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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. NERMEEN SHAIKH: Federal agents continue to carry out raids across the Chicago area. On Wednesday, armed ICE agents in black vests chased a teacher into a Spanish-language day care and preschool in front of children and parents. In video of the incident, […]

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces Agree to Humanitarian Ceasefire "The World's Largest Mass Grave": Palestinians Say 10,000 Bodies Are Buried Under Gaza's Rubble Israel Launches Wave of Airstrikes on Southern Lebanon GOP Senators Block Resolution to Rein In Trump's Military Actions Against Venezuela Senate GOP Continues Push to End Health Insurance Subsidies as Government Shutdown Enters […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: The conservative-majority Supreme Court Thursday allowed the Trump administration to temporarily enforce a discriminatory passport policy against transgender, nonbinary and intersex people, while litigation in the case Trump continues through the lower courts. After the decision, Attorney General Pam Bondi […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. We’re staying on the subject of the Supreme Court but now turning to a major case before the court on President Trump’s authority to impose sweeping tariffs on foreign goods. The court […]

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. The U.S. is continuing to blow up boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, despite growing international condemnation. On Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the U.S. had […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Peter, before we go, I want to ask you about another Peter. The trailblazing human rights attorney Peter Weiss has died at the age of 99, just shy of his 100th birthday. He was on the board of the Center […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman, with Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: As we continue to look at the Trump administration’s federal immigration raids, we turn to a new investigation, radio investigation, by Latino USA, Futuro Media and CalMatters. […]

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 Nermeen Shaikh. NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to Gaza, where Israel’s military has killed at least two Palestinians in separate attacks. Israel claimed the men had […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: At the celebration, I had a chance to briefly speak with Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. AMY GOODMAN: The new mayor of New York City, the first Muslim mayor of New York. Your thoughts? REP. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO–CORTEZ: I […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Tuesday’s general elections saw Democrats post big wins across the United States. In California, voters passed Proposition 50, approving a new congressional map that could help Democrats pick up five additional congressional seats in the move to counter Texas’s redistricting […]