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Pop star Selena Gomez posted a tearful Instagram video expressing empathy for illegal immigrants, including those convicted of violent crimes, during Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids. Critics accused Gomez of defending criminals and ignoring victims of their actions, such as those affected by fentanyl poisoning. Gomez later deleted the video and apologized but added a sarcastic comment directed at detractors. Border czar Tom Homan defended ICE's mission to protect public safety by […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: Well, we’re going to stay in Chicago. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, says it arrested more than a thousand people, after detaining another thousand on Sunday, in raids that immigrant communities and their allies say violate the Constitution and are being carried out in retaliation against sanctuary cities. Newly sworn-in Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi […]

Harvard adopts controversial IHRA antisemitism definition to block debate over Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza Harvard University’s decision to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism sparks debate over free speech, criticism of Israel, and the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism. • Harvard settles lawsuit with Jewish students who accused pro-Palestine protesters of antisemitism. • The IHRA definition, adopted by Harvard, has been criticized for conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism. • […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. We turn now to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Fighting is continuing in the eastern city of Goma between Congolese forces and Rwandan-backed M23 fighters who have seized at least parts of Goma. The fighting has killed at least […]

Nonprofit REACT19 raises $1 Million in grants for COVID-19 vaccine injuries, as millions of people wait for government compensation The nonprofit React19 has awarded over 1 million in grants to individuals injured by COVID-19 vaccines, exposing the inadequacies of the federal government’s vaccine compensation program. The U.S. Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) has paid out only $440,000 for COVID-19-related injuries since its inception in October 2009. Meanwhile grassroots nonprofit […]

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, with Juan González. We turn now to Sudan. Earlier today, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres renewed his call for an immediate halt to the fighting between the Sudanese military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Guterres also condemned last week’s drone attack on the last functioning hospital in the besieged […]

Media melts down as President Trump finally starts draining the swamp in a rapid series of events the MSM cannot seem to keep up with so the official narrative is once again ‘Orange Man Bad’ As we see Marines brought to the southern border, a 'blackout' order to federal health agencies banning them from publishing external communication, deportations planes full of illegal aliens leaving America, and now the "massacre," or "chilling purge" as […]

Holocaust survivors on Monday marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Nazi Germany exterminated over 1 million Jews and other minority groups between 1940 and 1945. The commemoration comes as the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles worldwide and far-right forces gain strength across Europe and the United States. For more, we speak with Israeli American historian Raz Segal, who says the academic field of […]

Trump urges European Union to speed up process of deregulating bloc’s private sector President Donald Trump urged the European Union to deregulate and enhance private sector competition during his video message at the World Economic Forum, warning that its regulatory environment stifles trade and innovation. Trump called on global corporations to invest in U.S. manufacturing, threatening tariffs on nations that fail to comply, reinforcing his "America First" agenda. Business leaders at […]