"I can't find any reason to celebrate the assassination of the Iranian supreme leader because I think it's part of a package ... It's also part of the killing of Iranian innocent people," says Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, a longtime critic of the Iranian government.

Pro-Israel groups spent millions to unseat Cori Bush in 2024. Now, she is running for Congress again. “They didn't want someone speaking out for the people of Palestine, for human rights and civil rights. They didn't want that loud voice, but that's what they're about to get.”

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“We expect to see that increase as long as we continue to warm up the planet by burning fossil fuels and putting carbon pollution into the atmosphere."

While some athletes at this year's Olympics saw backlash to their public statements, author Jules Boykoff says it was President Trump who "politicized the games."

“As a Palestinian, I don’t belong to anywhere else than Palestine."

In response to the growing humanitarian crisis in Cuba, activists are organizing a flotilla to deliver aid to the island.

"I don't see what difference it's going to make," says Iranian American scholar Ervand Abrahamian in response to reports of Ali Khamenei's death. "Even if the top is decapitated, there are other people already there ready to replace them."

“There are only two things you can do at the State of the Union, and they are sit down and stand up. I was arrested for standing up.”

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Watch our special report on today's massive U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran.

President Donald Trump says joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran have killed the country's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. Iranian officials have denied Khamenei's death and say he is leading the country's response to the unprovoked attack.

Testimony and evidence from 59 Palestinian journalists reveals “strikingly consistent” reports of beatings, sensory deprivation, sexual violence, starvation and medical neglect while detained.

It’s been almost one year since Israeli forces killed 15 Palestinian medics and aid workers in a brutal two-hour massacre on a vehicle convoy in southern Gaza.

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Pro-Israel groups spent millions to unseat Cori Bush in 2024. Now, she is running for Congress again. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/27/cori_bush

The funeral for 56-year-old Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a disabled Rohingya refugee who was found dead after he was abandoned by Border Patrol agents miles away from his home, was held yesterday.

“For that decision to be quickly flipped is remarkable because it shows the power of opposition, but also how loose and flippant these arrests are."

Files known to contain allegations of sexual abuse of a minor by President Trump have been withheld or removed by the Department of Justice.

Pro-Israel groups spent millions to unseat @coribush.bsky.social in 2024. Now, she is running for Congress again. “They didn't want someone speaking out for the people of Palestine, human rights and civil rights. They didn't want that loud voice, but that's what they're about to get.”

Columbia student Ellie Aghayeva was released from immigration detention hours after her arrest because of a phone call between Mayor Zohran Mamdani and President Trump. “It shows the power of opposition, but also how loose and flippant these arrests are,” says @premthakker.bsky.social.

Author Barry Levine lays out what we know about the allegations made against Trump in the Epstein files that the Department of Justice has failed to release. “There is no question that something is wrong here.”

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Dozens of Palestinian press workers report being beaten, starved, sexually abused and tortured while detained in Israeli prisons. The scale of cruelty "has increased and intensified" since the start of the genocide, says Sara Qudah with @pressfreedom.bsky.social.

Aliya Rahman is a U.S. citizen who was violently arrested by federal immigration in Minneapolis. She attended the State of the Union address Tuesday as a guest of Congressmember Ilhan Omar, but she was ejected from the chamber after silently standing during President Trump's speech.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva says ICE detention centers are "warehouses of human suffering."

Aliya Rahman was ejected from Trump's State of the Union and spent several hours in jail following what she describes as an aggressive arrest by Capitol Police — all for silently challenging Trump during the speech.

Summer Lee, the first Black woman to represent Pennsylvania in Congress, pays tribute to the late Jesse Jackson. "He set the foundation for so many people after him, including me, to run on a progressive, unapologetically bold platform."

President Trump touted his economic record during the State of the Union address, but economist Joseph Stiglitz says tariffs have been a failure. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/25/joseph_stiglitz_sotu

During his State of the Union, Trump bragged about lowering inflation, putting tariff money into Americans' pockets and creating manufacturing jobs. Economist Joseph Stiglitz says none of those claims are true.

President Trump delivered the longest State of the Union address in modern history.

"The president is disgraceful, and I don't think it's worth our time to give him an audience," says @repsummerlee.bsky.social, who chose not to attend Trump's State of the Union address last night. "When you take away the lie, there is no foundation for President Trump."

Aliya Rahman attended Trump's State of the Union address as a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar. She was arrested and ejected from the gallery for simply "standing up" in protest.

The Pentagon gave the AI company Anthropic an ultimatum to allow full access to its models by Friday. Anthropic has stated it won't allow its model to be used for mass surveillance or to develop autonomous weapons.

War crimes prosecutor Reed Brody joins Democracy Now! to discuss a number of ongoing human rights issues.

“There’s a real sense in Mexico and beyond that governments need to show the U.S. that they are willing and able to take military action on their own, lest Washington send special forces into the country."

As the Northeast United States contends with the aftermath of a blizzard that blanketed the region, we speak to climate scientist Michael Mann about increasingly intense weather events.

Aided by U.S. intelligence, Mexican security forces killed the nation’s most wanted man, known as “El Mencho,” on Sunday. At least 70 people were killed in the raid. The “real question,” according to journalist Laura Gottesdiener, is whether this creates a “wave of violence” across Mexico.

Climate scientist Michael Mann explains how warm ocean temperatures strengthened the historic bomb cyclone blizzard that hit the northeastern U.S.

Four years ago today, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It has since become the biggest land war in Europe since World War II and Russia now controls about one-fifth of Ukraine's territory.

Tthe Trump administration has killed at least 148 people in its widely condemned military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific.

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Mike Huckabee was asked in a recent interview if Israel has a Biblical right to seize more land in the Middle East. "It would be fine they took it all," he said. Palestinian poet @mosababutoha.bsky.social says Huckabee's "extremist language" makes it hard to know if he's a U.S. or Israeli official.

Palestinian poet @mosababutoha.bsky.social, who fled Gaza in late 2023, says "it's still a genocide" as Israel continues to block most humanitarian aid from entering the territory while also killing hundreds of people since the start of the U.S.-backed ceasefire.