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HUMAN TRAFFICKING: Mexican cartels offer $15,000 VIP border crossing packages to migrants trying to get into the U.S. via tunnels Mexican cartels are now offering smuggling packages for migrants, priced between $6,000 and $15,000 per person, for a relatively safer and more reliable crossing via underground tunnels. The so-called VIP packages used by most transnational criminal organizations exploit a network of storm drains spanning 300 miles. Migrants are given a special code to […]

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. “Julian Assange is free.” That’s what his wife tweeted after he left the Belmarsh Prison in London Monday, having reached a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors that will allow him to soon head home to Australia, ending a more than […]

A Tesla electric vehicle died in Arizona while a toddler was inside it, trapping the child in the hot car. Renee Sanchez safely strapped her 20-month-old granddaughter in her car seat and closed the door. But the EV died before she could get in herself, trapping her granddaughter inside the car with no way to get out. Tesla and other EV makers that offer electronic doors have manual releases owners can pull […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to bring Antony Loewenstein into this conversation, independent journalist based in Sydney. It’s where Julian Assange is expected to fly into to meet with his family on the tarmac. His wife Stella talked about she has not known him, since she met him when he was under house arrest — you know, Democracy Now! also […]

Investigation reveals Instagram’s algorithm regularly suggests explicit content to users as young as 13 years old A recent Wall Street Journal and Northeastern University (NEU) study has found that Instagram’s algorithm routinely suggests sexually explicit content to users as young as 13. The study, conducted by Laura Edelson, a computer science professor at NEU, involved researchers setting up multiple Instagram accounts registered to 13-year-olds to monitor the content suggested by Instagram's Reels feed over a seven-month […]

Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul has shocked constituents this month with a surprise decision to cancel New York City’s congestion program plan just weeks before it was set to start. Hochul had previously supported the plan, which would have charged drivers $15 to enter parts of Manhattan in order to fund the city’s public transportation budget. New York City’s public transportation system, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), is used […]

Big Tech partners with WEF to implement “Global Coalition for Digital Safety” scheme for world domination The world's leading online censorship outlets are teaming up to try to subdue the globe under a new "Global Digital Safety" pact that as usual gives the globalists all the power. The Digital Trust & Safety Partnership (DTSP), United Kingdom regulator OFCOM and the infamous World Economic Forum (WEF) embraced a threesome wedding […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.AMY GOODMAN: As temperatures soared this weekend, a hotly contested election drew people to a get-out-the-vote rally in the Bronx for Democratic Congressmember Jamaal Bowman, who’s facing the most expensive primary race in U.S. history in New York’s 16th Congressional District. The primary is Tuesday. The race is making clear the powerful role of AIPAC, the American Israel […]

The Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) board decided to ban cellphones and social media use during school hours – with five board members voting in favor and two against. This ban, which will start in the spring of 2025, extends beyond the previous policy that only restricted phone use during classes and limited social media to educational purposes. The decision follows a Pew Research Center survey revealing that 72 percent […]