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Guilty: U.S.-Backed Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández Convicted of Drug Trafficking
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was found guilty of cocaine trafficking Friday after a two-week trial in a New York federal court, where prosecutors accused Hernandez of ruling the Central American country as a narco-state and accepting millions of dollars in bribes from cocaine traffickers in exchange for protection. He faces a possible life sentence. Hernandez served as president of Honduras from 2014 to 2022 and was a close U.S. ally despite mounting reports of human rights violations and accusations of corruption and involvement with drug smuggling during his tenure. Hernandez was arrested less than a month after his term ended and was extradited to the United States in April 2022. The majority feeling is satisfaction, a feeling of progress in achieving justice," says activist Camilo Bermudez from Tegucigalpa. He is a member of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras, the organization founded by Berta Caceres, the Lenca Indigenous environmental defender who was assassinated in 2016 while Juan Orlando Hernandez was president. We also speak with Dana Frank, professor of history emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who says the 2009 U.S.-backed coup against President Manuel Zelaya set the stage for the corrupt governments that followed. While U.S. prosecutors may have convicted Hernandez, Frank stresses that multiple U.S. administrations legitimated and celebrated him."
"Empire's Laboratory": How 2004 U.S.-Backed Coup Destabilized Haiti & Led to Current Crisis
Caribbean leaders are holding an emergency meeting in Jamaica today to discuss the crisis in Haiti, where armed groups are calling for the resignation of unelected Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Haiti is under a state of emergency, with tens of thousands displaced amid the fighting, and United Nations officials warn the country's health system is nearing collapse. Ariel Henry was appointed prime minister after the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moise, but he is currently stranded outside the country after a trip to Kenya, where he was seeking a U.N.-backed security force to help him maintain power. For more, we speak with Haitian American scholar Jemima Pierre, who says the unrest in Haiti today can be traced to decisions made two decades ago by the United States and other outside powers. The root of this crisis is not last week, it's not this week, it's not even Ariel Henry. But we have to go back to 2004 with the coup-d'etat," says Pierre. She adds that because successive security plans have been sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council, the whole world is participating in the occupation of Haiti unwittingly."
Headlines for March 11, 2024
Death Toll in Gaza Tops 31,000; Israel Continues Assault as Ramadan Begins, Biden Vows to Keep Supporting Israel But Says Netanyahu Is Hurting Israel More Than Helping", Haiti: CARICOM Holds Emergency Meeting as Calls Grow for Ariel Henry to Resign, Pope Francis Urges Ukraine to Negotiate and Have Courage of the White Flag", Jury Convicts Ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on Drug Trafficking Charges, U.N. Security Council Pushes for Ramadan Ceasefire in Sudan, Biden: I Regret Describing Immigrant as Illegal" During State of the Union, Trump Meets & Praises Hungary's Authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, U.N.: Iran Responsible for Death of Mahsa Amini, 180,000 Protest in Mexico City Against Femicide on International Women's Day, Protesters Calling for Ceasefire in Gaza Block Traffic & Delay Start of Oscars, Oscars: Director of The Zone of Interest" Condemns Israeli Occupation, 20 Days in Mariupol" Wins Oscar for Best Documentary
Biden's SOTU on Gaza: Israeli Daughter of Freed Hostage & Palestinian American Professor Respond
In his State of the Union address, President Biden addressed Israel's assault on Gaza, where the humanitarian crisis continues to worsen amid a relentless bombing campaign and siege. We're joined by two guests: Eman Abdelhadi, a Chicago-based Palestinian Egyptian American professor, artist and activist, who on Thursday delivered an alternate State of the Union address called The State of Genocide," and Neta Heiman Mina, a member of the Israeli chapter of Women Wage Peace, whose 84-year-old mother, Ditza Heiman, was one of the hostages released during the temporary ceasefire and hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas in November. Abdelhadi says that by arming Israel while offering limited aid to the starving population of Gaza, the Biden administration is effectively holding a gun to Palestinians' heads, shooting at them with one hand and throwing crumbs at them with the other." Meanwhile, Mina calls on the Israeli government to do everything we can" to return the remaining hostages, including an immediate ceasefire and the release of Palestinian prisoners. This genocide has been going on for 152 days, and it is 100% an American project," Abdelhadi says, adding that campaigners plan to hold Biden electorally accountable for his continued support for Israel. We are going to make sure that the DNC knows where we stand on this issue."
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Biden's Domestic Agenda — Taxes, Reproductive Rights — Undermined by Foreign Policy
President Biden delivered his State of the Union address Thursday night. In it, he made his case for a second term ahead of this year's presidential election, criticizing Republican front-runner Donald Trump without mentioning him by name, and highlighting his administration's policies to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, reinstate reproductive rights and provide support to Ukraine. Our guest Katrina vanden Heuvel, the publisher of The Nation, describes current U.S. foreign policy as a Cold War redux moment" that threatens the success of populist economic policies that have recently taken hold in the Democratic Party after decades of trickle-down, neoliberal economics. She calls for ending the policing and the global policing which the establishment believes is their right," warning that if you don't have a transformative foreign policy, you will end up with military Keynesianism."
