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Sen. Chris Van Hollen said he met with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador, Thursday night.

President Donald Trump’s administration has escalated its ongoing battle with Harvard, threatening to block the university from enrolling international students, who make up 27% of the campus.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told Malaysia’s leader that China will be a collaborative partner and stand with its Southeast Asian neighbors in the wake of global economic shocks.

Vance is leading the “deal camp” against hawks who’d prefer a military strike.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said a joint commission of French and Haitian historians would investigate the legacy of the “heavy price” Haiti was made to pay for its independence, two…

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The young woman is at the center of a documentary film by director Sepideh Farsi, selected for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

A colossal squid has been captured on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers steering a remotely operated submersible.

A federal grand jury in Manhattan has indicted Luigi Mangione in a death penalty-eligible case for the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, according to court documents filed Thursday.

Week of April 4-10, 2025

Week of March 28-April 3, 2025

The Trump administration is waging a ‘wholesale assault on U.S. science’ that threatens the country’s health, economic development, national security and scientific preeminence. That’s according to an open letter published by nearly 2,000 doctors, scientists and researchers. William Brangham discussed the letter with Dr. Steven Woolf, one of its authors.

Palestinians held funerals for 15 medics and emergency responders killed by Israeli troops in southern Gaza.

The Chinese military on Tuesday said it had begun conducting exercises that would approach the island of Taiwan “from multiple directions,” according to a statement posted on the Eastern Theater Command’s official social media account.

Students from Minnesota State University Mankato and the University of Minnesota were detained late last week.

There are early signs that a Democratic revolt is on the horizon. But is it too early to say how it will play out?

Iranian state media is reporting that Iran has placed all of its missiles on launchers in response to a potential U.S. attack.

[EU S15 E13] Mounting Economic ProblemsIn this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses certain minimum wages by the Trump administration…

US Investment Accelerator will oversee the semiconductor production boosting law signed in to law in August 2022

The Republican Office of New Mexico’s headquarters in Albuquerque was intentionally set on fire in an act of arson.

Week of March 21-27, 2025

We speak to author and analyst Helena Cobban, about what a “ceasefire” means to Israel and the United States, and survey the situation across the region, inc…

Editors discuss Israel’s murder of Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat, one of nearly 200 journalists killed in Gaza over the course of Israel’s genocide. T…

Some current students at Saturday’s protest said they have lost faith in their school amid recent turmoil that has involved the federal detention of a graduate student.

Iran’s president says Tehran has rejected direct negotiations with the United States in response to a letter from President Donald Trump over its rapidly advancing nuclear program.

At rallies, town halls and protests, voters are unleashing their fury with Donald Trump, stoking what some believe is a populist backlash

Demonstrators flooded Istanbul’s streets, heeding the call of Turkey’s main opposition CHP party. The mass protests, ongoing since top CHP figure Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest, are among the biggest against Erdogan.

Sudan researcher Mosaab Baba joins the show to discuss the ongoing civil war, now in its second year. Baba discusses the Sudanese Armed Forces’ recent recapt…

The administration is leaving no stone unturned in its push to erase the legacy of 2020’s racial reckoning.

U.S. president’s comments come on the heels of diplomatic tensions between Copenhagen and Washington.

Trump’s America has started to challenge and redefine academic freedom, and Yale Professor Jason Stanley is sounding the alarm. He is the author of “Erasing…

Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk was walking alone Tuesday night to meet friends at a dinner where they would break their 13-hour fast when six plainclothes officers suddenly encircled her on the street near her apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, surveillance video shows.

Remarks by Wole Soyinka, keynote speaker and Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, during the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and th…

According to a letter sent by the university to students, faculty and staff, the student was detained at an off-campus residence on Thursday.

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWe’re joined by the four-time Grammy-winning musician Macklemore, a vocal proponent of Palestinia…

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytThe new documentary The Encampments, produced by Watermelon Pictures and BreakThrough News, is an…

For the first week of Ramadan, Palestinians in Gaza marked the holy month with a respite from war. Then Israel broke a ceasefire with Hamas. The fighting and blockade mean there’s little to celebrate.

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Utah’s flag law goes further than one signed last week in Idaho that only applies to schools.

