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Leaders failed to address income inequality or climate change but entertained wealthy AI and fossil fuel executives.
We’re seeing the targeting of and double-tap strikes on journalists that we've seen in Gaza, says filmmaker Seán Murray.
But workers are still being fired in violation of their union contract, says the co-founder of Hands Off the Arts.
Free press advocate Craig Aaron explains the stakes of billionaire-owned Paramount potentially acquiring Warner Bros.
“If this kind of austerity can happen at The New School, it can happen everywhere,” says professor Jeremy Varon.
The mothers of disappeared people have also been protesting, trying to reach the stadium, says José Luis Granados Ceja.
Along with dismantling vital sea monitoring, Trump aims to expand deep sea mining and loosen fishing regulations.
Elon Musk wants government “to be the site of injection for new services from Silicon Valley,” says Quinn Slobodian.
Iran and Israel exchanged fire overnight in the most serious escalation since a nominal truce was reached in April.
Ahead of the event, Gregory Bovino cited Nazi Germany’s lead general, Erwin Rommel, as an inspirational figure.
“You can’t manipulate the courts to broom clean an illegitimate settlement,” says retired federal Judge Nancy Gertner.
Many Lebanese people “sort of feel beholden to the regional and global powers on their fate,” says AP's Kareem Chehayeb.
David Venturella is former VP of GEO Group, whose profits soared from $32M to $254M in 2025 as ICE detention expanded.
Samya Stumo was among 346 killed in what a judge previously called "the deadliest corporate crime in US history.”
Trump threatened to blow up Oman and said Gulf states “owe” it to the US to normalize relations with Israel.
“Their demands are not to get better conditions. Their demands are to get freed and be heard,” Gabriela Soto said.
Israel is also continuing its attack on Lebanon in what journalist Negar Mortazavi says is an effort to undermine talks.
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.