Headlines for March 8, 2024
Biden Talks Taxing the Rich, Abortion Rights, Immigration Crackdown and Gaza in Election Year SOTU, Hundreds of Activists Block D.C. Streets, Deliver People's SOTU Calling for End to Genocide, We Don't Need Aid. We Need Them to Stop the Killing": Gazans Respond to Biden Aid Port Plan, Palestinian Women Prisoners Share Accounts of Inhumane Treatment, Sexual Assault, Israel Hastens Illegal Construction in Occupied West Bank as It Decimates Gaza, At Least 275 Students Abducted in Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso Team Up for Security Force Days After 170 People Killed in Burkina Faso, Senegal Sets New Election for March 24 After Protesters and Court Push Back on Macky Sall's Delay, Haiti Extends State of Emergency as PM Ariel Henry Remains Stranded Outside of Country, Narendra Modi Visits Kashmir for First Time Since 2019 Crackdown, Hong Kong Introduces New Draft National Security Law, Expanding Its Control on Dissent, U.S. Court Rejects Case Against Big Tech for Its Complicity in Child Labor in DRC, Google Fires Dozens of Contract Workers After They Unionized, Autopsy Shows Lewiston, Maine, Mass Shooter May Have Suffered from Traumatic Brain Injury, Biden Wins Hawaii Democratic Primary; Uncommitted" Takes Nearly 30% of Votes, FDA Issues Warning for 6 Brands of Ground Cinnamon, After Oct. 7, There Are No Longer Any Women": Gazan Women Struggle to Survive on IWD
New Pakistan Gov't Marks Return of "Bourgeois Old Guard" as Jailed Imran Khan Looms Large
In Pakistan, Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in Monday as prime minister for a second time, days after newly elected members of Parliament were seated amid protests by lawmakers from the party of ousted and jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Sharif will lead a coalition government after none of the major parties won a majority of parliamentary seats in February's election, when Khan supporters accused the military of election tampering. Regardless of actual policy, Khan's enduring popularity as an anti-establishment figure comes from a young, disaffected population, a set of regimes that historically does not deliver, and underlying structural crises that just get worse," says Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, associate professor of political economy at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad. That's why I think you have this groundswell of opinion which is both anti-domestic elite and also anti-foreign elite."
Biden Admin Quietly Approves 100+ Arms Sales to Israel While Claiming Concern for Civilians in Gaza
While the Biden administration has been publicly voicing reservations over the mounting death toll in Gaza, a Washington Post investigation revealed the administration has quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate weapons sales to Israel over the last five months, amounting to thousands of precision-guided munitions, small-diameter bombs, bunker busters and other lethal aid. Only two approved foreign military sales to Israel have been made public since the launch of Israel's assault on October 7, which the Biden administration approved using emergency authority to bypass Congress. It is actually illegal to provide military assistance to a country that is restricting U.S.-funded humanitarian assistance, and we know that this is the case with Israel," says Josh Paul, a veteran State Department official who worked on arms deals and resigned in protest of a push to increase arms sales to Israel amid its assault on Gaza. Paul describes the production line"-style sale of weapons to Israel and says increasing internal dissent is putting pressure on Biden to change his dead-end" policy of unconditional support for Israel. We have a president and a set of policies ... that remain set on this course regardless of the harm it is doing to Israeli security, to American global interests and, of course, to so many Palestinians."
Israel's "Killing Machine": How U.S. Military Support Is Undercutting Ceasefire Talks, Prolonging War
As Israel continues its relentless bombardment and siege of Gaza, where hunger and dehydration have reached deadly levels, Hamas has accused Israel of thwarting" efforts to reach a ceasefire deal. A Hamas delegation in Cairo said that Israel has insisted on rejecting elements of a deal for a phased process that would culminate in an end to Israel's assault on Gaza, as well as ensuring the entry of aid and facilitating the return of displaced Palestinians back to their homes in Gaza. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is pushing Hamas to accept the terms on the table, claiming that a rational" offer had been made for a six-week truce in exchange for the release of Israeli hostages. The White House statements seem to be a very politically calculated move so that they can essentially point the blame at Hamas if this fails," says Tahani Mustafa, senior Palestine analyst at the International Crisis Group. Mustafa also provides updates on UNRWA's collapsing operations, repression in the West Bank and the utility of international law for Palestine today.
Headlines for March 7, 2024
Ceasefire Talks Falter as Famine Plagues Gaza, Aid Remains Blocked by Israel, South Africa Asks ICJ to Help Stop Imminent Tragedy" in Gaza; Canada to Resume UNRWA Funding, Houthi Attack Kills 3 People in First Known Fatalities in Campaign Against Red Sea Trade Ships, Palestinian Americans Share Stories of Loved Ones in Gaza Killed by Israel, Activists in D.C. Line Israeli Embassy with Palestinian Flags, Banners Condemning Gaza Genocide, Musicians Pull Out of SXSW over Gaza; Brazilian Union Calls for End to Military Cooperation, Deadly Russian Strike Rattles President Zelensky and Greek PM Mitsotakis During Odesa Visit, Yulia Navalnaya Urges Russians to Protest Putin When Voting on March 17, U.S. Reportedly Pressuring Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry to Step Down Amid Mounting Crisis, Nikki Haley Ends Presidential Run; Mitch McConnell Endorses Trump, UAW's Shawn Fain, Palestinian Who Lost 35 Relatives in Gaza Among Guests Invited to SOTU, Alabama Passes Law Protecting IVF Providers from Prosecution, A Promise Made to the Future": France Enshrines Abortion Rights into Constitution, A Page Out of the Giuliani Playbook": NY Gov. Hochul Sends National Guard to Patrol Subways, Jury Finds Rust" Armorer Guilty in 2022 On-Set Killing of Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins
What I Witnessed in Gaza Is a Holocaust: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa
We speak with Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa, who is in Cairo and just returned from two weeks in Gaza. What's happening to people isn't just this death and dismemberment and hunger. It is a total denigration of their personhood, of their whole society," says Abulhawa. What I witnessed personally in Rafah and some of the middle areas is incomprehensible, and I will call it a holocaust - and I don't use that word lightly. But it is absolutely that."
Unanimous? Supreme Court Ruling Leaving Trump on Ballot Reveals Split Among Justices
We look at Monday's unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling that states do not have the authority to remove Donald Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment with Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern, who calls the decision a disaster" that appears tailor-made to let Trump avoid accountability for the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He says despite the superficial unanimity of the 9-0 ruling, it was closer to a 5-4 split, with the five conservative justices who wrote the majority opinion raising additional barriers to keeping insurrectionists from public office.
Super Tuesday: Biden, Trump Head to Rematch; Schiff Helps Garvey Place in CA; AIPAC Suffers Setback
On Super Tuesday, millions of voters cast ballots in primaries across the United States, and we look at key contests in California, North Carolina, Arizona and elsewhere with American Prospect executive editor David Dayen. He says the California race to fill the seat of the late Senator Dianne Feinstein highlighted the ideological fight inside the Democratic Party, with centrist Congressmember Adam Schiff successfully boxing out his more progressive rivals by spending millions to elevate the profile of Republican candidate Steve Garvey. Both men are now headed to the general election, where Schiff is all but certain to win. It was quite successful," Dayen says of Schiff's strategy.