Robert F Kennedy, Trump’s health secretary, said he will be laying off nearly 20,000 workers, imperiling crucial services

Ali Abunimah, executive director, reflects on recent protests in Gaza against the genocide, and how mainstream Western media covered them. This is a segment…

Trump’s voting rights executive order, welcomed by conservatives, could bring significant changes to how elections are run

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytOver a thousand protesters gathered near Tufts University on Wednesday after masked plainclothes…

Jeff Sugarman is a distinguished scholar in theoretical and philosophical psychology, known for his work examining the psychology of selfhood, human agency,…

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Vice President JD Vance will travel to Greenland this week, including a stop at Pituffik Space Base, the U.S. Defense Department’s northernmost installation and its only outpost on the island.

Two months into U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S.-Chinese relationship—the most consequential one in the world by a long stretch—faces new…

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has appealed for unity within the military alliance as European nations scale up their armed forces and defense industries after the Trump administration warned that Europe must take care of its own security in future.

Sweden’s prime minister says his government wants to ramp up defense spending to a target of 3.5% of the Nordic country’sgross domestic product, marking its largest military buildup since the Cold War.

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytElon Musk was born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in a wealthy family under th…

Video shows DHS officials wearing masks partially covering their faces while detaining Rumeysa Ozturk in the street

Donald Trump has launched an all-out assault on science—rejecting climate data, promoting vaccine skeptics, and attacking facts at every turn. But what’s rea…

The Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa (CEIA) members will discuss the escalating situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as…

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytDemocratic lawmakers are calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and national security adviser…

“Khartoum is free,” says army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan after almost two years of occupation by the RSF.

The U.S. has added dozens of companies to its export control, including more than 50 based in China that it says sought advanced knowhow in supercomputing, artificial intelligence and quantum technology for military purposes.

European Union citizens should stockpile enough food and other essential supplies to sustain them for at least 72 hours in the event of a crisis, the EU Commission has said.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel denied the Trump administration’s push to restart deportations of alleged gang members under a rarely used wartime authority known as the Alien Enemies Act.

Today’s Wolff Responds, Professor Wolff discusses The United States increasing isolation from the global community. Professor Wolff’s latest book “Understand…

French President Emmanuel Macron says that a proposed European armed force for possible deployment in Ukraine in tandem with an eventual peace deal could “respond” to a Russian attack if Moscow launched one.

Week of March 14-20, 2025

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A New York judge heard a case Mahmoud Khalil, who led pro-Palestinian protests and is currently being detained, and other students brought against Columbia University. The lawsuit is an attempt to prevent the university from sharing their disciplinary records with the government.

The U.S. government used an 18th-century wartime law to deport nearly 300 Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, where they were immediately transferred to the country’s maximum-security gang prison.

Researchers at Columbia University remain in limbo after the Ivy League institution bowed to the Trump administration’s demands for unprecedented changes in a bid to restore some $400 million in federal funds cut.

White House blocked from deporting Yunseo Chung, green card holder and student who sued Trump administration

On Tuesday, with bruises on his face and blood on his clothes, Hamdan Ballal was released from an Israeli police station in a West Bank settlement.

In Turkey, protests against the arrest of a leading opposition figure Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, stretched into a sixth night, with nearly 1,500…

Serbia’s populist government is facing increased public scrutiny over reports that it used a sonic weapon against a peaceful crowd during a massive anti-corruption rally in the capital, Belgrade, on March 15.

On Monday, Israeli strikes killed two Palestinian journalists: Al Jazeera’s Hossam Shabat, who was 23 years old, and Palestine Today’s Mohammed Mansour, who was killed in his apartment alongside his wife. This brings the total number of journalists that Israel has killed in Gaza over the past year and a half to 206. Just before his death, Shabat had shared news of Mansour’s killing on social media and filed an article with Drop Site News describing Israel’s scorched-earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun. His editor Sharif Abdel Kouddous remembers Shabat as a “warm and funny person,” dedicated to his job and his community. In recent months, he had been under increasing surveillance by the Israeli military, which labeled him a terrorist and placed him on a “hit list.” Despite being “targeted and openly hunted,” Shabat “continued nevertheless to cover the genocide of his people.”

