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Headlines for January 23, 2025; “Attack on Science”: Trump’s Exit from WHO Could Make Next Pandemic More Likely, More Deadly; “A Terrifying Moment”: Son Who Tipped Off FBI Fears for His Life After His Father Receives Jan. 6 Pardon; Ex-FBI Agent: Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons Send Dangerous Message Encouraging More Far-Right Violence; Israel Continues Deadly Attack on Jenin; Trump Lifts Sanctions on Extremist West Bank Settlers

Headlines for January 22, 2025; “Have Mercy”: Watch Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s Sermon Challenging Trump at Inaugural Service; “Profoundly Dangerous”: Public Citizen Sues Trump over Legality of Elon Musk-Led DOGE; Citizens United at 15: Landmark Ruling Helped Elon Musk & Other Billionaires Bankroll Trump Victory; Tech’s Rightward Drift: Researcher Becca Lewis on How Trump Captured Silicon Valley; Immigrant Activist Ravi Ragbir Speaks After Biden’s Last-Minute Pardon Saved Him from Deportation

Headlines for January 21, 2025; Trump Grants Clemency to 1,500+ Jan. 6 Insurrectionists; Elon Musk Is Accused of Giving Nazi Salute; Trump Threatens Again to Retake Panama Canal While Distorting Deadly History of Waterway; “A Massive Abuse of Emergency Power”: Legality of Trump’s Move to Deploy Troops to Border Is Questioned; “People Are Afraid”: Immigrant Communities Brace for Raids and Mass Deportation Under Trump; Chase Strangio: Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Orders Threaten LGBTQ+ People While Claiming to Defend Women; Leonard Peltier to Be Freed After Half-Century in Prison: “A Day of Victory for Indigenous People”

Headlines for January 20, 2025; Gaza Ceasefire: Palestinian Lawyer Says Women, Children Released by Israel Faced Torture, Starvation; Bad Deal Better Than No Deal: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Fears Netanyahu Could Resume Attacks; People’s March: Thousands Rally Against Trump in Washington Ahead of Second Inauguration; “Infinite Hope”: Angela Davis Speaks at 2025 Peace Ball Ahead of Trump Inauguration; “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”: In His Final Speech, MLK Spoke of Reaching “Promised Land” of Equality

Headlines for January 17, 2025; Gideon Levy & Mouin Rabbani on Ceasefire: “Netanyahu Will Do Everything Possible” to Kill It Later; Breaking All Records, Trump’s Inauguration Set to Bring in $250M from Billionaires & Corporations; Will Biden Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency? Indigenous Leaders Plead, “Don’t Let Him Die in Prison”

Headlines for January 16, 2025; Report from Gaza: Ceasefire Announcement Raises Hopes, But Israel Kills 81 in New Attacks; Daniel Levy, Muhammad Shehada, Jeremy Scahill on Ceasefire Deal, Trump’s Role & Palestine’s Future; Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General Pick, Has History of Corporate Lobbying and Election Denial

Headlines for January 15, 2025; Democrats Grill Pete Hegseth on Rape Allegation, Drunkenness and Women in Combat; Meet the Military Vets Arrested for Disrupting Pete Hegseth’s Senate Confirmation Hearing; Queer and HIV+ in Gaza: A Young Man’s “Race Against Time” as Israel Blocks Medication

Headlines for January 14, 2025; White Nationalism, Sexual Assault & Corruption: Trump “Loyalist” Pete Hegseth Faces Senate Confirmation; “The Party of War”: Matt Duss on Biden, Gaza & How Democrats Lost Foreign Policy Argument to Trump; “Unbelievable Bravery”: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Abducted from Gaza Hospital; Advocates Call for Release; Prison Labor in the Spotlight as Incarcerated California Firefighters Risk Lives for $5-10/Day

Belgian Lebanese activist Dyab Abou Jahjah, the founder of the Hind Rajab Foundation, discusses how the organization seeks to hold Israeli soldiers accountable for war crimes committed in Gaza. Named after a 6-year-old girl who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza almost a year ago, the Hind Rajab Foundation uses evidence gathered from soldiers’ own social media to build cases against them. The group recently filed a complaint against a soldier in Brazil, leading a local judge to issue an arrest warrant for him that he only avoided by fleeing to Argentina. “Unfortunately, the Israeli government smuggled the soldier out of Brazil, which is, of course, obstructing justice,” Abou Jahjah tells Democracy Now! “We are relentless in seeking justice, and we are very convinced that one day justice also will be served in a court of law.”