Headlines for March 6, 2024
Biden & Trump Nearly Sweep Super Tuesday Primaries; Haley to Drop out, Schiff and Garvey Advance in California in Senate Race to Fill Feinstein's Seat, Mark Robinson, Holocaust-Denying, Gay-Bashing Candidate, Wins NC Gubernatorial Primary, Israel Blocks World Food Programme Aid Delivery to Northern Gaza as Agency Attempts to Avert Famine, Hamas Demands Permanent Ceasefire Before More Hostages Are Released, Lebanon: Israel Kills Hezbollah Fighter Along with His Wife & Son, World Food Programme: Sudan Could Soon Face World's Largest Hunger Crisis", Gang Leader Jimmy Cherizier: Haiti Is Heading to Civil War Unless Ariel Henry Resigns as PM, ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Two High-Ranking Russian Military Officers, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Announces She Will Not Seek Reelection in Arizona, Sen. Menendez Faces New Charges in Egypt & Qatar Bribery Case, Justice Clarence Thomas Hires Clerk Who Once Wrote I Hate Black People", Dartmouth Men's Basketball Team Votes to Unionize, Liberty University Fined $14 Million for Failing to Report Sexual Assaults, German Leftist Group Claims Responsibility for Sabotage at Massive Tesla Plant
"The Zone of Interest": Oscar-Nominated Film Producer on the Holocaust, Gaza & "Walls That Separate Us"
Ahead of the 96th Academy Awards, we're joined by James Wilson, producer of the Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest, who raised Israel's assault on Gaza in his BAFTA Award acceptance speech last month. The film follows the fictionalized family of real-life Nazi commandant Rudolf Hoss as they live idyllically next to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Wilson says the film serves as a metaphor for the occlusion of systemic violence, injustice, oppression, from our lives," and challenges audiences' complicity by asking them to identify with Hoss and his wife Hedwig. The idea of this film was to look for the similarities, rather than the differences, between us and the perpetrator," says Wilson.
Narco-State: U.S.-Backed Fmr. Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández on Trial in NY for Drug Trafficking
Federal prosecutors in New York have rested their case against former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is accused of turning the Central American country into a narco-state. Hernandez is on trial for cocaine trafficking and weapons charges and is the first former head of state to stand trial in the United States since Panamanian dictator and U.S. ally Manuel Noriega was also tried on drug charges after a U.S.-led ouster. Prosecutors accuse Hernandez, a longtime U.S. ally accused of human rights violations throughout his presidency, of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from cocaine traffickers in exchange for protection and turning Honduras into a drug trafficking narco-state. If convicted, Hernandez could join his brother Juan Antonio in serving a life sentence in the U.S. We speak to two writers who have been attending the trial in New York: historian Dana Frank and author and Honduran screenwriter Oscar Estrada. There's a narrative here that ... the Honduran people can't govern themselves, and then suddenly the U.S. is coming in and heroically imposing the rule of law," says Frank about U.S. public perception of the trial. However, she continues, It's the opposite. It's the United States that helped destroy the criminal justice system in Honduras."
Haiti: Ariel Henry's U.S.-Backed "Criminal Regime" Faces Gang Uprising; U.N. Set to Deploy Kenyan Police
Haiti is under a state of emergency after the country's gangs freed thousands of people from the country's largest prisons and are reportedly uniting to bring down Haiti's de facto Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who has yet to return to the country since he traveled to Kenya last week to discuss a deal to bring a U.N. force of 1,000 Kenyan police to the island. It is a desolation that we are feeling. It is a terror that we are living," says Haitian pro-democracy advocate Monique Clesca about escalating gang violence that has already displaced thousands of Haitians. We have been terrorized for the last 30 months of Ariel Henry's government," she says, emphasizing the Biden administration has its hands in the bloodshed." We are also joined by researcher Jake Johnston, who traces the relationship between U.S. intervention and Haiti's unrest, a process stoked and perpetuated by the international community, and namely the United States," and we speak with Kenyan MP Otiende Amollo, who opposes the plan to send Kenyan peacekeepers" to Haiti, calling it a move that flies in the face of the rule of law."
Headlines for March 5, 2024
Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Trump Can't Be Barred from Ballot over Jan. 6, Super Tuesday: Millions Head to Polls in 15 States, from California to Alabama, Minnesota Activists Urge Voters to Select Uncommitted" to Protest Biden's Backing of Israel, Look at Yazan": Palestinian Diplomat Decries Death of Palestinian Boy Who Starved to Death, U.N. Experts Weigh In on Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 & Inside Israeli Jails, Ukraine Sinks Russian Warship in the Black Sea, 20,000 Soldiers Take Part in NATO War Exercise in Finland, Norway and Sweden, Chad: Head of Military Junta Announces Presidential Run Days After Killing of Opposition Leader, South Korea Moves to Suspend Licenses of Striking Doctors, Jack Teixeira Pleads Guilty to Posting Classified Intelligence Documents Online, Five Catholic Worker Activists Arrested Outside General Dynamics Plant
"Enraging": Meet Abbey Crain, IVF Patient in Midst of Treatment Derailed by Alabama High Court
Reproductive health and medical groups are asking the Alabama Supreme Court to rehear the case in which the justices ruled frozen embryos should be considered children. The decision sent shockwaves through the world of reproductive medicine regarding potential effects on access to in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments. We speak with Abbey Crain, a journalist and artist who had been undergoing IVF treatments for nearly two years when the court made its ruling. She says her clinic has paused fertility treatments after the decision. My first reaction was just sheer rage. I was extremely angry and, honestly, fell apart for a little bit," says Crain, who describes the impacts of this decision on patients and the politics of reproductive health in the state today. These men down the street from me who serve on the Alabama Supreme Court have more say over when I choose to become a mother right now than me."