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytEducation Secretary Linda McMahon says Columbia University is on track to regain its federal fund…

It was one of the worst industrial disasters in history. In 1984, toxic gas from a pesticide factory killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India and caused h…

Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vucic is denying claims his police used a ‘sonic weapon’ to disperse protesters at a massive rally in Belgrade. Footage of the…

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytPresident Trump has invoked a controversial 18th-century law last used to justify the arrest and…

President Donald Trump on Monday said that further attacks or retaliation by the Houthis would be considered an attack by Iran and it would face “dire” consequences.

The United States under President Donald Trump has launched a new campaign of intense airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

Israel said the early Tuesday attacks were launched after Hamas refused to release more hostages held in Gaza.

The president’s appointments include Michael Flynn, Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon’s daughter.

Capable of holding over 300 crew members and larger than any Coast Guard vessel, the USS Gravely has been assigned to help tighten border security, operating in both domestic and international waters.

Mahmoud Khalil is set to appear before an immigration judge on March 27.

Dr. Rasha Alawieh was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday and sent back to Lebanon despite having a valid visa.

Dangerous weekend weather spawned tornadoes, dust storms and wildfires that killed at least 39 people and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses.

The arrest appears to be the first time a health care provider in Texas has been criminally charged under the state’s abortion ban, which went into effect in 2022.

US secretary of state accuses Ebrahim Rasool of being a ‘race-baiting politician who hates America’ and Donald Trump

Donald Trump has repeatedly raised the prospect of annexing Greenland and making it part of the United States. The Arctic island’s politicians and residents have baulked at the idea.

The judge agreed to implement a temporary restraining order preventing the deportation of five Venezuelans for 14 days under the act.

At least 32 people have been killed in a monster storm sweeping across much of the U.S. Kansas authorities said eight people died in a highway pileup caused by a dust storm Friday.

The layoffs of thousands of miners in Chiatura, Georgia, ought to be big news in a country of under four million people. But most outlets have ignored the story, because it doesn’t fit the narrative of a grand geopolitical battle between East and West.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is vowing to rid his country of foreign-funded groups, calling them a “shadow army” serving the European Union and a “liberal American empire.”

Students, farmers and military veterans joined possibly the largest anti-government rally in Belgrade’s history to demand accountability for a deadly canopy collapse in Novi Sad.

President Trump said the U.S. would use “overwhelming lethal force” until Houthis cease shipping attacks.

Let it Rip examines the return of Donald Trump to the white house and the sweeping executive orders to end Diversity equity and inclusion programs, Birthrigh…

This month, five towns in the state of Vermont voted to adopt the Apartheid-Free Communities Pledge, which commits them “to end all support to Israel’s apart…

Just months after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad, Syria has been rocked by an eruption of violence. Coastal towns have turned into killing fields, wit…

Five-year transition period declared along with rights for women, freedom of expression and justice for Assad victims

Representatives of China, Russia and Iran called Friday for an end to U.S. sanctions on Iran over its rapidly advancing nuclear program and a restart to multinational talks on the issue.

The situation of Ukrainian troops in the Russian region of Kursk is becoming increasingly difficult. Are they now withdrawing completely? What is the experts’ view of this Ukrainian operation on Russian territory?

Professor Wolff will present four key points that reveal the emergence of a new Cold War the U.S. has embarked upon in response to the rise of global allianc…

Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders say rollbacks proposed by the Trump administration endanger the lives of millions of Americans and abandon the agency’s mission to protect the environment and human health.

A top U.S. Justice Department official says the department is investigating whether Columbia University concealed “illegal aliens” on its campus.

The State Department is exercising a seldom-used power to remove legal immigrants connected to protests.

Betar US is among far-right groups supporting Trump effort to deport students involved in pro-Palestinian protests

Police have arrested dozens of demonstrators from a Jewish group who filled the lobby of Trump Tower to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist who helped lead protests against Israel at Columbia University.

The Trump administration is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the president’s mass deportation pledge in the coming days, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.

Despite Trump’s rhetoric, there are sincere strategic reasons why the US wants Greenland – be it trade routes, natural resources, strategic sites, security t…

When a group of citizens searching for missing relatives in the western state of Jalisco arrived at a remote ranch outside Mexico’s second-largest city last week on an anonymous tip, all they had to do was push open the unlocked gate.

