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Walmart Worker and U.S. Citizen Is Released from Detention After Violent Arrest by Federal Agents
A 20-year-old U.S. citizen from the Los Angeles area has been released from federal detention after he was violently arrested in a Walmart parking lot last week. Adrian Andrew Martinez was taken when ...
Kidnapped to Salvadoran Mega-Prison: Andry Hernández Romero’s Family on 100+ Days of Disappearance
Over 100 days have passed since the Trump administration’s unprecedented removal of more than 230 immigrants to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison CECOT. They were removed without any due process in ...
Bill Moyers Dies at 91: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public Broadcasting
The legendary journalist Bill Moyers has died at the age of 91. Moyers, whose long career included helping found the Peace Corps and serving as press secretary for President Lyndon Johnson, was an ...
Israel Continues Deadly Attacks on Gaza Aid Sites as 17,000 Palestinian Children Suffer Malnutrition
Doctors in Gaza say Israeli attacks have killed at least 72 people over the past 24 hours. Among the dead are six people killed by Israeli forces near an aid distribution point north of Rafah operated ...
NYC Mayor Adams Announces Reelection Bid as Independent; Cuomo to Remain on the Ballot
New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday he’s running for reelection in November as an independent. Adams will face front-runner Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who defeated former New ...
Canadian Citizen and Mexican Immigrant Become the Latest to Die in ICE Custody
In Florida, another person has been reported dead in the custody of ICE. Johnny Noviello, a 49-year-old citizen of Canada, was found unresponsive at the Bureau of Prisons Federal Detention Center in ...
Sikh American Trumpet Player & Singer Sonny Singh Performs & Talks About Music and Resistance
The Brooklyn-based Sufi-American musician Sonny Singh joins us in our Democracy Now! studio to perform and talk about his remarkable music. Singh gained fame as a member of Red Baraat and now records ...
Supreme Court Grants Reprieve to Condemned Texas Prisoner Minutes Before Lethal Injection
The Supreme Court stayed the execution of a condemned Texas prisoner on Thursday, mere minutes before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection. Ruben Gutierrez insists he was wrongfully convicted ...
Supreme Court Sides with South Carolina in Campaign to Defund Planned Parenthood
In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with South Carolina to defund Planned Parenthood by removing its health clinics from the state’s Medicaid program. Writing for the dissent, Justice ...
Senate Parliamentarian Deals Major Blow to Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”
Senate Republicans are scrambling to save President Trump’s massive package of tax cuts for the wealthy and cuts to social programs, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” On Thursday, the Senate ...
Federal Judge Will Allow ICE to Force-Feed Hunger Striking Asylum Seeker
A federal judge has granted a request from the Trump administration to force-feed an Iranian asylum seeker who is on hunger strike while detained at the Florence ICE jail in Arizona. Last month, ...
U.S. and China Agree to “Framework” for Trade Deal
The White House says it has reached an agreement with China to speed imports of rare earth elements, as the Trump administration seeks to unwind its trade war with Beijing. Earlier today China’s ...