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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. It’s “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman. We continue our look at Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance with a new piece headlined “The Seven Thinkers and Groups That Have Shaped JD Vance’s Unusual Worldview.” It was written by our next guest, Politico reporter Ian Ward, who’s joining us from […]

Study: Nearly 60% of Google searches in the U.S. and European Union end with ZERO follow-up clicks A study has revealed that the majority of Google searches in the U.S. and the European Union (EU) led to zero follow-up clicks. This is according to a joint study by market research companies SparkToro and Datos, who recently published the results – the 2024 Zero-Click Search Study, which utilized a multimillion clickstream panel from Datos […]

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 turn now to the Middle East, where Israel has vowed to retaliate against Hezbollah after blaming the Lebanese group for a rocket attack Saturday in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that killed 12 Druze children at a soccer field. Hezbollah has denied responsibility. The attack took place in […]

Pro-life advocate gets 41 months in jail for trying to save babies at Planned Parenthood clinic in NY A Tennessee woman has been sentenced to more than three years behind bars for blocking the entrance to a Planned Parenthood center in Manhattan where women were going to obtain abortions. 33-year-old Bevelyn Beatty Williams was sentenced on federal charges of conspiracy to violate the Freedom of Access to Clinical Entrances […]

Group asks House Speaker to investigate whether Democrats used 25th Amendment threat to force Biden out of presidential race After repeatedly insisting that he would remain in the race for president after his horrifying debate performance, why did Joe Biden suddenly have a change of heart and withdraw his candidacy with little fanfare? Some people are speculating that he may have been forced out by his own party in […]

Donald Trump has selected freshman Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate. Republicans celebrated the decision, while Democrats warned against Vance’s extremist views, with President Biden labeling him a “clone” of Trump. The 39-year-old former marine gained fame after writing the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” about growing up in Appalachia. He won a close Republican Senate primary in 2022 in […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has blamed the "woke virus" for the gender confusion that befell his son Xavier. The X owner denounced this "woke virus" in the form of "gender-affirming care" – medical sterilization – during a recent conversation with clinical psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson. According to Musk, he was pressured into approving puberty blockers for his son after being threatened with the possibility of Xavier taking his own life. […]

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. “America’s Hitler,” “reprehensible,” “cultural heroin,” “noxious,” “a terrible candidate.” That’s how Ohio Senator J.D. Vance once described Donald Trump. But on Monday, Trump tapped the 39-year-old to be his running mate, capping an extraordinary rise for Vance, who was just elected to the […]

Kamala Harris hired an illegal immigrant WHO ATTACKED A WOMAN to be part of jobs program while serving as San Francisco’s DA While she was San Francisco's district attorney, Vice President Kamala Harris hired an illegal immigrant who attacked a woman to be part of a free jobs program. Harris has consistently claimed that she has spent her career fighting individuals and institutions who harm the American public and […]