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Days before leaving the White House, former President Joe Biden has called for a constitutional amendment to get rid of presidential immunity. Biden's proposal follows a controversial Supreme Court decision which granted presidents broad immunity for "official acts" conducted while in office. Biden claims the Supreme Court ruling has "fundamentally changed" the American principle that no person is above the law. Biden's proposal is unlikely to pass due to the difficult nature of […]

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. On Saturday night in Washington, D.C., Busboys and Poets hosted the 2025 Inaugural Peace Ball, which first started in 2009 with the inauguration of President Obama. The theme was “A Gathering for Positive Change.” While the event had once been held at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African […]

After meeting with Bill Gates, the Trump transition team sidelines two key figures spreading vaccine truth Two advisors to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were removed from Trump’s transition team over their anti-vaccine views. Bill Gates had previously pressured Trump in his first term to abandon plans for a vaccine safety commission, influencing the administration’s approach to vaccines. Bill Gates recently met with Trump again and was very pleased with the meeting. Internal […]

Today is the federal holiday that honors civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929, and was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis at just 39 years old. We play an excerpt from King’s last speech, “I Have Been to the Mountaintop,” in which he spoke of the ongoing struggle for equal rights that he said would continue even without […]

Greece’s hyperinflation crisis during World War II was so bad it resorted to printing banknotes worth 100 TRILLION drachmas Greece experienced extreme hyperinflation during WWII, with prices doubling every 4.3 days and monthly inflation reaching 13,800 percent by October 1944. The crisis was driven by Axis occupation, wartime debt and economic collapse, leading to the issuance of larger and larger banknotes that symbolized the occupied country's economic despair. Hyperinflation devastated daily […]

Trump to sign executive order designating cryptocurrency as a national priority on inauguration day President-elect Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order designating cryptocurrency as a national priority. The order aims to establish a crypto advisory council to foster collaboration between key industry players and federal regulators. The executive order also includes the creation of a national Bitcoin reserve to leverage the government's existing $20 billion stockpile in seized Bitcoin […]

A new CNN poll shows that 56 percent of Americans expect President-elect Donald Trump to perform well during his second term, marking a significant improvement from his 48 percent approval rating after the 2016 election. 55 percent of Americans approve of how Trump handled his transition into office, a substantial increase from the 40 percent approval rating he received eight years ago. The poll indicates that 56 percent of Americans are optimistic […]

TikTok set to be banned on Jan. 19 unless it is sold or the Supreme Court intervenes TikTok is set to be banned on Jan. 19, unless the Supreme Court intervenes or the Chinese-owned app is sold to a company based in the United States. The ban, signed into law by President Joe Biden in April 2024, could negatively affect TikTok's 170 million U.S. users under claims of national security concerns […]

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law requiring TikTok to be sold by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, or face a ban in the U.S. The ruling balances national security concerns against free speech, with Congress citing risks of data exploitation by China. TikTok argues the law threatens free speech, as it could force the app to "go dark" if ByteDance doesn’t divest. The decision places enforcement responsibility on the incoming Trump administration, […]