to these areas,” says a coauthor of the report.

20.05.2025 20

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Israel’s Ground Invasion Aims for “Full Forcible Expulsion” of Gaza’s Population

“The situation, as anyone who’s following the news can see, is thoroughly apocalyptic,” says analyst Mouin Rabbani.

19.05.2025 3

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Now Free, Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi Discusses His Experience in ICE Jail

He says there’s an “interconnectedness between injustices,” as family members have been incarcerated in Israeli jails.

16.05.2025 10

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Palestinians Face Mass Starvation. US-Israeli Plan Would Further Weaponize Food.

World Peace Foundation Executive Director Alex de Waal discusses the plan he dubs “surveillance humanitarianism.”

15.05.2025 4

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Trump Pushes Talks With Iran, But Israel’s Genocide Continues in Gaza

Journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed and DAWN Executive Director Sarah Leah Whitson discuss Trump’s moves in the Middle East.

14.05.2025 3

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Trump Is “Unrestrained” in Use of Presidency for Pursuit of Personal Wealth

“These are conflicts on a scale that we’ve never seen before in American history,” says NYT reporter Eric Lipton.

13.05.2025 3

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Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Speaks Out After His Arrest for Visiting ICE Jail

Meanwhile, a DHS spokesperson warned that the New Jersey congressmembers at the scene may still face arrest.

12.05.2025 3

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