Headlines for January 13, 2025; Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena & Octavia Butler’s Warning; “Tinderbox”: How Fossil Fuel Companies & Electric Utilities Intensified L.A. Wildfires, Climate Chaos; “Journalism Is Not a Crime”: Gaza Reporter Slams International Press as Journalist Death Toll Rises; “Seeking Justice”: How the Hind Rajab Foundation Pursues Israeli Soldiers for War Crimes

Headlines for January 10, 2025; Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus Fled L.A. Fearing Wildfires. His Old Neighborhood Is Now a Hellscape; “Sabotaged by His Own Democratic Party”: Ralph Nader on Jimmy Carter’s Legacy; Camp David’s Failures: Why Jimmy Carter’s Opposition to Israeli Apartheid Wasn’t Enough to Secure Peace; Jimmy Carter Championed Human Rights But Also Funded & Armed Indonesia’s Genocide in East Timor; Biden Urged to Pardon Immigrant Rights Leader Ravi Ragbir, Who Could Soon Be Deported

Headlines for January 09, 2025; Zuckerberg Goes “Full MAGA” as Meta Ends Fact-Checking in U.S. & Paves Way for More Hate Speech; L.A. Fires Should Be a Climate Wake-Up Call: 5 Dead, 130K+ Evacuated in Uncontained “Apocalypse”

Headlines for January 08, 2025; “Outrageous”: Rep. Jim McGovern Slams Trump’s Rhetoric on Taking Panama, Greenland & Canada; Will Biden Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg Posthumously? Declassified Docs Show FBI Knew She Was Innocent; Will Biden Pardon Steven Donziger, Who Faced Retaliation for Suing Chevron over Oil Spill in Amazon?; With Trudeau Out & Conservatives Set to Win, Canada Needs a Real Resistance to Trump: Avi Lewis; 11 Men Freed After 20+ Years of “Extreme Deprivation.” Will Biden Close Guantánamo for Good?

Headlines for January 07, 2025; The Militia and the Mole: Reporter Josh Kaplan on How a Freelance Vigilante Infiltrated U.S. Militias; “Requiem for a Refugee Camp”: Mosab Abu Toha on Destruction of Jabaliya, Abduction of Doctors & More; Jimmy Carter’s “Decency & Humanity” Came with Deadly U.S. Policies in Latin America: Greg Grandin

Headlines for January 06, 2025; American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza; Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk’s Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics

Headlines for January 03, 2025; New Year’s Attacks by Green Beret & Army Veteran: Does U.S. Militarism Abroad Fuel Violence at Home?; “From Ground Zero”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Features Stories from Palestinian Filmmakers in Gaza; U.S./Israeli Yemen Strikes Won’t End Houthi Resistance. Ending Gaza Genocide Will: Shireen Al-Adeimi

Headlines for January 02, 2025; “Exhausted”: Palestinian Journalist Shrouq Aila on Life & Death in Gaza, “Duty” to Report on Genocide; “Dead Calm”: BBC Film on Greek Coast Guard Abandoning Asylum Seekers at Sea Amid European Crackdown

A Spy in Your Pocket? Ronan Farrow Exposes Secrets of High-Tech Spyware in New Film “Surveilled”; “Surveilled”: Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone; Trump Escalates War on Press & Some Outlets Are “Capitulating Preemptively” to Pressure

Headlines for December 31, 2024; Ukraine Faces a “Cold, Dark Winter” as Russia Strikes Energy Infrastructure; Biden to Send New Aid; Veteran Israeli Negotiator Gershon Baskin: Netanyahu Remains Obstacle to Ceasefire Deal; Gaza: Doctors Warn Thousands of Palestinians Could Die This Winter from Cold, Hunger, Disease

Headlines for December 30, 2024; “A Genocidal Project”: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Health System; “Total Moral, Ethical Failure”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza; Jimmy Carter Dead at 100: Fmr. Pres. Urged “Peace Not Apartheid” in 2007 DN! Interview on Palestine