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"Top of the World": Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack
A new documentary titled Top of the World tells the story of Windows on the World, the legendary restaurant atop the…
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"Terrorizing Our City": ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops
We go to Danbury, Connecticut, where residents held a mass demonstration this week to protest recent immigration…
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"They Got Zero Notice": 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois
Tyson Foods, the United States’ largest meatpacking and processing company, shuttered a beef processing facility in…
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Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration violated the constitutional rights of international students in…
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Headlines for September 4, 2026
As U.S. Conflict wIth Iran Enters 7th Month, Vance Declares, “I Wouldn’t Call This a War” , Israel’s National Security…
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AI Could Revolutionize Medicine, But Humans Must Be in Charge: Researcher Shreya Johri
As part of our ongoing series on artificial intelligence, we speak with researcher Shreya Johri, who says AI has the…
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"Modern-Day Poll Tax": Dem. Texas Commissioner Slams GOP Vote to Close 92 Polling Sites
Ahead of the November midterm elections, Republican officials in the third most populous county of Texas have voted to…
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"Catastrophic Failure": Postal Service Whistleblower Warns Mail-In Voting Rules Could Derail Election
An anonymous federal whistleblower has warned that the Trump administration’s new system for handling mail ballots…
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Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon & Ms. Magazine Co-Founder, Dies at 92
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has died at the age of 92. According to her Instagram page, she died Wednesday “at her…
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Iran’s Red Crescent Asks ICC to Investigate U.S. Strike on Wedding That Killed Four, Widow of Airman Who Died…
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"Stand Up for Multifaith Democracy": U.S. Activists, Lawmakers Protest India's RSS & Hindu Supremacy
Demonstrators gathered outside Madison Square Garden in New York City on Saturday to protest against the Rashtriya…
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"Went to Sea and Never Came Back": Families of Fishermen Seek Answers After Deadly U.S. Boat Strikes
A year ago today, the United States bombed a small boat in the Caribbean, killing nine people on board. Two survivors…
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U.S. Empire in Decline: Richard Wolff on Iran War, Rising Inequality, $40T National Debt & More
We speak to Richard Wolff, a prominent Marxist economist, about the economic fallout from the war on Iran, which…
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U.S. Launches Wave of Attacks in Iran, Killing 11 People, German Officials Accuse Russia of an Attempted Drone Attack…
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Amid Severe Water Crisis & Drought, Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of "La Junta" Oversight
Juan Carlos Dávila reports from Puerto Rico as the island grapples with a severe water crisis. A record-breaking…
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U.S. Deports Thousands to Countries They Don't Know Under Secretive "Third Country" Deal
As part of its mass deportation campaign, the Trump administration is secretly deporting immigrants to countries that…
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The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela's Oil Reserves
The U.S. has struck a deal to take majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s oil reserves, nine…
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Trump Reportedly Weighing More Strikes Against Iran, WaPo: Conservative Veterans Given Secret Pentagon Jobs, Army…
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Jane Fonda Exclusive: Dolly Parton, a Feminist, Wrote the Anthem for Working Women with "9 to 5"
Tributes continue to pour in for Dolly Parton after the iconic country singer, actor and philanthropist’s death on…
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"We're Not Going Back": Ron Daniels on the Legacy of 1972 Gary Convention & 1963 March on Washington
As Gary, Indiana, recovers from flooding and a two-week power outage, we also speak with Ron Daniels, president of the…
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"Left Behind and Overlooked": Indiana Energy Company Left Majority-Black Gary Powerless for Weeks
Thousands of residents recently spent two weeks without power in Gary, Indiana, following a storm that ripped through…
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The Real Reason There's a Munitions Shortage? Too Many Wars & a Dysfunctional Pentagon: William Hartung
Top U.S. military leaders have reportedly advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth against extending the war in Iran…
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"Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions": Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing
More than 900 people in Nepal are confirmed dead after a massive wall of water, mud and debris crashed through a…
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U.S. Forces Target Iranian Launchers; Iran Retaliates Against U.S. Military Targets in the Region, U.S. Strikes Deal to…
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"The Lion King" in Quechua?: New Film "Runa Simi" Profiles Indigenous Artist Keeping Language Alive
Experts estimate that a language is lost every two weeks — and that half of the world’s 7,000 spoken languages could be…
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"Who Paid, Who Gained": Juan González on How Chicago Funded Real Estate Instead of Social Services
A team of researchers led by Democracy Now!’s Juan González at the University of Illinois Chicago recently released an…
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"Don't Be Squeamish About Squamous, Get a Checkup!" Amy Goodman's Personal Health Update
Amy Goodman is back to hosting Democracy Now! after taking time off following a medical procedure to remove skin cells…
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Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is "Glaring Example of Climate Injustice"
We get a report from Nepal, where at least 547 people are confirmed to have died and over 1,500 are still missing after…
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"Shut Down Dilley": Rep. Joaquin Castro on "Abusive" ICE Family Jail, Targeting of Military Families
Calls to shut down the ICE jail known as the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas continue to grow…
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Death Toll from Glacier’s Collapse on Nepal-Tibet Border Tops 500, Iran Sets Conditions for Reopening Strait of Hormuz…
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"Platform Extractivism": Inside Venezuela's Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies
Julián Posada’s upcoming book, titled Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence,…
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Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are "the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself"
Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an…
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As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It's Too Late: Amba Kak
Prosecutors across 47 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories have announced a groundbreaking legal settlement…
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Over 350 Die and Hundreds Are Missing as Glacier’s Collapse Triggers Floods in Nepal and Tibet, Pentagon Says It Killed…
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"Most Americans Are Getting Poorer": Robert Reich on Inequality & the Failures of Corporate Democrats
Earlier this month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly attacked the former labor secretary under President…
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