"Alexei Navalny Taught Russia's Opposition How to Mobilize": Historian on Putin's "Dictatorship"
Thousands gathered Friday in Moscow for the funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony on February 16. The funeral was live-streamed on Navalny's YouTube channel to millions of his supporters, who suspect President Vladimir Putin is behind the dissident's death. We live in an open dictatorship where any forms of public disobedience are forbidden," says Russian historian and political theorist Ilya Budraitskis, who says Navalny's death has galvanized public opposition for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine. With the war enabling the Kremlin to suppress political freedom, Budraitskis says Russian leaders are ready to continue" their invasion and are openly advocating for the dismantling of Ukraine. If Ukraine will be not supported from the West, Russia will continue its offensive and realize its final goal: the elimination of Ukraine as a state."
Report from Rafah: U.S. Airdrops Food to Gaza While Arming Israel to Drop Bombs
The death toll from Israel's assault on Gaza has surpassed 30,000 as health officials say at least 16 Palestinian children have died in recent days from starvation and dehydration. UNICEF is warning the number of child deaths will likely rapidly increase" unless the war ends. As Palestinians desperately seek aid being withheld by Israel, officials have accused Israeli forces of attacking crowds gathered to retrieve the little humanitarian supplies entering the besieged territory. Live from Rafah, Gaza-based journalist Akram al-Satarri shares his brother's account of surviving an Israeli attack while attempting to secure food for his kids. It looks like the objective is to continue the starvation of the people of Gaza and to kill them when they dare to think that they can secure something to feed their children," says al-Satarri, who reports that U.S. airdrops of aid are doing little to relieve the suffering of millions in Gaza while U.S. military aid supports Israeli attacks. In one hand, they are providing people with food, and in the other hand, they are providing people with death."
Headlines for March 4, 2024
16 Children Starve to Death in Gaza as UNICEF Warns Child Deaths Will Rapidly Increase", Kamala Harris Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza as U.S. Begins Airdrops of Food Aid into Gaza, In Global Day of Action on Gaza, Protesters Condemn U.S. Arming of Israel, Israel Boycotts Ceasefire Talks in Cairo; Protesters in Tel Aviv Criticize Netanyahu, Benny Gantz's Unauthorized" Trip to D.C. Highlights Rift Within Israeli War Cabinet, Israeli Attacks Kill Seven Members of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Environmental Crisis Feared in Red Sea as U.K. Ship Carrying Fertilizer Sinks After Houthi Attack, Haley Beats Trump in D.C. After Ex-President Wins in Michigan, Missouri & Idaho, Ukraine: 12 Killed in Russian Drone Strike on Apartment Building in Odesa, Leaked Audio: Germany Discussed Supplying Ukraine Long-Range Missiles to Attack Crimean Bridge, Thousands of Russians Pay Tribute to Alexei Navalny, U.N. Warns Blocking of Aid Access in Sudan May Be a War Crime, Shehbaz Sharif Elected as Pakistani PM Amid Protests by Imran Khan Supporters, Haiti Declares State of Emergency After Thousands of Prisoners Escape in Jailbreak, Largest Wildfire in Texas History Continues to Expand, CDC Drops 5-Day Isolation Guidance for COVID-19, U.S. Education Department Probes Death of Nonbinary Student Nex Benedict in Oklahoma, Paramedic Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Role in Death of Elijah McClain
The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7
We speak with Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Grim of The Intercept about their expose of a major New York Times piece into alleged mass rapes committed by Hamas militants on October 7 that raises serious questions about the accuracy of the story. The Times article was headlined 'Screams Without Words': How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7," and its release in late December helped the Israeli government to justify the ongoing war on Gaza and to paint pro-Palestine supporters abroad as not caring about sexual violence. One of the reporters of the Times piece, Israeli freelancer Anat Schwartz, is being investigated by the Times for her social media activity, which included dehumanizing language and endorsements of violence against Palestinians in Gaza. "The New York Times has grave, grave mischaracterizations, sins of omission, reliance on people who have no forensic or criminology credentials to be asserting that there was a systematic rape campaign put in place here," says Scahill, who criticizes the newspaper for not issuing any corrections for their flawed reporting. We also hear from Ryan Grim about how the flawed Times article touched off extremely intense debate" inside the newsroom. They're used to external criticism, but the amount of internal criticism they're getting has them on the back foot," he says.
"Just Being Racist": Biden & Trump Push Anti-Immigrant Policies in Dueling Border Visits
Joe Biden and Donald Trump both visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas on Thursday, where the two leading presidential candidates each pitched anti-immigration measures to further militarize the border and restrict asylum. Meanwhile, a federal judge blocked a new Texas law set to go into effect that would give police the power to arrest migrants they suspect of entering the U.S. without authorization.For more, we speak with Marisa Limon Garza, executive director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, one of the groups challenging this Texas law. Clearly, Texas has become a battleground for the soul of this nation," she says, adding that regardless of which party is in power, immigrant communities come under attack.
Headlines for March 1, 2024
Israeli Attacks Continue Unabated After Gaza Food Aid Massacre, 4 More Children Starve to Death, Defense Sec. Austin Refuses to Draw Line in Sand for Israel After Food Aid Massacre in Gaza, Washington's Largest Union Backs Democratic Vote for Uncommitted" Ahead of Primary, Lebanese PM Says Gaza Ceasefire Would End Conflict on Its Border with Israel, New Jersey Community Members Warn Against Synagogue's Plan to Host Israeli Real Estate Event, Texas Judge Halts Draconian Immigration Law as Biden and Trump Make Dueling Trips to Border, Human Rights Panel Holds First U.S. Hearing on Climate Crisis-Driven Migration in the Americas, Smokehouse Creek Fire Kills 2 as It Grows to Texas's Largest Wildfire, U.S.'s 2nd Largest, Pakistan Swears In New Parliament as Imran Khan's Allies Protest Alleged Vote Rigging, Iran Holds First Elections Since 2022 Uprising; Low Turnout Expected, Alleged Pentagon Leaker Jack Teixeira to Plead Guilty, The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet Sue OpenAI and Microsoft, Ghana's Parliament Passes Bill Further Persecuting LGBTQ+ Communities, Thousands Gather at Alexei Navalny Funeral Amid Heavy Police Presence
Israel Kills 104 Palestinians Waiting for Food Aid as U.N. Expert Accuses Israel of Starving Gaza
In Gaza City, at least 104 Palestinian refugees were killed Thursday when Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd waiting for food aid. This isn't the first time people have been shot at by Israeli forces while people have been trying to access food," says the U.N.'s special rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, who accuses Israel of the war crime of intentional starvation. This comes as reports grow of Palestinians resorting to animal feed and cactus leaves for sustenance and as experts warn of imminent agricultural collapse. Every single person in Gaza is hungry," says Fakhri, who emphasizes that famine in the modern context is a human-made catastrophe. At this point I'm running out of words to be able to describe the horror of what's happening and how vile the actions have been by Israel against the Palestinian civilians."
