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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Israel’s security cabinet has approved plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take over Gaza City, spurring international condemnation as world leaders warn of the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of a full-scale Israeli military occupation. In response to Israel’s intensifying military […]

Astronomers discovered a dormant black hole weighing 36 billion solar masses, the most massive ever observed, in the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy 5 billion light-years away. The black hole was detected using gravitational lensing and stellar kinematics, bypassing traditional methods and revealing its immense gravitational influence. This ultramassive black hole defies galaxy evolution […]

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. Officials in New Jersey have won what they say is the largest environmental settlement ever achieved by a single state, when chemical giant DuPont and its affiliates agreed to pay $2 billion […]

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 end today’s show looking at attempts by the Trump administration to quell an uproar by Trump’s MAGA base over the government’s refusal to release files related to the dead serial sex […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show with Greg Grandin, history professor at Yale University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, whose major new book is out this week, America, América: A New History of the New World. He describes it as a, quote, “history of […]

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 Juan González. A federal judge has ordered the Turkish national, Tufts University Ph.D. student Rümeysa Öztürk to be transferred to Vermont no later than May 1st, as she seeks to challenge […]

Pesticides are a worldwide health problem, destroying environments, animals’ lives and human health as well. Most people think this is an “outdoor” problem, but now science and research reveal these contaminants are being tracked into the average home at alarming rates and intensity. The result? People are getting cancer and suffering other horrendous health outcomes […]

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 Juan González. As President Trump moves to upend the global trade system, we look back at a critical moment 70 years ago, when 29 nations from […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We go right now to Robert Ellsberg, publisher of Orbis Books, editor of Pope Francis’s book, A Stranger and You Welcomed Me: A Call to Mercy and Solidarity with Migrants and Refugees. Robert, thanks so much for being with us. […]

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. As the Trump administration ramps up its attack on international students, we end today’s show here in New York. Yesterday, a major protest in Union Square with Jewish New Yorkers and Israelis […]