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Economic Blackout: Businesses Close for Day in Minnesota to Protest ICE Crackdown Minnesota Activists Arrested for Anti-ICE Church Protest; White House Posts Doctored Photo Outrage Grows over ICE Detaining 5-Year-Old Liam Ramos Seven Democrats Back Spending Bill to Fund DHS & ICE Israel Kills 4 in Gaza as Kushner Lays Out Plan for Turning Gaza […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show looking at the Trump administration’s contested plans for a postwar Gaza. As President Trump formally inaugurated his so-called Board of Peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, presented his […]

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. Outrage is growing in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, after ICE agents detained a 5-year-old boy named Liam Ramos and his father, who’s an asylum seeker. Photos from the scene show […]

Introduction: A Lawsuit Against Toxic ‘Oversight’ A silent war against public health is being waged from within the very agency tasked with protecting it. On January 15, 2026, prominent conservation groups took a stand, filing a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We’re going to stay in Minneapolis for the next two minutes, where we’re joined by a union leader. Many people are saying today they plan to do nothing. They’re not going to go to work or school or shop, as […]

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. Yes, today marks the 50th anniversary of the death of the great actor, singer, athlete, scholar, Paul Robeson. At one point he was world famous. You probably recognize his […]

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: We turn now to Iran. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency now says that since protests erupted on January 8th, more than 4,900 people have been […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show in Minneapolis as the city endures its third week of occupation by a force of over 3,000 federal immigration agents accused of violating human and civil rights and of fatally shooting resident Renee Good. Border Patrol […]

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. We turn now to Davos, Switzerland, the site of the World Economic Forum. Traditionally, the WEF is a gathering of the global elite. But this year, it’s […]

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 back here in New York City, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders joined striking nurses in freezing temperatures Tuesday as the action entered a second […]