Sen. Merkley: McConnell Paralyzed the Senate & Turned Supreme Court into "Far-Right Legislature"
As Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell announces he will step down as the Senate's Republican leader after 17 years - the longest term in Senate history - we speak with Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, who says, McConnell's legacy has been one of obstruction." He describes McConnell's aggressive" use of the filibuster, the topic of Merkley's new book, Filibustered!: How to Fix the Broken Senate and Save America, as having broken the cycle in which government can function." Merkley also discusses Republican manipulation of judicial appointments and the cloture motion in pushing the legislature further right.
Senator Jeff Merkley: U.S. "Complicit in Starvation and Humanitarian Catastrophe" in Gaza
As over 100 Palestinians are killed by Israeli forces while gathering for food aid in Gaza City, we speak to Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon, who in November became the second of only five U.S. senators to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. In January, he traveled to the Rafah border crossing in Egypt to witness the system of humanitarian aid deliveries, which he described on the Senate floor as a complicated, bizarre inspection process." Merkley is now calling for the U.S. to bypass Israel in order to directly send aid to Gaza. Because of the United States' relationship to Israel - more closely tied than any situation in the world" - Merkley says, It's the United States that has leverage to address this situation, and the world expects us to take the lead."
Headlines for February 29, 2024
Israeli Forces Fire at Gazans Waiting for Food Aid, Killing at Least 100, Injuring Over 760 Others, New Yorkers Hold Vigil and Reading of the Names of 30,000 Gazans Killed by Israel Since Oct. 7, Missouri Girl Scout Troop Leaves Organization After Scout Leadership Banned Their Gaza Fundraiser, McConnell to Exit GOP Leadership, Leaving Behind Legacy of Obstruction, Far-Right Judicial Takeover, SCOTUS to Hear Trump Immunity Case as IL Judge Orders Trump Removed from State Ballot, Marianne Williamson Unsuspends" Her Campaign, SCOTUS Considers Challenge to Bump Stock Ban, Enacted Under Trump, Congress Announces Bipartisan Deal to Extend Gov't Funding Another Few Weeks, We've Lost Everything": Texas Wildfire Grows to 900,000 Acres, Razing Entire Neighborhoods, Texas Executes Man Despite Doubts over Guilty Conviction; Idaho Calls Off Botched Execution, Guinean Trade Unions Suspend Strike After Labor Leader Released from Detention, Nigerian Workers Launch Strike Amid Soaring Cost of Living, ICC Awards $56 Million to Survivors of LRA Commander Dominic Ongwen, GOP Blocks Senate Measure Protecting IVF Access Nationwide, DOJ Launches Boeing Probe as FAA Gives Co. 3 Months to Submit Safety Plan
The Life & Death of Aaron Bushnell: U.S. Airman Self-Immolates Protesting U.S. Support for Israel in Gaza
In an act that has captured the attention of the world, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force, set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington Sunday to protest Israel's assault on Gaza and U.S. support for the military campaign. Bushnell, who live-streamed the action, said, I will no longer be complicit in genocide," before lighting himself on fire and repeatedly shouted Free Palestine" as he was engulfed in the flames. He was pronounced dead in the hospital later that day. Democracy Now! speaks with Bushnell's friend and conscientious objector Levi Pierpont, who says his friend's death was not a suicide but was about using his life to send a message for justice. We have to honor the message that he left," says Pierpont, who says Bushnell died to get people's attention about the genocide that's happening in Palestine." Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army colonel and former diplomat, lays out the history of self-immolation to protest war and how Bushnell's act could impact U.S. policy for the war on Gaza. It was an act of courage, an act of bravery, to call attention to U.S. policies," says Wright, who offers support to Pierpont and other veterans advocating for peace live on air.
"Uncommitted": Over 100,000 Cast Protest Vote Against Biden's Gaza Policy in Michigan Primary
President Joe Biden won the Michigan Democratic primary on Tuesday, but over 100,000 voters cast their ballots for uncommitted" in an organized campaign protesting U.S. support for Israel's assault on Gaza. The major battleground state is home to one of the largest Arab American populations in the country, but the movement to vote uncommitted" is now expected to spread to other states, including Minnesota and Washington. I've rarely seen such an organic and authentic movement come together," says former Democratic congressmember from Michigan Andy Levin. We really need actual change in policy, and I think we sent that message strongly last night." President of the Arab American Institute James Zogby says that Democratic voters need a reason to come out to the polls. We gave them a reason with 'uncommitted.' Joe Biden's got to give them a reason in November," says Zogby. There is genocide unfolding. People want it to end. The president either is going to have to act decisively to end it, or it's going to have an impact in November."