Argentine retirees and fans of several soccer teams have clashed with police during a protest in front of Congress in the capital, Buenos Aires, against the economic policies implemented by the government of President Javier Milei.

Israeli forces have used sexual violence as weapon to ‘dominate and destroy’ Palestinian people, report also says

An Israeli airstrike targeted a building in an upscale neighborhood, destroying an apartment that neighbors said had been vacant for years.

Court document claims ‘potentially serious foreign policy consequences’ amid outcry over Palestinian activist’s arrest

Prominent Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil will remain in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana for now following a procedural hearing in New York, days after he was arrested by federal officials at his Columbia University residence in an attempt by the Trump administration to deport him.

The Mask Off Maersk campaign recently submitted a report to the United Nations in response to a call by Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on Pale…

Mutual Aid and Social Reproduction The Build and Fight Formula is a program for the radical transformation of society. Kali Akuno, Co-founder and Executive D…

The new Austrian government says it has decided to immediately stop family reunion procedures for migrants because the country is no longer able to absorb newcomers adequately.

Annual survey by IQAir based on toxic PM2.5 particles reveals some progress in pollution levels in India and China

Ocean Census has recorded 866 new marine species including sharks and coral in a giant leap forward in unmasking the mysteries of the ocean.

The Russian leader promised to treat captured forces as “terrorists.”

Duterte, who led a “drug war” that killed thousands, was arrested for alleged crimes against humanity.

Election throws up surprise result as independence from Denmark remains tough to define.

Heated exchange after subcommittee chair Keith Self calls first out trans representative Sarah McBride ‘Mr McBride’

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said as the United States is “applying tariffs worth 28 billion dollars, we are responding with countermeasures worth 26 billion euros,” or about $28 billion.

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The multi-billion dollar deal was heralded as ensuring the security of the Indo-Pacific. But with America an increasingly unreliable ally, doubts are rising above the waves

Haunting accounts of torture in newly found detention centre lead to calls for an investigation into what experts say could be among the worst atrocities of Sudan’s civil war

Police and supporters of impeached president gather at presidential residence in Seoul before his possible release

Egypt’s alternative to Trump’s “Gaza Riviera” plan is expected to cost $53 billion and take five years. Cairo says it will host a conference for Gaza reconstruction next month.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s exhortation comes two days after U.S. backing of Ukraine appeared in jeopardy when President Donald Trump lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The bombardment took place hours after Zelenskyy said talks with the U.S. on ending the 3-year war will happen next week.

Reuters interviews with 11 federal judges in multiple districts reveal mounting concern over their security

Justice department to determine whether UC violated Civil Rights Act of 1964 amid pro-Palestinian campus protests

It was a week that saw not only more twists in the tariffs saga but also Trump’s big Hill address, the suspension of aid to Ukraine, more firings at agencies, and more. NPR keeps track, day by day.

President Donald Trump’s ever-changing, on-again, off-again tariff war with America’s three biggest trading partners – Mexico, Canada and China — is baffling businesses.

On this week’s edition of Redneck Gone Green with David Cobb and Shane Knight, they discuss the flaccid state of the Democratic Party and what it’s going to…

United States President Donald Trump is pushing to slash public spending and implement tariffs on countries including China, Canada and Mexico, straining dip…

The United States has withdrawn from a climate agreement where rich nations have pledged billions of dollars to help a small group of developing countries switch from coal to green energy sources.

South Korea’s military says it has suspended the training flights of air force aircraft and all live-fire drills after two fighter jets accidentally bombed a civilian area.

A war monitor says two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad have left more than 200 people dead.

European Union leaders committed to working together to bolster the continent’s defenses and to free up hundreds of billions of euros for security.

State department is using AI to review tens of thousands of accounts, reports say

China’s top foreign policy official addressed the escalating trade war with the U.S. and promoted China as an “anchor” on the global stage as America retreats from international involvement.

Judge orders reinstatement of Gwynne Wilcox to National Labor Relations Board after her removal by US president

The Trump administration seems to be doubling down on tariffs, even as it acknowledges — and dismisses — the repercussions of such levies.

An active-duty U.S. army sergeant has been charged with selling sensitive national defense secrets, according to court documents.

US president tells group to ‘release all of the Hostages now … or it is OVER for you’ as White House enters negotiations