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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: As Israel carries out new airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, known as UNRWA, is reporting nine in every 10 Palestinians in Gaza have been forcibly displaced. Meanwhile, the World Food Programme is warning Israel continues to block delivery of aid, and says it’s been forced to reduce food rations, quote, […]

Netanyahu demands U.S. expedite aid to Israel, says Americans protesting Israel ‘stand with evil’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded the United States expedite military aid to Israel and said Americans protesting Israel's war "stand with evil" in a lie-filled speech before Congress on Wednesday afternoon. (Article by Chris Menahan republished from InformationLiberation.com) ??BREAKING: Snipers are stationed on the roof of Congress ahead of Netanyahu's speech today in the Capitol, […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman. The opening ceremony for the Summer Olympics is happening today in Paris. We begin our coverage with Lebanese photojournalist Christina Assi of Agence France-Presse. She carried the Olympic torch in Paris Sunday to honor journalists wounded or killed on the job. She lost […]

European Union mulls INDEFINITELY freezing stolen Russian assets amid U.S. pressure The European Union is considering indefinitely freezing seized Russian assets to allay concerns from the United States regarding the repayment of a $50 billion loan to Ukraine, as reported by the Financial Times on Wednesday, citing internal documents. Since the onset of the Ukraine conflict in late February 2022, the EU has frozen more than 200 billion euros […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show in Paris, where, just hours before the 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, a series of apparently coordinated arson and vandalism attacks were reported on France’s high-speed rail network, on the Eurostar, impacting hundreds of thousands of passengers. Tens of thousands are expected to stream […]

LAME DUCK: Joe Biden has canceled 9 upcoming trips since withdrawing from presidential race Since President Joe Biden's shock announcement that he was withdrawing from November's presidential race on Sunday, July 21, the lame duck president has canceled nine official upcoming trips. A White House source who spoke with the New York Post reported that the Biden administration has not provided any official reason why the White House canceled the […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.NERMEEN SHAIKH: Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Washington, D.C., Wednesday as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress. Netanyahu had been invited by Republican and Democratic congressional leaders. The speech came two months after Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, announced he was seeking an arrest warrant […]

More than 300 deaths suspected to be linked to this summer's record-breaking heat wave are being investigated in Maricopa County, Arizona. The county's heat report dashboard this year indicates that 322 deaths are suspected to have been due to heat-related illnesses as of July 13. Almost 100 of those suspected heat deaths happened from July 7 to 13, when temperatures reached 118 degrees. (Related: Must-have items for your heatwave emergency kit.) There have been […]

Electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Tesla plans to launch humanoid robots for internal purposes beginning next year, with plans for wider production by 2026. "Tesla will have genuinely useful humanoid robots in low production for Tesla internal use next year and, hopefully, high production for other companies in 2026," Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on his X account Monday, July 22. (Related: In two years, China plans to unleash mass-produced humanoid robots to replace human […]