Headlines for February 28, 2024
Biden Wins in Michigan, But 100,000+ Vote Uncommitted" in Gaza Protest, Haley Warns a Trump Victory in November Would Be Suicide for Our Country", U.N. Special Rapporteur Accuses Israel of War Crimes By Depriving Food to Gaza, Hamas and Fatah to Hold Talks in Moscow on Forming Palestinian Unified Gov't, 50+ Broadcast Journalists Call on Israel & Egypt for Access to Gaza, Netanyahu: Strong U.S. Public Support Helps Perpetuate War on Gaza, Biden Holds Talks with Congressional Leaders over Shutdown & Military Aid Package, Massive Texas Wildfire Forces Closure of Nuclear Weapons Facility, Brazilian Climate Head Warns Climate Change Will Lead to Great Global Instability, Russian Court Jails Campaigner from Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Organization Memorial, Alexei Navalny Funeral to Be Held in Moscow on Friday, Two Protesters Killed in Guinea After Union Called for General Strike, Two Mayoral Candidates Murdered in Mexican City of Maravatio, San Francisco Issues Formal Apology to Black Residents, Mercedes-Benz Workers in Alabama Back Union Drive
Ralph Nader at 90 on the "Genocidal War" in Gaza & Why Congress Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction
On his 90th birthday, the legendary consumer advocate, corporate critic and four-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader joins Democracy Now! for an in-depth conversation about U.S. democracy and why Congress is a weapon of mass destruction." He says lawmakers have shredded the country's social safety net, refused to rein in the U.S. war machine, allowed white-collar crime to go unpunished, failed to enforce tax fairness and more. All of these are very unpopular with the American people," Nader says. He also discusses the 2024 presidential race and encourages people to vote their conscience" and find some way out of this two-party duopoly gulag." Nader, who publishes the monthly print-only newspaper the Capitol Hill Citizen, was recently profiled in The Washington Post for his ongoing advocacy.
Should U.S. Send More Weapons to Ukraine? A Debate on Funding & Ways to End Two-Year-Old War
It has been two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, sparking a brutal war in which tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians have died. With Ukraine running low on both weapons and new recruits, and with more U.S. funding stalled in Congress, we host a discussion on the future of the conflict with peace activist Medea Benjamin of CodePink and Oberlin professor Stephen Crowley, an expert on Russian and Eastern European politics. While both agree on the need to end the war, Crowley says the $60 billion U.S. funding package should be passed in order to give Ukraine a stronger negotiating position. The only reason to fund Ukraine right now is to get both sides to the negotiating table to end this war," he says. Benjamin, however, says more funding will inevitably be used to continue the fighting. It will only give the impetus for Zelensky to keep trying to fight a war that is not winnable," she says, adding that progressives are making a mistake to cede the antiwar position to the extreme right of the Republican Party."
Headlines for February 27, 2024
Biden Says He Is Hoping for New Ceasefire Deal by Monday as Talks in Qatar Continue, Israel Targets Gazans Seeking Food Aid as Besieged Strip Continues to Face Severe Food Shortages, Palestinian Artist Fathi Ghaben Dies After Israel Denies Permission to Leave Gaza for Treatment, World Court Concludes Hearings on Israel's Occupation of Palestinian Territories, Rights Groups Say Israel Has Failed to Comply with ICJ Order to Prevent Genocide in Gaza, Vigils Held for Aaron Bushnell After Self-Immolation Death to Protest Gaza Genocide, Pentagon Skirts Question About Military Members' Sentiments on U.S. Complicity in Gaza War, JVP Leads Protest Against Biden at 30 Rock Ahead of Late Night" Appearance, Irish Senate Votes to Impose Sanctions on Israel, Prevent U.S. Arms from Crossing Its Airspace, Israeli Airstrikes Kill 2 in Lebanon; U.S. Launches Preemptive Strikes in Yemen, Michigan Voters Head to Polls as Activists Urge Dems to Vote Uncommitted" to Protest Gaza Genocide, Navalny Aide Says Putin Foe Was on Verge of Being Released Before His Death, Denmark Finds Deliberate Sabotage" in Nord Stream Blasts But Drops Probe, Macron Does Not Rule Out Deploying Troops to Ukraine as He Rallies Support for Kyiv, Hungary Ratifies Sweden's NATO Bid, Ending 200 Years of Swedish Neutrality, Attack on Mosque in Burkina Faso Kills Dozens, Within Hours of Deadly Church Attack, Former Professor Donates $1 Billion to Albert Einstein College to Cover All Future Med School Tuition
U.S. Anti-Terrorism Laws Are "Anti-Palestinian at the Core," Chill First Amendment
As Israel continues to massacre Palestinians in Gaza with U.S. military and political support, Palestinians in the United States are increasingly being targeted by anti-terrorism laws in an attempt to silence their pro-Palestine activism. Anti-Palestinian animus is one of the most enduring areas of bipartisan appeal in Washington," says Darryl Li, an anthropologist and lawyer teaching at the University of Chicago. Li shares the history of U.S. anti-terrorism law, which dates back to the 1990s and the Anti-Defamation League-supported passage of a law banning material support" to U.S.-designated terror" groups. The very foundations of terrorism law in the United States, at key moments of their development, were crafted with the agenda of opposing or crushing Palestinian liberation in mind," he says. We also speak with Dima Khalidi, founder and director of Palestine Legal, an organization that provides legal assistance to people who have been targeted by and face prosecution under these laws, which not only have a huge chilling effect on people, on First Amendment rights," but that also provide cover for this genocide."
Gaza Ceasefire Could Save 75,000 from Death: Report from London School of Hygiene & Johns Hopkins
A new report on Gaza's escalating health crisis projects that due to the extent of destruction wrought upon the region's infrastructure since October, thousands of Palestinians will continue to die from disease, malnutrition, dehydration and starvation, regardless of whether Israel continues to pursue its military assault. In case of an escalation, we'd see around 85,000 deaths," warns Zeina Jamaluddine, a nutritionist and epidemiologist who is one of the lead authors of Crisis in Gaza: Scenario-Based Health Impact Projections" from the London School of Hygiene and Johns Hopkins University. Jamaluddine also says it is not too late to stop the bulk of these forecasted deaths, should a ceasefire be immediately put into place and aid deliveries resumed. In case of a ceasefire now, we would be saving around 75,000 lives."
As 2-Month-Old Starves to Death in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha Says His Own Family Is Eating Animal Feed
A famine is unfolding in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have resorted to consuming animal feed amid soaring prices and dwindling supplies of food. The United Nations has already begun reporting deaths from starvation and malnutrition, while aid agencies have been forced to pause deliveries. Israel is not allowing food into the northern part of Gaza so people would regret not having left," says Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toha, who fled Gaza for Cairo in November and has been attempting since then to secure safe passage for his extended family members, including his sister-in-law who has just given birth. He writes about his experiences in a New Yorker piece, My Family's Daily Struggle to Find Food in Gaza." Abu Toha urges international actors to take action and end Israel's siege of Gaza. They are killing us every day," he says. Where is the mind of the people in the world? How could you let this happen?"
Headlines for February 26, 2024
2-Month-Old Infant Dies of Starvation as Israel Blocks Aid, Gazans Face Famine, Netanyahu Reaffirms Plan to Take Control of Gaza; Palestinian Prime Minister Shtayyeh Resigns, Biden Administration Condemns Israeli Plans for Settlement Expansion in Occupied West Bank, I Will No Longer Be Complicit in Genocide": U.S. Military Member Dies After Setting Himself on Fire in Protest, NYT Investigating Israeli Freelancer's Anti-Palestinian Social Media History, U.S. and U.K. Air Forces Attack Houthi Targets as Yemenis Take to Street in Solidarity with Gaza, Trump Beats Nikki Haley on Her Home Turf of South Carolina, Winning 60% of GOP Primary Votes, Trump: Black People Like Me Because I Have Been Indicted Multiple Times, Ukraine Marks 2nd Anniversary of War with Russia, Which Has Killed 31,000+ Ukrainian Soldiers, Burkina Faso Church Attack Kills at Least 15 People, South Korea Gives Striking Doctors Until End of February to Return to Work, Protesters in the Philippines Condemn President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s Plans to Change Constitution, New York Jury Finds Ex-NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre Used Group's Money to Fund Lavish Lifestyle, Man Convicted of Murdering Trans Woman Dime Doe in First Such Federal Hate Crime Trial, Vigils Held for Late Gender-Nonconforming Teenager Nex Benedict, The Apartheid Has to End": Director Yuval Abraham Highlights Palestinian Plight in Berlinale Speech, Johan Galtung, Father of Peace and Conflict Studies," Dies at 93
Haitian Asylum Seekers Take Biden Admin to Court for Racial Discrimination, Rights Violations
A federal court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments Thursday in a lawsuit accusing the Biden administration of racial discrimination and rights violations of Haitian asylum seekers. The suit was brought on behalf of 11 Haitian asylum seekers who were abused by U.S. border agents as more than 15,000 people, mostly from Haiti, were forced to stay in a makeshift border encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuna-Del Rio International Bridge in Texas. One of the plaintiffs is Mirard Joseph, the asylum seeker whose image went viral after being photographed while a Border Patrol agent on horseback lashed him with split reins, grabbed his neck and gripped Joseph by the shirt collar. This is a critical junction in our country here in the United States as we make sure to uphold human rights and understanding seeking asylum is a human right," says Guerline Jozef, executive director of immigrant advocacy organization Haitian Bridge Alliance, which helped bring the case on behalf of asylum seekers. We will continue to push forward and make sure that accountability is served but also we have systematic change in the way that we receive people in the United States."
"Governments Are Trying to Frighten Journalists": Fmr. Guardian Head Alan Rusbridger on Assange Case
As Julian Assange awaits a decision from a British court on his possible extradition to the United States, Democracy Now! speaks with Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of The Guardian, who worked with Assange to publish hundreds of thousands of classified records from the U.S. acquired by WikiLeaks that document war crimes in the Middle East. What the governments are now trying to do is to frighten journalists off," says Rusbridger. I think the world should wake up as to what the nature of the threat is going to be to mainstream journalism if this extradition is successful."
Press Freedom on Trial: Julian Assange's Lawyer on Extradition Case & Criminalizing Journalism
At a critical hearing this week in London, lawyers for imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked the British High Court of Justice to grant him a new appeal in what is likely his last chance to avoid extradition to the United States, where he faces a 175-year prison sentence for publishing classified documents that exposed U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. Assange's lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, says the judges were receptive to their arguments that Assange could face the death penalty in the U.S. and that an extradition would set a dangerous precedent for press freedom. If Julian is extradited and goes on trial under the Espionage Act, this is a case which is going to set precedent which criminalizes journalistic activity and will be used against the rest of the media." A ruling in the case is not expected until next month at the earliest.
Headlines for February 23, 2024
We Are on the Edge of a Monumental Disaster": UNRWA Says It's Reached a Breaking Point, Israeli Attack on Homes in Deir al-Balah Kill at Least 40 Palestinians, Incl. Infants, MSF: Traumatized Gazan Children Tell Aid Workers They'd Prefer to Die, Norwegian Pension Fund Divests from Israeli War Machine; UC Davis Students Pass BDS Resolution, Zionism Misrepresents Judaism": Jewish American Activists Protest AIPAC, NY Politicians, Alexei Navalny's Mother Sees Son's Body, Says She Is Being Blackmailed into Having Private Burial, The Era of Peace in Europe Is Over": Ukraine Issues Dire Warning as War Grinds into 3rd Year, New York Judge Rejects Trump Attempt to Delay Payment of $455 Million Fine, Third Alabama Clinic Stops IVF Program After Court Ruled Frozen Embryos Have Same Rights as Humans, Indian Farmers Escalate Protests After Death of Young Farmworker, Social Media Censorship, Senegalese President Macky Sall Agrees to Leave Office at End of Term with No Date for New Election, Kenya's Ogiek Fight to Halt Evictions from Mau Forest, Indigenous Guna to Leave Disappearing Island, But Panamanian Gov't Has Not Prepared Relocation Site
Malcolm X Assassination: Former Security Guards Reveal New Details Pointing to FBI, NYPD Conspiracy
On the 59th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, two former security guards are speaking out for the first time about how they were falsely arrested by the New York Police Department as part of a conspiracy to remove his protection before he was killed. We hear from Khaleel Sayyed, 81, who says he was detained on trumped-up charges just days before Malcolm X was fatally shot, and we speak with Ben Crump and Flint Taylor, two civil rights attorneys who are working with the family. They are calling on New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a former police officer, to support the release of key evidence in the case. We are trying to peel back the layers to finally, after 59 years, get some measure of justice for Malcolm X's family," says Crump. Taylor also places the assassination in the context of police and the FBI targeting Black civil rights leaders through COINTELPRO, such as Fred Hampton, which he helped expose in a landmark case in Chicago.
Frozen Embryos Are Children? Reproductive Care in Peril After Alabama Supreme Court Ruling
The Alabama Supreme Court has sent shockwaves through the world of reproductive healthcare, relying on anti-abortion language inserted into the state Constitution in 2018 about rights of the unborn child" to rule that frozen embryos are children. Now Alabama's largest hospital has paused in vitro fertilization treatments as it studies the impact of the ruling, which could set a template for other states to restrict IVF and other medical care. It was just very shocking," says Angela Granger, an IVF patient who previously received treatment in Alabama and who had been considering returning to the state for future rounds of IVF to get pregnant again. I just don't trust what's going on to be able to go back at this point." We also speak with Barbara Collura, president of the infertility patient advocacy group RESOLVE, who says the Alabama ruling will have far-reaching implications. It's going to terrify people all across the country that this might happen in their state," says Collura, who describes embryos as a microscopic group of cells" not even visible to the human eye. We do not look at that as a person, as a child or as a baby."
Headlines for February 22, 2024
Gaza Has Become a Death Zone" Amid Soaring Hunger, Death and Illness, Itamar Ben-Gvir Calls for More Weapons for Civilians After West Bank Shooting Kills One Israeli, U.S. Addresses ICJ in Lonely, Unconvincing Defense of Israel's Occupation of Palestinian Lands, Biden Weighing Executive Action to Bar Asylum Seekers Who Enter Through Unofficial Ports of Entry, Texas Sues Shelter for Assisting Migrants in Need, Haitian Asylum Seekers Go to Court over Abuse by Federal Agents at U.S.-Mexico Border, Drug Trafficking Trial of Ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez Starts in New York, New Evidence of NYPD Plot to Assassinate Malcolm X Unveiled on 59th Anniversary of Death, Biden Cancels Additional $1.2 Billion in Student Loans, NYC Trans Leaders Respond After Catholic Church Condemns Funeral of Trans Icon Cecilia Gentili, Chicago Sues Big Oil over Climate Crisis, We Deserve a Livable Future": Climate Defiance Disrupts Event with Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, Fire Burns Down Mississippi John Hurt Museum
Colonialism, Occupation & Apartheid: African Countries See "Shared Experiences" with Palestinians
Leaders at this year's African Union summit have condemned Israel's assault on Gaza and called for its immediate end. Kenyan writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola explains the long history of African solidarity with Palestine, continuing with today's efforts to end the destruction of Gaza. African countries see really an identical experience between Palestinian occupation and what they have endured under colonization," says Nyabola. It's a question of history. It's a question of solidarity. It's a question of shared experiences of all of these systemic types of violence."
"Moral Failure": Democrats Rep. Khanna & Michigan State Rep. Aiyash Urge Biden to Change Gaza Policy
As the death toll of Palestinians killed by Israel's assault on Gaza approaches 30,000 and the United States vetoes a ceasefire resolution at the U.N. Security Council for the third time, the Biden administration's support for Israel has come under fierce criticism both around the world and in the U.S. In Michigan, which is a key battleground state and home to one of the largest Arab American populations in the country, a campaign is growing to vote uncommitted" in next week's Democratic primary in protest of Biden's policies backing Israel. We're not standing against anyone, but we're simply reaffirming our stance for humanity and for the basic tenets of human rights," says Democratic state Representative Abraham Aiyash, Michigan's highest-ranking Arab and Muslim leader. The administration needs to change course in foreign policy in the Middle East in order to gain the trust of people who we have lost," says California Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna, who says the U.S. must call for an immediate ceasefire and place conditions on aid to Israel.
"Political Prosecution": WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Faces Final U.K. Appeal to Avoid U.S. Extradition
The final day of a critical appeal for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is underway today at the British High Court of Justice, in what could be Assange's last chance to stop his extradition to the United States. Assange faces a 175-year prison sentence for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. While the WikiLeaks founder's health is reportedly deteriorating rapidly, his lawyers are arguing the case is politically motivated to target Assange for exposing state-level crimes." Meanwhile, U.S. lawyers are attempting to portray Assange as a hacker rather than a journalist. It's clear to everyone that Assange is a journalist. He revealed more criminality by the world's most powerful country than anyone's ever done in history," says Matt Kennard, head of investigations at Declassified UK, who lays out the proceedings so far, what to expect from the British justice system and the precedent an Assange extradition would set for global journalism. It will be a huge nail in the coffin for investigative journalism, for any kind of publishing of information that state powers don't like, and it will be used by repressive regimes all around the world."
Headlines for February 21, 2024
U.S. Vetoes UNSC Gaza Ceasefire Resolution for Third Time, WFP Pauses Life-Sustaining Food Delivery in Northern Gaza Amid Worsening Hunger, Yemen's Houthis Escalate Attacks Against U.S. and Israeli Targets over Gaza Assault, Biden to Issue New Russia Sanctions over Nalvany Death Amid Widespread Accusations of Assasination, Russian Defector Maxim Kuzminov Killed in Spain, U.K. High Court Hears U.S.'s Extradition Case Against Julian Assange in 2nd Day of Pivotal Appeal, Coalition Gov't Announced in Pakistan as Top Official Makes Stunning Admission of Election Tampering, U.S. Airstrike in Somalia Killed Two Cuban Doctors, Hunger and Violence Grips Democratic Republic of Congo as Tensions Mount with Rwanda, SCOTUS Turns Down Case on VA High School Admissions Policy Which Increases Diversity, Alabama Supreme Court Rules Frozen Embryos Are People, Nonbinary Oklahoma Teen Dies After Being Assaulted by Fellow Students, Ex-FBI Informant Who Lied About Bidens' Ties to Ukrainian Co. Says Russia Gave Him False Info
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